Student Point Research Articles

Using Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Models to Analyze Students Academic Performance

Examination result repositories generated by most universities can serve as machine learning datasets for training various models to gain insights from the data. These datasets can train multiple linear regression models to determine a student's cumulative grade point average (CGPA), or the score that a student will get in specific courses. Additionally, classification-based supervised machine learning models can use these datasets to provide insights into the class result that a student will obtain. These insights can be invaluable for academic advising and early intervention. Moreover, these datasets can train clustering-based unsupervised machine learning models, such as the K-means clustering model, to understand how student results are grouped into various clusters. This information can be crucial for planning and evaluating the quality of the university. This paper uses the dataset of undergraduate students' examination results from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, to train three supervised machine learning models and one unsupervised machine learning model, utilizing Jupyter Notebook as the Python IDE. The training results showed acceptable accuracies of 91.5% for the Naïve Bayes model and 95.1% for the Decision Tree model. The linear regression model demonstrated a negligible root mean square error of 8.23×10−18, while the K-means clustering model exhibited an acceptable Silhouette metric of 0.12.

Developmental evaluation of the healthy futures of Texas' puberty curriculum: On My Way.

This paper describes a developmental evaluation (DE) of a pilot of a puberty curriculum that was implemented in grades four to six in San Antonio, Texas. The pilot evaluation assessed the initial feasibility and acceptability of curricular components. The DE framework guided the questions in an ever-changing environment where new tools were created as the situation called for them (10). The evaluation team utilized purposive sampling methods, surveys, and facilitator notes to guide the collaborative process. Both Google and Microsoft platforms were used for analysis and collection of findings. Facilitator notes and surveys revealed that while comfortable leading sessions, there were still issues in timing and student comprehension. From a student's point of view, while many (60%) reported feeling uncomfortable during lessons, a greater majority (80%) reported learning something from the sessions. DE was a crucial piece of the pilot sessions and revision process despite any limitations. A user-focused and adaptable evaluation generated greater opportunities for positive change within the curriculum and its delivery.

The Correlation Between Teachers' Emotional Intelligence and Students' Learning Engagement in EFL Class

The study aims to determine teachers’ emotional intelligence levels based on student perspectives and is supported by principal assessments. Besides, the research aims to identify the extent of learners’ engagement and assess if there is any connection between the emotional intelligence of teachers and learning engagement in EFL classes for students. The research population included students and principals of Madrasah Aliyah 5 Garut. For this study, a sample that involved 60 students was selected using disproportional stratified random sampling techniques from class X (n=30) and class XI (n=30). To collect data, the writers used a questionnaire that evaluated variables such as teachers’ emotional intelligence and students’ learning engagement in EFL classes. The descriptive analysis method was used to analyze data, while Pearson Product Moment with SPSS 22.0 for Windows was used for bivariate analysis. The research findings suggest that the emotional intelligence level of teachers is medium from the student's point of view with an average score of 10.07, while from the principal's assessment, it is high scoring an average of 12.2. There was a moderate level of students’ learning engagement, with a mean score of 12.46. Hypothesis analysis also found that there is a positive and significant relationship between teacher emotional intelligence and student learning engagement with a fairly strong correlation level. It can be concluded that teachers need to increase their emotional intelligence so that student learning engagement in EFL classes increases.

The Association Between Emotional Intelligence and Academic Performance of Dental Students at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Emotional intelligence (EI) is reported to be associated with better academic performance. However, few studies from the Middle East have assessed whether EI affects academic performance in dental students. The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between EI and academic performance in a sample of Saudi Arabian dental students. This cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study included first-year to fifth-year dental students and dental interns who were enrolled at King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the 2023-2024 academic year. Eligible students were invited to complete the self-administered Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) and a demographic questionnaire between October 2023 and January 2024. Academic performance was assessed based on each student's self-reported overall current grade point average (GPA) and was dichotomized into high GPA (between 4.5 and 5) and low GPA (less than 4.5). Of the 437 eligible students, 330 (75.5%) completed the questionnaires. The logistic regression analysis, after sequentially adjusting for various risk factors, showed significantly better academic performance for those who had higher EI (OR=2.6, P-value=0.02). The findings of this study suggest a significant association between EI and academic success. EI is essential for improving academic performance in dental education.

Research on Student's T-Distribution Point Cloud Registration Algorithm Based on Local Features.

