Real Work Experience Research Articles

Participant/Avoidant Learning Approaches and Academic Performance in Cost Accounting: A Study of South-South Nigerian Federal University Students

Since most students are unaware of the various learning approaches and the best style for learning a particular course (for example, Cost Accounting), they tend to perform below their best. Also, due to the nature of cost accounting as a core accounting course, which has to do with real-work experience and computations, students tend to adopt a different learning approach in learning the course. As a result, they tend to perform below their best. The participant learning approach is an instructional method that actively involves students in their learning process. It emphasizes engagement, interaction, and hands-on experiences rather than passive reception of information. The correlation between avoidant learning strategies and students’ academic achievement in disciplines such as cost accounting is a subject of considerable interest and pertinence. The study investigated the correlation between participant/avoidant learning strategies and students’ academic achievement in cost accounting at four Federal Universities in the South-South region of Nigeria. The population consisted of 556 final-year accounting students from the accounting departments of four Federal Universities. The researchers used a descriptive research design and a randomly selected sample of 248 students. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was used to analyze the association between the learning style preference of senior accounting students in cost accounting and their academic performance in the preceding semester’s final grade. The study found a significant positive correlation between participants’ learning approach and students’ academic achievement in cost accounting. Conversely, there was a significant negative correlation between the avoidant learning approach and students’ performance in cost accounting. The study recommends fostering self-motivation among students, encouraging them to seek approval from parents and instructors, and exposing them to diverse learning styles. This self-motivation is believed to facilitate the acquisition of appropriate learning strategies for effective learning. The research suggests that students who adopt an avoidant learning approach tend to perform poorly academically. To address this issue, it is recommended that instructors and fellow students discourage.

Optimalisasi Skill Digital Melalui Implementasi Pembelajaran Program Studi Independen Di PT Revolusi Cita Edukasi (RevoU)

In the current digital era, technological progress is increasing rapidly, where all forms of human activity can be assisted by using technology. Evidence of today's technological advances is that many industries are starting to switch to the digital sector. This is what requires students to compete in improving their digital skills considering that currently there are many jobs in the industry. To accommodate students so they can prepare the skills they need, the Ministry of Education and Culture has issued the Independent Independent Study Program for Independent Campus Learning. One of the partners in this Independent Study program is PT Revolusi Cita Edukasi (RevoU). At RevoU, students will be provided with digital skills such as Product Management, Digital Marketing, Data Analytics, and Software Engineering which are much needed in today's digital era. The learning method used by RevoU is a combination learning method such as classroom learning delivered directly by industry practitioners and learning through practice both individually and in groups to ensure students understand well the concepts and practical applications of the knowledge provided. In addition, students will also learn through case studies and simulations that provide real work experience in each field of the skills being taught. The learning outcomes of the Independent Study program at RevoU are that it can provide benefits to students so they can understand and train skills to prepare for careers in the digital industry.

The impact of the apprenticeship program on the mastery of job skills for culinary students

Apprenticeship programs have an essential role in the success of vocational education, mainly to provide real learning experiences for students. One of the foreign apprenticeship activities that are considered positive to improve student skills is the Japanese apprenticeship program. However, an evaluation of the Japanese apprenticeship program has never been carried out. Therefore, this study aims to reveal the scope of student work experience, mastery of technical skills, employability skills, and applying work principles to the Japanese apprenticeship program. This study uses a mixed-method approach to obtain data to answer the research objectives—data collection using interviews and surveys. There are 30 culinary field students involved in data collection. We used qualitative analysis and descriptive statistics. The results of the study reveal that real work experience that students get through the Japanese apprenticeship program includes an introduction to industry profiles, introduction to work procedures, and introduction to the 5 S work culture (seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu, and shitsuke). Besides, the apprenticeship program in Japan provides the transfer of technical skills to students in the form of technical skills in pastry and bakery. The apprenticeship program has a positive impact on the mastery of employability skills such as mastery of the ability of technology elements, communication and information elements, solving problems, working in groups, personal management, adaptation, desire to learn, work awareness. And overall, students gave a positive response to the implementation of work principles in apprenticeship programs in Japan.

A demographic and qualitative analysis of the determinants of success in a National Supported Employment project.

People with an intellectual disability and/or autism experience low employment rates compared to the general population. This study shows what the determinants of success are in getting this group of young people into paid employment. The research is based on data collected on 1008 young people, aged 16-25, participating in the Engage to Change project across Wales, to support young people to achieve employment. A real-time data collection system was used from their engagement and throughout their journey to employment. This research indicates an overall employment rate of 23% for the project to date, based on total referral. Young people who engaged in 'significant work experience', such as paid placement or supported internship, had a greater employment rate of 37%. Previous and current real work experiences increased the chances of young people of becoming employed, above the effect of supported employment and job coach support.

