Students In Academic Year Research Articles

TATHAWWUR MU’TAQADĀT AL-THULLĀB HAULA TA’ALLUM AL-LUGHAH FI BARNĀMAJ DAURAH AL-LUGHAH AL-ARABIYYAH AL-MUKATSTSAFAH ‘ABR AL-JINSI WA AL-KHALFIYĀTI AL-TARBAWIYYAH: DIRĀSAH MAQTA’IYYAH WA THŪLIYYAH

This study aims to investigate the development of students’ beliefs about learning Arabic in Intensive Arabic Course program at IAIN Palangka Raya across the educational backgrounds and gender. This study used a quantitative research approach by combining cross sectional and longitudinal research types. There are 214 (two hundred and fourteen) new students in Academic Year 2019 at IAIN Palangka Raya as participants of the study. Data were analyzed by using mean, independent sample test and ANOVA. The results showed that 1) the new students studying in the intensive Arabic course program had a strong belief about Arabic learning 2) there was no statistically significant difference between the students belief about Arabic learning across gender and the educational backgrounds at the beginning of the Intensive Arabic Course meeting, 3) there was no statistically significant difference between the students’ beliefs about Arabic learning across the educational backgrounds and the gender after the end of the Intensive Arabic course program, 4) there was no statistically significant difference in development of students' belief about learning Arabic between the beginning and the end of the Intensive Arabic Course program.
 
 Keywords: Arabic, beliefs about language learning, course, development

ISTIKHDĀM AL-KITĀB AL ‘ARABIYATI LĪ AL-NĀSYI'IN LI MAHMŪD ISMĀIL SHĪNĪ WA AL-ASHDIQĀ' FI TARQIYAT MAHĀRAT AL-LUGAT AL- ARABIYAT LADA AL-TULLĀBI FĪ AL-MADRASAT AL MUTAWASSITHAT AL-FAJAR MATARAM

This study aims to investigate the development of students’ beliefs about learning Arabic in Intensive Arabic Course program at IAIN Palangka Raya across the educational backgrounds and gender. This study used a quantitative research approach by combining cross sectional and longitudinal research types. There are 214 (two hundred and fourteen) new students in Academic Year 2019 at IAIN Palangka Raya as participants of the study. Data were analyzed by using mean, independent sample test and ANOVA. The results showed that 1) the new students studying in the intensive Arabic course program had a strong belief about Arabic learning 2) there was no statistically significant difference between the students belief about Arabic learning across gender and the educational backgrounds at the beginning of the Intensive Arabic Course meeting, 3) there was no statistically significant difference between the students’ beliefs about Arabic learning across the educational backgrounds and the gender after the end of the Intensive Arabic course program, 4) there was no statistically significant difference in development of students' belief about learning Arabic between the beginning and the end of the Intensive Arabic Course program.
 
 Keywords: Arabic, beliefs about language learning, course, development

IMPROVING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ABILITY OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF SMA TOHA PRAKTIKA GILIGENTING-SUMENEP BY USING PICTURES


 In Indonesia English is a foreign language, not a second language. As a result, it is very difficult for the students to write a paragraph in English because writing is a complex process that allow writers to explore thoughts and ideas, and make them visible and concrete. The indonesian students’ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph is very low due to several reasons. Firstly, the Indonesian community does not support the existence of the English situation
 Based on the fact, the researcher focuses this thesis on the problem of improving descriptive writing ability of the first year students of SMA Toha Praktika Giligenting Sumenep by using pictures. The research problem is How can the use of pictures improve the students’ability in writing a descriptive paragraph at SMA Toha Praktika?. The researcher thought that if the students can develop their imagination by the pictures, they will be able to create descriptive paragraphs that are meaningful.
 To answer the research problem, this research use the classroom action research at SMA Toha Praktika on the first year students academic year 2010/2011 who have difficulties in writing descriptive paragraph. Exercises was done to know how high the students’ ability in writing descriptive paragraph. the data collection involved instruments, namely writing observation, composition test and questionnaires. The composition test was to measure the students’ ability in writing descriptive and questionnaires was to know the students’ opinion about the implementation of pictures. All of the data were analyzed and compared with the criteria of success that the minimun score of the students was 60 and there was 60% or 17 students mastered the material and can made descriptive paragraph.

