Seventh Semester Research Articles

SOCRATIC QUESTIONS USED BY THE SEVENTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF FKIP NOMMENSEN IN SEMINAR CLASS

This study is aimed to know to find out the types of Socratic questions used by the students of seventh semester in English Department of FKIP UHN Medan. This research was conducted by descriptive qualitative where the subject is seventh English Department students in Nommensen University academic year 2019/2020 on Seminar Class and the data is students’questions. After analizing questions, it was found that Socratic questions used by the seventh semester of English students in FKIP UHN Medan are questions and clarification, questions that prope purposes, questions that probe assumptions, Question that Probe Information, Reason, Evidence, and Cause, Question about viewpoints or perspectives, Questions that Probe Implication and Consequences, Question about question, Question that Probe Concept, and Questions that probe Inferences and Interpretation. The most dominant is Question that Probe Information, Reason, Evidence, and Cause. It means that the students’ ability in making questions in seminar on ELT presentation is still on the level of getting information from the text, less to have capacity to view or to judge things from some other perspectives, less of preparing themselves reading the seminar paper before the presentation starts. The writer assumed that the students lack of reading.

Students’ Perceptions of Using Machine Translation Tools In the EFL Classroom

Machine Translation (MT) refers to automatically trying to translate words, phrases, text, or speech from one language to another (Arnold et al., 1994). This study aims to analyze English as Foreign Language (EFL) students’ perceptions on utilizing machine translation (MT) in translating words, phrases, text, or speech. This research used descriptive qualitative method, 13 EFL students as respondents using this type of technology were described and analyzed. Data were gained from the analysis of the translation quality supported by machine translation procedures and questionnaires to 13 English students in translation subject. The results showed that, EFL students in the sixth and seventh semester of English education department of Megarezky University in translating words, phrases, texts, paragraphs had to recheck and rearrange to get a good translation by their own understandings. Machine Translation (MT) becomes another option to recognize the meaning of foreign language. Machine Translation can be used as dictionary as well. MT is incredibly useful and helpful, it can provide a general description to the users, it gives an inspiration or consideration to the users to understand the meaning.

STUDY ON FUNCTIONS OF CODE SWITCHING IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

Code switching occurs in bilingual and multilingual community when a person switches from one language, variety, or dialect to another one. People can do code switching in any kinds of situation and domain. Social context influences someone to convey information by alternating different codes for communication. Code switching also occurs in the process of teaching and learning in the classroom by lecturers and students because they speak with more than one language. They can change or mix the language when they have the same perception of things or something that is being communicated.The researcher conducted this research to shows the kinds and the functions of code switching that used by English department student at Madura University, especially for seventh semester students when they were teaching practice in micro teaching. Because as candidates of teacher, student of seventh semester must follow micro teaching before they follow teaching practice program.This research is qualitative research by using descriptive case study. The data were collected by video recording while the participant of study having teaching practice in micro teaching. The result of this research indicate that most of the participant of study use situational code switching, and only some participant use metaphorical code switching. It means that teaching English process used Indonesian – English code switching. And the most functions that participant use is explanation function.The researcher also expected that this research will be able to help the readers know and understand about phenomena of code switching that occurs in bilingual or multilingual conversation, and to be useful for next researcher to conduct more comprehensive and more detail study especially relating about code switching.

Personal Development and Growth of Medical Students in Mexico: A Longitudinal Study

In response to the health care demands of an ever-changing society, medical schools have included personal development and growth in their curriculum as an essential competency in the training process of their students. The objective of this research was to investigate the development and personal growth using eleven scales of 103 medical students, during their school years starting in their second year till their internship. Descriptive, comparative and correlation analyses were performed. During the study, high scores were observed, although not necessarily the highest of each of the next scales: positive outlook of life, self-esteem, emotional self-knowledge, commitment, creativity, self-confidence, assertiveness and leadership, teamwork and social skills; as well as regular scores in resilience, empathy, self-criticism and heterocriticism. In addition, there were differences between the positive life perspective scores obtained by the students in fifth (=17.39, SD ±2.75) and seventh semester (=17.06, SD ±2.49), with an adjusted p of .044; as well as between the empathy scores obtained by males in the second year (.8.97, SD 1.94) and internship (=9.95, SD ±1.45), with adjusted p of .048. Women scored lower than men, with p<.05, in resilience (in fifth semester), self-confidence (fifth semester and internship), self-criticism and heterocriticism (internship), assertiveness and leadership (internship). Among most scales, statistically significant associations were found, from moderate to high; except in the case of emotional self-knowledge, where some correlations were low. To promote the development and personal growth of students, it is necessary to implement strategies that can be worked simultaneously during the learning process of the different subjects of the curriculum as part of the integral training of the students, which is expected to impact not only their academic performance but also their future professional and personal life.

