Selection Of Students Research Articles

Relationship between Intercultural Communicative Competence and L2 Learning: Iranian EFL Learners’ Motivation and Achievement

This study aimed to scrutinize the measurement of ICC and then investigate the relationship between Iranian L2 learners and their L2 learning motivation, and achievement on the one hand, and the difference between ICC and motivation of EFL learners, on the other. To do this, the participants included 60 B.A. Translation and 60 B.A. non-Translation students in universities in Iran. A test battery including the final version of the ICC questionnaire and an L2-learning motivation questionnaire adapted from Gardner’s attitude/motivation test battery was then administered to a random selection of both English and non-English students. The correlation results showed that there was not a significant relationship between L2 learners’ ICC and L2-learning motivation. In the meantime, t-test results depicted that there was not a significant difference between English and non-English Iranian EFL learners. The correlations results showed that there was a significant relationship between ICC and achievement of English students. This study can convince the learners to become aware of the significance of ICC and the effect of teaching English on developing this competence.

Pelaksanaan Praktek Kerja Lapangan Kelas Xi Jurusan Teknik Instalasi Tenaga Listrik di SMKN 2 Kota Serang di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

The purpose of this study is to describe: 1) PKL planning. 2) implementation of street vendors. 3) monitoring and evaluation. 4) Testing and Certification. and 5) The results of street vendors at SMKN 2 Serang City, Serang, Banten. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The subjects of this research are the PKL Coordinator, Public Relations WK, Curriculum WK, Teacher Advisors, Students, and Industrial Advisors. Data collection techniques with interviews, documentation studies, and observation. Test the validity of the data using triangulation of sources and methods. Data analysis used a qualitative analysis of the Miles & Huberman interactive model, namely data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of the study show the following: 1) PKL preparation starts from the legal basis, PKL Team, Correctional, PKL Understanding, Cooperation between Vocational Schools and IDUKA, Work Programs, Curriculum Synchronization, Human Resources, Financing, 2) Implementation of PKL at SMKN 2 Serang City is in semester 3 grade 2, with a minimum of 1 month and a maximum of 3 months. The implementation of street vendors at SMKN 2 Serang City has several activities, namely debriefing, student selection, compiling syllabus and activity schedules, IDUKA contracts, learning, and guidance. 3) Monitoring and Evaluation, Implementation Team, Time, Components to be monitored, Instruments, Utilization of monitoring results. 4) Testing and Certification, at SMKN 2 Serang city there is no testing, only the making of a report on the completion of street vendors and the certification here is only limited to the information that the person concerned has finished street vendors. 5) The results of street vendors, the competencies obtained by participants vary and the suitability of the curriculum, some say it is quite appropriate.
 Keywords: Implementation; Field Work Practice; Vocational School

Inducting undergraduate medical students via WhatsApp-based multiple mini interviews during COVID-19 pandemic.

Selection of medical students requires both cognitive and soft skills assessment. Shalamar Medical and Dental College (SMDC) has been using on-campus multiple mini interviews to assess the latter but due to Covid-19 pandemic it became imperative that an alternative be found. The aim of this communication is to share the process SMDC went through to plan, design, and ultimately conduct WhatsApp-based multiple mini interviews (wMMI) in a low risk method as an entry criteria for undergraduate medical students. The process involved designing scenarios appropriate for online interviews, training the faculty members regarding conducting MMI as well as the use of technology, and designing an online webpage for enrolling, scheduling and assessing candidates. We were able to successfully complete wMMI process for 522 candidates within one week in a low risk setting using WhatsApp as communication medium with strong IT and administrative support.

Outcomes of a holistic admissions process in a baccalaureate nursing program

A holistic admissions process was developed and implemented in a baccalaureate nursing program to improve student selection and student success. The goals were to increase multiple aspects of student diversity and to identify students with the potential for success and those who reflect the mission, vision, and core values of the school. A holistic admissions task force was formed in 2016 at the college of nursing (CON). The team created three measures of admission criteria: 1) open-ended essay questions providing for students to discuss relevant life experiences, 2) an online self-assessment of student attributes, and 3) overall and preprofessional grade point average (GPA) as metrics. Following the inception of the holistic admission process, student outcome data were reviewed with each admission cycle and the process was adjusted over time. Holistic admissions is a method of evaluating multiple dimensions of applicants for admission. Student success is impacted by many factors including teaching, individual behaviors, student support, and college progression and graduation standards.

