Understanding Of Student Learning Research Articles

Smartbands and Behavioural Interventions in the Classroom: Multimodal Learning Analytics Stress-Level Visualisations for Primary Education Teachers

ABSTRACT Students’ stress levels may affect their well-being, attentiveness and learning outcomes in primary education classrooms. Positive behavioural interventions and support actions conducted by teachers may alleviate students’ stress levels, especially when addressing special educational needs. In this multimodal learning analytics study, students in a classroom were all given a smartband for their wrist during regular curriculum activities. Data comprised the semester of a single subject as a part of a research project conducted in Sweden. Biobehavioural stress-related arousal of students’ autonomic nervous system was visualised and analysed through distinguished behavioural modes. Additional data include naturalistic observational notes and two short teacher interviews. Research methodology and strategies for innovative implementation were presented and discussed alongside contextual details. For example, stress-level visualisations can aid actionable adjustments of behavioural intervention intensity and provide students’ attentiveness overview for teachers that sequence curricular activities during planning. Findings show an interdisciplinary basis for cost-effective real-time dynamic solutions that involve visual dashboards with advantages to understanding student learning, both at a school-wide system level and for the classroom, if viewed optimistically. However, research on the topic is still in its infancy, notably with ethical risks as a growing pain.

Product Innovation Using Agile Practices in Supply Chain Management Curriculum

The dynamic business landscape demands supply chain professionals with Agile project management skills. This study introduces a novel course project simulating a new product launch for a Fortune 500 company. We designed a theoretical multi-phase student team-based Agile project as part of an undergraduate Supply Chain Management course. This article describes implementing a project where teams are guided through the "Agile Way" using scaffolding of the Scrum framework. The project is designed using team-based learning of Agile methodologies. Agile methodologies often emphasize collaboration and open communication, which can foster psychological safety in teams. Using Agile frameworks and the designed templates, student teams work through theoretical Agile product innovation phases for a Fortune 500 company throughout the semester. Students simulate a product launch and apply Agile practices. A validated Agile survey assessed student learning outcomes across two semesters. Statistical analysis revealed a significant positive impact of using Agile templates on student understanding of Agile practices, team collaboration, and continuous improvement. This project offers a practical and adaptable framework and provides insights into using Agile management in the classroom. This study contributes to understanding student learning processes and outcomes using Agile project management and outlines teaching methods for a Supply Chain Management class that successfully implements Agile management projects.

Co‐designing enduring learning analytics prediction and support tools in undergraduate biology courses

AbstractEven highly motivated undergraduates drift off their STEM career pathways. In large introductory STEM classes, instructors struggle to identify and support these students. To address these issues, we developed co‐redesign methods in partnership with disciplinary experts to create high‐structure STEM courses that better support students and produce informative digital event data. To those data, we applied theory‐ and context‐relevant labels to reflect active and self‐regulated learning processes involving LMS‐hosted course materials, formative assessments, and help‐seeking tools. We illustrate the predictive benefits of this process across two cycles of model creation and reapplication. In cycle 1, we used theory‐relevant features from 3 weeks of data to inform a prediction model that accurately identified struggling students and sustained its accuracy when reapplied in future semesters. In cycle 2, we refit a model with temporally contextualized features that achieved superior accuracy using data from just two class meetings. This modelling approach can produce durable learning analytics solutions that afford scaled and sustained prediction and intervention opportunities that involve explainable artificial intelligence products. Those same products that inform prediction can also guide intervention approaches and inform future instructional design and delivery.Practitioner notesWhat is already known about this topic Learning analytics includes an evolving collection of methods for tracing and understanding student learning through their engagements with learning technologies. Prediction models based on demographic data can perpetuate systemic biases. Prediction models based on behavioural event data can produce accurate predictions of academic success, and validation efforts can enrich those data to reflect students' self‐regulated learning processes within learning tasks. What this paper adds Learning analytics can be successfully applied to predict performance in an authentic postsecondary STEM context, and the use of context and theory as guides for feature engineering can ensure sustained predictive accuracy upon reapplication. The consistent types of learning resources and cyclical nature of their provisioning from lesson to lesson are hallmarks of high‐structure active learning designs that are known to benefit learners. These designs also provide opportunities for observing and modelling contextually grounded, theory‐aligned and temporally positioned learning events that informed prediction models that accurately classified students upon initial and later reapplications in subsequent semesters. Co‐design relationships where researchers and instructors work together toward pedagogical implementation and course instrumentation are essential to developing unique insights for feature engineering and producing explainable artificial intelligence approaches to predictive modelling. Implications for practice and/or policy High‐structure course designs can scaffold student engagement with course materials to make learning more effective and products of feature engineering more explainable. Learning analytics initiatives can avoid perpetuation of systemic biases when methods prioritize theory‐informed behavioural data that reflect learning processes, sensitivity to instructional context and development of explainable predictors of success rather than relying on students' demographic characteristics as predictors. Prioritizing behaviours as predictors improves explainability in ways that can inform the redesign of courses and design of learning supports, which further informs the refinement of learning theories and their applications.