Students’ mathematical critical thinking reviewed from self-regulated learning

Critical thinking is the ability to think logically, reflectively, and productively which is applied to produce a good decision. Therefore, it is necessary for mathematics learning. This study aims to analyze the students’ mathematical critical thinking in solving numerical analysis problems in terms of self-regulated learning (SRL). The subjects of this study were the seventh semester students of mathematics education at Universitas PGRI Madiun, selected using purposive sampling technique. The instrument in this study was a test for mathematical thinking analysis and a self-regulated learning questionnaire for subject selection. The results suggest that students with high and intermediate SRL are both having a good ability to make generalizations, identify and justify concepts, while students with low SRL only have a good ability to make generalizations, but performed low on the ability to identify and justify the concepts of analysing algorithm.

Expressing the level of curiosity of students studying in college

This research is designed to expose the level of curiosity of students in learning in the aspects of interest, novelty seeking, openness of experience, and exploration. In particular, we will measure the differences in curiosity assessed from the points of semester level and gender. The study involved 234 students in their third, fifth, and seventh semesters in nine study programs at the University. Data was collected from the curiosity questionnaire in learning, consisting of 48 items on the Likert scale with a reliability of 0.886. The results showed the level of curiosity of students in the aspects of interest, novelty seeking, and openness of experience to be in the medium category and in the exploration aspect, in the low category. On the other hand, students in the third semester a had higher curiosity in learning compared to students in semesters five and seven, while studies on the gender aspect did not find substantial differences in students' curiosity in learning.

The Significant of Fashion Ethics Education on Young Fashion Designers and Entrepreneurs

The research aimed to examine the relationship and understand the significance of ethical fashion education to young fashion designers and entrepreneurs’ value systems and ethical behavior. The research applied a descriptive qualitative method based on focus group discussion using purposive sampling. Data were collected from six young fashion designers and entrepreneurs, who graduated from Fashion Design and Business at Universitas Ciputra Surabaya and had ever attended Fashion Ethics class on their seventh semester. The research result shows that Fashion Ethics education is important and gives a positive impact on participants’ ethical values and behavior. Furthermore, some existing personal traits that came from family, as well as previous formal education, significantly influence people’s value system and ethical behavior, which cause different impacts and results of the program among participants. Meanwhile, the religious background does not have a significant influence on the result. In conclusion, the Fashion Ethics program has a positive effect on young fashion designers and entrepreneurs’ ethical values and behavior.

Nutritional knowledge and nutritional status amongst university students

Nutrition knowledge is defined as knowledge of concepts and process related to nutrition and health. It includes knowledge of diet and health, diet and disease, foods representing major source of nutrients, dietary guidelines and recommendations. It plays an important role in raising awareness and ultimately health of society. The study was conducted among 60 students (30 boys and 30 girls) from all colleges of RPCAU who were residing in University hostel and studying in seventh semester. In order to extract relevant information a schedule was developed for personal interview. It was pretested before the start of the research work. For testing the nutritional knowledge, 138 questions related to nutrition impacting health were asked through developed interview schedule. To assess the nutritional status anthropometric and clinical examination were evaluated by personal meeting. Haemoglobin level was estimated by Sahli?s method through expert lab technician. Significant difference in the knowledge level between boys and girls was observed. Knowledge level of girls was better in comparison to boys. Majority of both boys (86.66%) and girls (63.33%) were within normal BMI range. Among girls there was the case of underweight (23.33%) and overweight (13.34%). Though the percentage of underweight and overweight was opposite to the girls among boys, still there was a vast difference between underweight percentage of girls (23.33%) and boys(3.33%). majority of male and females students (28.33 & 26.66 %) having haemoglobin level in the range of 10-12g/dl followed by 21.66 percent of male comes in the range of 12-16g/dl. In case of female students, 21.66 percent having haemoglobin level in the range of 8-10g/dl and 1.66 percent in the range of 6-8g/dl. Correlation was found between nutritional knowledge and haemoglobin level of the students. Boys were having less nutrition knowledge that clearly showed negative impact on their health. Hence, it recommended that the knowledge of

