Second Semester Of Academic Year Research Articles

An Achievement Test in Mathematics in the Modern World Course: The Standardization Process

This study aimed to construct and standardize an achievement test in Mathematics in the Modern World (MMW) course. Achievement test evaluates a student’s performance after a given period of instruction. Using the instrumentation research design, the data were gathered among 273 tertiary students of Notre Dame University enrolled during the second semester of Academic Year 2020-2021. Among these, 38 pilot tested and 213 tested the reliability of the instrument. This study further utilized the following: a 4-point Likert scale for the validation of the instrument, difficulty value and discrimination index formulas for the analysis of each item, and KR20 reliability for internal consistency. Furthermore, a test manual for the MMW achievement test was also established. The preliminary total number of Items before MMW teachers’ validation was 42 items covering the topics for the first 12 hours of the MMW Syllabus. These items were validated through Aiken’s Item Validity method which resulted in the acceptance of 42 items. After rigorous processes, it resulted in the acceptance of 34 items for the MMW achievement test. The instrument’s average validity is 0.935, and the reliability is 0.701 which means that this tool has high validity and acceptable reliability.

Investigating curriculum integrated information literacy

Information literacy has become an essential element of the student learning process due to the current information overload that university students face. The world is in the information age where the options for access to information is changing daily. University students need to be information literate to be able to use information responsibly and ethically. This article describes the third cycle of an action research study that sought to investigate the merit of integrating information literacy that is aligned to an acceptable framework into the curriculum of an institution of higher learning by assessing students' perceptions before and after an information literacy intervention. First-year undergraduate students at a [institution name] responded to an online questionnaire and participated in online interviews to share perceptions of their information literacy competencies during the second semester of academic year 2021/2022. SPSS was used to analyze the quantitative data and the qualitative data was coded to identify common themes. The results of the study revealed information literacy courses positively impacted students' perceptions of their information literacy self-efficacy, skills, and attitudes.

Readiness of Fourth Year College of Education Students for Effective Preservice Teaching in Public Schools

This study determined the readiness of fourth-year students to pre-service teaching in terms of knowledge, skills values and attitude. This study employed descriptive survey research design. Furthermore, it aims to determine the level of readiness of 4th year students for pre-service teaching with respect to gender. The sampling used is convenience sampling where there were twenty males and thirty females with the total of fifty respondents of fourth-year coming from the department of college of education who were enrolled in Notre Dame of Midsayap College during the second semester of Academic Year 2022-2023. Frequency and percentage distribution, weighted mean and standard deviation, product moment correlation (Pearson-r) and t-test were used to analyze the gathered data. Findings of the study revealed that the respondents are very much ready to pre-service teaching in terms of knowledge, skills, values and attitude. However, among the variable it was revealed that the lowest mean among the four is the knowledge. Nevertheless, the highest mean was in their attitude. Male respondents are more ready to pre- service teaching than females, although the difference is not significant.

Grammatical Error of Simple Past Tense in Writing Narrative Text at Student’s of Economic Syariah

This research aims to analyzed the grammatical error of simple past tense in writing narrative text at student’s of economic syariah major for the college of Islamic religious Syaichona Moh. Cholil Bangkalan in second semester of academic year 2022-2023 A quantitative research was chosen in this study because the researcher want to know the number of error in Tenses especially in the case of simple past tense that had been given to twenty seven students using a narrative text entitled marriage proposal. In analyzing the data, first the researcher scored the student mastery on writing narrative text by using analytic scoring based on the content of orientation, complication and re-orientation. In each criterion the researcher gives 25 point and the researcher will gives 100 when it got accuratly. Also the researcher use a test and a questionnaire to make ensure the result and after that the researcher found some problem in making narrative text the researcher found some errors in making narrative text.. Besides the errors they made, the researcher had his own opinion based on the result of analyzing their errors. Most of the students made mistakes because of the reasons from the analyzed test: Firstly The student did not fully understand how to make good paragraph. Secondly A little students still had un-unity text. The texts looked like not complete that showed texts that are not done. Thirdly Coherence, which is one of students’ error, had their own mount in their text. Is showed that students still do not understand in making relation of a sentence with the next sentence. Fourthly most error that student made in making text which analyzing is focused in paragraph is completeness. Some of paragraphs they made were uncomplete.

