Research Skills Of Students Research Articles

Исследовательские задачи как средство формирования учебно-исследовательских умений обучающихся в процессе обучения математике

Статья посвящена одной из актуальных проблем современного математического образования – формированию учебно-исследовательских умений у обучающихся в процессе решения задач в предметной области «Математика». Описаны уровни сформированности учебно-исследовательских умений обучающихся на основе совокупности критериев, выделенных Н.А. Меньшиковой. Показано, что для формирования учебно-исследовательских умений (УИУ) обучающихся целесообразно использовать блоки взаимосвязанных учебно-исследовательских задач, которые позволяют обучающимся с низким уровнем сформированности УИУ участвовать в решении задач более высокого уровня сложности.

Shaping scholarly communication guidance channels to meet the research needs and skills of doctoral students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

This article as part of a more comprehensive study, investigated the level of research and scholarly communication skills of doctoral students and the channels to be adopted by the academic library for the provision of scholarly communication guidance at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). It was ascertained that doctoral students at KNUST had moderate level of skill in research and scholarly communication issues; indicating the need for guidance. Both doctoral students and supervisors acknowledged the need for research and scholarly communication skills guidance and training. They also preferred online scholarly communication guidance and a research portal as part of the academic library website.

TO THE QUESTION OF FORMATION OF COMPETENCE RESEARCH SKILLS OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

The basic approaches to the formation of research skills of students as future teachers were revealed; the content and structure of pedagogical evaluation of research skills, technologies of its implementation and possibilities of application in the process of formation of research skills of students; the method of pedagogical evaluation of research skills was described. In today’s high school pedagogical diagnostics as the practice of identifying quality educational activities and the reasons for its successes and failures plays a significant role.

Programa “Semilleros en aula” en el desarrollo de destrezas investigativas de los estudiantes de Bibliotecología de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Actualmente, la formación de destrezas investigativas es un tema de mucho interés para la docencia en la educación superior, pues permite al estudiante universitario desarrollar todas las capacidades para generar conocimiento y dar solución a problemas de tipo práctico identificados en las diferentes disciplinas, desde un punto de vista formativo. Lamentablemente, muchos estudiantes llegan a la educación superior con destrezas investigativas poco desarrolladas, con alto índice de plagio, pocos hábitos de lectura, entre otros; en particular, los estudiantes de Bibliotecología se caracterizan por involucrarse en la actividad laboral de manera muy temprana, por lo que sus investigaciones se orientan a la solución de problemas, siendo sus investigaciones básicamente descriptivas y de corte transversal y esto se debe, entre otras cosas, a la falta de estrategias de enseñanza innovadoras que les permitan desarrollar estas habilidades. La presente investigación fue de enfoque cuantitativo, de diseño experimental en su modalidad de preexperimental, se trabajó con 32 estudiantes. Se pudo concluir que la aplicación del programa “Semilleros en aula” tuvo un efecto significativo en el desarrollo de las destrezas investigativas de los estudiantes de la carrera de Bibliotecología de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, existiendo diferencias notables en el pretest (31,29) y postest (78,28), aceptándose la hipótesis planteadas.

Breaking the Curse: Opening Students' Eyes to Pathology and Oncology Research.

Research is a particularly underexplored professional activity for physicians, leaving many medical students compelled to pursue a clinical career. However, the XXI century requires that physicians innovate and perform research that fuels their practice; students should have early exposure to research to explore it as a career path. It should be encouraged in the undergraduate program by having students take part in case reports, short communication presentations, and research seminars. As part of an educational strategy, students worked with faculty members to deliver a gynecologic oncology pathology case report as a poster for the Oncology Conference of Medical Students. We used a quantitative approach with a descriptive and cross-sectional design to assess the effect of poster presentations on developing student's research skills. The sample comprised 118 medical students enrolled in the Pathology courses that presented a total of 23 posters. The judges who assessed had a medical specialty in Pathology, Radio-oncology, and Gynecologic Oncology. The results show that students exceeded expectations on the use of language, as it was both formal and technical; and they used relevant bibliographic support and references. However, students performed less well in the clinical case summary. The judges found that although it was coherent and chronologically ordered, they did not include all the relevant laboratory tests and analyses, nor a full description of the diagnosis. This educational strategy has proven to be valuable in promoting Pathology and Oncology Research in students; it allowed participants to adopt a systematic approach and methodologies to document, analyze, and share knowledge.

