Worth Of Education Research Articles

The International Crisis in Numeracy Education

The OECD recently released results from the 2022 administration of the Programme for International Student Assessment test. As other studies suggest, pandemic mitigation policies resulted in deep learning loss including in basic mathematics which forms the foundation of numeracy. Perhaps of greater concern, however, in many countries pandemic effects amplify declining performance that dates back a decade or more. Losses of two or more years' worth of mathematics education are not uncommon among developed countries. The editorial makes an urgent call for research that identifies practical steps to reverse these trends.

Paradoxical career sensemaking among emerging adults

ABSTRACT Emerging adults, who are late millennials and Gen Z members, question the worth of higher education, especially in preparation for volatile labor markets, careers, and other precarities. We analyzed emerging adults’ sensemaking about this education–career–precarity mix through the constitutive lens of paradox using the applied tensional approach. We identified two main paradoxes centering around feelings of education and career security and vulnerability: (a) students’ beliefs about educational attainment as leading directly to career success (golden ticket) that coexist with understandings that there are no guarantees; and (b) feelings of isolation in the self-managed career (“it’s all up to me”) that share space with desires for social networks but as educational products established by others and consistent with student-as-consumer and neoliberal ideologies. In demystifying these paradoxes, we advocate more-than approaches that position tensions as opportunities, incorporate both career development and critical communication pedagogy, and transcend through quality control interventions.

Modern Pharmaceutical Education and Its Root in India

I am not afraid of weapons but I fear pens and its action said by Napoleon the Great validates the worth of education. But the perspectives of education have undergone morphing with times and needs. Pharmacy education had also taken up the roads that no navigator took. Since human life began, nature was an open textbook for all curious ones. Though the word," pharmacy" originated in India during the British reign, Indian land always had tales of medicinal preparations to say from ancestry. But the dawn of modern pharmacy began in the late nineteenth century. Since then, the field has undergone morphological as well as technological advancements. Even mars wasn’t the limit for the growth seen in pharmacy education during the last century. From its initial step as a pharmaceutical shop in 1811 to the establishment of diploma programs in the late nineteenth century in madras medical college and its rise as a university, where the department of Pharmaceutical Engineering Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi holds its prime position being the first Pharmaceutical university to be launched in India in 1937. Now it spreads like the vascular system to different realms of a healthy society. But, just like each cell in our body has oncogenes for growth and tumor suppressor genes for retardation, every efficient system needs to be timely regulated, which is seen through the rules brought into the table as the pharmacy act in 1948 and the amendments made later by the regulatory bodies like PCI, which was formed in 1953. A new calling was also made into pharmacy education with the starting of Pharm.D by PCI and the Government of India in 2008. Being on the shore of Pharmacy education, a boat full of opportunities waiting for the updated Pharmacy scholars. Since its origin to this day, the pharmaceutical education system had evolved and is still evolving to reach the peak of excellence and it is a daily goal that can be achieved only if proper regulations and the use of advanced technologies go hand in hand with the growing needs of the health care. As an individual, let each pharmacy graduate make this an agenda to go forward and grow upward with the wings given by pharmacy education. Keywords: Pharmaceutical Education, Pharmacy Colleges, B. Pharm, M. Pharm, MBA in Pharmacy, Ph.D. in Pharmacy.

Online Student Performance System integrating Multidimensional Data Visualization and Chatbot for Primary School

Today's technology has improved to the point that it can be utilized to execute many activities in daily life with minimum effort, and the world has acknowledged the worth of education in one's life. The schools have to analyze student performance manually, which requires a lot of time and effort from teachers to work on. However, the increasing amount of student data becomes difficult to analyze using traditional statistical techniques and database data management tools. The objective of this project is to study the current problems in the online student performance system. A preliminary survey of 30 respondents was conducted in order to gather information based on previous user experiences with the online student performance system. The next objective is to develop an Online Student Performance System integrating Multidimensional Data Visualization and Chatbot for Primary School using Web Development Life Cycle that can visualize student performance systems to assist teachers and parents. Following that, this project employed a tool based on Multidimensional Data Visualization techniques. Google Charts and Dialogflow were used in this project to visualize the dashboard and construct a chatbot for the system. The last objective is to evaluate the usability of the system. There are three experts to test the project usability using the Post-Study System Usability Questionnaire (PSSUQ). The findings of the project can be used as a guideline to improve the system in the future. Overall, this project will assist teachers and parents in obtaining information about their students’ academic performance. The data about the students' performance can be displayed in the dashboard as a chart, graph, or diagram, and they can also communicate with the chatbot if they require assistance or guidance in using the system and obtaining their students' performance.