Pendampingan Pembangunan Tugu Batas Desa Bagoang Kecamatan Jasinga Kabupaten Bogor

Thematic real work lecture is a form of implementation of the higher education in which it provides real work experience and learning for students in the implementation of community service and empowerment. Thematic real work lecture activities are a golden opportunity for students to be more critical, innovative, active, and creative in finding the right solutions, formulations and strategies in solving problems and developing in the village. Development is often interpreted as meeting the needs of physical facilities and infrastructure imported from outside, carried out with a very dominant government role and with top-down planning. Likewise with village and rural development, which at the location Bagoang village, initially there was a village boundary monument, but due to building maintenance that was never paid attention to and factors from the age of the building itself which was quite old, causing the monument to collapse and reach currently no new village boundary monument has been made, so based on the consideration of our group, we intend to do community service by making building plans and constructing boundary monuments in Bagoang Village.

Pelatihan Pengembangan Potensi dan Menciptakan Ketahanan Pangan Masyarakat Desa Ngargosari

The purpose of this Village Thematic Community Service Program is to help and provide solutions to the problems faced by the community as well as to provide real work experience in the field to apply the knowledge gained during college to the community. The thematic KKN-Thematic to build this village has been carried out in Ngargosari Village, Sumber Lawang District, Sragen Regency. Several program activities that have been implemented are models for developing local potential to improve the standard of living of the local community. Activities carried out include Socialization and Training on Maggot Cultivation, Vegetable Cultivation Training with the Floating Raft Hydroponic Method, Vegetable Crop Cultivation Training with Polybag Media, Socialization on Ecosystem Conservation and Fish Seed Release in Kedungombo Reservoir. The method used is empowering the target group including learning techniques in the form of providing theory and simulation to the target community and then direct practice with students and the community so that it provides enormous benefits in food security for villagers.

Real work experiences, practices and adverse events associated with long term usage of N95 respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic – A cross-sectional survey amongst Indian physicians

Introduction: Doctors are at increased risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 virus, and use of N95 respirators has emerged as a key preventive measure. This study aimed to study the real-world experiences, practices and adverse effects of N95 respirator usage amongst doctors of India. Methods: An analytical, cross-sectional online survey was conducted between November 2020 and January 2021. Real-world usage characteristics of N-95 respirators were collected via a pre-validated questionnaire (use, reuse, wearing and disposal practices) and compared amongst different sub-cohorts. Results: 453 responses from physicians were analyzed. The most important adjunct to the N95 respirator perceived by the respondents was the full-face shield (81.9%). Most doctors had to purchase extra mask per month (median = 5) and this was more amongst the medical specialties (p = 0.006). Highest mean VAS scores for adverse events were reported for breathing on exertion (6.62 ± 2.25) and ear pain (6.34 ± 2.69). VAS ear pain was higher in ages < 40 and doctors working in the public sector (p = 0.017 and p = 0.019 respectively). Conclusion: There are many inadequacies with regard to proper mask removal and doffing techniques among doctors in India. The major adverse effects faced by the doctors on prolonged mask usage were ear pain and breathing on exertion. However, it can be noted in spite of these deficiencies; there is generally good adherence to protocols and good practices of mask usage in hospital setting.

“Operating Theatre radiography not for the faint of heart”: How can we support our radiographers?

Clinical placement is the cornerstone to the radiography profession and a crucial element in helping to bridge the theory-practice gap – to gain real work experience and apply the theories learnt in class with actual practice [1]. Radiographers spend a portion of their student days in clinical placement across a wide variety of practice areas, including general radiography, ward, trauma, fluoroscopy, angiography, ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine, and operating theatre (OT) radiography.

The Role of Educational Institutions in Community Empowerment to Improve Community Welfare

Social action internship for advanced university students is a community service activity in certain areas or educational institutions, carried out in groups, preferably non-physical activities in the field of education. Social action internship for advanced university students aims to provide real work experience in the field in the field of forming an independent attitude and responsibility in carrying out work in the field. In addition, social action internship for advanced university students also aims to help the community increase the level of knowledge and skills so that it is expected to improve their welfare. The social action internship for advanced university students is divided into four stages of activity, namely debriefing, implementing activities on site, compiling reports, and assessing. The implementation of the social action internship for advanced university students in Jatirejo Village, Gunungpati District, Semarang City. The work program in Jatirejo Village is a program that emphasizes the theme of the Role of Students in Community Empowerment to Improve Welfare. The physical program of the social action internship group for advanced university students in Jatirejo Village, among others: planting toga plant seeds, making banana satay and marketing, distributing masks, making processed fruit and fro, helping the community in preparing rice every Friday.Keywords: Community Empowerment, Welfare, toga plant

Curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation of a sub-internship program providing a doctor’s real work experiences

목적 이 연구는 서브인턴십의 장점을 극대화하고 어려움을 최소화하기 위해 새롭게 교육과정을 개발하고, 의과대학 4학년 학생을 대상으로 프로그램을 시행한 후, 과정 평가를 통해 보다 개선된 서브인턴십 프로그램을 제공하려는 목적으로 진행되었다. 방법 이전 프로그램과의 비교연구를 위해 참여 학생의 2020, 2021학년도 과정 만족도를 조사하였으며, 프로그램의 결과를 평가하고 피드백을 수집하기 위해 참여 교수와 학생을 대상으로 표적집단면접(focus group interview)을 실시하였다. 2020학년도에는 총 76명, 2021학년도에는 총 59명의 응답을 받아 분석하였고, 교수 4명과 학생 4명의 표적집단면접을 실시하고 두 독립표본 t검정을 통해 그 응답을 분석하였다. 결과 이 연구를 통해 세 가지 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 첫째, 학생 스스로 실습 과를 결정할 수 있게 함으로써 실제적인 임상 경험을 얻을 수 있도록 도와주는 학습 동기가 향상되었다. 둘째, 서브인턴십은 의과대학 3, 4학년을 통해 진행하는 임상실습(rotation-based clerkship)과는 분명하게 다른 실습을 제공하고 있었다. 셋째, 다양한 행정적 도움을 통해 프로그램의 운영을 돕고 프로그램의 효과적 결과에 영향을 미치는 학생들의 외재적 동기도 향상시킬 수 있었다. 결론 연구 결과를 바탕으로 네 가지 제언을 도출하였다. 첫째, 임상 실습의 실제성(authenticity)은 서브인턴십의 성공적 결과를 위해 필수적인 요소이다. 둘째, 각기 다른 특성을 가지고 있는 임상 과의 차이에 따라 교육과정 및 평가 기준을 다르게 구성해야 한다. 셋째, 온라인 실습을 포함하는 하이브리드 실습은 제한적인 대면 교육의 대안으로 실시 할 수 있다. 넷째, 의과대학과 부속 병원의 적극적인 협조가 필요하다.

The Impact of Emotional Labor on Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior of Medical Staff: Taking Organizational Identification as an Intermediary

Medical and health services are a special service-oriented industry. The emotional labor of medical staff must meet their hospital’s established norms and organizational rules. In the process of carrying out emotional labor, however, medical staff members are likely to show non-self-regarding unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB). Previous studies on UPB from the perspective of cognition and emotion have mainly focused on the field of business services and organizational behavior. However, there is a lack of research on this topic in the field of medical services. To explore the mechanism behind the impact of medical staff’s emotional labor on their UPB, this study conducted a survey of 261 Chinese medical staff, using organizational identification as an intermediary variable. Results showed that surface behaviors of emotional labor of the medical staff negatively affect organizational identification, which positively affects UPB; the surface behaviors also negatively affect UPB, and organizational identity partly mediates the result of surface behaviors and UPB; deep behaviors of emotional labor of the medical staff positively affects organizational identification, which, in turn, positively affects UPB; and deep behaviors also positively affect UPB, while organizational identity partly mediates the two. The results show that in order to effectively eliminate or avoid medical staff’s UPB, hospital managers should take medical staff ‘s real work experience as the standard, and actively pay attention to their emotional resources and the change of organizational identity. Simultaneously, hospitals should also strengthen the cognition of medical staff on professional rules, and actively educate and guide them in implementing emotional labor behavior.