Gender Discrimination, Career Aspirations, and Access to Mentorship Among Medical Students in Brazil

IntroductionGender-based discrimination (GBD) creates a hostile environment that can affect medical students. Mentorship has been recognized as a mitigating factor for GBD. We aimed to investigate the impacts of GBD on career selection and well-being of medical students in Brazil and to explore access to mentorship among these students. MethodsA cross-sectional study was performed using an anonymous survey in Portuguese. The survey was distributed in June 2021 to students enrolled in Brazilian medical schools. It contained 24 questions, including demographics, episodes of GBD experienced by responders and their impact on professional and personal life, and mentorship access. ResultsOf 953 respondents, 748 (78%) were cisgender women, 194 (20%) cisgender men, and 11 nonbinary (1%). Sixty-six percent (625/953) of students reported experiencing GBD, with cisgender women and nonbinary being more likely to experience it than cisgender men (P < 0.001). Responders who experiences GBD report moderate to severe impact on career satisfaction (40%, 250/624), safety (68%, 427/624), self-confidence (68%, 426/624), well-being (57%, 357/625), and burnout (62%, 389/625). Cisgender women were more likely to report these effects than men counterparts (P < 0.01). Only 21% of respondents (201/953) had mentors in their medical schools. ConclusionsOur findings demonstrate that GBD is widespread among Brazilian medical students affecting their personal and professional lives, and most of them do not have access to a mentor. There is an urgent need to increase access to mentors who could mitigate the adverse effects of GBD and help develop a diverse and inclusive medical workforce.

If MacIntyre ran a business school… how practical wisdom can be developed in management education

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to show how a MacIntyre‐inspired business school could contribute to developing practical wisdom in students through its curriculum, methods, faculty, student selection criteria, and governance. Despite MacIntyre's critiques, management can be presented, in MacIntyrean terms, as a second‐order, domain‐relative practice, with practical wisdom as corresponding virtue. Management education consists in developing practical wisdom. How? Primarily by initiating students and enabling them to participate in communal traditions of inquiry focused on, although not limited to, the purposes and ends of business. The transmission of objective knowledge, analytical skills, and techniques is subordinated to the end goal. We consider traditions centered on shareholder value maximization, the balancing of stakeholder interests, and the fulfillment of the common good of firms. Each gives rise to a particular kind of business school. A MacIntyrean business school is one that seeks the common good of firms.

MANAGEMENT OF STUDENT PLANNING AT SMAN 5 CIREBON CITY

This study aims to identify specifics about student planning management at SMAN 5 Cirebon City. In this study, researchers used a descriptive qualitative approach. Data collection techniques are carried out in a triangulation, analytical is inductive planning management in detail and accurately according to observational data, interviews with related parties and valid written data. The results of this study show that the planning management of students at SMAN 5 Cirebon City can be categorized as quite good and in accordance with the procedures that have been set by the West Java Provincial Education Office. Management of student planning at SMAN 5 Cirebon City is also in accordance with planning steps such as analysis of student needs, student recruitment, student selection, student orientation, student placement, to recording and reporting of students organized by the student department according to standards or techinica instruction that have been given by the government.

Trends in Statistical Analysis Software Use for Horticulture Research between 2005 and 2020

Courses are the main source of data analysis training for students. The statistical software training taught in those courses can affect student career readiness. However, lack of information about statistical software use in horticulture leads students and mentors to select statistics courses based on course availability and/or anecdotal evaluations. This research aimed to describe statistical software use trends in horticulture research to inform student course selection. We surveyed ≈50% of all articles published in HortScience, HortTechnology, and the Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science (JASHS) between 2005 and 2020. We found that SAS, SPSS, and R were the most frequently used software packages in this period. SAS use frequency decreased in HortScience and JASHS, but not in HortTechnology. SPSS use increased in JASHS and R use increased in all journals. Results from this retrospective survey suggest that training in SAS, SPSS, and R can help align students with horticulture research practices.

