Graduate Students Research Articles

Quantitative Assessment of the Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Awareness among Postgraduate Commerce Students in the Coimbatore District, India

Aim: Key motive is to research the prevailing level of awareness level of commerce post graduate students on cyber crime and cyber security in their day-to-day life. Design/ Methodology/Approach: In the current research paper, data has been collected based on census method using high ended questionnaire from 178 M. Com students from University in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nādu in India. The accumulated information is further analyzed in testing their level of awareness using descriptive statistics and Anova to check the difference with respect to their demographics. The Researchers want to know how college students feel about being aware of cybercrime and cyber security so they are looking into that. Findings: The study has identified the factors for the level of awareness on cybercrime with 5 variables and cybersecurity with 6 variables. These variables have different perspective with respect to the demographic factors of the commerce post graduate students. Especially the Course of study and the year of study creates difference in the awareness level. Research Limitations: The study is a valuable understanding for the students in commerce stream at their post graduate level in knowing their level of understanding and awareness of cybercrimes and cyber security. This study has only focused on the commerce post graduate students of university and it is restricted to the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nādu alone. The results cannot be generalized commonly for the students in post-graduation. Originality: The study is original contribution to understand the awareness of commerce post graduate students in Tamil Nadu. It can be definitely used for further references in terms of level of awareness of students from different range or the study can be further expanded by the researchers and policy makers in developing the safety and awareness measures towards cybercrime and cybersecurity.

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AI Integration on Capacity Building among University Graduate in Tourism Industry

The study assessed integration of AI in capacity building among university graduate in Tourism Industry. The study was started by identify the application of AI in tourism industry and evaluate graduate capability on applying those AI applications related to tourism industry. An additional objective was to identify challenges and provide solution by examine under which circumstances the adoption of AI applications could enable tourism graduates to increase their performance and competency in job market. Furthermore, the study explored the contribution of AI awareness and AI tools optimization to improve graduate employability through Conceptual frame work derived by RBV theory and Goal setting theory. The researchers utilized descriptive research methodology which employed both qualitative and quantitative method. A sample of 55 students from the institute of tourism SUZA were provided by questionnaire to answer specified questions and interview was used to get data from experts in tourism industry. Subsequently, SPSS and Thematic analysis were used to analyze the responded data. The findings noted various tourism students using AI technology in different activities such as Google translator, Google map, gps track, self-service kiosks etc. Moreover, the results of the findings explored the adequacy of existing AI infrastructure at tourism institute is not good in terms of curriculum adaptation. However, the findings further revealed that, there were few number of students who have no idea about AI which result delaying factors during job application and less awareness of online information. Moreover, the findings indicated that high percentage of graduate students agreed that AI has great impact on studies that enhance graduate employability in today world.

A Perspective on Creating a Welcoming Environment for Queer Graduate Students

A Perspective on Creating a Welcoming Environment for Queer Graduate Students

The social microcosm revisited: A replication of Kivlighan et al. (2021) on the reciprocal relationship between in-session and intersession intimate behaviors.

The present study represents a replication and extension of Kivlighan et al.'s (2021) study, focusing on the social microcosm hypothesis, which posits that group members' interpersonal relationships, operationalized by intimate behaviors such as expressing anger or caring, inside the group, mirror their interpersonal relationships outside of the group. We examined the reciprocal associations between a group member's (e.g., actors) and the other group members' (e.g., partners) in-session and intersession intimate behaviors. The participants were 122 Italian graduate students (89.3% identifying as women) participating in eight-session interpersonal growth groups led by six experienced group therapists. Before each session group members completed the Interpersonal Relations Scale Checklist (Shadish, 1984) indicating their intersession intimate behaviors in the previous week. After each session group members completed the Interpersonal Relations Scale Checklist indicating their own in-session intimate behaviors. We used dynamic structural equation modeling to examine the reciprocal, temporal associations among group members' intersession and in-session intimate behaviors. The replication hypotheses were not confirmed. However, when partners engaged in higher than average intersession intimate behaviors in the previous week, then actors engaged in more in-session intimate behaviors in the current session. In addition, when actors and partners engaged in higher than average in-session intimate behaviors in the previous session, then actors engaged in significantly more intersession intimate behaviors in the current week. The results provide partial support for social microcosm theory, which predicts a reciprocal relationship for in-session and intersession intimate behaviors. As described above, there was a reciprocal relationship for partners' but not for actors' intimate behaviors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Experience of Using a Virtual Patient in the Process of Teaching Hospital Pediatrics to Graduate Students

The paper presents its own data and analysis of the role and effectiveness of the use of the virtual patient simulator “Body interact” in the process of teaching hospital pediatrics to graduating students of the pediatric faculty of the Yaroslavl State Medical University for 3 academic years (period 2021-2024).