Higher Education Student Support Program Expansion: Insights for Teaching and Learning for English-as-an-Additional Language (EAL) Students

To support the students of English as an additional language (EAL) at Mount Royal University, a novel program was established in 2009. Initially developed to meet the needs of students in the Bachelor of Nursing program, the support program has now been successfully expanded to the departments of Child Studies and Social Work of the same institution. This study investigates the teaching and learning components of the expanded support program. In this qualitative investigation informed by a hermeneutic approach to phenomenology, interviews with participants reveals five themes, including (a) the importance of understanding student learning needs, (b) educators’ previous knowledge and experience, (c) advocating for student learning needs, (d) professional learning and development, and (e) optimizing student experience. This study details the first successful expansion of the EAL Student Support Program to a new faculty or department outside of the original nursing program.

Development and validation of the Workplace Learning Inventory in Health Sciences Education: a multimethod study.

Health sciences students face many challenges in regard to clinical practical learning. A better understanding of student learning is required to address student needs in this crucial phase. The theory of self-regulated learning provides a comprehensive view of learning and could serve as a basis for further research. There are instruments to assess self-regulated learning in preclinical academic learning. However, there are no such instruments for workplace learning. The aim of the present study is to provide a comprehensive inventory from which researchers can select those scales that are relevant to their research questions in the investigation of workplace learning. Hence, the aim is to develop and validate a set of scales to assess undergraduates' workplace learning in health sciences education in four areas (cognition, motivation, emotion, and context) on two levels (the learning process level and the metalevel). Study 1 is a qualitative multimethod study to identify indicators and develop items. It integrates the perspectives of students, teachers, and researchers and includes six steps: literature review, interviews, synthesis, item development, expert review, and cognitive pretesting. This study yields a set of scales for each area on both levels. Study 2 is a quantitative study to assess the psychometric properties. The results show acceptable values in terms of unidimensionality, reliability and validity for each of the 31 scales. The newly developed Workplace Learning Inventory is comprehensive; the scales are relevant to workplace learning and short enough that their administration is feasible in the workplace setting. The rigorous process of questionnaire development contributes to the validity of scales. By providing the Workplace Learning Inventory, we hope to encourage research on workplace learning in health sciences education from an educational psychology perspective.

Homework Correction Burden and Strategies for Junior High School English Teachers: An Interview Study

The burden of homework correction is a major stress factor for junior high school teachers and has received significant academic attention. This study aimed to understand the perspectives of junior high school English teachers on homework correction, the challenges they face, and strategies to address these challenges. Thirteen junior high school English teachers from Guangxi, China, were interviewed. Thematic analysis revealed that homework correction benefits teachers by enhancing their understanding of student learning, promoting student engagement, and facilitating classroom management. It also discovered drawbacks such as inefficient or hurried homework correction, and students' dependence on teachers as well. Time constraints and limited energy emerge as primary difficulties junior high school English teachers face. Participants recommended utilization of intelligent assignment management platforms and zero correction practices to alleviate the burden. Additionally, school supports in professional and personal life contribute to teachers’ well-being. These findings provide valuable insights and practical strategies for educational management departments to mitigate the homework correction burden experienced by junior high school English teachers.

Utilization of the Canva Application for Elementary School Learning Media

The purpose of this research is to develop learning media using the Canva application in elementary schools, for beginners and teachers in elementary schools which are used to create multimedia-based learning media as teaching materials that are used at this time, the decreasing quality of learning at this time especially in among the elementary school level, it is on this occasion that we explain the use and use of the Canva application, the aim is to increase the interest and sympathy of teachers and students in learning and also to facilitate the process of understanding student learning in schools so that it can be said that the quality of education in elementary schools is perfect. This Canva application has several interesting features to offer including ready-to-use templates, icons and illustrations, text, background tips and tricks for using applications, animations and duplication, as time goes by and the use of technology depends on ourselves to use it.