The Implementation of Flipped Classroom Model in Teaching English to Sapta Andika Junior High School Students in Academic Year 2019/2020

This research investigated (1) the implementation of Flipped Classroom for teaching English; (2) the students’ achievement; (3) the students’ opinion; and (4) the differences between the high and low achieving students’ opinion toward Flipped Classroom. There were 41 seventh grade students and one English teacher of the seventh grade investigated. In this research, interview, questionnaires and lesson plan analysis were analyzed using interactive model; meanwhile the post-test and high and low achieving students’ opinion given were statistically analyzed using SPSS 16. It was resulting that in implementing Flipped Classroom the teacher did several preparations and teaching procedures which differentiated the classroom activity and home activity; the students’ achievement was seen to be good; the students also perceived the learning positively; the differences among high and low achieving students’ opinion were not significantly seen. This research helps the teacher who wants to implement flipped classroom as a consideration in teaching.

Teaching Vocabulary Through Morphological Analysis At The Second Year Students Of MTs PPUW Benteng

The objective of the research is to find whether or not the use of morphological analysis can improve the student vocabularu mastery.The research was applied quasi-experimental design . It involved two groups, The experimental group and the control group. The population of this research was the second year students in academic year 2014-2015 of MTS PPUW Benteng. It consist of 7 classes. The total number of population is178 students, The researcher choesestwo classes as simple .Finally, The researcher selected VIII/D as the experimental group and VIII/E as the control group. VIII.D consist of 16 students and VIII.E consist of 16 students so the total sample of the research is 32 students The researcher applied morphological analysis on the sxperimental group and for the contol group the student tought using conventional technique . There were two Thenques of data collecting applied in this study , They were test . The test is used to compare students vocabulary achievements,The application of morphological analysis anhanced the students ability to vocabulary mastery in the second year students of MTS PPUW Benteng . The achievement in vocabulary mastery of the students who applied morphological analysis and those who did not apply morphological analysis had sighnficant difference . It was oroved by the mean score in post test of experimental group was bigher than the mean score of control groupn (79.37-66.87) and the t,test value on post test was bigher than t-table(3.363>2.042)Based on the data above the researcher cocluded that using morphological analysis increase students vocabulary mastery.

GAMIFICATION BASED ON LOCAL STORIES’ EFFECT ON STUDENTS’ LEARNING MOTIVATION

In the 21st century, the use of innovative and digital-based teaching media are required. This research aimed at examining the effect of gamification based on local stories as teaching media on fifth grade elementary school students’ motivation. Quasi experimental with one group pre-test post-test design was implemented. The study was conducted at SD N 1 Penarukan where 25 of fifth grade students in academic year 2019/2020 were involved as the sample of study. Three instruments were administered to collect the data; pre-test post-test, treatment instrument and interview. The result showed that post-test mean score has significantly improved compared to pre-test score (42.29 > 23.35). Hypothesis testing result (paired sample t-test) showed the tobs value was higher than tcv (20.811>1.677) with α = 0.05, which indicated that gamification positively affected students’ motivation. The interview result revealed that the students are highly motivated to learn by using gamification.

Students’ Perception on Learning Language at the Graduate Program of English Education Amids the COVID 19 Pandemic

This research aims to determine students' perceptions on the implementation of the learning process during the Covid 19 pandemic at the graduate program of English Education of the University of Bengkulu. This research is a descriptive research involving students in academic year of 2019/2020 from two classes consisting of 34 students. The data was taken using a questionnaire in the form of Google form consisting of 40 questions with 5 answer options: strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree and semi-structured written interview given through the Google Classroom application. The data obtained were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of this research indicate that students have a positive perception of the implementation of the learning process during the Covid19 pandemic the the graduate program of English Education of university of Bengkulu with the averageobtained score of 1211.25 which is in the good category. Moreover, the data obtained from the written interview showed that most students gave positive responses to online learning conducted at the graduate program of English education of the University of Bengkulu. These findings are expected to be taken into consideration to improve and prepare for the better future online and offline learning process at the University of Bengkulu, especially at the Graduate Program of English Education of the University of Bengkulu.