KONTRIBUSI SELF ESTEEM TERHADAP KECANDUAN GAME ONLINE

Being addicted to online game is a kind detrimental behavior that could harm oneself. Such addiction is influenced by various factros, two of which are self esteem. This research aims to describe: (1) self esteem of the students of SMA Pertiwi 1 Padang, (2) students’ addiction to online games at SMA Pertiwi 1 Padang, (4) the contribution of self esteem toward the students’ addiction to online games, (5) the contribution of self esteem toward the students’ addiction to online games, This research applied quantitative approach and correlational technique. The population of the research was all of students registered in the second semester of Academic Year 2016/2017. By using purposive sampling technique, 243 students were chosen as the samples. The instrument of the research were inventory Self esteem (CFSE-2), the scale of addiction online games (KGO), and the scale self control (SC) by of Likert model. The data obtained were analyzed by using simple and multiple regression technique. The results of the research reveal that,: (1) the students’ self esteem could be categorized as “midle”, (2) the students’ self control and addiction to online games could be classified as “adequate”, (3) the students’ self esteem gives significant contribution (11 %). The implication of the research findings could be regarded as an input for the Guidance and Counseling teachers in designing guidance and counseling program for the the students.

Foundation English Course Development for Thai Tertiary Education: Learners’ Perceived Needs and Factor Analysis

A challenge to curriculum designers is what to adapt and include in Foundation English (FE) courses for tertiary education. In Thailand, it is important to explore how Thai EFL university students perceive their own needs in terms of English language learning. The present study aims to explore their perceived needs and to make use of the needs to design appropriate components of FE in a public university in Thailand. An online questionnaire comprising self-rated items on English language skills and written responses was used to capture data from 145 randomly selected university students enrolled in an FE course at the university in the second semester of academic year 2022. The results revealed that speaking was the most wanted-to-learn skill for communication. Moreover, seven other factors were found for the design of FE surrounding English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The components of EAP for FE included Academic English Skills, Advanced Reading Skills, and Paragraph Writing. The elements of ESP for FE included Content-based Language Learning and Career English. These findings have implications for the design of FE curriculum and course component development.

The Degree of "Darsak" Distance Learning Platform ‎Contribution in Developing Self-Learning ‎Skills Among Secondary Stage Students at Irbid City ‎During the "Covid-19" Pandemic‎

Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the degree of ‎‎"Darsak" distance learning platform contribution in developing ‎self-Learning skills among secondary stage students at Irbid ‎city during the "Covid-19" pandemic. The study sample which ‎chosen by available way consists of (536) students from ‎secondary stage school in Irbid Gasapa directorate of education, ‎during the second semester of academic year (2020/2021). To ‎achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire consisted of ‎‎(34) items was prepared. The validity and reliability of the ‎questionnaire were verified. The results of the study indicated ‎that the degree of "Darsak" distance learning platform ‎contribution in developing self-Learning skills among ‎secondary stage students at Jordan during the "Covid-19" ‎pandemic showed a low degree. The results also showed that ‎there were no statistically significant differences in the degree of ‎‎"Darsak" distance learning platform contribution in developing ‎self-Learning skills which might be attributed to gender. ‎Moreover, there were statistically significant differences in the ‎degree of "Darsak" distance learning platform contribution in ‎developing self-Learning skills which might be attributed to the ‎grade, in favor of the first secondary class, and the location, in ‎favor of villages. The study recommended to Promoting of self-‎learning culture as one of the modern learning methods and ‎contemporary educational trends.‎ ‎(Keywords: "Darsak", Distance Learning Platform, Self-‎Learning Skills, "Covid-19" Pandemic)‎

The Implementation of Project-Based Learning Model through ORAI in Recount Material to Enhance English Speaking Skill

The study objectives are to recognize the application of Project-based Learning (PBL) and utilization of ORAI, which can develop student’s speaking skills and immensity of the progress in recount text for tenth grade in science class 1 at MAN Sukoharjo. The students were in the second semester in Academic Year 2018/2019. More than 40 % students of tenth grade in science class 1 at MAN Sukoharjo encountered obstacles in English learning, especially in conveying recount. The data collection techniques in this research were document collection, observation, interview, and test. The data validity of this study used the triangulation method, which means that there were more techniques and observations of treatment in collecting the data. The finding reveals that the application of PBL and utilization of ORAI can improve student’s speaking skills especially in conveying recount. The average of students’ scores is found to be significantly different from each cycle. The pre-treatment average score is 69.33, the first cycle score is 72.66, and the second cycle score is 77.33. It means that almost all students can reach KKM (minimum completeness criteria). In conclusion, PBL and ORAI can be applied to enhance students’ speaking skills.

