Student Requests Research Articles

A Quantitative Approach for Appraising Quality of Online Education

Abstract : Conventional approaches fall short of managing the current scale of data, underscoring the significance of big data analytics in the field of data science. The study highlights the importance of big data analytics in data science, focusing on sentiment analysis and developing a machine learning framework for identifying sentiments in product reviews and assessing Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Online education proved its value to the academic community during the COVID-19 pandemic, when much of the world was at a standstill. Since the coronavirus outbreak, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have taken over many public schools and undergraduate degree programs as the new norm. Nowadays, online courses are being incorporated into traditional educational programs. Therefore, it has become crucial to develop a framework that both government and nongovernment organizations could use to assess public opinion before implementing online education programs. This article offers a methodology for utilizing deep learning and natural language processing techniques to examine public sentiments toward online education and courses such as MOOCs.Public reviews from Coursera and Udemy are utilized to assess the quality of online courses. Using sentiment analysis, the proposed methodology employs the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model to classify public reviews into positive and negative categories. Positive and negative reviews are clustered using the k-means algorithm to evaluate the quality of MOOCs. The study's findings indicate that MOOCs with qualified professors are beneficial for learning basic concepts. But they may lack advanced knowledge, real-world experience, and enough examples. These courses are lengthy, and students request more questions after lessons to comprehend the concept. The proposed framework assists in assessing public opinion before implementing online education and may provide valuable insight to the developers of the courses. Keywords : MOOC, BERT, K-means Algorithm, Clusters, Word Cloud.

Georeferencing Management for Optimization of Enrollment Slots in the Municipal Education System of Campos dos Goytacazes-RJ

This essay was presented with the aim of suggesting a georeferencing solution to optimize the pre-enrollment process in the education system of Campos dos Goytacazes-RJ. Using a mixed methodological approach that combines qualitative and quantitative analysis, collecting new student requests and georeferencing addresses and routing with the offered options, the study analyzed the current enrollment process and developed a new model guided by georeferencing. This was achieved by collecting geospatial data from students' residences and schools for subsequent geographic distribution analysis. The results demonstrated that the implementation of a georeferencing system not only streamlines parents' decision-making process regarding enrollment options but also significantly reduces the distances traveled by students. This optimization has a direct impact on improving the quality of life and academic performance of students, highlighting the effectiveness of georeferencing as a strategic tool in educational management.

Problemas de Saúde dos Alunos da FEA-RP/USP – Um Exame do Período 2015-2019

This article systematizes primary data on health problems of FEA-RP/USP students in the period 2015-2019 from a database of the unit's Undergraduate Service. This systematization makes it possible to know the nature of the unit's health problems and design more effective educational management policies to deal with health problems. It can be concluded that: there is an increase in requests related to health problems; the composition of requests is in accordance with the composition by sex of the student body; student requests do not occur uniformly per course; mental health problems increase in importance towards the end of the period; requests for home problem sets are of increasing importance; total leave of absence requests have a decreasing importance in percentage terms; The reasons for total leave of absence vary in importance.

Admission and Registrar Office (ARO) Mobile Document Scanner with Archiving System

Archive document scanning refers to the procedure of converting physical paper records into digital formats, such as images or text files, and establishing a systematic workflow to preserve and access these archived files electronically over an extended period [1]. With the growing acceptance of mobility and digitalization worldwide, institutions such as libraries, government offices, museums, and universities are increasingly adopting document scanning as means to safeguard and preserve historical documents and records. This approach is particularly valuable in preventing the natural degradation and aging of physical documents, as highlighted by Scan2Archive [2]. The purpose of the Admission and Registrar Office (ARO) Mobile Document Scanner with Archiving System is to support the registrar's office in managing student requests and admissions as well as handling the documents that are presented during the enrollment. The office of the registrar will experience a transformation in document handling with the development of a document archiving system, which will promote operational excellence, security, and transparency. With the help of this system, the office's procedures for managing vital records—such as student transcripts, enrollment requirements, and other important paperwork—will be completely transformed. The basis for the development of the system is transforming paper-based records into a digitally accessible format. In evaluating the effectiveness of the application and the system's operation it specified the performance requirements for the software evaluation. The star topology was used as part of the communication interfaces. The thirty (30) respondents tabulated the data in each of the different features of the system are accuracy, user-friendliness, reliability, operability, learning reinforcement, interactivity, compatibility, and the cross-platform environment was rated as "excellent”. The application was made to help the whole process become much more convenient to the admin and staff of the university.