LiDAR offers a wide range of uses in autonomous driving, remote sensing, urban planning, and other areas. The laser 3D point cloud acquired by LiDAR typically encounters issues during registration, including laser speckle noise, Gaussian noise, data loss, and data disorder. This work suggests a novel Student's t-distribution point cloud registration algorithm based on the local features of point clouds to address these issues. The approach uses Student's t-distribution mixture model (SMM) to generate the probability distribution of point cloud registration, which can accurately describe the data distribution, in order to tackle the problem of the missing laser 3D point cloud data and data disorder. Owing to the disparity in the point cloud registration task, a full-rank covariance matrix is built based on the local features of the point cloud during the objective function design process. The combined penalty of point-to-point and point-to-plane distance is then added to the objective function adaptively. Simultaneously, by analyzing the imaging characteristics of LiDAR, according to the influence of the laser waveform and detector on the LiDAR imaging, the composite weight coefficient is added to improve the pertinence of the algorithm. Based on the public dataset and the laser 3D point cloud dataset acquired in the laboratory, the experimental findings demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has high practicability and dependability and outperforms the five comparison algorithms in terms of accuracy and robustness.

Understanding International Students' Perspective of Health Service Quality: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Hungarian University.

Understanding patient's preferences is important to delivering good quality services. Patients' feedback provides healthcare providers with valuable information about the services provided. The increasing number of international students enrolling in Hungarian Universities raises the need to ensure the quality of services meets international students' requirements, which includes healthcare. This study aimed to assess service quality in the University Health Center (UHC) from the international student's point of view to be used to improve the quality of services. This cross-sectional study was conducted at the university health center. We used a mixed methods approach to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. We used the importance-performance analysis (IPA) for quantitative analysis to understand expectations and perceptions in service research. The qualitative analysis was conducted from responses to reflection questions. The qualitative data were then analyzed using thematic analysis. 437 international students participated in the study, but only 402 (91.99%) were analysed. The gaps between the importance and performance of service quality were negative in all dimensions (P-value < 0.001). This suggests that there is an unmet need for student expectations and university health center performance. From the Importance factor, the highest and lowest were related to safety (4.54 ± 0.56) and efficiency (4.31 ± 0.66) dimensions. The Performance factor's highest and lowest mean scores were also related to safety (4.22 ± 0.72) and efficiency (3.91 ± 0.87), respectively. From qualitative analysis, there are two major themes several secondary themes from the thematic analysis of free-text responses were identified. The importance and performance analysis could provide useful information to university policymakers about university health center service quality. There is a need for improvement and obviating the importance-performance gaps, especially in the efficiency dimension. Decision-makers can use the IPA analysis results to allocate limited resources more effectively, giving special attention to possible organizational weaknesses for further direction.

The Analysis of Social Media Use in Collaborative Learning on The Implementation of Online Knowledge Sharing to Improve Student Academic Performance

This research aims to analyze social media use in collaborative learning on the implementation of online knowledge sharing to maximally improve student academic performance. The research method used a survey with a quantitative approach. The research sample was taken by purposive sampling on diploma 3 and undergraduate students at several public and private universities in Java Island, Indonesia. As a result, 359 respondents filled out an online questionnaire distributed via a google form link. Data analysis using SEM PLS path analysis with SmartPLS program version 3.0. The results of this research stated that social media used in collaborative learning correlated with online knowledge sharing. The ease of sharing knowledge accelerates the dissemination of material delivered by teachers to students as a trigger for collecting questions and recommendations based on the student's point of view. Online knowledge sharing is related to student engagement, where students always update the knowledge that has been stored in their social media groups. Active student engagement will be assessed optimally by the teacher as a student reward so that academically the student's GPA increases, learning goals can be achieved, and students can contribute actively to spreading their knowledge through social media.

واقع استخدام طلبة المدارس الإعدادية لتطبيقات التعلم المتنقل واتجاهاتهم نحوها

The goal of the current research is to identify the reality of middle school students use of mobile learning applications and their attitudes toward them in the city of Mosul. To achieve this goal, the descriptive survey method was used, as the researcher prepared a questionnaire consisting of (25) items coupled with five alternatives, and after verifying the validity and reliability of the questionnaire, he applied it. The researcher studied the basic research sample, which consisted of (380) male and female middle school students for the fifth scientific and literary grad in the city Mosul. The results of the research showed that the reality of using mobile learning applications and their attitudes towards them from the student's point of view were high, with an arithmetic average of (4.023), The results also showed that there were statistically significant differences in the reality of using mobile learning applications due to the type variable and in favor of female. The research results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the responses of the sample members due to the branch variable Academic (scientific, literary). Keywords: mobile learning, Mosul city schools.