The role of personality traits and the ability to detect fake news in predicting information avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic

PurposeThe objective of this study was to investigate the impacts of personality traits and the ability to detect fake news on information avoidance behavior. It also examined the effect of personality traits on the ability to detect fake news.Design/methodology/approachThe sample population included Shiraz University students who were studying in the second semester of academic year 2021 in different academic levels. It consisted of 242 students of Shiraz University. The Big Five theory was used as the theoretical background of the study. Moreover, the research instrument was an electronic questionnaire consisting of the three questionnaires of the ability to detect fake news (Esmaeili et al., 2019, inspired by IFLA, 2017), the Big Five personality traits (Goldberg, 1999) and information avoidance (Howell and Shepperd, 2016). The statistical methods used to analyze the data were Pearson correlation and stepwise regression, which were performed through SPSS software (version 26).FindingsThe results showed that from among the five main personality factors, only neuroticism had a positive and significant effect on information avoidance. In addition, the ability to detect fake news had a significant negative effect on information avoidance behavior. Further analyses also showed positive and significant effects of openness to experience and extraversion on the ability to detect fake news. In fact, the former had more predictive power.Practical implicationsFollowing the Big Five theory considering COVID-19 information avoidance and the ability to detect COVID-19 fake news, this study shifted the focus from environmental factors to personality factors and personality traits. Furthermore, this study introduced the ability to detect fake news as an influential factor in health information avoidance behaviors, which can be a prelude for new research studies.Originality/valueThe present study applied the five main personality factors theory in the context of information avoidance behavior and the ability to detect fake news, and supported the effect of personality traits on these variables.

Exploring Students’ Perception on Online EFL Learning through WhatsApp Application

The present study attempted to find out students’ perception in their learning English process through WhatsApp application. The study was conducted based on some facts that there are recently learning delivered by some teaching techniques because of Covid 19 pandemic. Due to the pandemic of Covid 19 has changed the system of education in the world, Indonesia is one of the countries that was influenced and applied distance learning system. The study was conducted in one of the private universities in Tangerang Selatan. There were 20 participants involving in this study who came from the second semester of academic year 2021-2022. To find some accurate data, the researchers collected a data through semi-structure interviews via Google Meet. The students were asked to join some learning activity such as speaking, writing, listening and reading. Then, they were interviewed about what they feel and their experiences during online learning. A qualitative study which focuses on a design narrative was used to get students’ point of view regarding learning English through WhatsApp application. The result showed that the students have a good perception of learning English using WhatsApp. The use of WhatsApp in learning English is very influential on students.

Enhancing English Language Skills of Upper Secondary Students through Content and Language Integrated Learning

The purposes of this research aimed to enhance English language skills of upper secondary students through content and language integrated learning. The research procedures involved three phases as following: the first phase studied fundamental information. The second phase designed and developed the instructional strategies. The third phase implemented instructional model to enhance English language skills through content and language integrated learning. Forty of 11th grade students, second semester of academic year of 2018 selected through cluster random sampling. The assessment tools were a questionnaire, an achievement test, an English language skills test, and a satisfaction questionnaire. The result showed that students improved their listening and speaking skills. Achievement learning from the students is a result that has been achieved by students who obtain listening and speaking skills. At the 0.5 level of statistical significance, Students who were taught using content and language integrated learning outperformed those who were taught using traditional methods. CLIL learning provided students with a high level of learning satisfaction.

Statistical methods to estimate the impact of remote teaching on university students’ performance

The COVID-19 pandemic manifested around the World since February 2020, leading to disruptive effects on many aspects of people social life. The suspension of face-to-face teaching activities in schools and universities was the first containment measure adopted by the Governments to deal with the spread of the virus. Remote teaching has been the emergency solution implemented by schools and universities to limit the damages of schools and universities closure to students’ learning. In this contribution we intend to suggest to policy makers and researchers how to assess the impact of emergency policies on remote learning in academia by analysing students’ careers. In particular, we exploit the quasi-experimental setting arising from the sudden implementation of remote teaching in the second semester of academic year 2019/2020: we compare the performance of the cohort 2019/2020, which represents the treatment group, with the performance of the cohort 2018/2019, which represents the control group. We distinguish the impact of remote teaching at two levels: degree program and single courses within a degree program. We suggest to use Difference-In-Differences approach in the former case and multilevel modeling in the latter one. The proposal is illustrated analysing administrative data referred to freshmen of cohorts 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 for a sample of degree programs of the University of Florence (Italy).