Pemetaan Kompetensi Siswa Untuk Mengikuti Seleksi Lomba Kejuruan Multimedia Menggunakan Metode K-Means

The process of mapping competent students who will take part in the competition is the selection of students who have the best scores in the vocational field, which is carried out by the academic side in order to include students who are competent in the vocational field to be included in the vocational competition. So far, the school still has difficulties in selecting competent and less competent students due to the limitations of the presentation and processing of the data carried out. To facilitate the mapping of competent students in the vocational field, this activity is computerized into software. Time accuracy and effectiveness are important factors so that the mapping process of competent students can run well and as it should. In this research, an application is made that can cluster competent students so that they can take part in Multimedia vocational competitions appropriately and accurately using the K-Means Algorithm. It applies variables such as Academic Values and Attitude Values.

A Comparison Analysis Of Ahp And Topsis Methods In The Selection Of Outstanding Students At Smp Negeri 5 Kaur Of Bengkulu Province

The number of decision support system methods makes it difficult for decision makers to determine which method is better to use in a case. In this case is the selection of outstanding students at SMP Negeri 5 Kaur of Bengkulu Province. The decision support system method taken for comparison is AHP and TOPSIS methods. In helping the comparison process, an application for selecting outstanding students at SMP Negeri 5 Kaur of Bengkulu Province was built using the Visual Basic.Net programming language and SQL Server 2008r2 database. A comparative analysis is done by looking at 2 aspects, namely the final result of the assessment and the processing time. Based on the final results of the assessment, AHP and TOPSIS methods have different results, this is because there are differences in determining the weight of the criteria, where AHP method is obtained from the results of pairwise comparisons while TOPSIS method is obtained from the school. Based on the processing time, AHP method is faster than TOPSIS method, this is because the stages in the AHP method process are fewer than the TOPSIS method

Participation And Development of Female Teachers and Their Perception of Girl Students Selection of Subjects

Participation And Development of Female Teachers and Their Perception of Girl Students Selection of Subjects

Dice Similarity and TF-IDF for New Student Admissions Chatbot

&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; CS is one of the most important functions of any client-related organization, whether a business or a school (customer service). Notably from the committee responsible for student selection, CS, on the other hand, has a very limited capacity to be handled by humans, which can reduce university satisfaction. Therefore, we require technological assistance, which in this case takes the form of an AI-based chatbot. The objective of this study is to design and develop a chatbot system utilizing NLP (natural language processing) to aid the CS of the new student admissions committee at Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai University in answering questions from prospective new students. The employed method is dice similarity weighted by TFIDF. The results of the conducted tests indicated that the recall rate was 100 percent and the precision reached 76.92 percent. The evaluation results indicate that the chatbot can effectively respond to questions from prospective students. &#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D;

The Role of School Based Management and Students’ Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria

The perceived inadequacies in the decentralization of administrative power and authority to the school-based management committee seems to hamper quality education service delivery and is partly responsible for the relatively low level of students’ academic performance in Nigerian public secondary schools. This study therefore examined the key roles performed by the school-based management (SBM) in the aspects of decision-making, physical plant planning, school-community relations, coordination of academic program and policy intervention, as well as implication of these key roles on students’ academic performance in secondary schools in Owo Local Government, Ondo State, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. Respondents comprised 99 key members of the SBM randomly sampled from nine public secondary schools. Data were collected using School Based Management Questionnaire [SBMQ] and Students’ Academic Performance Inventory [SAPI]. Two research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. Data were analyzed using percentage, mean and multiple regression analysis. The result indicated that the school-based management committee made moderate contributions in all the different dimensions of the key roles that are performed in secondary schools. The result further revealed that a combination of the key roles of SBM jointly accounted for 28.6% (0.286) contribution to students’ academic performance at &lt; 0.05. The study concluded that the School Based Management Committee (SBMC) made a moderate contribution to the school management which accounted for a low contribution to the students’ academic performance; limited contributions of the SBMC were also recorded in the award of school projects, capacity training of teachers and selection of students’ textbooks. It was recommended that the Government through the Ministry of Education should reinvigorate SBM practice and prioritize the significant inputs of the school-based management committee to enhance the quality of decision-making and mobilize adequate resources for infrastructural development and support for teachers’ capacity training to improve the quality of teaching-learning process for better academic performance of students in public secondary schools.