An Approach towards Urbanization Khadiya Village, Junagadh District

Vishwakarma Yojana provides the benefits of real work experience to engineering students and students can apply their technical knowledge in the development of infrastructure in rural development. Under this scheme, the villages are surveyed and this project was identified & selected for implementation Rurbaization is the concept of providing villagers the basic amenities required along with keeping the village soul alive. [1]This project gives new ideas for Development of rural villages. As a measure to strengthen the Panchayat Raj Institutions in terms of functions, powers and finance. Gram Sabha, NGOs, Self-Help Groups and PRIs have been accorded adequate role to make participatory democracy meaningful and effective. By this V.Y. project government wants technical solution of the problems of villages from the engineering point of view. [2][3]

Cultivating the Ideal Teamwork through Real Software Development Project Experience

It is proven by many studies that software project failures are driven by not just from a single reason but multiple factors, combined and somehow closely related to each other. Basically, failure in projects is when the software developed is not delivered within time, within stipulated budget and of poor quality. All these rooted from poor project management and certainly in agreement with findings reported in the literature. Realizing the importance of this aspect in ensuring software project success, this paper presents our efforts in preparing future software practitioners to become readily equipped especially with teamwork essence through gaining real project work experience with the industry. Emphasizing the application of Teamwork Quality (TWQ) constructs, we invited several software houses to be part of our teaching plan and assigned our students in 12 teams from SSE4301 course to the projects initiated by each company. 14 weeks duration of coursework were given to these students to carry out their projects and at week 15 they delivered a presentation of their product in front of the industrial supervisors, lecturers and the rest of the class for assessment. Our premise is ideal teamwork influences the success of a software project. We believe this small effort capable to instill and cultivate ideal teamwork among the students when dealing with real clients and different set of expectations. Apart from that, we hope the implementation of our teaching plan that incorporated the industry involvement directly would be able to transform and elevate the landscape of teaching and learning we have been practicing for all these years.

Role of the Kazakhstan-German Cooperation in Improving Scientific Tools for Evaluation of Vocational Education Programs

The work carried out within the framework of the German-Kazakh project “GeKaVoс – Transfer of dual training in logistics, mechatronics and sustainable energy supply to Kazakhstan” can be considered as one of the crucial aspects of the contribution to improving the quality of system of technical and vocational education (TVET), the achievement of high rates of employment of graduates of the TVET system, improve the ratio of supply and demand in the labor market.As the analysis of the TVET system in Kazakhstan presented in the article shows, different forms of cooperation between participants of the educational process in the country (corporate partnership, industrial clusters, patronage of large and medium-sized enterprises over educational institutions, etc.) contribute to the development of a market-oriented education system. Monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of technical and vocational education, as well as identifying opportunities to improve its quality and scope require understanding of its nature, its functions, goals and key characteristics, the application of effective scientific tools to assess vocational technical education and training of trainers (tutors) (TVET).The paper shows that the success of the transfer of educational programs depends primarily on the willingness to work together of all the stakeholders, the creation of systematic structures of interaction in the development of educational programs of different levels, improving methods of forecasting demand not only for certain professions, but also for professional and pre-professional competencies. The purpose of scientific evaluation of the dual system and workplace training is to prove its effectiveness as an educational strategy that provides students with real work experience, where they can apply social and technical skills and develop them.

School-business partnerships that facilitate postsecondary transition: Evaluating the perspectives and expectations for families of students with disabilities

The purpose of this study is to examine family perspectives and the expectations of students with disabilities regarding the school-business partnership in order to prepare students with disabilities for post-school employment. Special education, especially providing transition services, in Saudi Arabia is still in its development stage. This study is a descriptive presentation of survey research regarding community-based partnerships in early employment. The researchers of this study have developed the survey used based on a review of the literature in order to investigate targeted skills by schools, current school and community practices, partnerships, and collaboration between schools, families, and community agencies. A total of 92 families with students with disabilities in middle and high schools participated. Based on the results, the majority of families believe that there is some level of communication between them the school staff and between schools and business owners. However, they did not think that the community provides enough opportunities for their children to have vocational training, work sampling, job shadowing, internships, and real work experiences. Additionally, most families had a negative perspective toward community involvement during the transition planning and process, and businesses assistance with curriculum development and modifications. Implications for practice and research were also discussed.

Sistema automatizado integral de información WEB como apoyo para la gestión de proyectos de estadía en la Universidad Tecnológica de Jalisco

This article details the software engineering process applied to the AGORA comprehensive web information system in the business stays module, developed by Depto. of Administration and Software Development in collaboration with the Academic Body No.02 Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Integral Development for SMEs of the Technological University of Jalisco, in order to automate the process of stay belonging to the area of Business Linkage, using the methodology Agile Kanba and a cascading software life cycle model, also known as a linear life cycle. The project arises from the need to manage the work carried out by university students, who during their stay during the last semester in a company that they attend full time, develop a project related to their career, allowing them to enhance the skills that the professional market demands and obtaining real work experience. This WEB system will be used for management and as a central repository for stay projects, which have been part of the strategies that companies have implemented as continuous improvement. These projects require tools that allow safeguarding, controlling and evidencing the achievements obtained in their development and implementation within the sector. Derived from these needs, a new technological development was implemented, as a module attached to the AGORA system that automates processes for obtaining data, safeguarding, controlling and classifying projects, which will contribute to the work of those companies with which it is linked.