USING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING TO TEACH LATIN AND GREEK MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

The article reveals the role and importance of the project method of Latin teaching; to represent the sample of the project “Latin and Greek medical terminology and their corresponding national equivalents in English”.
 The basic terminology competence of medical students is formed in Latin lessons because Latin vocabulary is used in Anatomy, Histology, Chemistry, Biology, as well as further clinical disciplines. Thus, the principle of close interdisciplinary integration helps students better understand the nature of the anatomical, histological, pharmaceutical, and clinical terms.
 Project-based learning to teach Latin and Greek medical terminology contributes training in logical thinking, boosting cognitive processes essential for medicine, and causes the development of research and creative skills of medical students, the ability to independently construct their knowledge, navigate the information space and think critically.
 It has been found that the use of project learning combined with all necessary elements of co-operating training of future medical workers greatly facilitates their creative training, development of communicative skills and contributes to independent decision-making.
 The efficient using project-based learning to teach Latin and Greek medical terminology in higher medical educational institutions in combination with conventional teaching and technical support provides the highest quality of the educational process.

Effectiveness of Project-Web Learning Approach in the Development of Action Research Skills among Master’s Students in Oman

The study aimed to prepare a program in action research based on Project-Web Learning Approach, and investigate the effectiveness of this program to develop the action research skills for master's students at Dhofar University in Oman. The study was based on the semi-experimental design of one group (pre-post application). The study sample comprised (27) master’s students of Education Department in College of Arts and Applied Science of Dhofar University. Data were collected via the test of action research skills for the sample in the courses of educational research and seminar in curriculum & instruction. The study was carried out during 13 weeks. Data were analyzed using means, standard divisions, and T test. The study concluded that there was a significant difference at (0.01) between the mean grades of students in the pre- test of action research and that of the post-test in favor of the post-test. In light of the results, the study recommended preparing the content of all courses to master's students in accordance with the Project-web learning Approach, and improving the instructors’ performance to develop action research skills for their students.

Education for Sustainable Development in Primary School: Improvement of Students’ Ecocriticism Skills

Ecocriticism analyzes the symbolic meanings attributed to nature and the mindsets created by these meanings through interpreting literature and cultural texts from an environmental perspective . The individuals who have gained ecocriticism skills are expected to create an awareness concerning possession of a distinctive value and to direct towards a non-anthropocentric understanding from an anthropocentric understanding. The purpose of this study is to develop ecocriticism skills of primary school students in the third grade. Action research design has been used in this study. A total of 15 students composed of 8 females and 7 males participated in the study. Data of the study were obtained with rhetorical discussion, analytical questioning, mind maps and drawings. Following the applications composed of discussions, mind maps and drawings, it has been determined that the implications develop the ecocritical inquiry skills of students.

Los proyectos integradores de saberes y su incidencia en la producción, gestión del conocimiento y desarrollo de habilidades investigativas de los Docentes en Formación

Today's society demands of professional universities increasingly capable of confronting the challenges of produced in the 21st century, the integration of the knowledge taught in classes with the new knowledge that is generated daily in the society, this work aims to determine what are the criteria that underlie the formation of research skills in students, and is concerned with theoretical contributions of researchers who have contributed to the subject of the investigative skills and the important part of his training. The results obtained allowed to see that they are very few students who have developed skills in production, knowledge management and research in his academic training, there is little knowledge about them, what It leads to a minimum participation of the students in the research process.

Imagine a proposal for a personal e-learning environment (PLE) to support the research skills of undergraduate students

The study aimed at identifying the degree of use of undergraduate students in some of the applications of mobile personal learning environments in their academic life, and the opportunities available to these programs and electronic applications when used to support scientific research skills and the most important challenges facing them. The aim was to present a proposed scenario for a training program that aims to employ the use of personal learning environments (PLE) in mobile devices (smart phones, tablets or laptops) to support the scientific research skills and academic skills needed by The study consisted of (154) female students from the Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences. The researcher used a questionnaire consisting of (32) words distributed on three axes after verifying their validity and stability. The researcher also constructed a proposed training program aimed at Use mobile personal learning environments to support scientific research skills. The study concluded with a set of results. In light of this, recommendations were made to activate the use of smart phones and tablets and to encourage students to use them in supporting scientific research skills, dissemination and academic skills. Develop appropriate plans to train students and faculty on what is new in the field of e-learning and mobile education.

