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Preparedness of SUCs in CALABARZON in the Implementation of Flexible Learning in the New Normal
Full text linkThe study was an attempt to provide an assessment on the level of preparedness of state universities and colleges (SUCs) in CALABARZON in the implementation of flexible learning in the new normal. The study also looked into the significant differences between the perceived assessment of the faculty members and students on the SUC’s level of preparedness on the implementation of flexible learning in the new normal; priority areas/skills which the SUCs should consider and strategies which may be proposed in the implementation of flexible learning. This study utilized mix-method of research design. Responses were obtained using a researcher-made questionnaire and were interpreted using statistical tools such as Mean and Mann-Whitney U Test. The findings revealed that the level of preparedness of SUCs in CALABARZON in the implementation of Flexible Learning in the New Normal was verbally interpreted as “Prepared” as perceived by both faculty and student respondents. It was further revealed that there is a significant difference between the assessment of the faculty members and students on the SUC’s level of preparedness on the implementation of flexible learning in the new normal. The corpus of data revealed 10 themes that account for the priority areas/skills vis a vis strategies for the implementation of flexible learning in the new normal from the perspectives of the faculty and students of SUCs in the region. The themes could be summarized into 10 thematic areas that are crucial in the implementation of flexible learning in the new normal: 1) student competency; 2) health and well-being; 3) student support and information; 4) course design; 5) pedagogy; 6) professional development; 7) assessment; 8) organization; 9) resources, and 10) school-community partnerships and linkages. These themes led to a knowledge creation of Flexible Learning Framework in the context of higher education in the new normal. There is need for SUCs to strengthen the implementation of flexible learning that entails opportunities to reshape education; learning delivery and the operation of educational institutions
Public Services Quality and the Individuals’ Income as Determinants of Saudi Families’ Standards of Happiness and Satisfaction within the Saudi Vision 2030’s Perspective
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to investigate public services’ quality and individuals’ income as determinants for citizens’ standards of happiness and level of satisfaction. In order to achieve this, the researcher used the social survey method and purposive sample technique to collect data from 900 participants using the questionnaire as a tool for data collection. The study covered nine cities from the main cities in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The responses were established based on the quintuple Likert scale. The researcher used the statistical technique of Cronbach’s Alpha to evaluate the credibility of the sample’s responses. Also, the researcher implemented the descriptive analytical approach to examine all collected data. Findings indicated that the quality of services and income (socio-economic factors) are the most significant determinants of citizens' satisfaction and happiness in Saudi Arabia within the 2030 Vision. Therefore, economic factors indicate that social factors are the bases of satisfaction and happiness
Analysis of Technical and Vocational Education Training Institute Learners’ English Language Skills Needs and the Instructional Modes Employed: Academic and Career Contexts
Full text linkThe main purpose of this study was to analyze the level of importance of the four English language macro skills needed by the undergraduate trainees at the Ethiopian Federal Technical and Vocational Education Training Institute. It also aimed to assess whether or not the instructional modes the trainers employed in teaching English suits the needs of trainees’ specific academic fields. The study employed descriptive design and two data collection tools, namely close-ended questionnaire and semi-structured interview. By using simple random sampling technique, 80 trainees among second and third year trainees were selected and four Communicative English Language Skills course teachers took part. Moreover, 30 former graduates and 30 major course trainers were included using simple random sampling technique. The data collected through the questionnaire was analyzed quantitatively using SPSS version 20 and qualitative data was analyzed using thematic approach. The study showed that receptive skills were slightly found to be more important than productive skills in academic contexts. Specifically, though all macro skills are important, reading becomes the most needed skill by the trainees in both academic and occupational contexts. The study also revealed that there is a mismatch among the prescribed instructional approach, trainees’ preferred learning modes and instructional modes employed by the English trainers in the Federal TVET Institute (FTI)
Analyzing the Representational Aspect of Gender in Learning English as a Foreign Language: The Case of Grades 7 and 8 Students’ Textbooks in Ethiopian Context
Full text linkThe purpose of this study was to analyze the representational aspect of gender in learning English as a foreign language in the case of grade 7 and 8 students’ textbooks. The study used a descriptive survey research design involving a mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative methods). To collect data, content analysis was primarily employed. The data were analyzed quantitatively using frequencies and percentages and qualitatively using narrations. The study found out that males occur with 59.8% but females with 40.2% in grade 7 students’ textbook, and males with 57.5% but females with 42.5% in grade 8 students’ English language textbook. Moreover, it was uncovered that males appear first with 67.3% and females with 32.7% in grade 7 students’ textbook, and males with 61.1% but females with 38.9% in grade 8 students’ conversational tasks in their textbook. Accordingly, it can be concluded that EFL students’ textbooks in the Ethiopian context dominantly embed males more than females both in representations and orders of occurrence as the major acting characters in dialogical situations. Thus, it is pedagogically implied that curriculum developers and textbook designers should harmoniously consider gender representation while designing learning materials
Productive Lesson Study towards Quality Professional Development for Science Teachers
Full text linkThe study was conceived as a professional development of teachers towards quality teaching using Lesson Study (LS) and Productive Pedagogies (PP) as a as a framework to plan for lessons and to reflect on classroom teaching. The aim of the study was to investigate the level of adoption by the teachers of both the LS and PP principles. The intention was to investigate the teachers’ experiences in such a professional development activity and identify the benefits and arising problems with a focus on their understanding of teaching and change in their practice. After the intervention, it was evident that teachers have gained some knowledge about their teaching and about their students. Nevertheless, there remain concerns about some of the issues in need for further work: deep and functional content knowledge; better connection between the different components of lessons; questioning techniques; and a variety of teaching methods that allow for greater student engagement at a higher level of thinking
