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Development of Key Indicators for Power Supply Companies
Get PDFThis article is devoted to the synthesis and analysis of a set of key performance indicators (KPI) for energy companies. The authors look at several large enterprises operating in the energy sector of Russia to answer the question: what factors play a critical role in the development of KPI for the power supply companies
Investigating the effect of customers' education level on loyalty and trust (Case study: Alborz Province Export Bank)
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to determine the effect of customer participation on customer loyalty with the mediating role of trust by considering the effect of literacy level. This research is descriptive-survey in terms of data collection method and applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population of the present study included all customers with different levels of literacy in Bank Saderat. Using Cochran's formula, the sample size required for the study was 196 people. The collection tool in this study was a questionnaire of Chen et al. The reliability of these questionnaires was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Amos23 software was used to analyze the collected data. The results showed that customer participation has a significant impact on customer loyalty. In addition, as the level of literacy of customers increases, their level of cooperation and trust increases or decreases. Trust also plays a mediating role in customer engagement, which affects customer loyalt
Philosophical Reflection of the Concept of "Borders" in Modern Culturechinese Performing
Get PDFObjective: philosophical reflection problems of the frontiers of science, knowledge and creativity in the modern intercultural integration; rationale for new interpretations and understanding of the concept "border" providing an integrative model for science and culture, which, in turn, implies the unacceptability of Orthodox approaches, and rigid demarcation between different spheres of cultural production. This explains the need to develop a "rational-reflexive culture" that meets the new demands of modern society. Research procedure and methods: the theoretical and methodological research of the work is based on the works of classics of Western and domestic philosophical, cultural, historical, and other thought in the field of studying the essence of social and cognitive phenomena; classical and non-classical methodological paradigms of understanding the concept of "borders" in ontological, epistemological grounds and socio-cultural dynamics are used. The main method is the classical method of dialectics, associated with the consideration of things in a broad ontological, epistemological and cultural-historical context; a method of comparative analysis, a combination of historical and logical, concrete-universal, phenomenological and systemic principles, a thesaurus approach. The results of the study: analyzed new meanings of the concept "border", "rational – reflexive culture" in knowledge and creativity; proven illegality model "narrow" technological oriented science and culture to the detriment of the spiritual nature of man; it is proved that as the modern world blurs the lines of demarcation in science, culture, art, insofar exacerbated the task of establishing priorities, implying the transition from a world of "pure rationality" to the life world of man; an optimal model of the conjugacy of all forms of human cognitive and creative activity in culture is proposed, due to the genetic connection of rational and other mental and cognitive forms of world development. Theoretical / practical significance consists in the justification and author's interpretation of the new understanding of the boundaries of science-culture-man; in proving the need to expand the boundaries of science in ontological and epistemological grounds to the "borders of culture"; implemented criticism of the technogenic interpretation of science (science as "sciepse"), with the connection with which the thesis is justified about the inexpediency of excessive rationalization of knowledge and cognition to the detriment of other ways and forms of world development
Features of Teacher’s Synchretic Activity in the Conditions of Modern Higher Education
Get PDFEffective feedback is an art that every leading teacher must improve. The student, who receives excellent feedback during the lesson, walks out of the door feeling confident and motivated for further improving. A student who receives poor feedback will feel the opposite. The feedback should be defined like "great work" with the meaning not only about how to correct the mistakes of students so that they can study in the future without undermining their confidence but also about the modern teacher’s role in educational process. The article has been raised the issue of the specific features of the teaching activities, the essence of the concept of "syncretic activity of the teacher "is reveald, in particular the concept of "role functions" is clarified, approaches to interpreting the features of the role functions of a teacher are considered. The main instructions of the teacher which provide the identification of teacher’s new qualities in the conditions of modern higher school have been highlighted. The teacher is entrusted with such functions as coordination of educational activities, adjustment of the content of education, counseling, etc. The solution of this problem in terms of personal and professional growth of the teacher