Insights on selection of undergraduate dental students.

The goal of selection to dental education was to find those with the greatest aptitude for dentistry. Recently, schools have introduced a variety of tools; however, these have often been adopted without appropriate evaluation regarding existing evidence for fairness, reliability or validity. We explore dental admissions staff beliefs about the quality of different selection tools, with the objective of exploring their decision-making in implementing selection practices. This qualitative study is underpinned by a social constructionist epistemology, in which our principal concern is "explicating the processes by which people come to describe, explain or otherwise account for the world (including themselves) in which they live." We conducted individual interviews with 15 of the 16 UK dental admission leads to elicit their views around admissions processes and aims. Data coding and analysis were initially inductive, using thematic analysis. After the themes emerged, we applied a deductive framework of affordances to group themes and then examined these for heuristics. We identified three main themes; "Selection Tool Use," "Widening Participation Practices," and "Professionalising the Admission Lead Role." Admission leads spoke favourably of tools that allowed a "holistic" view of the applicants "potential". Selection tools were favoured if they enabled "Gut feeling". Leads spoke of evaluating candidates, making sure they were "rounded", and "know what dentistry is all about." In justifying the use of elements of their procedure, the use of heuristics was prominent. In order to minimise the potential consequences of poor selection decisions, it is important to acknowledge that dental admission leads are at risk of depending on sub-optimal heuristics to make judgements about effective selection (shaped by previous practices) rather than using more rational decision-making processes based on the extant evidence (regarding the quality of different selection tools). Future research may be usefully informed by the knowledge translation literature to offer solutions for improving selection practices in dental education.

Measuring The Efficiency of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri in Bangka Belitung Province Through Data Emvelopment Analysis (DEA)

The importance of measuring the efficiency of State Madrasah Aliyah in the Province of the Bangka Belitung is at least based on the low achievement of Madrasah output or National Examination scores. This shows that the implementation of Madrasah Aliyah in terms of input and output is still not efficient. This study aims to measure the efficiency of State Madrasah Aliyah in the Province of the Bangka Belitung Islands in the 2017/2018 and 2018/2020 academic years. This research uses a Data Development Analysis (DEA) approach and is a type of qualitative research with non-parametric statistical analysis. The results of the DEA analysis show that there are inefficient DMUs in the 2017/2018 – 2018/2019 academic year, namely, MAN 1 Bangka, MAN 1 Belitung, and MAN 1 Pangkalpinang. meanwhile, MAN 1 West Bangka and MAN IC Bangka Tengah are DMUs that have been consistently efficient in the 2017/2018 - 2018/2019 Academic Year. Several corrective steps can be taken by the inefficient DMU, such as, 1) reducing the amount of budget that is adjusted to the ideal number of students by 236, 2) DMU needs to build a strict student selection system to maintain the ideal number of students, 3) increase the quantity and quality of teachers who have been certified, and 4) maintain a teacher-to-student ratio of at least 1:16.

Selection process for admission to an academic nursing programme – A meta-synthesis

BackgroundStudent nurse selection has been a topic of debate for years. Poor nursing care has been attributed to uncaring attitudes, lack of motivation and poor training and mentoring. Student nurse selection requirements and the steps involved in the process have been a revolving debate. Internationally, the recruitment and selection process are being refined to align with recommendations from the Francis Inquiry to include a values assessment. ObjectiveTo select, review and interpret evidence-based studies on student nurse selection; and develop and provide recommendations for nurse educators when selecting first-year student nurses as a holistic, integrative process fitting with caring and providing quality care. DesignQualitative meta-synthesis. Data sourcesElectronic databases were used during data collection: Ebscohost, ScienceDirect, SAGE, Cinahl and Sabinet (SAePublications). Qualitative articles published in English or Afrikaans reporting on student selection processes and experiences were included in the data collection process. Review methodsQualitative articles were systematically identified using the STARLITE principles. The articles were critically appraised for quality by employing the CASP method. ResultsFourteen articles were included. Thirteen of the articles were published in English. One PhD thesis was included, a seminal work conducted on student nurse selection in South Africa. Data analysis revealed three main themes: a reliance on the interview, alternative selection methods, and attributes as criteria for nursing selection. Within these themes, many different methods of student selection emerged. The benefits and challenges of these methods were identified, and a holistic admission process was ultimately most successful in selecting the correct student nurse. ConclusionsThe findings indicate there are many different student nurse selection processes. A holistic admission process is needed to select the best student nurse that displays caring attributes and provides quality nursing care.

