Student Officer Research Articles

Analyzing International Students' Social Support Through Intercollegiate Sport Team Identification

International students often experience difficulties acclimating to campus climates in the United States. While identifying oneself as a fan of college sports has been shown to assist domestic students in their social adjustment to college environments, little is known about the relationship between international students’ college sports team identification and their social adjustment. As such, the purpose of this study is to determine the effect of team identification on international students’ sense of community and social capital and the conceptual relationship between the sense of community and social capital. Analysis of the hypothesized model with a sample of international students (n = 487) revealed that international students’ team identification develops their sense of community and social capital. Implications focused on how the international student office and athletic departments can utilize intercollegiate sport to support international students and assist this population in adapting to campus life in the United States.

Pengelolaan Administrasi Di Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Al-Fattah Kota Malang

This study wants to explore administrative management at Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Al-Fattah Malang. This research is a qualitative research. Data collection uses the method of documentation and unstructured interviews. The result is that the administrative management at MI Al-Fattah is generally quite good, but there is still a lot that needs to be addressed to achieve an ideal administrative order, starting with the management of student office personnel administration, and the infrastructure has been managed quite well. Al-fattah is a wholehearted service shown by the friendliness of all educators and education staff in serving students and guardians of students. It is necessary to optimize and digitize the overall administrative management to make it easier to access

Comparative study of hybrid ground source heat pump in cooling and heating dominant climates

The ground source heat pump system (GSHP) has been an accepted technology to provide energy efficient and renewable air conditioning to the buildings. However, imbalanced heating and cooling load during the winter and summers especially in the regions with heating and cooling dominant climates may degrade the performance of the system over a long-term operation. Hybrid GSHP system which uses supplemental energy sources such as solar panel or cooling tower can balance the imposing load on the ground heat exchanger (GHE) and benefits the system by minimizing the GHE length in short-term and improves the overall performance in long-term. This research presents a study of application of hybrid GSHP system with an intention to compare its applicability in the regions with dominant heating and cooling loads. In this study, a student office and an actual heat pump system in Akita City, northern Japan was modeled in TRNSYS software and was validated using in-situ measured data. The hybrid system which coupled with a supplemental heating and cooling source devices was simulated to test its viability for the different heating and cooling loads in different regions within the country. The results revealed that hybrid system plays an effective role in both climates to balance the load on GHE, keeps constant the soil temperature, and consequently improves the long-term performance. Moreover, in short-term, it can reduce the GHE length and decrease drilling cost based on the meteoroidal condition of the region such as solar radiation. For instance, the GHE length was reduced to around half in cooling dominant region using cooling tower, while it was negligible in heating dominant region.

PDK connection: Heritage News

At the 2021 Educators Rising National Conference, long-time education and PDK member Katie Harrison encouraged attendees to take time to reflect and understand themselves better so that they can be better teachers. The column highlights Educators Rising student officer Courtney Ashton, scholarship winner Jessica Enyioka, and distinguished educator Mary Jane Carreno.

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Participants in the 2021 Educators Rising virtual conference were inspired by Wade Owlett’s keynote address. PDK highlights scholarship recipient Jose Carillo, Educators Rising student officer Zhane McCorvey, and Heritage member Mary Eve Proffit and remembers for PDK president Jo Ann Fujioka.

The Experience of International Students and Institutional Recommendations: A Comparison Between the Students From the Developing and Developed Regions.

Prior studies on the experiences of international students in China have mostly focused on their academic, sociocultural, and accommodation experiences. Hence, student health and safety, discrimination, and the services by the International Student Office (ISO) have remained unexplored. Moreover, due to the motivational differences between the students from developing and developed regions, a study that samples students from both regions may depict an exact picture of the experience of international students. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the influence of the dimensions (including those dimensions that have been ignored) of the experience of international students on their satisfaction. In addition, we make recommendations regarding Chinese institutes for future students based on a comparison between the students from developing and developed regions. Using hierarchical regression analysis, this study reveals that educational and non-educational experiences vary among students from different regions. Therefore, based on developing (e.g., Asia and Africa) and developed (e.g., America, Europe, and Australia) regions, important recommendations are discussed regarding how educational institutions and the Chinese government could best allocate resources and introduce policies to improve the experience of international students.

