Initial activities become important as the stepstone to raise students’ autonomous level. The study aims to explore lecturers’ initial activities to encourage students’ autonomous learning. ...Autonomous learning is a process to be apprehensive of taking control of literacy. This study used a case study and a content analysis in the qualitative exploration. The English teacher educators at the English language education department, the faculty of teacher training and education in Pekanbaru became the research samples. A qualitative approach is chosen as exploration design with the help of Nvivo 12 Apps since interviews come as the main instrument. Some interview points questioned how lecturers help learners comprehend the material, determine their particular pretensions, chancing out supporting coffers. The study reveals that the lecturer's exertion as the initial activities were giving the material explanation, giving information about the course figure, giving assignments, giving what students need, giving provocation or motivation, sharing experiences, making personal approach, exercising, being a Model, making agreement letter, warning, having a concession, having references of material, participating gests, checking students’ appreciation by reviewing, giving question and test. Yet, giving assignments collectively or in collaboration, systems or incidental test becomes a proposed exertion in the initial process to enhance learners’ autonomous.
Promoting Women in Mathematics Greenwald, Sarah J.; Holdener, Judy
PRIMUS : problems, resources, and issues in mathematics undergraduate studies,
2024, Volume:
34, Issue:
5
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The eight papers making up this special issue on promoting women in mathematics consider the underrepresentation of women in mathematics and the experiences and observations of authors who are ...immersed in this work. In this editorial, we identify common themes we see across many of these papers, framing our discussion with the "social identity framework of mathematical development" presented in the first paper. This framework consists of three beliefs conducive to the pursuit of mathematics, and we discuss how the authors address each of these beliefs in their work. We also present data to illustrate that the underrepresentation of women in mathematics continues to be an issue, and we hope the papers in this issue will be informative for others who want to lead gender-based initiatives.
In recent years, Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) have emerged as important tools in human–computer interaction, with a wide range of applications such as voice assistant, virtual customer ...service, and navigation. Capturing and understanding the prominent emotional needs of users is important for improving the quality of service of IPAs. Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MMERC) aimed at automatically identifying and tracking the emotional states of speakers during the dialogue process has become a crucial component for building emotional IPAs and attracted increasing attention. Current research in this field is based on graph simulation for cross-modal and single-modal interactions. However, these methods ignore the highly imbalanced class problem inherent in MMERC, leading to a decrease in the generalization ability of the model and an inability to effectively recognize minority emotion classes. Data mining methods use oversampling to solve the imbalanced classification, but they are unsuitable for MMERC as they disrupt the conversational coherence and modality alignment characteristics of multimodal emotion recognition datasets. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes an IMBA-MMERC, which is an effective framework to address the pervasive issue of class imbalance in MMERC. Within this framework, sample generation for multimodal conversation tackles the application challenges that exist in multimodal conversational emotion recognition datasets, and well-classified encouraging loss mitigates the performance degradation of the model on certain majority classes due to decision boundary deviations. On two English benchmark datasets and one Chinese public dataset, we used two performance indicators to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed IMBA-MMERC. Ablation experiment, case study, and histograms visualization further verify the well performance of the proposed framework.
Objectifs Les services hospitaliers d’urgence sont souvent engorgés, et leur utilisation pour des raisons de santé mentale (SM) y contribue particulièrement. Au Québec, en 2014-15, 17 % des ...utilisateurs des services d’urgence ayant des troubles mentaux avaient visité l’urgence au moins 4 fois, pour quelque raison que ce soit. Le fait que ces patients recourent fréquemment aux urgences témoigne souvent d’une inadéquation des services qui leur sont offerts. Mieux comprendre les motifs de cette utilisation fréquente des urgences permettrait de mieux répondre aux besoins de ces patients. Cette étude avait pour but d’identifier les facteurs encourageant ou limitant l’utilisation des urgences par les grands utilisateurs de ces services, qui sont définis ainsi s’ils utilisent les urgences au moins 3 fois sur une période d’un an.
Méthodologie Entre avril et septembre 2021, 20 professionnels en SM ont été interrogés au sujet des facteurs qu’ils percevaient comme encourageant ou limitant les grands utilisateurs des services d’urgence à utiliser ces derniers. Ces participants oeuvraient à l’urgence psychiatrique d’un institut universitaire en SM situé dans un grand centre urbain, ou dans d’autres services de ce même hôpital (p. ex. module d’évaluation-liaison), ou ils étaient des partenaires de l’urgence du territoire (p. ex. centres de crise). Les données ont été traitées par le biais d’une méthode d’analyse de contenu réalisée en différentes étapes (transcription des données, codification des contenus, etc.), et guidées par un cadre conceptuel comprenant 4 catégories de facteurs encourageant ou limitant l’utilisation fréquente de l’urgence pour raisons de SM. Ces facteurs étaient reliés au système de santé, aux profils des patients, aux professionnels de la santé ou aux caractéristiques organisationnelles du réseau de la SM.