Production of the Virgin Coconut Oil from Induced Fermentation with Lactic Acid Bacteria
Full text linkVirgin Coconut Oil (VCO) is a value-added coconut product with many applications in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) can be employed to generate VCO through a fermentative process. Such a bacteria group can contribute to forming desirable sensory characteristics in the final product and its bioactivity. The present work aimed to isolate LAB strains from the natural fermentation of coconut cream and develop a process to produce VCO mediating by fermentation method. The highest oil yield at 25% (v/v) was obtained from the coconut meat and water mixture fermentation at the ratio of 1:2 with 10% (v/v) inoculum of M01strain sourced from pickle fermentation after 10 h at pH 5.5. The oil satisfied the requirements according to national standard TCVN 6311 and exhibited antibacterial activity against two food-borne pathogens, Salmonella and Shigella. This study proposed the production of coconut oil at a large scale that can substantially supply VCO to the food and cosmetic industry with remarkable benefits
A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Teachers in Relation to Gender and Teaching Experience
Full text linkThe emotional intelligence of teachers has a very significant contribution to the educational field and helps to create a constructive teaching-learning ambiance. Emotionally intelligent persons are found successful in personal and professional life. Teachers’ high emotional intelligence directly or indirectly helps to all-around development and success of adolescent students. This article mainly attempted to explore the following objectives: to explore teachers' emotional intelligence concerning gender and to know teachers' emotional intelligence irrespective of different teaching experiences like less, medium, and highly experienced groups. Data were collected from 300 secondary school teachers of randomly selected 15 government-aided schools from five districts of West Bengal state in India. Data were collected using multistage sampling procedures. Data were analyzed using t-test and ANOVA. Major findings were female teachers were significantly more emotionally intelligent in relation to the male. Further, the medium-experienced teachers had more emotional intelligence than the low-experienced teachers. Finally, the robust findings indicated that emotional intelligence can be interrelated with other psychological variables and can be used in further studies in different research areas
Visual Thinking Skills in Solving Geometry Problems Based on Learning Style: a Grounded Theory Study
Full text linkThis study seeks to determine students' visual thinking skills in solving geometric problems based on learning style inventory. The qualitative approach with the grounded theory research method was used. The research participants consisted of 61 students who were given a learning style inventory questionnaire, and 4 students were selected from each learning style category, namely converger, diverger, assimilator, and accommodator. Data collection techniques included learning style questionnaires and task-based interviews. The findings indicated that assimilator and converger students had good visual thinking skills in solving geometric problems and could explain logically every step they used while accommodator students had problems explaining logically at the planning and implementation stages of problem-solving. Meanwhile, diverger students could visualize the problem only at the stage of understanding the problem. At the next stages, they had difficulty in explaining logically, and the problem-solving process was not appropriate
Teaching Tertiary Physical Education in the New Normal: Gains, Drawbacks, and Suggestions
Full text linkThe difficulty on the current situation brought by the COVID-19 Pandemic around the globe resulted in the students' insufficient knowledge, most especially in Physical Education subjects. It happens as the closure of institutions, colleges, and universities are closed immediately. In the Philippines, there are studies concerning medical fields and other necessary fields on front in fighting with the virus; however, few chose to talk about the gains, drawbacks, and suggestions based on teachers teaching at the tertiary level. Hence, this research was realized, and it aimed to: identify the favorable experiences of Tertiary Physical Education Teachers; determine the problems and challenges of Tertiary Physical Education Teachers; and generate sensible and feasible suggestions from the research participants to further improve the delivery of tertiary Physical Education and Health courses amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic. The data gathering method used was an In-Depth Interview. Research participants from selected schools in Cotabato Province in Mindanao, Philippines, were involved in an informal, unstructured, and open-ended type of interview to make the participants comfortable conceptualizing their thoughts and have the freedom to organize them into essential categories. In this paper, the tertiary physical education teachers have seen to cope with the fast-pacing new normal era and developed the character of resiliency. Thus, the tertiary physical education teachers have been creative than ever as they make the subject engaging despite the unfitted mode of teaching required for physical education. Moreover, conclusions and recommendations are based on the research findings
Big Five Personality Traits and its Relationship to Teachers’ Performance Evaluation in the Public High Schools
Full text linkTeacher quality is one of the main concerns of global education. Determining teaching performance and its relationship with teacher’s personality has been an area that spurs myriads of interpretations based on the context to where teachers are found. Using descriptive-correlational research design, the Big Five Personality Traits and its relationship with teacher performance in the public high schools located in the National Capital Region of the Philippines were described. A total of 457 respondents with 339 female and 118 male, most of the respondents have M.A. units and have been in the service for one to five years were involved in the study. Two hundred seventy five (275) of the respondents are Teacher 1 and have performance evaluation of very satisfactory. Findings revealed that the most evident dimension in the Big Five Personality Traits among the respondents is Agreeableness, which means that most of the respondents got a high score in this area. This is followed by Conscientiousness, Openness, and Extraversion. The respondents got the lowest mean score in Neuroticism. However, in terms of the relationship between personality traits and performance evaluation result, no variables have significant relationship with each other