Examining teachers' judgment of students' 21st century skills and academic and behavioral outcomes

AbstractIn this study we examined the relationship of students' 21st century skills with their academic and behavioral outcomes. We investigated K‐12 teachers' (n = 150) judgment of students' (n = 3,108) use of 21st century skills (i.e., persistence, curiosity, affect, and cognition behaviors) via a Likert‐type rating scale. We compared teachers' ratings with students' academic and behavioral outcomes in a southeastern school district. We used Hierarchical Linear Modeling with length of teacher acquaintance with the student as the nesting variable. Teacher ratings for students' low instances of persistence behaviors and high instances of externalizing affect behaviors were predictive of a higher probability of student office discipline referrals. We found a positive correlation for teachers' ratings of students' cognition behaviors and their reading, mathematics, and science outcomes. Teachers' student length of acquaintance was significant for academic outcomes. Results indicated a predictive relationship with teachers' judgment of students' 21st century skills and student outcomes.

Learning Management System (LMS) for Integrating, Monitoring and Evaluating Professional Activities in a Medical Curriculum. The Experience at Humanitas University Medical School

Background: Technology-enabled learning is increasingly important in teaching and learning medicine.At Humanitas University we started using LMS (LMS@Hunimed) also for the organization, management, storage and evaluation of medical education and professionalizing activities.We explored the perceived benefits and practical use of a LMS by The Office of Medical Education in organizing, managing and evaluating professionalizing activities.Summary of the work: An evaluation questionnaire on LMS was submitted to all members of the OME (7 members) and the Student Office (2 members). Furthermore, Humanitas University register’s office provided a quantitative evaluation of the working hours by the members of OME regarding organization, management and assessments of E- Portfolio on LMS compared with Portfolio before LMS.This study involves the testing of all four operational criteria on learning management system:- Effectiveness – The performance in accomplishment of tasks- Learning ability – The degree of learning to accomplish tasks.- Flexibility – The adaptation to variation in tasks and environments.- Attitude – The user satisfaction or suggestions for improvements.We choose to use a System Usability Scale (SUS), a simple, ten-item attitude scale , to provide an assessments of usability. Summary of results: The use of LMS showed improvements in work efficiency through a significant decrease in working hours. Furthermore, a qualitative analysis of the System Usability Scale (SUS) questions showed that teachers felt moreconfident to use LMS in their daily tasks compared to when using a non-digital approach.Conclusions: LMS@Hunimed showed positive results in providing functional direct access to messaging tools for communication and concrete didactic support for students, teachers and collaborators.

PDK Connection: Heritage News

Educators Rising has launched a program to train Massachusetts high school students to work as interns in local K-8 schools while developing knowledge and skills to prepare them for teaching careers. PDK International spotlights Educators Rising student officer Hannah Pardee, scholarship winner Braxton Michel, and distinguished educator member Glenn Cason.

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Teacher Lindsey Jensen leads an effort to make Educators Rising a statewide career and technical student organization (CTSO) for Illinois. PDK spotlights Ed Rising student officer Kieran Van Vorhis, scholarship winner Winnie Johnson, Heritage member Gene Ulrich, and distinguished educator Maureen LaRaviere.

Real human surface touch behavior based quantitative analysis on infection spread via fomite route in an office

Fomites can transmit some infectious diseases. Human touch behaviors are known to affect virus transmission in buildings. Using video cameras in a graduate student office, we collected more than 98,000 touch actions from 14 h of high-resolution video data of surfaces touched by fingers, palms, and backs of hands. Based on the collected data, we simulated infection spread via the fomite route. 90% of touches to mucous membranes are by fingers (70% by fingers of the nondominant hand; 20% by fingers of the dominant hand). 3% of the virus released into the atmosphere by those infected was transmitted to other students' hands, personal-use surfaces, and public surfaces. Public surfaces are responsible for 53% of virus transmission due to surface touch to susceptible students. 65% of the virus transmitted to the mucous membranes, is by nondominant hands. 93% of virus intake via mucous membranes of the susceptible was from fingers. Door handles and mobile phones transferred the most viral loads to hands of the susceptible. Total virus exposure due to touching has no significant relationship with the duration of being indoors, but human behavior does. Behavior-related intervention strategies are much more efficient than other strategies such as public surface disinfection. If we never touch other's personal surfaces, we would reduce our exposure to the virus by 80%.