has been proposed, which allows to improve the teaching process in higher education. The author's understanding of the main roles of the teacher in higher school has been outlined, the attention on urgent tasks, the features of the role functions of a teacher as syncretic multifunctional interaction between the teacher and the student on preparation of experts for information society has been emphasized. The sequence and priority of the teacher's roles in the syncretic activity in the teaching process have been revealed. The psychological structure of the teacher’s syncretic activity has been clarified from the point of view of the requirements for teacher’s personality with an explanation of the set of skills that the teacher of a higher education institution should have. The professional skills of the teacher in relation to the peculiarities of his or her activity, which are shown in various types of the teacher’s role functions in accordance with the situation and professional tasks of teaching have been analyzed. It has been shown that the transformation of educational activities and role functions of a modern teacher of higher education testifies to constant changes in his personal and professional growth, which also affects the development of the personality of a student - a future professional - in the process of his training
Specifics of Developing Professional Thinking in Law Students
Get PDFThe article examines the essence, role and significance of professional thinking within lawyers’ professional development, making a special emphasis on the specifics of evolving law students’ professional thinking. The research purpose is a theoretical and empirical study of the developmental specifics of law students’ professional thinking. Besides, there is a focus on the structure and features of lawyers’ professional thinking as a special professionally important quality. The authors conduct a comprehensive analysis of the developmental specifics of law students’ professional thinking, propose their own definition of this concept and consider its structure and structural components. The analysis of relevant literature contributed to studying the validity of the chosen topic. The article also reflects the methodology of research and its algorithm that include conducting a complex psychological and pedagogical experiment, assessing the declared parameters and fulfilling the statistical analysis of the results based on methods such as variance analysis, correlation analysis using Marsch’s I coefficient, Friedman’s R coefficient and Kruskal – Wallis H-criterion. The research base was the International Law Institute (Moscow, Russia). The experimental and control groups of subjects were formed, numbering 60 people representative in gender, etc. The results of the study demonstrate the effectiveness of combining trainings, special courses and the evolvement of formal-logical reasoning within the development of law students’ professional thinking
Application of Intent-Analysis to Therapeutic Discourse in the Analysis of the Professional Activity of Psychotherapists
Get PDFThe paper presents the author's original technique of intent-analysis of psychotherapeutic discourse, alongside the results of the in-depth psychological intent-analysis of Carl Rogers’ psychotherapeutic speech, which was conducted using this technique. This paper includes a dictionary of therapeutic speech intentions, a classification of intentional characteristics of psychotherapeutic speech, some markers of intentions and an instruction for experts. The work includes an analysis of several therapeutic sessions given by Carl Rogers, as compared to those given by novice client-centered psychotherapists; the analysis was carried out using the author’s original methodology (intent-analysis of psychotherapeutic discourse). The developed tools can be significant and useful in the supervision of practicing psychotherapists and the training of novice psychotherapists
Social Networks as Zones of Digital Personality Construction: Current Problems and Prospects
Get PDFAt present, the Internet and its mediated communication are an integral part of everyday life and social networks are becoming the main platform for self-presentation these days. The main tool for such self-expression in social networks is the selfie. The rapid rise in the popularity of selfies suggests that the very practices of self-representation are undergoing a major historical transformation. Research purpose is to study the features of selfies construction. Research methods: as a research method, a questionnaire survey was used as a method that allows quickly and effectively to investigate the features of using selfies as a way of constructing a digital personality. Research results: the article considers the forms of body control in social networks in the practice of constructing selfies. Research novelty and originality lies in the fact that for the first time the practice of selfies as a way of constructing a digital personality is considered. It is shown that self-identification is based on how the body is evaluated, and not on what it is actually. It is revealed that the body has become a carrier of meaning and a platform for communication with feedback, and the Internet, which has become the main repository of global data sets, has assumed the role of this communication control over the body. It is determined that in understanding the essence of the selfie phenomenon, there are two points of view: the selfie, as a continuation of the tradition of self-portrait and the selfie, as a special unique