Perceptions of Najran University Students on Utilization and Enhancing Soft Skills and Challenges

The study aims to identify the level of soft skills utilization among Najran University students and the challenges they face in developing these skills from their perspective. A descriptive-analytical approach was employed, where a list of soft skills was categorized into four classes, comprising a total of 37 skills from key competencies. A questionnaire was prepared to determine the importance of soft skills from the student's point of view, as well as to assess their satisfaction with their proficiency levels. In addition, it aimed to gauge their satisfaction with the methods and strategies used by the university in enhancing these skills and to identify the obstacles hindering their development. The survey was administered to 296 male and female students at Najran University. The results indicated that students highly valued the importance of soft skills. The ranking of soft skills categories, based on their importance to the students, was as follows: learning and life skills, effective communication skills, strategic planning and time management skills, and finally, leadership and teamwork skills. However, the results also revealed their dissatisfaction with their proficiency levels, as they expressed low satisfaction. Furthermore, they were dissatisfied with the methods and strategies employed by the university in developing these skills. Despite this, they strongly agreed that significant obstacles were preventing the development of these skills among them.

Analisis Faktor-Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Indeks Prestasi Kumulatif (IPK) Mahasiswa/i Jurusan Ekonomi Pembangunan FEB Universitas Palangka Raya

The purpose of this study is to see the factors that have the most influence on student GPA such as learning at home, the quality of teaching on campus, and the organisations they join. This study uses a type of quantitative research with a descriptive approach, with multiple regression analysis. The classical assumption test passed the test. Result: The variable number of organisations followed, the amount of campus teaching, and the amount of study at home together contributed 69.2% to the student's cumulative grade point average, the remaining 30.8% was influenced by other factors outside the model. The three independent variables simultaneously have a significant effect on the cumulative grade point average based on the F test. In the t test, the variables of learning at home and teaching on campus play a positive and significant role in improving student academic achievement as measured by GPA, while the number of organisations followed has no significant effect with a negative relationship.

Examining Students' perceptions of the impact of marital breakdown on academic performance in Sierra Leone. Case Study: Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology

Families are a student's first point of contact with the world. Parents and other influential family members ensure young people's early training and socialization. Families lay the psychological, moral, and spiritual foundations for a child's holistic development. Structurally, marriages and families are either destroyed or together. In this circumstance, a broken marriage is not structurally stable due to divorce or other reasons such as separation, death outside of marriage, or only one parent. The purpose of this study is to examine students' perceptions of the impact of marital failure on their academic performance. This study used a descriptive research design using quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. This approach was chosen because it is applicable across the population, time-saving, and cost-effective. Data collection included primary and secondary sources, with primary data allowing for personal contact and interviews with respondents, while secondary data focused on theoretical insights and literature from other authors. This study was carried out at the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology in the Northern Region of Sierra Leone. One thousand participants were selected for the study, including students, faculty, staff, and residents of both sexes around the university. Random and purposive sampling methods were used to select the respondents. A sample of 200 participants of both sexes was selected, out of which 100 students, 50 lecturers from the Faculty of Education, and 50 residents of the university area were selected to express their opinions

Petőfi Sándor néhány verséről diákszemmel

Some of Sándor Petőfi's poems from a student's point of view: Mosaics from the research of students' analyses of art Curricula come, curricula go, and they bring in their wake outdated, then updated, or even new textbooks from time to time, in the name of reforms or a modern perspective. Meanwhile, the quiet, or more intense debate swings back and forth, again and again between the work-centered or reception-centered literature teaching approaches. This paper contributes to this discourse while shedding light on the intersection of what can be called a pair of opposing concepts at the center of the debate, when the degrees of understanding a work of literature and the student's confrontation with poetical works as lyrical subjects become the organizing principle in the world of a literature class. This professional-pedagogical reflection is supported by a presentation of facts, data, and correlations of the analytical work of twenty 7th grade students from Kelebia in southern Hungary, in order to assist the teaching and learning of literature as a subject. Keywords: content-centered versus reception-centered literature teaching, poetic text, historical and aesthetic views of literature, author/creator attitude, use of literary and art theoretical concepts, technical terminology, technical vocabulary, paragraph, complete sentence, sentence unit, structure and style analysis