СОЦІОКУЛЬТУРНИЙ ТА АКАДЕМІЧНИЙ АСПЕКТИ АДАПТАЦІЇ ІНОЗЕМНИХ СТУДЕНТІВ В УНІВЕРСИТЕТАХ УКРАЇНИ

The article covers the main problems of the foreign students’ adaptation in Ukrainian universities. The socio-cultural adaptation is analyzed; the indicators of its successful overcoming are distinguished, namely: positive emotions in relations with others and the ability of a person to get over changes in social and cultural environment by adjusting to the culture. On analyzing the source base of the study, four main stages of the cultural adaptation process are presented: the honeymoon, culture shock, recovery and adaptation. It is stated that not all students pass the stages with equal success and at the same time. The explanation of academic adaptation and the key referent results of its successful overcoming by foreign students are given. Among them it is singled out success of training, orientation to the future profession, ability to work independently and in a group.Common problems in the foreigners’ adaptation and core necessary university services to help them successfully adapt and study in unfamiliar academic environment are identified. The orientation programs, work of the international student office and various on campus services are described. It is important that these services should be connected not only with education but also with participation in social, cultural, sports and other leisure activities, as well as providing academic, cultural, sports activities, group work, volunteering etc. Much attention is paid to the teachers and mentors’ work with foreign students.Among the main grounds for the foreign students’ successful adaptation at the initial stage are the knowledge of Ukrainian and social support. We state that a teacher or advisor’s consultations during the admission hours in the faculty also has a positive effect on the student adaptation process.It is noted the importance of the propaedeutic preparation and the course of Ukrainian as a foreign language for foreign students to form their communication competence, which will allow communicating freely in different spheres of activity.

A Basic Formula for Effective International Student Services

The effective delivery of support services for international students has been the subject of professional discourse for nearly a century (Wheeler, King & Davidson, 1925). While scholars have long examined the problem of student attrition, early retention models (Spady, 1970; Tinto, 1988) applied anthropological, psychological and sociological theories in ways that mostly ignored the intuitional responsibility and capacity to serve culturally diverse individuals. Furthermore, an analysis of fifty years of student affairs research found that international students were mostly excluded (Pope, Mueller and Reynolds, 2009). It was not until the establishment of the Journal of International Students that international students began to receive regular attention within the academic literature.
 International student advisors have an important role to play in helping international students adjust to their host communities and institutions. However, changes to student immigration regulations has resulted in an increased emphasis on immigration compliance (Boyd, 2008; Rosser, Hermsen, Mamiseishvili, & Wood, 2007) and lowered the capacity of some international student offices to provide non-immigration services. 
 The quality of international student services, whether immigration or not, is generally dependent on formal and informal processes of which multiple stakeholders are a part. Thus, a small change to one element has the potential to affect the whole. In order to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of services offered, international student advisors may benefit from applying a systems perspective as summarized by the following formula:
 ISS = [PM + (LM + I + V)] + CI
 International Student Services = [Process Mapping + (Lean Mindset + Intentionality + Value)] + Continuous Improvement
 Process Mapping
 Process mapping is a useful tool for understanding the interrelationships of all the specific elements that allow for a specific service. For instance, a process map may be used to visualize the series of steps, decisions and delays that begin when someone applies for admission as an international student and ends when that person receives the necessary documents to apply for a student visa. The elements are each mapped individually and their relationships to each other visually mapped to create a workflow diagram. This dynamic flowcharting activity makes it possible to understand how each part contributes to the whole and the downstream consequences of interventions.
 Lean Mindset
 International student advisors should strive to develop a lean mindset. This includes commitment to identifying and eliminating wastes from programs and services offered to international students. Such wastes may include requiring international students to complete actions that are unnecessaryor overly burdensome. For instance, requiring a student to obtain signatures on a paper form in order to request authorization for curricular practical training when free cloud-based solutions exist that would expedite and simply the process for all involved. As the workload of international student advisors increase due to additional immigration compliance requirements, it is critical to be able to maximize capacity by eliminating waste.
 Intentionality
 International student services should be considered an important part of the co-curriculum. While an orientation program for new international students may include a shopping trip to the local, an intentional approach to this service would be to leverage the activity as a means for teaching students how to use the local bus system. This would not only accomplish the basic goal of helping students obtain access to needed goods, but it would also help them acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to travel confidently around their host community.
 Value
 When analyzing components of international student services, it is important to assess parts of the process using the following criteria:
 1. Adds value from the student’s perspective
 2. Does not add value from the student’s perspective, but is required
 3. Does not add value from the student’s perspective nor is it required
 The goal of assessing value is to ensure most, if not all, of the components that make up the process are viewed as valuable from the perspective of the student. This helps to ensure a higher level of satisfaction with the services offered and it keeps advisors from engaging in activities that detract from the overall mission of supporting international students.
 Continuous Improvement
 The work of enhancing international student services is never complete. Rather, the international student office staff should commit to regularly reviewing and refining the services they offer using the method summarized by the formula.
 Conclusion
 A systems perspective is helpful for understanding and ensuring the effectiveness of international student services. While international student advisors may be exceptional as individual contributors to a given process, failure to see the interdependencies between their work and the work of others who touch the process can result in misalignment in expectations and experiences on the part of the student.