Using POSSE Strategy in Teaching Reading Comprehension

This research aims to determine if using POSSE Strategy affects reading comprehension of students majoring in English education of Tadulako University. This is a pre-experimental study using the one group pretest and posttest design. The population was 319 students in academic year 2018/2019. The samples were 35 students selected employing purposive sampling technique. Paper-and-pencil method was used when collecting the data with a test as the instrument. The test was administered twice namely pretest and posttest. The data were analyzed statistically using .05 level of significance and 34 degree of freedom. The result showed that after receiving intervention through POSSE Strategy, students scores got improved. In other words, using POSSE Strategy is effective in improving the sampled-students’ reading comprehension on any kinds of English text.

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ INTEREST AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION LEVEL IN SHORT PASSAGES

The study aims at finding out the relationship between students’ interest and their reading comprehension level in short passages. This study was conducted at the second grade of Senior High School 10 of Gowa. The population of this study was all of the students in academic year 2019/2020 which consisted 265 students, and the sample was 30 students selected by using purposive method. The researcher applied correlational design. The researcher used the instrument to obtain the data, they were questionnaire and test. The scores from both instruments were calculated and analyzed by using statistical procedure of Product Moment Correlation to find out whether there was a correlation between the two variables or not. The result showed that there was low correlation with the index value of correlation coefficient (rxy) of 0.28. Furthermore, the hypothesis testing showed that the index value of correlation coefficient (rxy) of 0,28 was lower than the index value of correlation coefficient of the Product Moment table (rt) of 0,306 which meant that, the null hypothesis (H0) was accepted and alternative hypothesis (H1) was rejected. Therefore, students’ interest in short reading comprehension passages is in average level because only a few students are interested in English lesson especially those who have high interest and many vocabularies to learn English. Short Passages did not give a big impact on students’ interest and their achievement in reading comprehension because of some factors. There is not self-interest in reading, lack of vocabulary and support parents and all of school elements in order to improve the students’ reading interest optimally. The findings of this study might be used as the input for both teachers and students to improve students’ reading comprehension level.

The Effect of REACT Model Assisted Fable-Math Book Media on Mathematical Problem Solving Of Elementary School Students

This study aims to analyze (1) the average mathematical problem solving ability of students who can achieve the KKM, (2) the proportion of students who can complete classical completeness of 75%, (3) differences in students' mathematical problem solving abilities before and after the REACT model assisted by fable-math book media is applied, (4) increasing mathematical problem solving abilities. The research method used is quantitative research with a pre-experimental design trial design in the form of one group pretest posttest. Sampling was done by means of purposive sample. The sample in this study were IV grade students in academic year 2019/2020. Collecting data using interview techniques, documentation, and tests. The data that has been collected is then analyzed using statistical analysis in the form of one sample t-test, z-proportion test, paired sample t-test, and n-gain test. After applying the REACT model assisted by the fable-math book media the results of the study showed that the average score of the student's problem-solving ability test got more than 70, the proportion of students who completed the test could achieve classical completeness above 75%, there were significant differences in the pretest and posttest results, and there is an increase in students' mathematical problem solving abilities with the medium category.

Can an online clinical communication course impact learner behaviour?