Penerapan Metode Pembelajaran Observasi Lapangan (Outdoor Study) pada Mata Kuliah Akuntansi Syariah (Survey pada Mahasiswa Pendidikan Ekonomi STKIP PGRI Bandar Lampung)

This research was conducted with the aim of knowing, explaining and analyzing the application of the learning method of field observation (outdoor study) in Islamic Accounting courses aimed at Economics Education students at STKIP PGRI Bandar Lampung by directly observing the operational processes of Islamic banking and Islamic financial institutions in the city. Bandar Lampung. The research sample was all 4th semester Economics Education students who took the Islamic Accounting course with purposive sampling. The research data is in the form of quantitative and qualitative data. The results of the study show that students' understanding process skills have increased with the observation method that goes directly to the field observing the operational processes of Islamic financial institutions. Student learning activities have increased because with the observation method students feel they can add knowledge and direct experience in the field. And many students gave positive responses to the application of the observation method. Thus, the application of the observation method has a significant effect in improving the process of understanding students and student learning activities on the subject matter of Islamic Accounting.

Jump Learning Approach: A Study on Improving Physical Literacy of Elementary School Children

Learning at school must be effective; sometimes, some obstacles make students want to avoid participating in sports learning because of internal and external deficiencies. The method used in this research is an experimental method with a one-group pretest-posttest design. The population in this study were 30 students of class VI at SDN Biru II using a systematic sampling technique. This study aimed to determine how much influence the play-jumping approach had on increasing the Physical Literacy of elementary school children. The method was to provide treatment for 12 meetings and use a questionnaire on motivation, self-confidence, physical competence, knowledge, and understanding of student learning. Data analysis techniques used the Normality Test and one sample t-test. All calculations were calculated using a software application. IBM SPSS stats 18. Based on the Determination test or R Square from the pre-test to the post-test results, it has a significant effect on the implementation of physical literacy activities that has a good influence on children's physical literacy. The results showed that the game-jumping learning approach positively increased students' physical literacy in physical education learning.

Predicting and Understanding Student Learning Performance Using Multi-Source Sparse Attention Convolutional Neural Networks

Predicting and understanding student learning performance has been a long-standing task in learning science, which can benefit personalized teaching and learning. This study shows that the progress towards this task can be accelerated by using learning record data to feed a deep learning model that considers the intrinsic course association and the structured features. We proposed a multi-source sparse attention convolutional neural network (MsaCNN) to predict the course grades in a general formulation. MsaCNN adopts multi-scale convolution kernels on student grade records to capture structured features, a global attention strategy to discover the relationship between courses, and multiple input-heads to integrate multi-source features. All achieved features are then poured into a softmax classifier towards an end-to-end supervised deep learning model. Conducting insights into higher education on real-world university datasets, the results show that MsaCNN achieves better performance than traditional methods and delivers an interpretation of student performance by virtue of the resulted course relationships. Inspired by this interpretation, we created an association map for all mentioned courses, followed by evaluating the map with a questionnaire survey. This study provides computer-aided system tools and discovers the course-space map from the educational data, potentially facilitating the personalized learning progress.

Assessment of medical students' Surgery knowledge based on Progress Test.

Progress Testing (PT) is an assessment tool whose use has grown throughout Brazil in the last decade. PT makes it possible to assess the students' knowledge gain throughout the undergraduate course and, for their interpretations to be valid, their items (questions) must have adequate quality from the point of view of content validity and reliability of results. In this study, we analyzed the psychometric characteristics of the items and the performance of students in the content area of surgery from 2017 to 2023. For the analyses, we used the assumptions of Classical Test Theory, Bloom's taxonomy and Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient. The items were easy (average difficulty index between 0.3-0.4), with fair to good discrimination (discrimination index between 0.3-0.4) and with a predominance of medium to high taxonomy. Reliability remained substantial over the years (>0.6). Students' knowledge gain in surgery was found to be progressive and more important from the 3rd year of the undergraduate course, reaching approximately 70-75% in the 6th year. This measurements framework can be replicated in other contexts for a better understanding of student learning and for qualification of evaluation processes.