Studying the Specifics of Student Requests based on Requests to the University’s Psychological Support Service

Studying the Specifics of Student Requests based on Requests to the University’s Psychological Support Service

"Please may I have some more?" – Assessing Student and Instructor Intersubjective Agreement on Part Marks in Engineering Mathematics

Driven by student requests for more marks (some prefer ‘partial credit’), this paper asks if there is evidence that students adapt to the marking rubrics encountered in universities. Through a weekly handout in a first-year engineering mathematics class, we explore the progress students make in their understanding of how instructors grade. How does student expectation of an unknown grading rubric shift with the accumulation of experience in a course? Through our exploration, we reveal unfortunate findings about how well students adapt, a lot of unanswered questions, a few sources of good news, and promising directions for the research to pursue.

Design and Implementation of an Extranet Web Application for Collaborative Education at the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques – Comoros

This paper presents an interactive e-learning web platform for the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, University of Comoros. This Extranet application replaces the manual Excel processing during session examination by proposing a fully automated programming application. The proposed platform helps to minimize errors that occur when using Excel manipulation, students’ interaction with the department, and waiting time before a response. The application leads also to a centralization of the results after deliberation and students can consult their detailed results over the different islands without having to come back to the campus. For the security of the developed platform, we used the well-known efficient agile method that allows us to facilitate task management during the process. The full platform was designed using the UML, and the implementation was done under object-oriented programming. The system was built using PHP, HTML, CSS, Symfony, JavaScript, and MySQL. For the Extranet considerations, all users are given a non-modifiable username and a unique password to access the application. During the testing period, the administration service was able to accept student requests such as reports and attestation, and scores claiming and students were automatically notified of the evolution of their requests.

Students should request accommodations from DS office rather than faculty

Faculty customarily decide whether to modify assignment deadlines and participation requirements based on a request from a student confronted with an emergency. However, when they do so in response to a student's request to accommodate a disability, they can put their institution at risk of violating Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The recent court decision in Brown v. Trinity Washington University illustrates why institutions should adopt and publicize policies that direct students to present requests for disability‐related accommodations to a disability services office rather than to individual faculty, (No. 22‐1612 (Dist. D.C. 03/23/2023); see bit.ly/41PnJXc).

Training AI Model that Suggests Python Code from Student Requests in Natural Language

Training AI Model that Suggests Python Code from Student Requests in Natural Language

Students should request accommodations from DS Office rather than faculty

Faculty customarily decide whether to modify assignment deadlines and participation requirements based on a request from a student confronted with an emergency. However, when they do so in response to a student's request to accommodate a disability, they can put their institution at risk of violating Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The recent court decision in Brown v. Trinity Washington University illustrates why institutions should adopt and publicize policies that direct students to present requests for disability‐related accommodations to a disability services office rather than to individual faculty, No. 22‐1612 (Dist. D.C. 03/23/2023) (https://bit.ly/41PnJXc).

The highs and lows of written feedback: student evaluation of writing centre written responses

In-person, one-to-one verbal feedback has long been prioritised in learning development. However, there are instances where written feedback proves to be a more convenient option. This study investigated the reasons why students request, and how they perceive, the written feedback they receive from a writing centre at a university in the UK. To gather insights, 249 students who had received written feedback during the academic year 2020-21 were invited to complete a questionnaire. 54 students responded, representing a response rate of 21.6%. In addition, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 students. It was found that most students requested written feedback due to convenience, although some, particularly those with dyslexia, preferred written feedback over in-person feedback as it allows them to reflect on, and process, the information in their own time. The detailed nature of the written feedback increases the students’ perception that the university cares about them, which makes them feel valued and important. Although the findings relate to written feedback, they are relevant for in-person feedback by emphasising how important it is to allow students with dyslexia the time they need to write, listen and speak, during writing centre appointments.