Background: Effective communication between doctors and patients leads to better compliance, health outcomes and higher doctor and patient satisfaction. Although in-person communication skills training programs are effective, they require high resource utilisation and may provide variable learner experiences due to challenges in standardisation. Objective: This study aimed to develop and implement an evidence-based, self-directed and interactive online communication skills training course to determine if the course would improve learner application of communication skills in real clinical encounters. Methods: The course design utilised the Kalamazoo Consensus framework and included videos based on common paediatric clinical scenarios. Final year medical students in academic year 2017/2018 undergoing a two-week paediatric clerkship were divided into two groups. Both groups received standard clerkship educational experiences, but only the intervention group (88 out of 146 total students) was enrolled into the course. Caregiver/patient feedback based on students’ clinical communication was obtained, together with pre- and post-video scenario self-reported confidence levels and course feedback. Results: There were minimal differences in patient feedback between intervention and control groups, but the control group was more likely to confirm caregivers’/patients’ agreement with management plans and provide a summary. However, caregivers/patients tended to feel more comfortable with the intervention compared to the control group. Median confidence levels increased post-video scenarios and learners reported gains in knowledge, attitudes and skills in paediatric-specific communication. Conclusion: Although online video-based communication courses are useful standardisation teaching tools, complementation with on-the-job training is essential for learners to demonstrate effective communication.

East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine.

East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine.

Adolescent mental health: analysis using YP-CORE test in School health services in Croatia

Abstract Issue Adolescent mental health problems are a leading health problem in this population and remain unrecognized for a long time. The aim of this study was to examine the mental health problems with YP-CORE test as a part of regular school health periodic examination of first-year secondary school students (ages 15-16). Description of Problem Study included 392 first-year Zagreb secondary school students (74.5% girls) academic year 2019/2020. Data were collected by YP-CORE test ten questions about feeling over the last week. The students provided informed consent, and testing was done during regular periodic examinations. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results At risk of mental health problems were 7.5% of girls (22/292) and 2.0% of boys. Nine girls (3.1%) had a low overall score, ≤ 19 points, which would mean little risk but had a positive answer to the question 'I've thought of hurting myself'. Ten girls (3.3%) had a score of ≥ 20, which meant an increased risk and a particularly positive answer was the 'I've thought of hurting myself' question. Three girls (1%) had a score of ≥ 20, which meant an increased risk with no additional risk of auto-aggression. The results in the boys are completely different. Two students, 2% (2/100) had a total score of ≥ 17, which meant an increased risk and a particularly positive answer was the 'I've thought of hurting myself' question. All recognized risk students are immediately involved in the counseling of the School and University Medicine Counseling Services provided by every secondary school in Croatia. Lessons The results of the study showed that mental health problems have 6.1% secondary school students with gender differences, girls 7.5%, boys 2%. School health service developed a protocol for students at increased risk. The first step is school medicine specialist interview with the student, then with the parents and the student, and second step including school staff and other professionals. Key messages Early identification of mental health problems, timely intervention and continuous monitoring of mental health among secondary school students in Croatia. Counseling service for students should be available within the school health service, implementing preventative measures and working closely with other services and professionals.

ENSINO DE FÍSICA E TECNOLOGIA ASSISTIVA: UM NOVO OLHAR PARA A INCLUSÃO

Na época atual, a demanda de alunos com necessidades especiais vem crescendo exponencialmente a cada ano, e com isso o índice de apoio nas escolas também se torna bastante necessário. Por meio dessa pesquisa, o objetivo é evidenciar o uso da tecnologia assistiva, integrando o papel da monitoria, ajuda no desenvolvimento mais crucial para os discentes dentro e fora de sala de aula, já que sem essa beneficência, o aluno não consegue incluir-se de maneira significativa no âmbito escolar em uma sala de aula de ensino regular comum. Então, para alcançar esse propósito, a metodologia possui um cunho qualitativo de modo de pesquisa ação, que permeia entre a adaptação de atividades, junto a tecnologia de softwares, e materiais acessíveis feitos com utensílios, no qual muitas vezes são de baixo custo, que acabam se tornando um grande auxílio durante o ano letivo do discente, e por sua vez, para o professor que não consegue ministrar e incluir o aluno, na aula com os recursos utilizados atualmente, por não ter o vasto conhecimento sobre a área, com efeito, o aluno com Necessidades Educacionais Específicas (NEE) não compreende o conteúdo. Visto que, historicamente o processo de inclusão na educação regular é tema de várias discussões advindas de uma trajetória de exclusão longa, de tal forma que, nesse processo de inclusão, surge a tecnologia assistiva como uma grande aliada para o interesse do aluno com NEE aprender o conteúdo proposto. Os resultados de utilizar diversas tecnologias assistivas proporciona, concomitantemente, essa formação inicial aos alunos de licenciatura em física, no qual durante todo o período da graduação não são capacitados a receber um aluno com tais características, e possibilitar tanto aos discentes um atendimento mais específico que pretende minimizar as suas dificuldades, e também, por consequência auxiliar na formação dos licenciandos – ou também chamados tutores/monitores – um vasto conhecimento de como exercer a sua docência a todos que necessitam. Por fim, é necessário expor a comunidade acadêmica que a tecnologia assistiva é uma estratégia para o ensino de física e um meio de proporcionar a efetiva inclusão.