Most self-touches are with the nondominant hand

Self-touch may promote the transfer of microorganisms between body parts or surfaces to mucosa. In overt videography of a post-graduate office, students spent 9% of their time touching their own hair, face, neck, and shoulders (HFNS). These data were collected from 274,000 s of surveillance video in a Chinese graduate student office. The non-dominant hand contributed to 66.1% of HFNS-touches. Most importantly, mucous membranes were touched, on average, 34.3 (SE = 2.4) times per hour, which the non-dominant hand contributed to 240% more than the dominant hand. Gender had no significant effect on touch frequency, but a significant effect on duration per touch. The duration per touch on the HFNS was fitted with a log–log linear distribution. Touch behaviour analysis included surface combinations and a probability matrix for sequential touches of 20 sub-surfaces. These findings may partly explain the observed variation in the literature regarding the microbiome community distribution on human skin, supporting the importance of indirect contact transmission route in some respiratory disease transmission and providing data for risk analysis of infection spread and control.

Does Teacher Emotional Exhaustion and Efficacy Predict Student Discipline Sanctions?

Teacher emotional factors influence the classroom environment. The purpose of the study was to examine the association of teacher emotional exhaustion and teacher efficacy with student office discipline referrals (ODRs), in-school suspensions (ISSs), and out-of-school suspensions (OSSs) using multilevel logistic regression models. The sample included 105 teachers and 1,663 students from nine elementary schools in the United States. Higher teacher emotional exhaustion was associated with increased use of ODR and ISS but not OSS. For students with teachers experiencing burnout, the odds of receiving an ISS increased by a factor of 1.74 (d = .31). Greater teacher efficacy was also associated with lower use of OSS but not ODR or ISS. The results suggest that improving teacher efficacy and reducing teacher emotional exhaustion may support the reduced use of exclusionary discipline practices.

Deep activity recognition in smart buildings with commercial Wi-Fi devices

Activity recognition acts as a key enabler of smart building applications, such as behaviour analysis, health diagnosis and user authentication. However, existing methods either require burdensome equipment, or light and line-of-sight (LOS) working conditions. To address this challenge, we propose DeepAR, a device-free human activity recognition system with prevailing Wi-Fi signals, which circumvents the use of dedicated devices. DeepAR mainly exploits two key techniques to recognise human daily activities. Firstly, a novel principle component extraction method is presented to capture the motion-induced distortions and discard the irrelevant interferences. Secondly, deep feature maps are constructed with time and frequency domain characteristics, and a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model is further applied to classify the activity labels. DeepAR is implemented with commercial Wi-Fi devices, and the performance is evaluated through extensive experiments. Experiment results show that DeepAR can achieve an average accuracy of 98.6% in a meeting room and 96.4% in a student office.

Class acts? Working class student officers in students’ unions

This article explores the recent emergence of ‘working-class student officer’ roles in students’ unions associated with elite UK universities. These student representative roles are designed to represent the interests of working-class students within their universities and sit alongside student representatives for liberation groups and/or student communities. Based on interviews with postholders and using Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field and Reay’s applications of a ‘reflexive habitus’, I explore how these students have come to assert a public and political ‘working-class student’ identity within their universities. Their commentaries reveal the ‘makings of class’ in a context where students are very aware of claims for recognition and the ‘hidden injuries of class’ and offer an insight into how working-class students are finding new ways to navigate their classed identities in HE.