Is the worth of a college education declining vis-à-vis the transition into homeownership? A gender-differentiated analysis among young adults in Hong Kong from 1991 to 2016

In recent decades homeownership among young adults has been declining on a global scale. While critics in Hong Kong have argued that the lack of access to affordable housing has fueled the discontent among young adults and contributed to the recent pro-democracy protesting, little is known about the social stratification process of transition into homeownership over time. Using six-wave census and by-census data from Hong Kong and cross-classified multilevel model (CCMM), we examine how education is associated with homeownership among young adults (ages 25-39) over a 25-year period, as well as to what extent this association could be differentiated by gender and marriage. Our results show that overall, college education facilitates the transition into homeownership in Hong Kong. At the same time, the relative advantages of college education vis-à-vis homeownership have increased, meaning that the gaps in homeownership across education groups have diverged over time. Despite the fact that the return of college education with respect to homeownership is smaller among women than among men, the advantages gained by women from a college education vis-à-vis homeownership have increased over time, in turn decreasing the gender gap in this respect over time. Marriage formation may address the deficits of lower education and facilitate women’s transition into homeownership, but this is not the case for men.

Perceptions of Pakistani Students on Online Classes During COVID-19

The worth of online education has been increased to a great extent during Covid 19. The present study investigates the perceptions of Pakistani university students regarding online classes. The data was collected from 300 students of 4 universities in Lahore. The findings specified a sufficient level of satisfaction among the participants, but with an encounter of the hindrances caused by the technology. In contrast, the learners contended with the space they got from the online learning by taking classes from anywhere with all the precision of the materials and syllabus.

THE BACK BURNER: EDUCATIONAL EQUITY, RESILIENCE, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AS A PREDICTOR ON PROMOTING STUDENTS MENTAL HEALTH

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of the current research was to determine the effect of equitable education, resilience, and psychological well-being on promoting student's mental health. The researchers eagerly explored everyday situations happening in male elementary schools of district Lahore, focusing on pandemic situations with zeal and zest. Methodology: The researchers structured causal-comparative research focusing positivist paradigm on a sample of randomly selected 980 respondents enrolled in male elementary schools of district Lahore of Punjab-Pakistan. The authors collected the data after administering Scott (2006) Educational Equity and school reforms Scale, Prince-Embury (2013) Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents, Ryff’s (1989) Psychological Well-beings Scale, and Lukat et al. (2016) Positive Mental Health Scale. After ensuring ethical considerations, the researchers run regression technique, one way; ANOVA and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) on the participants data. Main findings: The findings revealed that educational equity effect 81%, resilience 87.10%, and psychological well-being affect 66.60% in promoting students mental health. Educational equity, resilience, and psychological well-being have the same effect on 6th, 7th, and 8th grades students in promoting their mental health. Further a significant strong association between educational equity and mental health (r = .900**, n = 985, p < .05), resilience and mental health (r = .946**, n = 984, p < .05) and psychological well-beings and students mental health (r = .815**, n = 985, p < .05). Applications of this study: The results of the research will be applicable for headteachers, teachers, and parents to get aware of the worth of equitable education, resilience, and psychological well-being that play an enormous role in promoting students mental health. The debatable constructs of the current research will provide capable stakeholders to know the entire magnitude of mental health that drastically instigate and enhance student's vigour, attentiveness, dependability, intellectual ability, and optimism. Novelty/originality of this study: It is evident from the literature that less work is conducted inequitable education, resilience, and psychological well-being that play a massive role in promoting students mental health. In the case of Pakistan, the situation is very alarming and the meager because none of the researchers took initiative to framed research on these burning constructs. However, this research will opened new dimensions for the future researchers that will raise their intentions to explore the effect of primary, secondary, higher secondary, and tertiary level students equitable education, resilience, and psychological well-being on their mental health.

The worth of art education: Students’ justifications of a contestable educational choice

How is art education valued in society? In Swedish public discourse the value of educational trajectories is often equated with their usefulness for employability. With competitive winner-takes-all labour markets for artists, art education is largely perceived as a worthless credential and form of education. But what kinds of worth does art education have among students themselves? This article draws on the approach of pragmatic sociology and individual and group interviews with 62 Swedish folk high school participants within the arts, to understand the meanings participants assign to post-compulsory education within the aesthetic realm. The students’ accounts belong to three broad themes, where art education is described as: (a) being a ‘stepping stone’ to becoming an artist, (b) allowing them to have ‘unique’ experiences while being in a particular state of creativity or (c) offering them a chance to regain health and general well-being after a difficult period. These results are discussed in relation to the relative institutional autonomy the folk high school possesses in the Swedish education system, as well as the possibilities of challenging the hegemonic ideas of ‘learning for earning’ that largely reject non-instrumental regimes of self-discovery and artistic creativity.