phenomenon associated to a greater extent with network media content. It is revealed that the main motive of self-presentation is the desire to be socially approved, to get the highest rating and the most flattering or loud comment. It is revealed that the hashtag is one of the structural elements of the selfie, through which the process of constructing the image is carried out. It is shown that an important motive for constructing a selfie is the user's need for a certain visual statement, self-expression. It is determined that in the production of selfies, the user is often guided by fashion trends and ready-made templates, which means that by regulating the real body in space, a successful representation of the digital body in the network is formed. The practical significance of the data obtained in this work lies in their use in social psychology, age psychology, marketing, as well as for further theoretical development of this issue
The Effect of the Achievement Motivations On Sport Character: An Investigation On Elite Athletes
Get PDFThis study aimed to evaluate the sport character orientation of elite athletes in different branches of Turkish National Teams in terms of their achievement motivation. Two scales were used to obtain data for this study. To measure the sport character of the athletes, the “Sport Character Scale” developed by Chang-Yong Jang (2013) and adapted to Turkish by Görült and Tuncel (2017) was used. The “Sports-Specific Achievement Motivation Scale” developed by Willis (1982) and adapted to Turkish by Tiryaki and Gödelek (1997) was used to measure the motivation of athletes’ success. Descriptive statistics, normality tests, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analyzes were performed by using the SPSS 25.0 package program in the analyses of the data. According to demographic findings, the majority of 223 athletes participating in the study were male athletes (70.9%). The majority of athletes (54.7%) were 21-24 years old, 79.8% of them were interested in team sports; 43.5% of them were national athletes between 4-6 years. In addition, the majority of the athletes (33.2%) had the best Balkan Ranking. The normality test results revealed that skewness-kurtosis coefficients of the variables were between ±3.0 and showed a normal distribution. The mean of the variables was “2.54” to “4.17”; the standard deviation was between “0.55” and “1. 02”. Multiple regression analysis results showed that the relationship between variables was statistically significant (p<0.01). As a result, this study showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between sport character and “self-confidence”, “motive to achieve success”, “power motive”, and “external factor approach”. In addition, it was observed that “motive to achieve success” and “power motive” predicted the sport character by approximately 38%
Opportunities for Organizing Distance Learning Presented by the Moodle Platform: Experience in the Conditions of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThe implementation of modern information technologies in education presents a promising direction of the pedagogical science since it makes it possible to prove educational services through a specialized information educational environment – a combination of information resources, technical devices, and telecommunication channels enabling the exchange of educational information at a distance. The goal of the present study is to analyze and identify the opportunities of the Moodle platform in education as a whole and in studying English at a university in particular. The methodological basis of the study is formed by the analysis of the experience of teachers of the Department of English Language, the methods of teaching English, and a survey of experts in the area. Using the Moodle platform in the process of teaching future English teachers allows both teachers and students to easily exchange files, carry out personal communication, and receive feedback. The presented electronic course allows teachers to create their own e-learning courses in foreign languages
The Influence of BYOD on Results of Students' Learning
Get PDFThis work analyzes the influence and efficiency of BYOD for learning students and academic perfection. The relevance of mobile technologies for learning has been substantiated. The influence of BYOD on academic performance of undergraduate students in terms of their test scores and final course marks, as well as on quality of work on selected course projects and on level of satisfaction with the BYOD course, has been experimentally studied. It has been proved that BYOD exerts positive influence on learning and academic achievements of students measured by their academic test scores, by their final marks and quality of their classroom work, as well as that the implementation of BYOD will stimulate and motivate students, thus affecting their level of involvement and creation of independent learning. The experimental results should be used as a guide for persons making decisions as well as for practical specialists in the field of education, especially in the area of BYOD and mobile learning, which will save significant expenses for stationary learning (for instance, concerning desktop computers, projectors, etc.). Scientific novelty of the studies is that the influence of BYOD on academic performance of students in terms of their test scores and final course marks, as well as on quality of students’ work on selected course projects and on level of satisfaction with the BYOD course, has been comprehensively analyzed