Seventh-year Students Research Articles

On the importance of internet access for children’s health and subjective well-being: the case of China

ABSTRACT Digital technology is transforming children’s daily routines and can potentially have long-lasting effects on their lives. This paper studies the impact of internet access on the health and subjective wellbeing of Chinese children. To conduct such analysis, we employ data from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), a longitudinal dataset of Chinese seventh-year students representative of the whole country. This database allows us to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity and socio-economic characteristics. We use two alternative methods to address endogeneity concerns. The first one employs a recursive system of equations that allows unobserved individual heterogeneity to simultaneously affect both health outcomes and digital access. The second approach exploits the fact that Chinese students cannot choose which school to attend and employ the proportion of students owning a computer in the same school as an instrumental variable. Regardless of the method, we find that internet access improves health. We also find some positive impact of digital access on subjective wellbeing, albeit the evidence is weaker. This stands in stark contrast to prior research, which has found a negative effect of internet use on mental health in Western countries.

COMBINING OF HERRINGBONE TECHNIQUE WITH THINK PAIR SHARE (TPS) STRATEGY IN READING COMPREHENSION

This research investigated combining of Herringbone technique with Think Pair Share (TPS) strategy in reading comprehension. The design of this research was quasi-experimental with non-equivalent groups pretest-posttest. Two groups were used in the study; the experimental and control groups were given different treatments. The researcher taught the experimental group using the Herringbone technique with the TPS strategy, while the researcher taught the control group using the conventional method. The population of this study was the seventh grade of Junior High School in Bangkalan. The data were obtained by administering the reading test to two intact groups. The research was started by giving pre-tests, treatments, and post-tests to experimental and control groups. The data of the test were analyzed by using the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Results indicated that combining of herringbone technique with the TPS strategy was effective than the conventional technique. However, when examined in terms of post-test, both showed a statistically significant difference in reading comprehension. Based on the findings of this research, combining herringbone with think pair share appeared to be a plausible alternative for teaching English reading comprehension to the seventh-year students of Junior High School in Bangkalan.

The Effect of Game on the Students’ Tense Achievment

This research was conducted to investigate the effect of using game on the seventh-grade students’ tense achievement at SMPN 2 Balung-Jember. The primary data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of tense test. The primary data were collected from the post-test to compare the two different groups after treatment and analyzed the result by using independent sample T-Test (SPSS). Based on the calculation, the result of this research showed that there was a significant effect of using game on the seventh-grade students’ tense achievement. It was proved by the value of significant column of t-test table by using SPSS software, and the result was 0.045 which was lower than 0.05 (significant level of 5%). The research results proved that there was a significant effect of using game on the seventh-year students’ tense achievement at SMPN 2 Balung-Jember. Therefore, it is recommended for the English teacher to use game as an alternative technique in teaching tenses.

Hipertexto sobre História da Ciência: recurso auxiliar para aulas de Física

O presente artigo, relata parte da pesquisa desenvolvida pelas autoras no âmbito do curso de Mestrado Profissional em Ensino de Física, no ano de 2015. Apresenta uma análise do uso do Hipertexto, inserido no Moodle, enquanto Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem (AVA), como um recurso auxiliar para as aulas de Física. O objetivo deste trabalho, foi verificar as contribuições do Hipertexto, para o Ensino de Física na abordagem do tema História da Ciência (HC). Participaram da pesquisa os discentes do sétimo período do curso de Física Licenciatura Plena, modalidade Parfor, de uma instituição de ensino na cidade de Chapecó/SC. No hipertexto fez-se uso de links para acesso a vídeos, simulações, textos, entre outros e o mesmo foi disponibilizado aos participantes no Moodle. Como resultado foi possível verificar a motivação dos participantes em buscar mais conhecimentos sobre o tema HC, além de aprender formas diferenciadas de utilização das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) no Ensino de Física.