Knowledge, attitude, and practice about plagiarism among dental interns and postgraduate dental students in Riyadh city, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Background: Student’s involvements in research activities are becoming more and more common in the current academic scenario. Both undergraduate and postgraduate are given responsibility to involve in the research activities from beginning of their student academic year. Though many universities are involving students in these activities as part of their curricular activities, training of the students to be done appropriately in such a way that every part of the research activities including research or scientific misconduct to be well informed and discussed.Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among a sample of 200 dental interns and postgraduate dental students in Riyadh Elm University. Validated questionnaire was utilised which had four sections as follows: (a) demographics (b) nine questions related to knowledge of plagiarism (c) twelve questions related to positive attitude toward plagiarism and; seven questions related to negative attitude toward plagiarism; and (d) eight questions related to practice of committing plagiarism. Data was analysed using the SPSS IBM software version 23.Results: Although majority (82.6%) have heard about plagiarism, only 50.6% were familiar with instances and 45.3% were familiar with penalty of plagiarism. There is a statistically significant association between all positive attitude items and education level (p<0.05) except one. Interns showed more positive attitude and less negative attitude as compared to postgraduates.Conclusions: Though the study shows some relevant and basic knowledge among the subjects of the study, in-depth of the topic is required for the subjects so that they publish with the great pride.

Strengthening public health education of undergraduate medical students through early primary healthcare services’ association

Background: The World Health Organization consultation paper on the teaching of community medicine 2010 highlighted the need to change the focus from didactic lectures to more interactive teaching learning methods. The objective of this study was detection of difference between didactic and early training at primary healthcare centers at different levels of knowledge, acquired skills, and attitudes of undergraduate medical students.Methods: This interventional study included students of academic year 2017-18 had summer training course in public health department as a part of the Faculty aim of early clinical exposure of preclinical students (i.e., first three grades) (n=25). The public health training course focuses mainly on raising students' skills of basic primary health care services. Comparable group of 75 students from the regular system were randomly selected. This intervention aimed to design new educational process and determine its outcomes evaluating Learner’s knowledge, their attitudes, and gained skilled.Results: The interventional group had positive attitudes ranging from 59-93% for different topics given. The conventional methods group had statistically insignificant higher scores in the summative assessment 20.5±2.2 versus 19.6±3.1 of the interventional group (p value 0.11). The acquired skills of the interventional group ranged from 9.3±2.1 to14.9±1.5.Conclusions: Early field contact gained higher positive attitude among medical students and it showed high skill acquisition. It is recommended to be used more frequently in public health practical teaching for undergraduate students.