Negative Impacts of Federal Student Loans and Grants

Federal involvement in higher education via Federal student loans and grants has raised the overall cost of education, reduced the value of higher education and diminished the quality of education. It has increased the supply of students, causing institutions to spend great effort in recruiting students and making compromises in terms of quality in order to accommodate them. Finally, it has created an oversupply of degree-holders in fields the market did not value highly, to begin with, further devaluing the worth of higher education to the degree-holder; particularly in light of the long term cost of repaying loans relative to the employability and earnings potential.

Hospital nurses' perspective on academic nursing education: a cross-sectional study in hospitals in the northwestern part of Germany

Currently, there is an increasing need for highly qualified nurses in Germany. Against this background, an academic nursing education is frequently demanded in order to meet the high level of competences nurses must fulfil. This cross-sectional study aimed to explore nurses' attitudes towards academic nursing education as well as their self-reported scientific competences. Based on a standardized questionnaire, we surveyed 547 hospital nurses from six different hospitals in the northwestern part of Germany. By means of a bivariate analysis and two multivariate regression models, we examined the influence of the independent variables "professional position", "degree of academic education", "age" and "gender" on the dependent variables "attitude towards academic nursing education" and "scientific competences". The multivariate analysis included three co-variates analysing different ways of support of academic nursing education within the hospitals. Especially nursing staff who has completed a study programme, is currently studying or hold executive positions has a more positive attitude towards academic education than its colleagues have. Moreover, opportunities for advancement within the hospitals influence the staff's attitude positively. With regard to the assessment of scientific competences, the analysis shows that a completed or currently conducted study programme as well as an executive position have a positive influence. In addition, male nursing staff, young nursing staff and staff with access to scientific articles assess their scientific skills more positively than their colleagues do. The attitudes towards academic education are still heterogeneous and influenced by different factors. Accordingly, the worth of academic education needs to be demonstrated.

REINSTILLATION OF MORAL AND ETHICAL VALUES IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH: REFLECTING UPON THE ROLE OF PRECEPTORS AND PARENTS IN REKINDLING THE FLAME OF MORALITY IN MORTALSWITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

The precious possession of any educational institution worth its name is the treasure of knowledge and skills which it imparts to the educands in the hope that this very treasure proves to be valuable for them in every walk of life. The treasure of values serves as the springboard for determining the various aims of education. In fact, values act as the cornerstone of entire educational process whatsoever be the field. However, it is a matter of grave concern that the monetary value of education is escalating and its moral value is dwindling day by day. It won’t be an exaggeration to say that the real cause and worth of education are plummeting with each passing day. As per the current scenario, there is dire need of instilling moral and ethical values in all those who are related to the field of education and this necessitates the inclusion of value based education the prime onus of which lies on the shoulders of none other than the teacher who is undoubtedly the maker of a nation's destiny.The present paper reflects upon the significance and need of value education and also throws light on how can moral and ethical values be inculcated in students at various levels of education besides giving valuable suggestions pertaining to the use of same in the field of Teaching and Pre-service Teacher Education programme.

Oral history and farmworker studies

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore three sociocultural themes common to migrant and seasonal farmworkers and to demonstrate the value of incorporating oral history into healthcare practice and quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods research programs, as oral history is a culturally sensitive approach to working with vulnerable populations.Design/methodology/approachThis paper examines 17 oral histories from farmworkers residing in Ottawa County, Michigan, in the late summer of 2014. The theoretical framework section has two aims. First, it explains the significance of “cultural sensitivity” and “deep structure” to the practice of effective healthcare. Second, it introduces oral history as a form of deep structure cultural sensitivity.FindingsThree themes emerge from the collected oral histories: stress/anxiety of undocumented status, honor/worth of honest work, and the importance of educating migrant children. Undocumented status is found to be the hub of farmworker health inequities while worth of work and education are described as culturally sensitive points of conversation for healthcare workers engaging with this population. Finally, oral history is found to be a useful method for establishing the deep structure of cultural sensitivity.Originality/valueThis paper gives a voice to farmworkers, an inconspicuous population that disproportionately suffers from health inequities. In addition, this paper acts as a case study promoting the use of oral history as a novel, culturally sensitive research method.