Empathy in Chinese eight-year medical program students: differences by school year, educational stage, and future career preference

BackgroudTo examine the psychometric properties of a Chinese translation of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (Student-version, JSE-S), and to study differences in empathy scores among eight-year undergraduate medical students across gender, year of study, and future career preference.MethodsThe JSE-S was administered to 442 participants from December 2016 to July 2017, who were all first- to seventh-year students on an eight-year medical education course at Fudan University. Factor analysis was used to examine the underlying components of the Chinese version of the JSE-S. The data analyses comprised a t-test and analyses of variance.ResultsFactor analysis confirmed four components: perspective taking, compassionate care, ability to stand in patient’s shoes, and difficulties in adopting patient’s perspective. The lowest empathy score was found in the seventh-year students (99.5), while a decline was found across school years. Students in clinical training (sixth/seventh year) had lower empathy than students in premedical study (first/second year), basic medicine (third/fourth year), and clinical medicine (fifth year). Statistically significant differences in empathy mean scores were found in respect of future career preference but not gender. Students who preferred not to become doctors had lower empathy than students who preferred to become doctors, who were undecided, and who did not specify.ConclusionsThe findings support the construct validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the JSE-S for medical students. The study also revealed the features of empathy in eight-year program students, and provided a reliable reference to design interventions to cultivate empathy among Chinese medical students.

Graphical and numerical skills in pre- and postgraduate medical students from a private university.

Physicians and medical students need to understand numerical and graphical health data in order to provide patients with correct information. The graphical and numerical skills of medical students and residents from a private university in Lima, Peru, were determined in this investigation. Cross-sectional, descriptive study. The Objective Numeracy, Subjective Numeracy and Graph Literacy Scales were applied to medical students at their two final years of medical school and to medical residents. Of 169 participants, 52.07% were sixth-year and 18.34% were seventh-year students and 29.58% were residents. Mean objective numeracy score was 7.34, mean subjective numeracy was 34.12 and mean graph literacy was 10.35. A multiple linear regression analysis showed that Subjective and Objective Numeracy Scales highest means were associated with the male gender and training on research methodology (p < 0.05). Graph Literacy Scale highest means were associated with the male gender and younger age (p-value < 0.05). Numeracy and Graph Literacy Scales mean scores were high in medical students.

Bimbingan Kelompok Meningkatkan Keterampilan Berkomunikasi Siswa

This study aims to improve communication skills of the seventh-year students in MTs. Annur Karangjunti Kabupaten Brebes Jawa Tengah. Their low communication skills shown by unpolite interaction with the teacher, hurt others’ feelings, and passive in the class. The sample were 35 students from 177 of population. This study used group guidance service and communication skills scale. The data analysis technique used t-test. According to the test results, there was an increase in the communication skills of the students, group 1 was 25,66%, group 2 was 21,5%, and group 3 was 28,54%. In conclusion, group guidance service can influence communication skills of the seventh-year students in MTs Annur Karangjunti Kabupaten Brebes Jawa Tengah.

DEVELOPING DIFFERENTIATED ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY READING EXERCISE FOR THE SLOW LEARNERS OF SEVENTH YEAR STUDENTS AT SMP N 2 SINGARAJA

Integrating ICT in learning has become the demands of Curriculum 2013. Yet, not all of the teacher have media to support the integration of ICT in learning. Whereas, the integration of ICT may help the teachers to accomodate students’ diversity by using differentiated instruction. Thus, this study aimed at: (1) identifying kinds of supplementary reading exercises are needed by the Seventh Year Students at SMP N 2 Singaraja; (2) identifying the design of the electronic supplementary reading exercises for the slow learners of seventhyear students at SMP N 2 Singaraja; (3) measuring the quality of the electronic supplementary reading exercises for the slow learners of seventhyear students at SMP N 2 Singaraja. This study was conducted based on the research and development design proposed by Sugiono (2011). The data of the study were collected through questionnaire, interview, observation, expert judge and field study. The results of the data were further analyzed by using descriptive analysis and interrater agreement model from by Gregory (2000). The result of the study showed that (1) the supplementary reading exercise needed by the seventh year students at SMP N 2 Singaraja was supplementary reading exercise which was integrated with ICT; (2) the design of the electronic supplementary reading exercise for the slow learners was developed based on the needs; (3) the electronic supplementary reading exercise for the slow learners was categorized as high quality exercises based on content validity, empirical validity, quality of the media and field test.