Virologists' Sex- and Gender-Based Medical Knowledge of COVID-19 Affects Quality of Students' Education.

A sex- and gender-based approach to medical education is important to develop new knowledge and to improve quality of and equality within health care. Results of a systematic survey showed a lack of sex- and gender-based medical education at German medical faculties. The global severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic is affecting people from diverse backgrounds differently, and the reciprocal interactions between biological sex and sociocultural gender aspects with regard to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) necessitate an intersectional research approach and transfer to medical education. This descriptive-phenomenological qualitative online survey focused on the sex and gender knowledge of faculty staff and the status of implementation in medical education and research at departments of virology and immunology at German university hospitals. It comprised 16 questions generated by an expert consortium based on published research data. In the fall of 2021, 36 leading virologists were invited to participate anonymously in this survey. The response rate was 44%. Most experts deemed sex and gender knowledge as not that important or not important. Almost half the lecturers supported a sex- and gender-based research design and sex-disaggregated analysis of animal study data. Biological sex differences and gender aspects regarding SARS-CoV-2 were at least occasionally addressed upon a student's request. Virologists attributed only minor importance to sex and gender knowledge, despite scientific evidence of sex and gender differences in the field of virology, immunology, and COVID-19 in particular. This knowledge is not systematically implemented in the curriculum, but rather only occasionally passed on to medical students.

PRACTICAL WORKS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL PHYSICS COURSE

Practical works with detailed instructions meet the requirements of the activity approach and provide an opportunity for self-study in the conditions of mixed education. The value of practical work in physics lessons is that they contribute to the connection between theory and practice, form research skills, teach how to process measurement results and analyze experiments, thus contributing to all components of subject competence in physics. The article presents the structure of practical work, drawing attention to the need to use modern digital applications and computer programs for studying physics. Since the main task of this type of educational work is the formation of skills and abilities, their components should be various exercises: preparatory, trial, model, training, creative, practical, graphic, oral, written, graphic, etc. Practical work as a means of learning, can be used in lessons of various types and provide learning based on the student's requests: from simple to creative. They will differ in the detail of the instructions and the level of teacher consultation.

Piano Rhythmic Exercise for Preschool Education Major Teaching at Taiyuan Teacher College

The purpose of this paper is to create piano rhythm exercises and to study the evaluation results after use. The researcher designed the research as experimental research, consisting of a single set of experiments verifying the consistency and effectiveness of the tool. The researchers created and developed piano rhythm exercises with three experts in an experiment with 22 piano beginners majoring in preschool education. The study was conducted from September to December 2021 at Taiyuan Teacher College. Results showed that the creation of the piano rhythm exercises course is effective; it consists of 9 weeks of teaching, 3 weeks of examination, and concludes with 12 weeks of using 9 etudes and 6 children's songs. In the evaluation performance results, the average scores of the 3 tests were 27.45, 28.77, 33.16 respectively and the percentage scores were 68.64, 71.93, 82.9 respectively. However, after the test, the students who participated in the activity felt fun, were willing to practice, and, of course, had higher skills. All students request a practice file for further use.

Looking Back to Move Forward: Exploring Urban Secondary Education Teacher Perceptions of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

This study draws on Gloria Ladson-Billings’ theory of culturally relevant pedagogy to explore how faculty at a private, Catholic, low-income serving, secondary school translated this theory into practice. Through a three-part action research methodology, the authors sought to answer two primary questions: How indicative are annual plans of culturally relevant pedagogy? How is culturally relevant pedagogy reflected in instructional practice? The data revealed faculty were not uniformly aware of the meaning or implications of culture nor culturally relevant pedagogy and incorporated such fractured knowledge into their annual plans to a limited degree, if at all. When those practices took place, they were often precipitated by student requests and linked directly with specific events in students’ lives in or outside the school environment. Additionally, faculty did not express a strong association between school-wide initiatives that were meant to be culturally relevant and the pedagogical work conducted in their classes. Further, Faculty of Color exhibited a greater level of critical consciousness and enumerated significantly more examples of cultural work than White faculty. Recommendations are made for additional research as well as targeted professional development, changes in staff learning practices, and fairer distributions of cultural work across faculty.