Thyroid Cancer Risk Factors and Early Detection Awareness among Umm Al-Qura University Medical Students

Background: Thyroid carcinoma (TC) is the most prevalent head and neck cancer. Pre-clinical students lacked essential knowledge of thyroid cancer. Furthermore, clinical years medical students needed more awareness of thyroid screening and self-examination. Consequently, this study aims to identify the knowledge and understanding of thyroid cancer, among Umm Al-Qura University medical students in Saudi Arabia. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on undergraduate medical students in the third to sixth year of a medical college using an online questionnaire from April to June 2022. Results: A survey of 297 medical students from the 3rd to 6th year found that 46.1% knew all early signs of thyroid cancer, while only 12.5% did not know any diagnostic tools. Most participants (74.4%) knew all desirable candidates for a thyroid cancer screen. 260 (87.5%) students answered positively that any unexplained lump or swelling could be an early sign of cancer. The gender of the participants had a significant correlation with many factors related to student knowledge of thyroid cancer, with gender having a substantial correlation with only two early signs. The student's grade point average (GPA) and academic year also had a significant correlation with many factors related to thyroid cancer knowledge. Conclusion: Thyroid cancer prevalence can be reduced by increasing public awareness and knowledge of risk factors. Students’ knowledge and participation in public education can lead to better results. In addition, increased public awareness about early signs of thyroid cancer can improve overall disease prognosis, morbidity, and mortality.

Prevalence and Predictor of Impostor Phenomenon Among Medical Students at Jouf University, Saudi Arabia.

The impostor phenomenon (IP) was defined in 1978 as an "internal feeling of intellectual phoniness felt by people with outstanding academic and professional achievements."This study aims to estimate the prevalence and predictors of IP among medical students. A cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2022 to May 2023. A total of 200 medical students from years one to five participated in the survey; the response rate was 82.5% (165). A stratified random sampling technique was used to select groups of male and female Jouf University medical students from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th batches of the 2022 to 2023 academic year. An e-mail with a self-administered questionnaire comprising the Clance IP scale and a consent form was sent to all participants. The identities of the students were kept anonymous to eliminate response bias. Participation was voluntary. Data were presented in terms of numbers and percentages; a chi-square test was used to compare categorical variables; and multivariable analysis was used to determine predictors of IP using SPSS Statistics version 20 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). A total of 165 students responded to the questionnaire, with a response rate of 82.531%; 47.30% were males, and 86 (52.10%) were females. The findings indicate that 12 (7.3%), 83 (50.30%), 59 (35.80%), and 11 (6.70%) medical students, respectively, suffered from few, moderate, frequent, and intense imposter features. Results also showed that 13 (56.50%) first-year students suffered from moderate IP experiences, and 10 (43.50%) had frequent IP experiences. It was observed that for students in the first year, the academic performance represented by a student's grade point average (GPA), monthly family income, father's educational level, mother's educational level, and marital status are predictors of impostor experience. The study's findings show that impostor syndrome is a common problem among medical students and that being in the first year of medical school can increase the incidence of suffering from it. The problem-based learning system in medical school can contribute to impostor syndrome among medical students. Both low-achieving and high-achieving students suffer from impostorism.

Eğitimde Yeni Yöntem ve Tekniklere Bir Bakış: Bilgisayar Destekli Eğitim Modeli

Computers are tools that will positively increase and affect the quality of people of educational age, increase students' attention in classes, help them learn more efficiently, increase creativity and achievement, and make lessons interesting. When it is called Computer Aided Education, it is understood that computer technology is used in education. The simplest and most classic method of using computer technology in education is to set up a laboratory in an educational institution. The main purpose of this method is to provide computer literacy to the target audience and to present the lessons as interactively as possible in the laboratory environment. Computer Aided Education enables creativity to emerge from the student's point of view, improves the ability to communicate socially, gives each student the possibility to progress at his own pace and level, improves the ability to solve problems and focus his attention on a problem, saves the student's learning time, gives him the habit of applying documentation, filing and documents, improves the ability to research previous solutions and use them for a new solution, allows him to find a new solution, it improves math and language ability and finally offers the opportunity for the missed lesson or topic to be repeated by the student, as instant feedback is provided. Key Words: Computer Aided Education, Simultaneous Education, Asynchronous Education