Résultats Plus de facteurs encourageant l’utilisation de l’urgence que de facteurs limitant son usage ont été relevés. Ces facteurs étaient principalement liés au système de santé (notamment dans le cas de l’indisponibilité des services en SM) et aux profils des patients, particulièrement de ceux ayant des troubles mentaux complexes associés à des problèmes psychosociaux. Les caractéristiques organisationnelles, notamment le déploiement d’innovations à l’urgence ou en partenariat avec celle-ci, bien que globalement peu fréquent, semblent plutôt limiter l’usage de l’urgence.
Conclusion Cette étude soutient l’importance de développer davantage d’innovations à l’urgence et en lien avec les autres services de l’hôpital et de la communauté, ceci afin de mieux répondre aux besoins des grands utilisateurs des services d’urgence et d’en réduire ainsi l’usage. L’urgence devrait optimiser son rôle de dépistage, de traitement bref, d’orientation et de monitorage de la qualité des services aux patients, particulièrement pour ceux que les services ambulatoires en SM ne desservent pas adéquatement.
School should be a place where the creativity of students and teachers is encouraged and developed. In order to stimulate the creativity of students and teachers, schools must provide experiential ...learning and active learning. Thus, they cannot be governed by compulsion, fear and anti-pedagogy. Teaching should not undermine the student’s natural curiosity, but should allow and encourage students to think in a different way. The teacher should use active teaching methods and partner and research teaching; he should encourage discovering and questioning the natural environment, implement flexible programs, and ensure original learning and experimenting . Each subject can be planned in a creative way. The teacher is the one who needs to find a way that best suits the specifics and the interests and needs of a particular class. In addition to classroom teaching, there are important extracurricular activities in which the student is completely free and expresses his / her autonomy and desire to create. However, the best results are achieved through a harmonious combination of extracurricular and teaching activities. The task of the school is to develop a set of habits and abilities that will help its students to overcome any future challenge and find better solutions to problems. Students must learn to use the acquired knowledge and experience in a new way. Since its syllabus is a combination of different areas of teaching, ‘My environment’ classes provide exceptional possibilities to encourage students’ creativity.These classes should, therefore, focus on experiential learning that will make it easier for students to adopt content.
Abstract Following the release of the first COVID‐19 vaccinations many people utilized social media to promote vaccination among their social circles. These attempts to persuade others to get ...vaccinated ranged from positive encouragement (e.g., emphasizing the prosocial benefits and positive outcomes) to shame and threats (e.g., name calling and threating to end friendships over vaccination status). The present study investigated how these different social media messages affected COVID‐19 vaccination intentions. In June 2021, shortly after vaccines had been made freely available to anyone over the age of 16 in the United States, unvaccinated participants read a manipulated Twitter message designed to be either encouraging or shaming . Message‐type did not significantly affect intentions to become vaccinated against COVID‐19; however, participants who saw the encouraging message reported that the post made them feel more likely to get vaccinated. Self‐efficacy was also manipulated but did not reveal any significant effects. Additional analyses suggest that having personal experience with COVID‐19 moderates reactions to these different messages. We discuss limitations and promising avenues for future research on the effects of social media messages on health behaviors.
Children's learning often happens in the interactions with more knowledgeable members of the society, frequently parents, as stated by the sociocultural theory. Parent-child conversations provide ...children with a new understanding and foster knowledge development, especially in informal learning contexts. However, the family conversations in museums and science centers can be contingent on the motivation for the family visit or the activities organized on the spot. In order to establish how family motivation and on-the-spot activities influence children's informal learning experience, the present study was carried out in a family science center. The study focused on children's learning experience in a hands-on exhibit featuring objects that allow for the exploration of the concepts of sound waves and light. Thirty-nine 7-10-year-old children (21 boys and 18 girls) and their families participated in the study. Twenty families received a worksheet to prompt an experimentation activity with one of the light exhibits. Motivation for the family visit was probed at the end of the visit. The target children of the families wore a GoPro HERO 5 camera attached to a chest harness throughout their visit. The video was coded for family interaction and experimentation with the light exhibit. Family conversations were coded for open-ended questions, responses to open-ended questions, explanations, associations, attention directing, and reading signage aloud. Family motivation for the visit was related to the quality of family conversation during the visit. The experimentation activity prompt did not affect the likelihood of noticing and engaging with the particular exhibit. At the same time, it did affect the quality of engagement: children who received the experimentation activity prompt were more likely to explore the effects the exhibit provided and experiment rather than play with the exhibit. Family motivation and on-the-spot activities are discussed as two possible factors to influence children's learning experience in science centers.
We have been reliably informed by practitioners that police officers and intelligence officers across the world have started to use the Model Statement lie detection technique. In this article we ...introduce this technique. We describe why it works, report the empirical evidence that it works, and outline how to use it. Research examining the Model Statement only started recently and more research is required. We give suggestions for future research with the technique. The Model Statement technique is one of many recently developed verbal lie detection methods. We start this article with a short overview of the-in our view- most promising recent developments in verbal lie detection before turning our attention to the Model Statement technique.
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