Enhancing Administrative Efficiency in Higher Education with AI: A Chatbot Solution


 
 
 Objective: To alleviate high demand on the Stricto Sensu secretariat through a chatbot designed for various inquiries.
 Method: Utilized a qualitative approach, leveraging interviews for empirical analysis and Ishikawa diagrams for process mapping.
 Results: Demonstrated the chatbot's capacity to streamline secretarial tasks, especially highlighted during pandemic-induced challenges.
 Practical Implications: The initiative offers a scalable model for enhancing administrative efficiency across higher education institutions, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and technological integration.
 Conclusions: By improving response efficiency and reducing wait times for student requests, the chatbot exemplifies the transformative potential of AI in educational administration, suggesting a strategic direction for future technological adoptions in higher education.
 
 

A place-based approach to blended learning

ABSTRACT Flexibility in course provision is needed more than ever. Blended learning, flipped classroom approaches and experiential learning, re-envisioned within hyflex environments, offer mechanisms for addressing current challenges in tertiary education provision. Today, universities are more intensely considering online study as a way to diversify campus assets, student requests for choice in how and where they study (including the traditional brick-and-mortar experience) is more widespread, and the extent to which instructors are experimenting with online provision is staggering. In geography, a discipline grounded in physical places and local communities, developing flexible learning spaces that retain that engagement with place, regardless of where or how students are studying, is challenging. A pilot study examining Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand instructors’ understandings of blended learning and digital media content creation is used to develop a preliminary framework for place-based blended learning. This framework responds to changing student and instructor needs and digital transformations in teaching and learning yet fosters a sense of belonging and connection to place.

Local Government Substance Memorisation: Student Education Aid

Faculty of Administrative and Policy Studies at Universiti Teknology MARA (UiTM) offered Local Government Administration as one of the subjects for the final year of Diploma in Public Administration students. The local government is the third tier of the government that is placed under the State government jurisdiction and is responsible to provide the basic facilities and delivering essential services for the local communities within its designated territory. The study objectives are to provide education aid needed by the student in helping them understand and master the local government content and ensuring their graduation with a good grade. Based on the survey conducted students request some learning aid such as a mind map, glossary of important terms, and exercise question in various forms which has been actualised in the forms of invention and innovative products by the researcher. Based on the idea proposed by the students has been transformed into beneficial education aid that offers greater help in completing their subject study. The identified local government education aid is helpful for the students to comprehend the local government content and become their quick revision for the subject.

OCR reiterates that process is key to resolving accommodations requests

The Office for Civil Rights’ widely publicized June 14 Salt Lake Community College determination letter and resolution agreement resolving Section 504 and Title IX complaints arising from a pregnant student's request for severe morning sickness accommodations drives home the importance of process in Section 504 compliance, erecting burdensome obstacles to fundamental alteration determinations.

Can I Keep My Religious Identity and Be a Professional? Evaluating the Presence of Religious Literacy in Education, Nursing, and Social Work Professional Programs across Canada

In much of the world, education, nursing, and social work are human-centred professions that aim to engage with individuals holistically. Yet, how much of their training prepares them for this manifold reality? In this article, we provide an overview of three Canadian societal contexts, examine the literature on religious literacy in higher education and in the Canadian context, and study the professional programs of education, nursing, and social work offered in the top-ranked universities in the three largest English-speaking provinces in Canada. We describe the incorporation of the Calls to Action issued by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the limited evidence of religious literacy evident in the online information provided about the chosen programs and then argue that religious literacy is a necessary component of the university preparation programs for those entering these human-centred professions. Student requests for religious literacy workshops provided by the Centre for Civic Religious Literacy (CCRL), a non-religious and non-profit organization that works with partners in communities across Canada, demonstrate a demand for such education.