Digital Active Learning Strategies in Blended Environments to Develop Students' Social and Emotional Learning Skills and Engagement in Higher Education

ABSTRACTThe COVID‐19 pandemic has led to a shift towards online and blended learning; however, most students and faculty members still report more challenges in online courses regarding social interaction and engagement. This paper aimed to design an interactive blended course following Merrills' first principles of instruction model to develop students' social and emotional learning skills and engagement in higher education. A mixed‐method design, including questionnaires and interviews, was used with a sample population which consisted of 90 graduate students and divided into two groups, an experimental and a control group. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the experimental and control groups in‐terms of social–emotional learning skills and students' engagement due to the high perception of the experimental group. The findings also revealed that the most dominant social–emotional learning skills that appeared to be supported by applying these strategies from the students' point of view were self‐awareness and social awareness. The study also found that instructor presence, effective course design and appropriate use of technology significantly influenced students' engagement.

Negotiating University, Fulfilling the Dream: The Case of Black Students

The experiences of Black students in Canadian higher education shed light on the societal and institutional challenges that influence their social and economic aspirations. In today’s societal and economic context, obtaining a postsecondary education degree is not just preferred but essential for securing the employment opportunities that most young people desire. For Black communities in particular, a university degree is often seen as the primary pathway to upward social mobility. However, Black students’ journeys toward higher education are frequently hindered by systemic barriers and institutional challenges. While there is extensive literature detailing the systemic forces that obstruct access to higher education for Black Canadians, there is limited academic focus on how these forces continue to affect Black students once they enter higher education. This article addresses this gap by investigating the educational experiences of Black students in Canadian universities, emphasizing the challenges posed by systemic racism and institutional barriers. Utilizing data from interviews and focus groups with Black undergraduate and graduate students from a university in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the study explores how historical and contemporary issues of anti-Black racism shape their academic journeys. It discusses the broader implications of these experiences and highlights the need for comprehensive institutional reforms to create genuinely inclusive and equitable educational environments. By centering the voices of Black students, this research aims to contribute to the ongoing dialog on racial equity in higher education.

Symposium: From coming out to coming in: Roundtable conversation among Southeast Asian queer theologians

Through a roundtable conversation via Zoom, teachers, pastors, and graduate students discussed the place of gender, citizenship, and faith in their identity formation and social accountability to articulate a hermeneutical lens specific to Southeast Asian contexts that shape and critique queer identities. These participants—primarily ministers, theological students, and seminary formators—engaged in organic, fluid, and multifocal turns to capture experiences that undergird the realities of women and LGBTQIQ+ people of faith in the region.

Changes in the self-efficacy and communication of nursing, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology students participating in a simulated patient simulation

BackgroundThis study aimed to examine changes in self-efficacy and communication of nursing, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology students through participation in an interprofessional patient simulation. Methods: Twenty-two occupational therapy graduate students, 16 speech-language-pathology graduate students, and 25 undergraduate nursing students participated. Participants completed the Self-Efficacy for Interprofessional Experiential Learning (SE-12), the Interprofessional Collaboration Scale (ICS) pre and post simulation, and an open-ended post-simulation questionnaire on self-perceived stress levels. ResultsEach discipline group demonstrated significant changes in perceived self-efficacy (p < .001) and communication (p < .001). Analysis of the open-ended questions revealed a consistent pattern in reducing stress levels from before the simulation to the post-simulation assessment. ConclusionIncorporating interprofessional patient simulation experiences into pre-professional health programs significantly enhances interprofessional communication skills and self-efficacy and reduces self-reported stress, serving as a valuable tool for preparing students to collaborate effectively in interdisciplinary teams to provide high-quality patient care.

Learning Extension Through Firsthand Experiences of Graduate Students in an Amish Community

Learning Extension Through Firsthand Experiences of Graduate Students in an Amish Community

Global Competency Development for Graduate Students from the Perspective of Internationalization at Home

With the advancement of economic globalization, cultivating globally competent international talents has become a key task for domestic universities. As international exchanges gradually return to pre-pandemic levels, the post-pandemic era has introduced challenges due to reduced cross-border movement, making cross-border educational exchanges more difficult to implement. In this context, “internalization at home” becomes crucial for developing internationalized talent. It offers a cost-effective approach and is particularly important as global competence is a core quality for such talents. This study aims to review and analyze relevant practices both domestically and internationally, using specific cases from various universities to discuss global competency training programs for postgraduates and to provide recommendations for advancing internationalization in China’s higher education sector.