THE ENHANCEMENT SELF-PREVENTION FROM BULLYING OF ADOLESCENT THROUGH INTEGRATIVE GROUP COUNSELING RAT PRACHA NUKHRO SCHOOL

The purposes of research are 1) To study the degrees of self-prevention from bullying of adolescent. 2) To compare self-prevention from bullying of adolescent through integrative group counseling in the target group in the pre-experiment, post-experiment, and follow-up phase. 3) To compare self-prevention from bullying of adolescent through integrative group counseling between the target group and the control group. The target group of this research consists 1) the second semester junior high school students in academic year 2019, Raj prajanugroh School, 108 students.2) The target group from studying the result of the counseling are the 16 second semester junior high school students with total self-prevention at the 25th percentile and lower. They were divided into two group. Classified as sample group 8 and a control group 8. The research instruments are the self-prevention from bullying measurement test which has the reliability .84 and the integrative group counseling program which has the IOC between 0.6-1.0. The result as follows 1) the degrees of self-prevention from bullying of the target adolescent is low (x=2.37, SD=0.06) 2) the students who received the integrative group counseling for the enhancement self-prevention from bullying of adolescent has the value of significant different of .05 in the pre-experiment, post-experiment, and follow-up phase. 3) The enhancement self-prevention from bullying of adolescent between the sample group which received the integrative group counseling and the control group which without the integrative group counseling has the value of significant different of .05 in the pre-experiment, post-experiment, and follow-up phase.

TECHNOLOGICAL PEDAGOGICAL AND CONTENT KNOWLEDGE (TPACK) PERCEPTION OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDENTS

Abstract: Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge, abbreviated as TPCK or TPACK, is the interdependent, situated knowledge needed to integrate the use of digital tools and resources effectively in curriculum-based teaching. This study aims to find out the TPACK perception of English Education students at Lampung University, the way the students obtain TPACK in learning, and the role of lecturers in assisting the students to obtain TPACK in learning. By applying a mixed method, questionnaire and interview were used to gather the data. 225 English Education undergraduate students in academic year 2018/2019 and 3 lecturers participated in this study. As result, the TPACK perception of the students was generally good as the score of all domains measured (Technological Knowledge/TK, Technological Content Knowledge/TCK, Technological Pedagogical Knowledge/TPK, Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge/TPCK, and Technology-related Learning Experiences/TLE) was 722.1. Moreover, the students obtained TPACK by observing lecturers teaching in the classroom and doing self-learning with internet as media. Further, it was found that there were five roles of the lecturers in assisting the students to obtain TPACK in learning, namely provider, model, controller, facilitator, and motivator.Keywords: TPACK; English dducation students; role of lecturers; students� learning; ICT.

An Analysis of Students’ Reading Comprehension of Analytical Exposition Text in SMA Negeri 2 Batusangkar

This research is aimed to know the students’ ability and their perceptions toward the difficulties in comprehending analytical exposition text in different levels of questions which based on Barret’s taxonomy of reading comprehension. This research was conducted at SMA Negeri 2 Batusangkar. The population of this research are all second year students in academic year 2019/2020 with the total number 244 students. Based on the population, the sample of this research is 37 students selected using simple random sampling. This research is descriptive quantitative research and used test and questionnaire as the instruments. This research found that the students’ ability in comprehending different level of questions in analytical exposition text was fair because the average score of students was 51,24. The students have good ability in comprehending analytical exposition questions in form of evaluation level. This research also found that students tend to have difficulties in comprehending analytical exposition text in form of inference level.

Students’ Response Towards the Improvement of Reading Comprehension Through Herringbone Technique

This research aimed to find out how students’ response after they learned reading to improve their comprehension skill through herringbone technique. Descriptive quantitave method was used in this research. It aimed at finding out and describing students’ response towards the improvement of reading comprehension through herringbone technique.The subject of the research was the fourth semester students in Academic year 2019/2020. The researchers applied purposive sampling technique and took class C from three classes. The total sample of this research was 38 students. In collecting the data, the researchers used a questionnaire to gain students’ response. Total number of questionnaires were 10 numbers with positive statements. The result shows there were 35 students (92.11%) who responded strongly agree and 3 students (7.89%) who responded agree. It means that all students gave good response for this technique. Based on the result of this research, the researchers can conclude that herringbone technique is a good technique to be applied in comprehending a reading text because this method used 5W+1H questions as guidance for the reader to comprehend the content of a reading text.