Peningkatan Prestasi Belajar Materi Mengoperasikan Aplikasi Presentasi melalui Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Tutor Sebaya pada Siswa Kelas X OTKP 1 SMK Negeri 2 Tegal Semester Genap Tahun Pelajaran 2017/2018

The purpose of this study is to improve the learning achievement of the material Operate the Application Presentation through the application of learning models peer tutors of class X Automation and Office Management (OTKP) 1 Vocational High School 2 Tegal even semester 2017/2018 academic year. This research is in the form of classroom action research, which is a study conducted collaboratively between researchers, students, and teaching teachers in Office Technology subjects. The subjects of this study were class X OTKP 1 Tegal Vocational High School 2 totaling 32 people. The implementation of the action is carried out by the planned researcher together with the peer teacher. The data sources of this research are informants, places, events and documents. Data collection techniques used are observation, testing and documentation techniques. The research process was carried out in two cycles considering the researcher was the teacher of the subject. Each cycle consists of four stages, namely action planning, action implementation, observation and evaluation, and analysis and reflection. Each cycle is conducted in three meetings and each meeting is 4 x 45 minutes. Based on the results of the research conducted, it can be concluded that there was an increase in learning achievement of Office Technology of class X OTKP 1 students at SMK Negeri 2 Tegal through the application of peer tutoring learning models. The results of the research that have been carried out are that there is an increase in student office technology learning achievement from 18 students (56%) who completed the pre-cycle to 24 students (75%) who completed the first cycle and increased to 31 students (97%) who reached the completion limit learn. The average value of knowledge in the first cycle is 75.31, increasing by 4.68 from the average pre-cycle value. While the average value of skills in the first cycle is 79.06, increasing by 7.81 from the average pre-cycle value. The average value of knowledge in the second cycle was 80.78, increasing 5.47 from the average cycle I. While the average value of skills in the second cycle was 86.72, it increased 7.66 from the average value in the first cycle.

2020 SPE President Shauna Noonan

Interview with 2020 SPE President Shauna Noonan Shauna Noonan will take office as 2020 SPE President during the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition 30 September–2 October in Calgary. She is the director of artificial lift engineering for Occidental Petroleum Corporation, based in Houston, where she directs the company’s efforts in artificial lift system performance globally. Prior to joining Oxy in late 2015, she worked worldwide on artificial lift projects and technology development at ConocoPhillips and Chevron for more than 22 years. She has authored or coauthored more than 25 technical publications on the subject of artificial lift and is a frequent speaker at industry events. She has been an avid SPE volunteer in many roles since first serving as a student section officer. She served on the SPE International Board of Directors as the Technical Director for Production and Operations from 2012–2015. She has driven the development of industry standards and recommended practices for artificial lift systems while serving as chair for ISO and API committees, and has received industry awards for her contributions to the discipline. Noonan holds a BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Alberta. What key issues will you emphasize during your year as president? I want to focus on strengthening five areas for SPE to remain a trusted, unbiased source of technical information, be the membership of choice for professionals in oil and gas, and to be respected both within and outside of our industry. When people see that SPE logo, it should be synonymous with excellence in terms of all our offerings to our membership. The theme of my presidency is “SPE strong,” strengthening the core of our society. The five areas are: - Strengthening the technical quality of our publications, presentations, and events - Strengthening the tools and methods by which we disseminate knowledge to our members - Strengthening our core functions, with an additional focus on automation and digital science - Strengthening knowledge transfer in unconventional resources - Strengthening the feedstock of incoming talent into the industry. How will you go about strengthening these areas? For the past year in my role as incoming president, I have been working with my fellow board members and SPE staff to develop the various initiatives around my five focus areas. I will share those details in each of my monthly JPT columns along with updates on our progress. In the latest SPE Strategic Plan, there is an emphasis on instilling professional pride. What should be the focus? I am proud to be a petroleum engineer but I, like many of our members, have not been adept at explaining what exactly our industry does. We need to learn how to have an effective conversation with those outside of our industry on how we lift the world out of poverty and improve the quality of life by providing affordable, sustainable energy while targeting carbon neutrality. An effective conversation is an open dialogue, not a PowerPoint presentation or a factual document.

Human behavior during close contact in a graduate student office.

Close contact is a part of daily life, and proximity is known to play a primary role in the transmission of many respiratory infections. However, there are no data on close contact parameters such as movement of the head/body and relative location, which can affect both expiration and inspiration flows. Using video cameras, we collected such data for nearly 63000seconds of total close contact duration in a graduate student office in Beijing, China. Each student had on average 9.6 close contacts per hour and spent 9.9% of their time participating in close contact interactions. Males made more body/head movements than females during close contact. The probability distribution of interpersonal distance follows a log-normal distribution. The average interpersonal distance was 0.67m. Students preferred a relative face orientation angle between 15° and 45°. When the relative face orientation angle increased, the interpersonal distance increased. Students had a high probability (73%-97%) of maintaining their head, body, and relative position during close contact, while the probability of body/head or relative position changing from any location/angle to another is also given. These data may be used for assessment of infection risk via close contact in crowded indoor environments.