Parental Pressure and Academic Performance of Students of College of Arts and Sciences of Notre Dame of Midsayap College, Midsayap, Cotabato, Philippines

This study aimed to determine the level of parental pressure of college students and its relationship to their academic performance. It made use of the descriptive correlational research design to describe the characteristics of the respondents in terms of sex, age, year level, and person or persons who raise and take care of their family; the parental pressure they experienced; the academic performance they accomplished; and the strength and direction of relationship between parental pressure and academic performance. This study was conducted in Notre Dame of Midsayap College, Midsayap, Cotabato, Philippines during the second semester of academic year 2022-2023. It included as respondents thirty-two purposively selected honor students at the College of Arts and Sciences. They were 21 to 28 years old, majority of whom were females, and mostly graduating students. Either their father, mother, brother or sister or both raise and take care of their family. Findings revealed that the respondents had experienced high level of parental pressure with respect to expectations, rewards and penalty, support and encouragement, and setting rules and standards; while they experienced moderate level of parental pressure with respect to monitoring, and comparison. Moreover, they strongly agreed that the acts or practices of their parents of explaining to them the importance of sacrifices to earn a career, of reminding them of their studies as preparation for their future work, and of expressing joy when they perform well in their studies had put pressure in them to do well in their study. A few of the respondents had accomplished excellent academic performance although most of them had accomplished good academic performance. There is a weak and negative relationship between parental pressure and academic performance, implying either that too much parental pressure could cause negative effect on the academic performance of their children, or that the very low academic performance of children could prompt parents to put more parental pressure over them. Nonetheless, the strength and direction of relationship between these variables was not significant, implying that the observed relationship occurred merely by chance, and not true to the population of interest – the college students.

HOW ANXIETY AFFECT ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT?: A CORRELATIONAL STUDY OF INDONESIAN EFL LEARNERS

English is the language of communication used throughout the world, the ability to speak English is the main priority of many languages studied by students today. One of the factors that prevent students from speaking English is anxiety. This study aims to determine the level of students' anxiety in learning English, the level of anxiety of students' academic achievement and the relationship between students' anxiety with the process of learning English and their achievement in the learning process. The method used in this study is qualitative with a descriptive approach. This study was conducted to 41 students of grade XI of X enrolled in the second semester of academic year. Results showed that the students’ anxiety in learning English was moderate (M=3.17) and their English academic achievement was categorized as failed (M=70.98). Finally, it was found that there was a significant correlation between students’ anxiety in learning English and their English achievement as the result p = .00 <0.05, r= .98. Therefore, it is recommended that teachers try to find more creative methods and strategies to support and motivate the students in learning English

Grammatical Errors in EFL Students' Writing

This study sought to examine the frequency, and sources of writing errors committed by EFL students. To gather the information, 35 students were selected; the students were enrolled in a writing course in the second semester of academic year 2019–2020. They were asked to write three different topics of essays with 100 to 150 words in 40 minutes and requested to make reflection regarding the causes of errors according to their perception. The results of data analysis revealed that capitalization was the common mistake done by students followed by wrong word and punctuation. From students’ perception the causes of errors were 38% grammatical understanding, 21% vocabulary, 17% lack of idea, 13% in rush, 6% less practice and 5% less focus. The researcher believes that the causes of those errors were incomplete knowledge about basic writing and grammatical rules. According to the results, recommendations and any suggestions that are of importance to teachers and policymakers as well as to EFL learners are presented in detail.Keywords: EFL students; error analysis; grammatical error.

Metacognitive and creative thinking skills: A post-covid-19 correlational study

The facts of learning in education showed that students were less encouraged to develop metacognitive skills and creative thinking skills, so that students were not active and students were less likely to participate in the learning process. This study aimed to determine the correlation of metacognitive skills with creative thinking skills of class XI students in biology subjects. The subjects of this study were students of class XI A IPA at MA Miftahul Ulum Nagasari Congkop in the second semester of academic year 2021/2022, totaling 24 students. This research is quantitative research with regression correlation analysis technique using SPSS Version 26.0. Collecting data on metacognitive skills and creative thinking skills using a rubric that was integrated with an essay test. The results of this study indicated that there was a significant relationship between metacognitive skills and creative thinking skills. Results of the regression analysis showed a large R value of 0.616 which indicated that there was a strong relationship between metacognitive skills and creative thinking skills. The guided inquiry model is the recommended model in empowering metacognitive and creative thinking skills, especially in learning biology.