‘“It’s sport, why does it matter?”’ Professional coaches’ perceptions of equity training

The purpose of this study was to stimulate debate as to the current value and form of equity training for UK coaches and how it impacts coaching practice. Adopting a critical feminist lens, the discussions are based on in-depth interviews with four coaches who had recently attended the ‘Equity in your Coaching’ workshop run by Sports Coach UK. Data analysis yielded four pertinent themes related to: coaches’ language; the impact of the course on becoming a reflective practitioner; the format of the workshop; and the minimal impact on coaching practice. Through undergoing this training, coaches understood the value and worth of such education. However, in its current form, the workshop was experienced as irrelevant and too removed from practice to be of worth to these coaches. The findings illustrate the need for coach developers to more adequately understand the complexities and intricacies inherent within the coaching context.

Protocol for a Systematic Review: Targeted School‐Based Interventions for Improving Reading and Mathematics for Students With or At‐Risk of Academic Difficulties in Grade 7 to 12: A Systematic Review

Protocol for a Systematic Review: Targeted School‐Based Interventions for Improving Reading and Mathematics for Students With or At‐Risk of Academic Difficulties in Grade 7 to 12: A Systematic Review

Seeking Virtue in the Wilderness: Expeditions as Traveling Monasteries

Although the assumption of character development through outdoor adventure education (OAE) programs is long held, increasing scholarship questions the tenability of the supposition. Addressing this impasse, this article draws upon doctoral research I conducted into character development through OAE programs (Stonehouse, 2011) and a presentation I made on the moral worth of wilderness education (Stonehouse, 2012). I focus here on a theme that frequently surfaced throughout the investigation: the strong similarities between the structure of monastic communities, who order their time and space to nurture moral formation, and analogous structures experienced on wilderness expeditions. In likening expeditions to “traveling monasteries,” I identify wilderness education as a positive locus for cultivating virtue and thus character. Although the context of this study is OAE, its aim, to identify educational environments conducive to character development, is broadly generalizable beyond the outdoors.

Choosing <em>Medersa</em>: Discourses on Secular versus Islamic Education in Mali, West Africa

As leaders in Mali continue to stress the importance of education and literacy, those seeking to follow the call for formal schooling have options to choose from, including public schools modeled after the European education system, Qur’anic schools, and medersas . This article explores the motivations that lead Malians to select and value Islamic education. It describes how systems of Islamic education in colonial and postcolonial Mali have operated and reveals the ways Malians measure the worth of education. It shows that education cannot be understood solely for its potential to advance development and alleviate poverty: rather, it argues that Malians assess the worth of education through Islamic notions of merit ( baraji ) and as an opportunity for expressing a Muslim identity against a colonial legacy.

PROTOCOL: Small Class Sizes for Improving Student Achievement in Primary and Secondary Schools: A Systematic Review

PROTOCOL: Small Class Sizes for Improving Student Achievement in Primary and Secondary Schools: A Systematic Review

The Countermeasures of Training Interest of Chinese Normal University Students in Learning Public Pedagogy

For a long time, the phenomenon like “take notes in class, recites the notes before the exam and forgets all of it after the exam” has been the reality of studying public pedagogy in Chinese normal university. So how to stimulate the students’ learning interest is one of the urgent issues. The constructivism learning theory considers that the student should be proactive constructor of the meaningful information when they are learning. So this article considers that the teacher could stimulate the normal university students’ learning motivation of public pedagogy by following aspects: First, develop case teaching to stimulate the reconstruction of students’ cognitive structures; second, organize group rehearsal to accumulate the students’ practical knowledge of education; third, carry out survey to strengthen the students’ perception about the worth of education; fourth, watch education video to motivate the students’ educational emotion; fifth, build dynamic learning contents to strength students’ learning passion.

In defense of the moral worth of wilderness education: Expeditions as traveling monasteries

A quick review of college-level Outdoor Adventure Education (OAE) textbooks reveals that the long-held assumption of character development through OAE persists to the present (Martin, Cashel, Wagstaff, & Breunig, 2006, p. 92; Priest & Gass, 2005, p. 13; Prouty, Collinson, & Panicucci, 2007, p. 10, 13). However, within the OAE literature one also finds a growing body of dissent questioning this traditional assumption (Barrett & Greenaway, 1995, pp. 9-10; Brookes, 2003a, 2003b; Drasdo, 1973/1998, p. 28; Hahn, 1965b, p. 9; Hogan, 1992, p. 28; Pleasants, 2007, p. 54; Price, 1970, p. 84, 87; Wurdinger, 1987, p. 31).

Education without Moral Worth? Kantian Moral Theory and the Obligation to Educate Others

This article examines the possibility of a Kantian justification of the intrinsic moral worth of education. The author critiques a recent attempt to secure such justification via Kant's notion of the Kingdom of Ends. He gives four reasons why such an account would deny any intrinsic moral worth to education. He concludes with a tentative justification of his own and a call for a more comprehensive engagement between Kant's moral theory and the philosophy of education for purposes of understanding what constitutes the moral core of education.