Study on Learning Difficulties of Function Concepts and Solutions

Mathematical concepts are the cornerstone of mathematics, the foundation of students’ cognition, and the carrier of students’ mathematical thinking activities. Mathematical concepts are learned in stages, and students may make errors at all stages, which in turn affect the quality of subsequent learning of related mathematical content. This paper analyzes and summarizes the difficulties in each stage of learning mathematical concepts from the student's point of view, drawing on the “Action-Process-Object-Scheme” stage of learning mathematical concepts according to the APOS theory. Combined with the corresponding teaching strategies proposed by the APOS theory, we guide and help students to feel, obtain, understand and connect the concepts, and give a case study of the application of the solution strategy of “teaching the concept of function”, in order to give some insights into the effective learning and teaching of mathematical concepts.

PROBLEMATIKA PEMBELAJARAN DARING DI MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in the emergence of accelerated learning that was previously carried out attractively to be courageous in order to suppress the increase in cases of the Covid-19 virus. This study describes what learning problems are faced by students and also lecturers in the Department of Education, Cenderawasih University. The research method used is descriptive quantitative with indicators including, encouraging learning strategies and clarity, quality of learning materials, student involvement and activeness in the brave class (student engagement) and achievement of course learning achievements (CPMK) as a form of evaluating brave learning during the Covid pandemic -19. The results showed that from a student's point of view, learning courage during the Covid-19 pandemic at JIP Cenderawasih University was still not effective and efficient. Some of the reasons behind this are that there are still many students who do not have gadgets as learning media and it is difficult for students to get internet access.

THE STAKES OF DIGITIZATION AND THE DISTANCE LEARNING METHOD IN THE FIELD OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

The technological developments of information and communication impose today on the institutions of higher education and scientific research the optimal use of the techniques/ materials of education. Likewise, the development of digitization has provided greater flexibility in education, scientific research and data processing. These developments coincided with the Covid crisis, which had a direct impact on the highe r education sector. In the context of facing all these challenges, higher education and scientific research institutions have resorted to using the distance learning/teaching method. This article aims to focus on the distance learning method through three axes revolving around: the theoretical contributions on the distance learning/teaching method and its techniques, the experience of the Algerian university in launching the national project for distance education, and finally, an empirical study directed to a sample of students of the Higher School of Management Sciences – Annaba. It aims to identify the student's point of view on the concept and advantages of distance learning, and their feelings about this method. The results of this article indicate that Algeria's experience in distance learning is still a young experience that requires many conditions in many aspects: social aspect, environmental, technological, and especially pedagogical aspect. Moreover, the hybrid education represents one of the pillars and incentives to promote and develop the distance learning/teaching method in Algeria .

Presentasi Diri dan Praktik Hustle Culture pada Mahasiswa

This research is motivated by the hustle culture phenomenon which is now starting to spread among university students. In this study, researchers tried to discuss the hustle culture phenomenon from a student's point of view. This study uses a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach. The theory used in this study is the theory of phenomenology according to Alfred Schutz and the theory of self presentation. The purpose of this research is to find out how communication experience is, what are the meanings and motives of Communication students at Singaperbangsa Karawang University to experience a hustle culture by participating in various activities outside of their lecture activities such as being active in campus organizations, activities and/or work while studying. The results of the study stated that there were differences in communication experiences, meanings and motives that were known from informants, including the communication experiences experienced, namely: positive communication experiences, experienced by informants while undergoing a hustle culture, communication experiences before and after undergoing a hustle culture, reduced communication experience during breaks and interactions with friends and family, decreased health communication experience at certain moments when living in a hustle culture and known motives, namely because motives is social motives is productivity motives, self-confidence motives and objective motives (in-Order Motive), among others motives improvement in soft skills, networking and financial motives as well as a hustle culture which is interpreted by learning and practicing knowledge, maximizing one's time and potential, getting to know the world of work, feeling joy and proud. &#x0D; Keywords: Communication experiences, motives, meaning, hustle culture, students

Analysis of The Views of Students At MAN 2 Jambi City on Social Media In Influencing the Learning Process in Schools

This study looked at the role of social media from a student's point of view on the learning process in MAN 2 Jambi City. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. The subjects in this study were grade 12, which amounted to 34 students, whereas the sample was 18 students. The sample was taken randomly using random sampling techniques. Researchers collect data by using a Google form, which is then analyzed to see the views of MAN 2 Jambi City students on the role of social media in the learning process. The results showed that the role of social media is constructive for MAN 2 Jambi City students in the learning process.