A study of research skills of Kosovar students: An assessment of the influence of inclusion, exclusion, ethnicity, parental education and gender

Aim. The aim of the current study is to address a gap in literature as well as explore the factors influencing the perceptions that Kosovar students hold over their research skills. To that end, the study assessed students’ perceptions on their research abilities as well as the variables which influence these perceptions, namely inclusion, exclusion, ethnicity, gender and parental education.
 Methods. The study employed the quantitative research approach and 303 Kosovar university students participated in the study by answering an instrument composed of three different scales measuring the variables in the study, namely the research skills scale, inclusion scale and exclusion scale. In addition the participants answered ten demographic questions. Participation in the study was on a volunteer basis and the results were analyzed with the SPSS package.
 Results. Participants in this study reported the highest levels of research skills when they reported being included in academic settings. Ethnicity was a powerful influencing variable. Participants who belonged to minority groups were the ones to report the lowest levels of abilities. Contrary to existing literature, gender did not influence perceptions on abilities. Additionally, unlike in a vast number of research studies, parental education did not influence perceptions that Kosovar students held over their research skills.
 Conclusions. This study is the first one to research skill acquisition among student populations in Kosovo; a region that is almost absent in international literature. This research presents an overview of variables predicting perceptions held by Kosovar students on their research skills with ethnicity and inclusion being detrimental to perceptions of research skills.

DETERMINING THE LEVEL OF STUDENTS’ RESEARCH SKILLS AND DESIGN THE MODEL OF INFLUENCING FACTORS ON RESEARCH SKILLS

Purpose of Study: The main purpose of this research was to determine the level of research skills of students and design the model of the factors influencing it. This analytical-descriptive research was carried out in two stages. First, the level of skill and ability of students was obtained and then, based on interviews with them, factors affecting their skill level were obtained in the form of a pattern.
 Methodology: To do this research, first, the student's ability to research was studied to determine the status quo. To this end, a researcher-made questionnaire was designed to assess students' ability to research in four areas of knowledge of the components of scientific research, knowledge of types of scientific research, the ability to produce a scientific research proposal and the ability to perform and report scientific research. According to their answerers, their ability to be classified into three levels of limited, acceptable and advanced categorization.
 Results: The results showed that more than 50% of students with a low level of satisfaction are eligible for the practical implementation of research. Also, the pattern showed that students, school and teachers, and parents are effective at their level of ability to do research.
 Implications/Applications: After the implementation of the questionnaires, the results were shared with the participants and interviewed about the reasons and factors affecting their level. After the interview, repetitive clauses were identified and with the help of Max software, the pattern was designed.

On their own terms

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate how first-year students conduct everyday life research and how, if possible, their everyday research skills can inform information literacy instruction in higher education. Very few studies in information literacy emphasize existing knowledge that students bring with them to college; instead, the emphasis tends to fall on deficits in students’ academic research skills. Strengths-based approaches or asset-based approaches as found in the literature of psychology and education provide a basis for exploring this direction in information literacy education.Design/methodology/approachThe research used a phenomenographic methodology, interviewing 40 first-year students from two large universities, a medium-sized university and a community college.FindingsThe qualitative study suggests that first-year students are capable of using information purposefully to learn or research interests that have sparked their curiosities. They are also capable of reflecting on the ways that their investigations fulfilled their purposes, resulted in unexpected outcomes or made them consider their issue in a new light. These existing capacities provide promising starting points for strengths-based approaches to information literacy instruction.Practical implicationsDialogue with students about prior research experiences enables teaching librarians to plan engaging, authentic information literacy curriculum that acknowledges existing strengths.Originality/valueThis study provides a valuable contribution to empirical evidence of student research skills prior to entering higher education and suggests connections between those skills and the ACRL Information Literacy Framework. In addition, the study provides a case for strengths-based education, activating students’ prior knowledge to learn and create new knowledge. Authors have presented at Library Instruction West, July 2018.

Desarrollo de habilidades investigativas en estudiantes de enfermería: Nuevos retos en el contexto formativo

El desarrollo de habilidades investigativas constituye una necesidad debido a que la investigación es uno de los procesos sustantivos toda Universidad, sino que representa una función del perfil profesional, del egresado de la profesión de enfermería generación de conocimiento y la solución de problemas. Método, se utilizó un diseño cuasi experimental con dos grupos y con medición solo después de la aplicación del programa educativo. La muestra estuvo conformado por 24 estudiantes de enfermería de cuarto año, para el grupo experimental y 24 estudiantes para el grupo control. La recolección de los datos se utilizó como técnica la observación directa; y como instrumentos una guia de evaluación de habilidades investigativas de construcción conceptual, procedimental, actitudinal y la evaluación del Programa educativo. La comprobación de la hipótesis se utilizó la Prueba de T de Student para muestras independientes. En la significancia estadística se utilizó una confiabilidad del 95%, y un margen de error de 0.05. Resultados. La aplicación del programa educativo, la magnitud de los efectos fue el 79,2% del grupo experimental presentaron nivel avanzado en habilidades investigativas frente al 20.8% del grupo control con habilidades investigativas de nivel medio; se encontró diferencias significativas estadísticamente en las puntuaciones entre los dos grupos para las habilidades investigativas en general y según dimensiones de habilidades de construcción conceptual, procedimental y actitudinal, todas con p≤0,000.Llegando a la conclusión que el programa educativo tiene efectividad positiva en el desarrollo de habilidades investigativas en estudiantes de cuarto año de Enfermería.