Curriculum to Prepare AEC Students for BIM-Enabled Globally Distributed Projects

ABSTRACT Globalization and the increasing adoption of BIM and other technologies in the AEC industry have changed the way we prepare graduates for the digital workplace. This paper presents curriculum design where students from five universities worked together to develop design and construction proposals. This paper describes a collaborative project executed in two parts. Part I included the University of Washington in the USA and IIT-Madras in India. Part II included Washington State University in the USA, and National Taiwan University and National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. Students from these global universities worked on a multi-disciplinary, interdependent project where teams created 3D models and 4D construction simulations. This curriculum addresses ACCE and ABET accreditation requirements regarding multi-disciplinary teams, ethical and professional responsibilities in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts, and effective teamwork. In this paper, we describe the course design, evaluative criteria, and lessons learned. We found that it was important to emphasize BIM Execution Planning for distributed teams given that communication and coordination can be challenging across time zones and cultural differences. Working through technical challenges of exchanging BIM data, the students learned coordination skills in a globally distributed team environment that simulated real work experiences.

Evaluating the level of occupational stress and its influence factors among traffic police in a district in Shanghai

Objective: To investigate the high occupational stress and its influencing factors in traffic police in Shanghai. Methods: 728 traffic police were selected as the study subjects, and the《Occupational Health Questionnaire》was used to investigate and evaluate their job demand-control (JDC) and effort-reward imbalance model (ERI) occupational stress situation respectively. The related influencing factors were analyzed. Results: The prevalence rates of high occupational stress in JDC and ERI models were 74.6% (543/728) and 51.5% (375/728) . The influencing factors of JDC were education, marriage, average weekly hours (χ(2)=16.82, 10.04, 18.71, P<0.05) , and The influencing factors of ERI were gender, age, marriage, real monthly income level, education, work experience, and average weekly hours (χ(2)=7.02, 26.18, 6.73, 50.42, 4.75, 26.61, 112.98, 6.19, P<0.05) . The JDC multivariate logistic analysis indicated that the risk of occupational stress of married police was 2.81 times as high as that of Unmarried ones. The risk of occupational stress of traffic police with more education was 1.92 times as high as that of low eduacation, average weekly working 41-50 hours and≥51 hours was 2.53, 3.12 times as high as that of ones with average working 40 hours, respectivly. Meanwhile, the ERI multivariate logistic analysis indicated that high income level is the protective factor of occupational stress. The traffic police with 15-<20 working years were more likely to occur higher occupational stress. The traffic police with the more average weekly hours had greater possibility of higher occupational stress. Conclusion: The main influencing factors of JDC and ERI are marriage, real monthly income level, education, work experience, and average weekly hours.

USE OF E-LEARNING AND COURSE ASSIGNMENTS TO IMPROVE LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT PLANNING

Construction project planning integrates various types of theoretical knowledge and practical skills in civil engineering, and learning effectiveness among students is often diminished by a lack of real construction work experience. This research describes the design of a series of course assignments for construction project planning instruction, integrated with the use of e-learning tools. Following the semester-long course, a questionnaire is used to assess learning outcomes. Findings show that the course assignments significantly improve learning outcomes and that learners find the e-learning tool to be convenient and helpful in developing autonomous learning abilities through solving course assignment problems. In addition, as smart phones have emerged as a mainstream e-learning device, the user interface of instructional content must be modified for optimal effectiveness on smart phones. The research findings are integrated and enumerated as an instructional framework reference for the subject of Construction Project Planning.

DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY COMPETENCE OF PRESERVICE TEACHER AT DISRUPTION ERA

&lt;em&gt;The disruption era is a challenge for the education sector because education is one of the areas that can support the quality of Indonesian human resources according to Kemenristekdikti priorities. This article aims to explore the development of personality competencies of preservice teachers in facing the challenges of disruption era. The function of teachers in the disruption era is different from that of teachers in the previous era, which is shifting to the function of cultivating ethical values, character, wisdom, experience, and social empathy because the function is impossible to do by machine. Thus, the challenge of educational institutions is to form the competence of preservice teacher personality which will build suitable exemplary based on expectation of teacher's role revolution in disruption era. There are four things that can be done in developing the personality competence of preservice teachers, some of them are: 1). religious matriculation programs, 2). application of student code of conduct, 3) Real Work Experience (KKN) program, and 4). integration of religious values in lectures.&lt;/em&gt;