DEVELOPING DIGITAL WRITING TEST FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

This study was aimed at developing Digital English writing test by using Quia or Quizziz for semester 2 students in Academic Year 2021/2022. Quizizz application is a digital application that has a colorful display with animation on its interface. This writing test is to find out the students’ initial ability in writing text, such as making a simple outline and write them into a simple paragraph with main idea and topic determined by the researchers. This developing test is useful for students of English and Literature Department and developed as a pre-test for mapping freshmen students’ competency in writing. Research and Development design was used in this study, with the data used from the result of need analysis as well as interviewing the lecturers and students. The data were chosen by random sampling with the total number is 60 students of the second semester in Academic Year 2021/2022 of English and Literature Department as well as 4 lecturers of writing course.

UTILIZATION OF SCHOOLOGY: ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SELF-ASSESSMENT OF FIRST YEAR BEED STUDENTS

Central to this research is the utilization of Schoology as a learning modality and its relationship to self-assessment. This study employed the descriptive-correlational research design to determine the nature and magnitude by which these variables are related to each other. It included as respondents thirty first-year Bachelor of Elementary Education students who were enrolled in Notre Dame of Midsayap College during the second semester of Academic Year 2021-2022. Findings of the study revealed that the respondents had always utilized the learning management system (LMS) for uploading and notification, and monitoring and evaluation, and had oftentimes utilized it for activities and submission. However, they had only occasionally utilized it for the timely submission of their tasks. Meanwhile, the respondents were very good in performing their reflection papers, taking multiple choice types of exams and engaging in class discussions. Nevertheless, they were merely fair in doing poem/song compositions. Results bared that there is a moderately strong direct relationship between utilization of Schoology and self-assessment, and that relationship is highly significant, signifying that the LMS via Schoology had promoted effective learning among the respondents.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0597/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

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The purposes to this research were:  1) to  develop  of mathematics problem solving skills training on  addition  substraction multiplication  and division 2) to compare students’ learning achievement  before and after of  using mathematics problem solving skills training, and  3) to study the students’ attitude on Mathematics after using mathematics problem solving skills training. The samples were the students from Prathomsuka 2 at Areewattana school in the second semester of academic year 2019 using  purposive sampling and simple random sampling.  They divided into four groups:  Each group consisted of three students, nine students, thirty students, and thirty-five students accordingly.  The research instruments were 1) suitability questionnaire 2) achievement test with reliability of 0.68, and 3) students’ attitude questionnaire with reliability of 0.88. The statistics comprised percentage, mean, standard deviation, the efficiency  criterion (E1/E2) and   t-test.           The results of this research were as follows:  Overall the appropriate level of this mathematics problem solving skills training  was at the high level  and The efficiency of mathematics problem solving skills training  had the efficiency (E1/E2) at 81.10/79.05   which follow the standard criterion 75/75. The students’ learning achievement  using mathematics problem solving skills training  after learning achievement had higher than before learning at the statistical significant .01,  and Overall the students’  attitude via mathematics problem solving skills training  was at good level.

A Phenomenological Study on the Feelings, Challenges and Difficulties Experienced by Information Technology Students in Learning Computer Programming

This study aims to identify the experiences of information technology (IT) students in learning computer programming. Specifically, the feelings towards learning programming and the challenges and difficulties encountered by IT students were determined. The researcher used a phenomenological approach to determine the commonality of lived experiences among the students. The study was conducted during the second semester of Academic Year 2020–2021. The participants were first-year students enrolled in a computer programming I course. Open-ended questions were employed to gather responses. Since the data gathering happened during the coronavirus 2019 pandemic, the researcher used Google Form to collect responses. Participants were informed that the responses gathered were treated with the utmost confidentiality, security, and anonymity, following ethical research guidelines. Results revealed that participants have both positive and negative views about learning programming. As to the feelings towards learning computer programming, analysis shows that positive emotions include excitement and good happy feelings towards writing programs and finding them fun, challenging, and engaging. Negative feelings include being nervous, anxious, confused, and having difficulty learning how to write programs because it is hard. The challenges and problems encountered by IT students include difficulties relating to the program's syntax, errors and debugging processes; lesson-related; algorithm, analysis, resources, teaching, time-management, and personal factors. The researcher suggests recommendations that would improve the quality of teaching computer programming and offer new possible topics for future studies.