Assessment of the Utility of a Pedagogy Interest Workgroup for Graduate Teaching Assistants

Nearly 95% of doctoral students teach or mentor undergraduate students during their graduate programs. However, institutional emphasis remains squarely on research development and productivity, often at the expense of pedagogical training. While a graduate student's research skills are developed and evaluated through lab rotations, field‐specific course work, and thesis or dissertation projects, there are rarely any requirements for instructor or graduate teaching assistant (GTA) training, evaluation, or supervisory feedback. This trend is particularly concerning as GTAs are commonly used in large introductory and lower‐level classes to teach the smaller laboratory and recitation sections, as it often gives GTAs more direct contact with students than the professor. To address this deficit, graduate students from the Cell Biology and Anatomy and Anthropology Departments of Augusta University and Pennsylvania State University, respectively, have created a Pedagogy Interest Workgroup (PIW) to create an opportunity for students to come together and discuss educational topics, such as developing a teaching philosophy, student motivation, and types of teaching methods. Participation in the PIW is voluntary, with meetings occurring every other week. The purpose of this study is to assess perceptions and benefits of participation in the PIW. Graduate students and faculty at Augusta University, Pennsylvania State University, and Augustana College who have participated in the PIW will be included in the study (n = ~30). Perceptions and potential benefits of participation in the PIW will be evaluated through pre‐ and post‐participation surveys, semi‐structured focus groups, and interviews with PIW participants, covering teaching experience, self‐evaluations of teaching efficacy and self‐confidence, and opinions and recommendations for future PIW curricula. Pre‐PIW survey data has already been collected. Post‐PIW surveys, focus groups, and interviews will be completed after the first semester of the PIW concludes in late November 2018. Data are being acquired and analyzed under IRB protocols approved at Augusta University (IRB No. 1302688‐1). A comparison of means will be used to assess the relationships between variables for survey questions answered via a Likert‐type scale. Thematic analyses will be utilized for narrative responses from surveys, focus groups, and interviews. Data analysis will directly reflect which aspects of the PIW provide beneficial pedagogical training to graduate students. The data gathered will further be utilized to refine the curriculum for future cohorts in order to better provide pedagogical education and training for GTAs and future career academics.Support or Funding InformationN/AThis abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

Design and Validation of Inquiry-based STEM Learning Strategy as a Powerful Alternative Solution to Facilitate Gift Students Facing 21st Century Challenging

Engagement in STEM across the primary-secondary school transition has been widely investigated. However, integrated-STEM implementation had not shown practical packaging and could not reach all the skills that gift students needed in the 21st century. The main perspective of STEM education refers to the conclusion that the learning approach was student-centered. The concept of this point of view was like an inquiry-based approach, where the inquiry approach was oriented to fostering student inquiry skills through active experiments. The purpose of this study was to design and validated an inquiry-basedSTEM learning strategy design that could systematically guide instructors or designers in creating an appropriate gifted students learning activities oriented to 21st century skills. Using an established method for model development research, a theoretically constructed initial model was iteratively improved and underwent internal validation through expert review. In a field study of an inquiry-based STEM learning strategy , we examine the design and operational characteristics that were important for the expressive role of the learning strategy. The pilot study indicated that the inquiry-based STEM learning strategy could improve gift students' abilities in accordance with 21st century learning frameworks.

Perceived enablers and constraints of motivation to conduct undergraduate research in a Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences: What role does choice play?