Factors of Using Non-Cash Payments to the Consumption Level of Students in Pematangsiantar City

This study aims to determine the factors of the use of non-cash payments to the consumption levels of Pematangsiantar City students. In this study the level of student consumption as the dependent variable and the factors of using non-cash payments are perceived usefulness, perceivedease of use and perceived trust as independent variables. The population in this study were students of Accounting Department in the seventh semester at STIE Sultan Agung Pematangsiantaras many 167 people. This study used quantitative data in the form of a questionnaire. Data analysis techniques used in this research are classic assumption test, multiple linear regression, determination test, F test and t test.The results showed that the perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and perceived trust had a positive and significant effect on student consumption levels. This is because students prefer to make any purchases (consumption) using non-cash payments. The benefits of non-cash payments can be used anywhere, easy to carry, more secure and has trust in the accuracy of the transactions made

An Analysis of the Students' Difficulties in Writing Undergraduate Thesis at English Education Study Program of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu

The objectives of this research are: 1) To find out the undergraduate students’ Difficulties In Writing Thesis at The English Study Program of Muhammadiyah University Bengkulu (UMB) in Academic Year 2018-2019, and 2) To find out the most difficult variable they faced in writing theses. The design of this research is descriptive quantitative research. 74 students of the Seventh Semester Students of English Education Study Program of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu in the Academic Year of 2018-2019 took part in this study. The instruments were questionnaires and interview. The data were collected by assigning the students to fill out the questionnaires and being interviewed afterward. The data were analyzed by checking the students’ answer in the questionnaire, classifying the students’ answers, calculating the students’ scores of difficulties in writing a thesis, describing the data and concluding the results. The results showed the students' difficulties in writing a thesis; a) Orderly, the students' difficulties in writing a thesis are: related to difficulties of students' English proficiencies; related to difficulties of students' time management; related to difficulties of students' research methodology; related to difficulties of students' attitude; related to difficulties of students' research topic; and the least related to difficulties of a co-advisor relationship, students' plagiarism, students' personalities, the big number of supervised students and advisor workload; and difficulties of students motivation. b) The most difficulties in writing thesis are related to their English proficiency which are still low and limited. Both have become the first cause that they cannot develop their writing thesis well. The implication of this study ; 1) the students should minimize their difficulties and find the solution in the way of a) Improve their English, or at least have adequate English before writing a thesis. b) Should manage their time wisely in doing their thesis. c) Read more relevant sources that can support their research. d) Give more attention to avoid plagiarism. 2) Further researchers are suggested to do similar research and add more data with adding research instruments, such as interview guides.

Pedagogical content knowledge of mathematics student-teachers in developing ethnomathematics-based lesson plans

This study aims to describe the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of mathematics student-teachers of Yogyakarta State University (YSU). The population is mathematics student-teachers of YSU in their seventh semester of the academic year 2017/2018 who undertook ethnomathematics. A sample of 31 students was established using the cluster random sampling technique. The research instrument is in the form of ethnomathematics lesson plans developed by the students. The result of the study shows that the students’ PCK in developing ethnomathematics lesson plans is generally at the level of growing PCK. Viewed from the material and pedagogical aspects, the students’ PCK falls at the level of growing PCK. The students’ PCK in developing the lesson plans of ethnomathematics of Prambanan Temple is at the level of growing PCK. The students’ PCK in developing the lesson plans of ethnomathematics of Yogyakarta Palace is at the level of pre-PCK. The students’ PCK in developing the lesson plans of ethnomathematics of Borobudur Temple is at the level of growing PCK.