EXPLORATION ON THE TEACHING REFORM OF “X-Y THEORY” IN THE DESIGN COURSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN SPECIALTY BASED ON EMOTION REGULATION

EXPLORATION ON THE TEACHING REFORM OF “X-Y THEORY” IN THE DESIGN COURSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN SPECIALTY BASED ON EMOTION REGULATION

Institutional Characteristics Influencing Medical Student Selection of Primary Care Careers: A Narrative Review and Synthesis.

There is an ongoing shortage of primary care physicians in the United States. Medical schools are under pressure to address this threat to the nation's health by producing more primary care graduates, including family physicians. Our objective was to identify institutional characteristics associated with more medical students choosing primary care. We conducted a systematic literature review with narrative synthesis to identify medical school characteristics associated with increased numbers or proportions of primary care graduates. We included peer-reviewed, published research from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The existing literature on characteristics, including institutional geography, funding and governance, mission, and research emphasis, was analyzed and synthesized into summary statements. Ensuring a strong standing of the specialty of family medicine and creating an atmosphere of acceptance of the pursuit of primary care as a career are likely to increase an institution's percentage of medical students entering primary care. Training on regional campuses or providing primary care experiences in rural settings also correlates with a larger percentage of graduates entering primary care. A research-intensive culture is inversely correlated with primary care physician production among private, but not public, institutions. The literature on institutional financial incentives is not of high enough quality to make a firm statement about influence on specialty choice. To produce more primary care providers, medical schools must create an environment where primary care is supported as a career choice. Medical schools should also consider educational models that incorporate regional campuses or rural educational settings.

New additive-consistency-driven methods for deriving two types of normalized utility vectors from additive reciprocal preference relations

In multi-criteria decision making, importance weights of criteria are usually derived from pairwise comparisons and requested for adding up to one. The framework of additive reciprocal preference relations (ARPRs) is a commonly used tool representing pairwise comparisons under the unit interval scale. This paper illustrates that existing additive-consistency-driven utility derivation methods fail to acquire a satisfactory additively normalized importance weight vector of criteria. A normalization framework is introduced under an Abelian linearly ordered group and new methods are proposed to generate additively consistent ARPRs respectively from vectors satisfying new normalization conditions and additively normalized vectors. Two formulas are devised to obtain the two types of normalized utility vectors associated with an additively consistent ARPR. Three optimization models are built and their analytical solutions are found to derive the two types of normalized optimal utility vectors from ARPRs. A geometrically additive consistency index is presented and its approximated thresholds are suggested to check acceptably additive consistency of ARPRs. A stepwise procedure is developed to deal with multi-criteria decision making problems. Two numerical illustrations with comparative analysis and an international exchange postgraduate student selection problem are offered to demonstrate the performance and practicality of the presented models.

THE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM IN SELECTING THE OUTSTANDING STUDENTS AT SMKN 1 TULANG BAWANG USING ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS

In the era of globalization, many information technology developments in the field of education began to develop administrative systems using information technology, one of which is by using web-based applications.Decision Support system for the selection of the outstanding students In SMKN 1 Tulang Bawang Using Analytical Hierarchy Process Method the system processes the calculation and disbursement of student achievement data with PHP programming language and Php MyAdmin as a tool to help manage databases using XAMPP.The Decision Support System for The Selection of Outstanding Students can provide convenience for the school in monitoring students and students can also obtain all information on facilities and news in the school.