Kesulitan Guru dalam Merancang Media Inovatif Digital untuk Pembelajaran Sosiologi

This study aims to explain teachers' difficulties in designing innovative digital media for sociology learning. Researchers are interested in conducting this research because there are still many teachers who still experience difficulties in designing innovative digital learning media so that this makes the teaching and learning process not varied. This study used a descriptive qualitative research approach, with a case study research type, the selection of informants was carried out by purposive sampling with 7 informants namely 3 students, 2 sociology teachers, 1 school principal, 1 curriculum representative. Data collection in this study was carried out by observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation studies. Data Reduction, Data Display, and Conclusion Drawing/ Verification. The research location is SMA Negeri 2 Dumai. The results of this study indicate the difficulty of teachers in designing innovative media for sociology learning caused by internal and external factors. The internal factors included; the habit of not using the media, the ability to analyze the needs of difficult learning materials, mistakes in understanding the student center, difficulty understanding student learning styles, and not making enough use of the facilities and infrastructure provided by the school. Meanwhile, the internal factors of the teacher do not have free time to create innovative learning media.

Meta Analisis Pengaruh Multimedia Interaktif Terhadap Pemahaman Konsep dan Hasil Belaja Peserta Didik

Interactive multimedia teaching materials are teaching materials that are combined from two or more media (audio, text, graphics, images, and video) that are interactive. Interactive multimedia is one of the teaching materials that can be used to support the learning process. The purpose of this study was to see how the influence of interactive multimedia on understanding concepts and student learning outcomes in science and physics learning. This type of research is a meta-analysis research. The sample use is 20 journals that have met the criteria. The data analysis technique is the calculation of the effect size of each journal. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that interactive multimedia is proven to be able to improve understanding of concepts and student learning outcomes in science and physics learning, especially at the high school level on bernoulli’s principle material

Peningkatan Hasil Belajar dan Pemahaman Siswa dengan Menggunakan Metode Praktek pada Materi Jenis Bumbu Dasar dan Pengembangannya

The learning process for basic spices and their development in basic culinary lessons in class X Catering at SMK N 3 Karang Baru is still poorly understood, so that student activity in class is still lacking. This has an effect on the low score obtained by students, namely 63.57 with a KKM of 75. The steps taken to overcome this are by using suitable and interesting learning methods so that learning outcomes and students' understanding of learning increase. The application of practical learning methods is one of the researchers' efforts to improve student learning outcomes and understanding of student learning. The research was carried out in 2 cycles. Each cycle consists of stages of planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The research data includes student learning outcomes taken from giving test questions at the end of the cycle, on the teacher's ability in learning from observation sheets, and data on student reflection on learning from student responses at the end of the cycle. The indicators of research success are: (1) if 80% of the total number of students are categorized as complete, (2) if the teacher's performance ability is at least in good category, (3) if students are categorized as having high interest/interest in the learning provided. The results showed that the understanding of student learning outcomes increased, namely in the first cycle 70.71 and in the second cycle 95.23, the teacher's performance ability was categorized as very good, and students' interest in the learning provided by the teacher was in the high category, students liked the teacher and practical learning methods.

Development of Gamification-Based Online Learning Using Moodle

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a change in the face-to-face learning process to online learning. But in the process, online learning is not always easy to do. Some of the problems in the implementation of learning from the internet network are not evenly distributed, the decrease in understanding ability and student learning outcomes, and also student saturation during the learning process. To overcome this, we need an online learning media based on gamification. Gamification is a learning process that is integrated with game design. This study aims to develop gamification-based online learning using Moodle media. The method used in this research is the research and development method. This research and development use the ADDIE model. The results of the validation test carried out by the validator developed were declared very valid, with a percentage of 87.5% by material validators and 93.75% by media validators. Based on the feasibility test that has been carried out, it is obtained a percentage of 90.5% with a feasible category. From the series of validation tests and trials, it can be stated that overall, the learning media developed are very valid and very suitable for use in online learning.