Campina Experimental do Cerrado: uma pesquisa-ação na Unesp, Câmpus de Bauru

The aim of this article is to present the planning, design, and execution of the action research project titled "Campina Experimental do Cerrado." This project involves a garden featuring herbaceous and shrub species native to the São Paulo Cerrado and other flowering plants cultivated or naturalized in Brazil. The garden is located in the courtyard of the Central Laboratory of the Faculty of Architecture, Arts, Communication, and Design at São Paulo State University (FAAC-UNESP), Bauru Campus. The Campina involves both undergraduate and graduate students and faculty from the Architecture and Urbanism and Biological Sciences programs. The aim of the project is to gain greater knowledge about the landscaping potential of the tested species to introduce them into landscaping practices and provide support for the implementation of new gardens utilizing native flora, thereby increasing visibility, particularly of the Cerrado biome.

“I Don’t Even Talk About It”: Applying Ray’s Theory of Racialized Organizations to Class Stratification in Academia

ABSTRACT In this paper, we develop a working theory examining how the organizational apparatuses of colleges and universities, as well as larger trends in higher education, contribute to unequal outcomes for faculty from working-class backgrounds and their upper- and middle-class counterparts. Based on 30 interviews with a nationwide sample of academic faculty and graduate students in sociology, we adapt an analytical approach introduced by Victor Ray, a theory of racialized organizations, to identify several common mechanisms in higher education that hinder working-class faculty members’ ability to form professional relationships and gain prestige at post-secondary institutions, disrupt efforts to diversify faculty bodies socioeconomically, and preserve class-based inequalities by masking the saliency of social class in faculty settings. Adapting Ray’s analysis, we divide these organizational features of higher education into three categories—superstructure (collective ideologies), structure (policies and norms), and substructure (individual schemas)—illustrating how these features uphold and reinforce one another.

Pedagogical Deficiencies in Political Science Doctoral Programs: Current Practices or Lack Thereof

Over a decade ago Ishiyama, Miles, and Balarezo (2010) published their work on the pedagogical training opportunities for political science doctoral students in the United States. The authors surveyed PhD-granting political science departments and found that pedagogical training for doctoral students was scant. Despite its age, the work remains influential and cited by scholars concerned with the state of teaching-training in the discipline. In this paper I uncover that little progress has been made in training opportunities for political science graduate students. Interviews with faculty in 66 PhD-granting departments reveal that less than a fifth of departments require students to complete credit-bearing courses and a plurality require no pedagogical training. Several departments have outsourced pedagogical training and do not maintain data on student completion. As such, many graduate students remain inadequately prepared for careers in higher education. I conclude by echoing colleagues who call for increased attention on pedagogical training, and for a benefit structure rewarding high quality teaching.

E-Assessment Architecture for Higher Education: A Case Study of University Entrance Exam, Higher Education of Afghanistan

Purpose: The main aim of this study is to demonstrate that which e-assessment architecture can be useful and effective for the higher education sector in Afghanistan. Methodology: The research method was design science, where 100 questionnaires were distributed for specifying the functional and non-functional requirements of the e-assessment system. Questionnaires were distributed to 50 lecturers, 20 Administrators and 30 graduate students. This study conducted the structured interviews for analyzing the e-assessment architectures and find an applicable and accurate e-assessment architecture for university entrance exam. In this study, interviewed with five participants and the interview has 24 questions. This study used close-ended questions in the interview and considered different perspectives including interoperability, security, reusability, performance, scalability and flexibility for analyzing the e-assessment architectures. Findings: After analyze the interview results, this study propose the architecture based on NREN for the university entrance exam of Afghanistan’s higher education. This study used the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) for the evaluating the e-assessment system architecture based on NREN. For this purpose, ATAM workshop established and evaluated the proposed architecture by fifteen experts. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: This study recommended the e-assessment application architecture. After the literature review, we carried out the survey in different higher education institutes, including Kabul Polytechnic University, Kabul University and Kabul Education University and the respondents were the lecturers, students, administrators and the higher education ministry decision makers. The study evaluates the requirements for the e-assessment system.