BackgroundEnhancing evidence-based practice and improving locally driven research begins with fostering the research skills of undergraduate students in the medical and health sciences. Research as a core component of undergraduate curricula can be facilitated or constrained by various programmatic and institutional factors, including that of choice. Self-Determination Theory (SDT) provides a framework for understanding the influence of choice on student motivation to engage in research.AimThis study aimed to document the enablers and constraints of undergraduate research at a South African Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) and to explore how the presence or absence of choice influenced students’ engagement with research in this context.MethodsAn exploratory descriptive design was adopted. Undergraduate students who had conducted research and undergraduate programme staff were recruited through purposive sampling. Semi-structured interviews were transcribed and thematically analysed. Findings were interpreted using SDT, focusing on how choice at various levels affects motivation and influences research experiences.ResultsMany of the programmatic and institutional enablers and constraints–such as time and supervisory availability–were consistent with those previously identified in the literature, regardless of whether research was compulsory or elective. Choice itself seemed to operate as both an enabler and a constraint, highlighting the complexity of choice as an influence on student motivation. SDT provided insight into how programmatic and institutional factors–and in particular choice–supported or suppressed students’ needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, thereby influencing their motivation to engage in research.ConclusionWhile programmatic and institutional factors may enable or constrain undergraduate research, individual-level factors such as the influence of choice on students’ motivation play a critical role. The implication for curriculum development is that research engagement might be enhanced if levels of choice are structured into the curriculum such that students’ needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are met.

Course “History & Philosophy of Science” for Doctoral Programs in Education and Pedagogical Sciences

Russian pedagogical community has recently faced a new challenge generated by the introduction of emerging conceptual framework for doctoral education treated as the third level of higher education system. The framework for doctoral education covers some typical study programs such as “Methods & technics of pedagogical research” as well as some new ones, including “Academic writing” and competence-based teaching for the traditional postgraduate training. Our argument concerns the course syllabus “History & philosophy of science” aimed at developing the research skills of doctoral students in education. This course is an integral part of the emerging system for doctoral training in Russia. We analyze some philosophical foundations of contemporary pedagogical science, including logical empiricism, Popper’s falsifiability, Paradigm Thesis by Thomas Kuhn, science theories by Paul Feyerabend and Stephen Toulmin, as well as correspondence, pragmatic, conventional and coherent theories of truth. We examine the impact of philosophy of science on methodology of pedagogical education in the context of the history of pedagogical thought. Our conclusion is that despite their poor logical conditions, pedagogical science and research methods benefit from the ideas of philosophy of science that also contributes greatly to the subfield of pedagogical methodology. We seek to optimize the study program of doctoral training syllabus “History and philosophy of science” for doctoral students in education.

ТЕОРЕТИКО-МЕТОДИЧНІ ЗАСАДИ ОСОБИСТІСНО-ПРОФЕСІЙНОГО РОЗВИТКУ ВЧИТЕЛЯ (НА ОСНОВІ КОНЦЕПЦІЇ НОВОЇ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ШКОЛИ)

The article reveals the content of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the personal and professional development of the teacher (based on the Concept of the New Ukrainian School). The shortcomings in the organization of teaching natural sciences are identified, the main approaches to the formation of research skills of students as future teachers of biology and geography, namely: competence and «learning through research» are revealed. Scientifically oriented training at the university is a promising direction for the development of education and the formation of a future competent specialist, therefore, it is advisable to carry out further work on the development of this problem in the direction of designing the software and methodological support for the appropriate type of training. When planning biology lessons, when forming special and general educational biological concepts among students, one should take into account the psychological basis for building a lesson, due to the fact that the process of cognition consists of several stages (sensations, perceptions, ideas, concept formation and operations with concepts) that cause Lesson stages of learning new knowledge and skills, and form competence. We found out that the teacher’s professionalism includes the following areas: 1) student-oriented vocational training – theoretical and scientific teacher awareness, creativity, intellectual and operational personality traits, and emotionality; 2) the methodological level of teacher training for the implementation of the Concept of the New Ukrainian School with students;3) teacher's professionalism in the pedagogical process (competence, decision-making, gnostic skills, skills, actions); 4) the creation by the teacher of a harmonious educational space in the educational process; 5) the psychodynamics of the teacher (the intensity of the experiences, the speed of their shift, the load and difficulties in the profession); 6) integral characteristics of the personality of the teacher (creativity as creativity, self-awareness, individual style of work.

Description of meta-analysis of inquiry-based learning of science in improving students’ inquiry skills

This meta-analysis is the result of preliminary research which aims to describe the effectiveness of inquiri-based science learning in effort to improve students’ inquiry skills. The study of meta-analysis with observation method and analyzed of fifteen journals, literature review using Google search engine in Journal of Baltic data base, ERIC journals (Education Resources Information Center and Google Scholar). Calculation of analysis used average Effect Size (ES), analyzed the articles as research samples, then categorized based on Cohen’s criteria The results of the data analysis obtained average Effect Size of 0.45, with the category “medium”. Variations between levels of education and the country of researchers in the journals, the highest effect was on the state of America with a score was 0.88, with the category “high” in elementary school level. Based on the analysis of all samples of this study concluded that inquiry-based learning can be used in the development of science learning and improving of students inquiry skills on each level of education.