Hubungan Kompetensi Pedagogik dan Kemampuan Mengelola Pembelajaran pada Guru SD se-Kecamatan Pacitan

<p><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>The study aimed to prove positive correlation between pedagogical competence and classroom management skill to public elementary school teachers in Pacitan Sub-district and to measure the contribution of pedagogical competence and classroom management skill to elementary school teachers in Pacitan Sub-district. It was correlational quantitative method. The population were 222 elementary school teachers of first to sixth grade and the samples were 144 teachers. Data collection techniques used questionnaire. The prerequisite test used linearity and normality tests. Data analysis used a simple correlation test and adjusted R square. The results showed that there was positive correlation between pedagogical competence and classroom management skill. The correlation value was </em>0,335 and it indicated as moderate correlation. <em>Pedagogical competence contributed 11.2% on classroom management skill. High pedagogical competence was closely related to how teachers: understanding student characteristics, understanding theories and learning principles, developing curriculum, presenting enlightened learning, developing student potency, having good communication to students, and conducting evaluations and assessments measuring the success of learning process. Therefore, if teacher’s pedagogical competence was good, the classroom management would be maximized.</em></p>

Prioritising and reflecting on context in medical education.

In this Connections article the authors highlight the importance of recognising and embedding 'context' in teaching, assessment and evaluation, as a means to challenge educator's and researchers' understanding of student learning.

MODEL PEMBELAJARAN DISCOVERY LEARNING GAME GETS LUCKY CARD: STUDI ANALISIS PENINGKATAN PEMAHAMAN SISWA TERHADAP AL-QURAN

LEARNING MODEL DISCOVERY LEARNING GETS LUCKY CARD GAME: IMPROVEMENT ANALYSIS STUDY STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDING OF THE AL-QURANThis study aims to improve understanding of student learning outcomes with the Discovery Learning (DL) learning model through the Games Gets Lucky Card method. The current globalization that has occurred recently has a very significant impact on the transformation of the world of education, especially in Indonesia, to a negative direction. The fast involvement of technology media also adds to the challenges and problems that are quite formidable to be faced by teachers in finding effective, efficient learning formulations that are liked by students at this time. The research method used is quantitative methods based on classroom action research. This research was carried out in two stages, each of which was based on planning, action, observation and reflection. Data collection was carried out using observation-based field study techniques where the research subjects were students and teachers at the MI Negeri Bekasi school. This study shows that the application of the Discovery Learning model can increase understanding activities and student learning outcomes in BTQ subjects. The research percentage shows that in the first cycle, the achievement of student learning activities was 68.62% which then increased in the second cycle to 96.10%. The increase in learning outcomes includes aspects of knowledge where the value obtained reaches an average of 77.63 and then these results increase so sharply in the implementation of cycle II with an average value of 87.95.

The Effect of Cooperative Learning Model Implementation on Student Learning Understanding On Thematic Learning in Elementary School Literature Studies

This research is based on the lack of understanding of student learning in learning in primary schools. It is affected by the inappropriate use of teaching model, teaching management and the low of students’ critical thinking skills. The formulation of the problem in this study is what points that appear related to the effect of the applicaton of cooperative learning models on students understanding of learning in thematic learning based on previous studies.The type of research used by the researches was literature study, it examined 13 journals and 1 thesis. This study aims to find out what points that appear related to the effect of the application of cooperative learning models to the understanding of student learning in thematic learning based on previous studies. After studying 13 journals and 1 thesis, it was found that 3 points were made as a result of research, cooperative learning model can increase student cooperation in a study group, cooperative learning model can increase student communication skills, cooperative learning models can improve students’ learning achievement. Based on the 3 points above, the result of the study indicates that there is an influence of the application of the cooperative learning model towards students’ understanding of learning in the thematic learning in elementary schools.

Pendampingan Sekolah Online Siswa Sekolah Dasar Melalui Kegiatan SIPUNG (Sekolah Ing Kampung) Pada Masa Pandemi Covid 19 Sebagai Solusi Mengatasi Pendidikan Di Desa Nguling-Pasuruan

Social problems are problems that are deeply rooted in every country, including Indonesia. This problem penetrates into all fields, one of which is education. Plus the COVID-19 pandemic situation has also brought up many new problems in the world of education. The learning that was applied during this pandemic made a new learning transformation from what was originally offline to online. 80% of all parents of SDN Nguling I, II and III state that their children have difficulty understanding the material when learning online. Online School Assistance through SIPUNG is a concrete solution to improve the quality and understanding of student learning during online learning. By using the service learning method, it is proven to be able to improve the quality and understanding of students, students understand the importance of learning and parents are increasingly aware of the importance of providing the best assistance in order to achieve the success of children's education.