Knowledge, Awareness, and Practice Regarding the Use of Phentolamine Mesylate: A Soft-tissue Local Anesthesia Reversal Agent among Dental Professionals – A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study

Abstract Background: One of the drugs that is most frequently used in dentistry is local anesthetics. They are decisive while performing any dental procedure. The average length of a dental procedure is 47 min, but the local anesthetics used in standard dental procedures last between 1 and 3 h, with the most common inadequacy being the persistence of soft-tissue anesthesia (the numbness of the lips, cheeks, and tongue), which can persist for at least 3–5 h. This extended soft-tissue anesthetic in children can result in self-inflicted wounds like biting of the lips, tongue, or cheek. Aim: The study’s aim was to evaluate dental practitioners’ knowledge, awareness, and usage of phentolamine mesylate, a soft-tissue local anesthetic reversal agent. Materials and Methods: Two hundred and two dentists and graduate students participated in the study by filling out a validated questionnaire. The data obtained were entered into an Excel sheet and statistically analyzed using SPSS software version 22.0. It was observed that 66.50% of the participants had knowledge scores that were lower than the mean, 81.07% had awareness scores that were lower than the mean, and 91.26% had practice scores that were lower than the mean. With a very statistically significant P = 0.0001 (P = 0.05), Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient revealed a positive correlation between knowledge, awareness, and practice. Conclusion: There was a general lack of knowledge about the drug phentolamine mesylate leading to lesser attitude, thereby leading to lesser use of the drug.

Constructing the 'Ideal' Graduate Student: A Critical Examination of Language and Rhetoric in “Graduate Education Policy 2023”

This paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyze how the figure of the 'ideal' graduate student is discursively constructed in the Pakistan Higher Education Commission Graduate Education Policy 2023. Analyzing policy features, meaning, and discursive constitution, we reveal the ideological presuppositions that have framed graduate education in Pakistan. The study's findings are the conflict between international academic norms and the local cultural environments and between cultivating influential independent scholars and preserving the institutional order. When discussing the policy, one cannot but notice the tension between neo-liberal and traditional academies' values and the focus on bringing the national development agenda into focus. Our findings suggest that the constructed 'ideal' graduate student is expected to embody a challenging combination of traits: academic standards, creativity, high standards of integrity, and relevance to the nation's goals. It expands the literature on how educational policies construct students' identities and academic environments to aid policymakers, educators, and learners in the context of Pakistan and other countries experiencing shifting graduate attributes and pedagogical demands.

Development of fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) phantom.

Anthropomorphic phantoms play an important role in routine clinical practice. They can be used to calibrate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, control the diagnostic equipment quality, and reduce the acquisition time. The latter is especially critical for diagnosing fetal anomalies, which requires optimal image quality within the shortest possible time. This paper aims to develop an MRI fetal phantom and determine the materials that best mimic the magnetic resonance (MR) characteristics of its internal organs. Future phantom features will include simulations of fetal limb movements. A single MRI study of a pregnant woman at 20 weeks 3 days of gestation was used as a reference and for image segmentation. Anonymized Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) files were imported into 3D Slicer v. 5.2.1 for segmentation of the uterus, fetus, and internal organs. Based on the performed segmentation, a three-dimensional model was obtained for printing on a 3D printer. The mold was 3D printed on an Anycubic Photon M3 Max printer. The paper showcases the selection and manufacturing of compositions to simulate the relaxation times of the fetal organs. Formulations for emulsions and carrageenan- and agar-based hydrogels are presented. The selected compositions were used to fill the 3D printed model. Statistical analysis showed no significant differences in absolute and relative signal values obtained from scans of a pregnant woman at 20 weeks and 3 days and a fetal phantom. During the study, an anthropomorphic fetal phantom was constructed, filled with compositions with relaxation times T1 and T2 similar to the control values of the corresponding tissues. The phantom can be used to set up and optimize fetal MRI protocols, train and educate medical students, residents, graduate students, and X-ray technicians, as well as to timely control image quality and equipment serviceability.

Using ChatGPT to pass online courses: Lessons learned in higher ed

The purpose of this study was to determine if a student could complete a post-secondary online course with a passing grade by solely using the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT to complete all assignments. ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows individuals to engage in human-like conversations with a chatbot to answer questions and assist in writing tasks. Studies exist that indicate ChatGPT could be used to successfully complete various assignments in a controlled setting, but none show ChatGPT being used in a live environment for the entire body of coursework. To complete this study, five researchers posed as online undergraduate and graduate students using fictitious student accounts in online, asynchronous courses. Of the five, three were able to pass their course without being identified. Findings suggest that because of the ease of using ChatGPT to complete assignments, universities should focus on adapting assignments, assessments and policies to teach and encourage its ethical use.