Students' Interest in Surgery Affects Laparoscopic Practicing Performance.

Background and Objective:Earlier exposure to laparoscopic techniques is thought to be beneficial for medical students. Reports have demonstrated that practice improves performance in laparoscopies. In this study, we intended to evaluate whether medical students' interest in surgery is affected by the amount of practice and the performance on a laparoscopic simulator.Methods:A laparoscopic simulation curriculum was introduced at Taipei Medical University, Wan-Fang Medical Center. Study participants included 36 sixth-year and 14 seventh-year students who were divided according to whether they had indicated an interest (group A) or not (group B) in surgery. The students had twice-a-week practice sessions for 2 weeks. They underwent baseline measurement (BM) before training and posttraining measurement (PTM). Self-guided practice on the simulator was allowed. The learning outcomes were assessed comparing the BM and PTM scores by using the interquartile range (IQR) test. We also tested the correlation between total score and number of self-guided practice sessions.Results:All study participants showed improvement. No differences were observed between BM and PTM scores and between 6th- and 7th-year medical students. Significant differences were found in PTM scores between groups A and B (P < .001). Analysis of variance with a post hoc test for different groups revealed that the PTMs were significantly higher for both the 6th- and 7th-year medical students in group A than for those in group B (P < .001). Total performance scores were improved with a higher number of self-guided practice sessions. Linear regression analysis demonstrated a significant correlation between the number of self-guided practice sessions and total performance score (P < .001).Conclusion:Those clerks and interns interested in surgery who had more sessions for self-guided practice, displayed more improvement than those not interested in surgery did. Improvement in performance correlated highly with trainees' number of self-guided practice sessions.

Attitudes of Medical Students Toward Psychiatry in a Chilean Medical School

The authors assess the attitudes of seventh-year medical students with regard to psychiatry and patients with psychiatric illness during the psychiatry clerkship. A 32-item questionnaire regarding attitudes toward psychiatry and patients with psychiatric illness was administered at the beginning of the psychiatry clerkship. One hundred and ten seventh-year students participated in the study, providing responses anonymously. Average negative attitude item score was 2.45 ± 0.3 (range 1.7-3.3). Eighty-three students (75 %) responded to all the questions with an average negative attitude item score of 2.43 ± 0.3 (range 1.7-3.3) and a total negative attitude item score of 77.9 ± 10.3 (range 55-104). Undergraduate students of a Chilean medical school showed fairly positive attitudes toward psychiatry and toward patients with psychiatric illness.

The Effectiveness of English Teaching in Japanese Elementary Schools

The effectiveness of early English education was investigated in this study to determine if English should be taught formally in Japanese public elementary schools. We administered English tests and questionnaires to 1466 elementary school students in 2004 and 2005. The results showed significant differences between the English-education-experienced and non-experienced students and indicated positive effects of early English education. Although we confirmed the effects, some researchers claim that the effects may diminish at the junior high school level. To examine the above claim, we conducted a proficiency test and gave questionnaires to the seventh-year students of two junior high schools in 2006. As most of the students of the two elementary schools, at which we had conducted our research for the previous two years, entered the two junior high schools, the results of our new research gave us follow-up data on how the English ability of these students changed. The results showed a significant difference between the English-education-experienced at elementary schools and non-experienced and also between the experienced outside of school and non-experienced. It was also found that early English education helps to enhance students' interest toward English and facilitates learning motivation toward English after entering junior high school.