Pre-service Teachers’ Scientific Explanation with E-Scaffolding in Blended Learning

This study aims to examine the effect of e-scaffolding in blended learning on pre-service teachers' scientific explanation abilities as well as to find out the patterns of scientific explanation of pre-service teachers who learn by e-scaffolding in blended learning. This study employed mixed-method with concurrent embedded design. Quasi-experimental research design in the form of a one-group pretest-posttest control group design was used as a quantitative approach, whereas the learning process and scientific explanation patterns were described in a qualitative approach. The population of this study was 152 elementary school pre-service teachers of a state university at Malang, while the sample was 24 elementary school pre-service teachers in the seventh semester. The sample selection technique in the study was purposive sampling. The instrument used for measuring scientific explanation abilities was problem descriptions. The quantitative data were analyzed using the t-test, while qualitative data were analyzed using descriptive method. The finding of the study indicated that pre-service teachers' scientific explanation improved after learning with e-scaffolding in blended learning. The pre-service teachers were able to explain the relationship between theory and problems very well. The recommendation for future research, it is crucial to investigate the characterization of scientific explanation

STUDI KEMAMPUAN MAHASISWA PENDIDIKAN FISIKA DALAM MEMBUAT RENCANA PELAKSANAAN PEMBELAJARAN (RPP) PADA KEGIATAN PRAKTIK PENGALAMAN LAPANGAN II

Study aims to determine the ability of physics education studentsof FKIP UNSRI to make lesson plans (RPP) physic subjects in class X on the straight motion. The research was conducted on 16 students of physics education in the seventh semester of the academic year 2010/2011 who were PPL II activities. The research method used was descriptive quantitative non – research. Instrument of research form of checklist RPP skill based on Permendiknas number 4 2007 year by referring to APKG 1 and assessment learnig planning from UPPL have been indicator with 3 descriptor. Document of RPP collecting with supporting data interview. The results of the study showed that student s are able to do lesson plans. Of the 10 existing indicators students able to make 6 existing indicators namely competence, basic competence, the formulation of learnings experience determination of learning methods, time, and determination of learning resources. However indicators experienced difficulties namely formulating indicators of achievement of the results of the preparation of subject matter in determining the media for learning tools and determine assessment tools

Metacognition Awareness and Its Correlation with Academic Achievement of Educational Students

This study aimed to describe the metacognitive awareness of Indonesian Language and Literature Educational students in STKIP YPM Bangko, and to differentiate student metacognition by gender and length of study, and to correlate metacognition awareness on student achievement indexes. A quantitative research design was used with population of 80 students in academic year of 2017-2018. A purposive sampling technique was taken by involving students of the third, fifth, and seventh semester. Documentations and questionnaires were used as the instuments of this study and manual calculations and SPSS 16.0 for Windows were used to analyze the collected data in the study. The results showed that there was no significant difference between metacognitive awareness of male and female students, and between metacognitive awareness of the second year, the third year, and the fourth year. The latest, there was a very weak positive relationship between metacognitive awareness and students’ achievement.

ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF MOTIVATION, SELF-ESTEEM, ACADEMIC CULTURE, SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND LEARNING BEHAVIOR TO THE LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING OF ACCOUNTING

This study aims to explain the factors that can influence the students at the University of Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya in understanding accounting as a form of knowledge. Determination of samples uses the purposive sampling method and resulted in 60 respondents. This study collected samples of seventh semester accounting students who are submitting their undergraduate final assignments, and the sample have fulfilled the required accounting courses. Not all of the variables analyzed influence the level of understanding of accounting. The variable of Social Intelligence, the variable of Learning Behavior, and the variable of Academic Culture are proven to have influence on students’ understanding of accounting. The variable of Motivation and Self-Esteem have no influence on the students’ level of understanding on accounting.

Analysis K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for Improving Prediction Student Graduation Time

Higher education plays a major role in improving the quality of education in Indonesia. The BAN-PT institution established by the government has a standard of higher education accreditation and study program accreditation. With the 4.0-based accreditation instrument, it encourages university leaders to improve the quality and quality of their education. One indicator that determines the accreditation of study programs is the timely graduation of students. This study uses the K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm to predict student graduation times. Students' GPA at the time of the seventh semester will be used as training data, and data of students who graduate are used as sample data. K-Nearest Neighbor works in accordance with the given sample data. The results of prediction testing on 60 data for students of 2015-2016, obtained the highest level of accuracy of 98.5% can be achieved when k = 3. Prediction results depend on the pattern of data entered, the more samples and training data used, the calculation of the K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm is also more accurate.

