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Does Jane Austen Matter?: Foreign Language Students’ Perspectives to Literature Teaching
Full text linkThis study aims to examine foreign language students’ perspectives to literature teaching in the context of higher education. The research, conducted in a Romanian University, drew inspiration from decentred qualitative methodology (Holliday, 2011). Based on a distinction made by linguists between that which is explicitly said and that which is left implicit, the study provides an account of some characteristics of literary language, e.g. recovery of inferences based on the literary and historical context. The analysis of data was informed by transcribed audio recordings of semi-structured interviews. The findings show that students perceived literature teaching as beneficial, enhancing their pleasure of the text and their understanding of cultural and historical contexts and co-texts. They identified the following characteristics of literary texts as beneficial to their learning: the enrichment of lexis and the historical/literary context, the identification with characters leading to the use of collocations and creative writing
Forecasting ASEAN-5 Stock Index Price Movement Using Machine Learning Techniques
No full textThis research investigates the effectiveness of various machine learning models, including Random Forest, Neural Networks, Adaboost, Discriminant Analysis, Logit Model, Support Vectors, and Kernel Factory. The study aims to forecast fluctuations in the ASEAN-5 stock index prices within an eleven-year period. The study provides useful information about how well machine learning techniques can predict changes in the stock market, with potential implications for both academic researchers and market participants. The findings imply that Adaboost consistently outperforms all others in predicting price changes accurately. This shows that machine learning algorithms are capable of accurately forecasting the movement of the ASEAN-5 stock index values. This study contributes to the growing body of research on the use of machine learning techniques in finance and provides investors with information to make informed decisions about investments in the ASEAN-5 region, ultimately leading to increased returns and improved portfolio performance
What is the Meaning of Student Success in Higher Education?
Full text linkThe term ‘student success’ has increasingly been used as the catch-all term for focusing on the student outcomes measures in higher education. In the English Higher Education context, the term is used as part of regulatory pressures by the Office for Students, to assess student retention rates across providers through Access and Participation Plans and annual reporting (B3). Student success has become an amalgamation (in strategies, job titles and now regulation) to address outcomes relating to retention, employability, access, widening participation and student satisfaction, prioritised by political direction and senior management teams. Although the definition and application of this key term differ in use at individual providers. With great pressure and dissonance surrounding this prominent term, this paper looks at the literature regarding what the term student success means in practice for students, academic programmes or professional services depending on the context
An Introduction to Strategic Planning for the Medical Trainee Using Wardley Maps
Full text linkBackground: This article introduces Wardley Mapping, a visual tool with a long-standing history in business and technology sectors, as a valuable and novel approach for medical trainees navigating the complex and evolving healthcare landscape. Wardley Mapping offers unique methods to visualise and analyse complex systems, aligning well with the multifaceted nature of training and career development.
How we Did It: The article illustrates its application through a comparative example of planning a medical school elective. We outline the key components of Wardley Maps, describing the process of creation, present the benefits, limitations, and challenges of applying this tool in the medical education context.
Learning Points: We describe key lessons for implementing and refining Wardley Mapping in medical education.
Conclusions: Wardley Mapping offers comprehensive visualisation of career components, enabling evolution tracking, facilitating informed decision-making, and offering a holistic perspective. Exciting opportunities for future research include integration into medical curricula and its long-term impact on career outcomes
Towards a Systems-Based Responsible Gambling Approach to Mitigating Harmful Gambling: Delineating Industry’s Role in Gambling Safety
No full textSince the publication of the Reno Model in 2004, stakeholders have grappled with the best way to promote responsible gambling and its essential features. While the Reno Model prescribed a broad set of interacting goals and activities across multiple stakeholders, to date, an in-depth consideration of the specialized role of gambling-industry businesses in promoting responsible gambling remains to be realized. This type of deep dive into industry-oriented responsible gambling is important to accomplish because the gambling industry has unique responsibilities for developing safer gambling environments. Therefore, this position paper provides a strategic framework that describes principles and practices to guide gambling-industry businesses in the implementation of contemporary systems-based responsible gambling initiatives. The foundational systems-based responsible gambling approach sets forth responsible gambling principles for core gambling-industry business units including customer experience, public messaging, data science, game development, regulatory affairs, and the executive level, as well as five main practices to be applied to each business unit: evaluation, research, needs assessment, needs-based training, and technical assistance. This approach is flexible and can be adjusted to reflect different organizations’ unique structures and needs
Clinical Education Fellow Perspective: Does Working in Medical Education Improve Ability to be a Reflective Clinician?
Full text linkCase study: TA to Teacher: An Alternative Route into Teaching
Full text linkThe purpose of this article is to sketch out a case study of the BA (Hons) in Primary Education, delivered by Anspear and the University of Buckingham, as an ongoing alternative route into teaching aimed at addressing some aspects of the recruitment and retention crisis in the schools sector in England. While the policy response to the crisis has revolved around secondary school teachers, this elides the scale of the challenge facing primary education along with the recruitment, retention and development of teaching assistants. This article outlines the rationale for developing an undergraduate degree specifically for teaching assistants working in primary settings, the core principles of the degree programme, and how we have used established science of learning and learning design principles in order to develop digital learning content for the degree
Are We Nearly There Yet?
Full text linkThis article demonstrates the progression of education policy thought and intervention across successive governments from James Callaghan in the late 1970s to the present. The problem is that we never really know the goal of these policy interventions. Each successive policy represents some adjustment of the system. This raises the plaintive question ‘Are we nearly there yet?
Parimutuel versus Fixed-Odds Betting: Evidence from a Hybrid Market
No full textBetting markets on horse races have typically taken one of two forms: 1) a parimutuel pool, where prices are uncertain until the market is closed, or 2) a fixed-odds market, where prices are fixed at the time the bet is placed. I study a hybrid betting mar- ket where a pool is run side-by-side with a fixed-odds market, and the two are then combined to determine final pool prices. I find that the fixed-odds market is quicker to aggregate information, and produces comparatively efficient prices from the start of betting. Interim prices in the parimutuel pool are largely uninformative, but improve as betting progresses. The parimutuel pool in this hybrid market also serves two ad- ditional purposes. It allows bettors to avoid thin early trading, and also provides a mechanism for extracting information in late leftover quotes in the fixed-odds market