Innovation and Construction of Examination Database of Pharmacology

Abstract: Background: Pharmacology is one of the cornerstones in medical curricula, besides, examination is an effective way to evaluate the teaching quality and student outcome. Objectives: This study was undertaken to demonstrate the examination innovation and construction of online exam questions bank of Pharmacology. Methods: The pharmacological exercises compiled previously were attached with standarded parameters and used as main source of online exam questions bank, the multifaceted parameters of questions were determined for easy to construct test paper. We next sought to apply this new established online exam database to the fourth semester students of nursing and the fifth semester students of clinical medicine. Results: We successfully established an online exam questions bank of 3000 questions containing single choice, multiple choice and true/false and covering all of knowledge points in syllabus. And then, we successfully formed the exam papers from online questions bank abide by the examination syllabus and applied to the fourth semester students of nursing and fifth semester students of clinical medicine. The exam scores were respectively higher than those of sixth semester students of nursing and the seventh semester students of clinical medicine who used traditional examination method last year. Conclusion: These findings indicated that the new established online exam questions bank may better promote the teaching quality and student outcome and lay the foundation for the further implementation of the online exam. Key words: Pharmacology, Exam questions bank database, Exam reform, Clinical medicine, Nursing.

Investigating students’ interest on reading journal articles: Materials, reasons and strategies

This article investigates students’ reading materials, reasons for reading journal articles, and strategies in handling its difficulties. The data was collected by the use of qualitative method with structured interview. A number of eight students were purposely selected as the participants of this study, each representing eight different units studying in the seventh semester at a university in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. In analyzing the data, this research employed the qualitative descriptive analysis of data organization, data examination and data explanation. The findings showed that the favorite reading materials for students are website articles and social media captions, followed by non-fiction readings and newspapers. It is also found that preparing assignment is the utmost popular reason for reading journal articles for the students. Students also said that looking up in dictionary, internet surfing, consulting friends and lecturers, more practices, predicting the meaning of the words, and partial reading were some strategies they used to tackle the problems of reading journal articles. The implication of this study can be of actual practice to the academic reading course and curriculum and material development, especially for future improvement on students’ reading performance and proficiency.

Developing and Implementing an R Shiny Application to Introduce Multivariate Calibration to Advanced Undergraduate Students

During a short chemometrics course in the seventh semester of the chemistry undergraduate program, students receive a brief theoretical introduction to multivariate calibration, focused on partial least-squares regression as the most commonly employed data processing tool. The theory is complemented with the use of MVC1_R, an easy-to-use software developed in-house as an R Shiny application. The present report describes student activities with the latter software in the development of mathematical models to predict quality parameters of corn seeds from near-infrared spectra. Subsequently, an experimental project is carried out involving near-infrared spectral measurements, which are widely used in several industrial fields for quality control. To process the obtained data, students apply the knowledge acquired during the theoretical/software sessions.

Analisis Pengaruh Kecerdasan Emosional, Spiritual, Sosial dan Fasilitas Pembelajaran Terhadap Tingkat Pemahaman Akuntansi

This study aims to analyze the influence of intellectual, emotional, spiritual, social and learning facilities on the level of accounting understanding. While respondents in this study were accounting students of the seventh semester of the Faculty of Economics at Slamet Riyadi University, total 84 students. The results of the study 1)) obtained the value of Sig (0.043) &lt;0.05 means that emotional intelligence influences the understanding of accounting, 2) The calculation results obtained Sig (0.565)&gt; 0.05 which means there is no influence of spiritual intelligence on the level of accounting understanding , 3) The calculation results obtained Sig (0.224)&gt; 0.05 means there is no influence of social intelligence on the level of understanding of accounting and, 4) The calculation results obtained Sig (0.048) &lt;0.05 this means there is an influence of learning facilities on level of understanding of accounting.Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Spiritual, Social and Accounting Understanding Level