The Effects of Digital Textbooks on Students’ Academic Performance, Academic Interest, and Learning Skills

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Lee ◽  
Ju-Ho Lee ◽  
Youngsik Jeong
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2486-2489

According to Bloom's Taxonomy, the motto of education is to groom the students' as a better personality in knowledge, skill set and emotions under the supervision of academicians. Development of information technology paves the way to analyse the data from the educational environment and make decisions which help to be in track to achieve the motto. i.e. Educational Data mining. Education Data mining is one of the research domains of data mining which convert the data from the educational sector as insights for decision making. This paper is to analyse the effect of student's academic interest on emotional happiness and academic performance by applying supervised and unsupervised learning techniques. Students' Emotional Happiness and students' academic performance is evaluated by the Oxford Happiness Inventory and criterion reference model. Academic interest is received as yes or no responses from the students. Naive Bayes classification algorithm and K Means clustering algorithm is applied to categorise the student participants based on their happiness scale, academic interest and academic performance. The association between academic interest and performance is determined using predictive and descriptive mining. By this research, it is witnessed the positive association between academic interest, happiness and performance. The insights of this investigation will allow the teachers' to understand the students in a better way and do the needful to enhance academic efficiency.


2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
C. Talero-Gutiérrez ◽  
J.M. Sánchez-Torres ◽  
A. Velez-van-Meerbeke

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 427
Author(s):  
María Gómez Gallego ◽  
Alfonso Palazón Perez de los Cobos ◽  
Juan Cándido Gómez Gallego

A main goal of the university institution should be to reduce the desertion of its students, in fact, the dropout rate constitutes a basic indicator in the accreditation processes of university centers. Thus, evaluating the cognitive functions and learning skills of students with an increased risk of academic failure can be useful for the adoption of strategies for preventing and reducing school dropout. In this research, cognitive functions and learning skills in 284 university students were evaluated. Academic performance predictors were identified, and conglomerates analysis was carried out to establish groups according to those variables. The stability and validity of the conglomerates were tested with discriminant analyzes and comparison tests. The variables associated significantly to academic performance were: attention, intelligence, motivation, metacognition and affective components. The conglomerate analysis suggested a three-group solution: (1) students with cognitive skills of moderate to high, but deficient learning strategies; (2) students with cognitive and learning capabilities of moderate to high; (3) students with cognitive functions low and moderate learning capacity. Students from groups 1 and 3 showed worse academic performance; 83.3% of students at risk of desertion belonged to such groups. Two groups of students have been identified with the highest risk of academic failure: those with poor cognitive capacity and those with bad learning skills.


2020 ◽  
Vol 116 (5) ◽  
pp. 162-169
Author(s):  
Iliya I. Ilyasov ◽  
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Margarita S. Aslanova ◽  
Valeriya S. Anderzhanova ◽  
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The aim of this research is identifying differences in the development of learning skills of students of engineering and humanitarian orientation in the process of their training at the University. Learning skills, as the ability to carry out the process of acquiring subject knowledge in various fields, are recognized by world experts. The importance of learning skills has increased especially at the present time, due to the need for self-development of competence in the process of professional activity after graduation. In the course of the study, the main and supplementary learning skills, as well as the ability to self-regulate training activities and academic performance of students of technical and humanitarian orientation, who are at different stages of training, were diagnosed. The results of this study show that the learning skills of students in both directions develop sideways in the process of subject learning, but this process has different results and character in relation to their development. Thus, engineering students have a higher level of learning skills and self-regulation by the end of their studies, while humanities students have a higher level of exposure to supplementary learning. Basic learning skills are developed better among engineering students with higher abilities to self-regulate learning activities, while for psychology students, this relationship is not found. In addition, the academic performance of engineering students increases with a high level of development of knowledge-building abilities, control of additional learning skills and self-regulation of educational activities. Academic performance of students in the Humanities increases with a high ability to implement independent building of knowledge, a high level of control over the motivational and volitional sphere and learning goals, as well as the ability to evaluate results in the course of educational activities.


Author(s):  
Devi R. Nithiya ◽  
Suchita Palve ◽  
Sachin Bhaskar Palve ◽  
Arun Tipandjan

Background: Kinaesthetic learning, a form of student-centric active learning technique, takes learning to the next level. Kinaesthetic learning enables better understanding and effective retention of information, especially among students who don't adapt to conventional teaching-learning techniques in large groups and isolated textbook learning. Methodology: The present study was conducted for three consecutive years among Phase I MBBS students who needed additional curricular support. The students were divided into groups with 4 to 5 students each. They were offered topics to make either a 2D poster or a working model displayed in an exhibition cum competition. A feedback questionnaire was administered to the participants at the end of the competition. Results: The majority of the students who participated either agreed or strongly agreed that the kinaesthetic learning technique facilitated them to read beyond the conventional textbooks and understand the concepts better. We also observed that the students reported increased confidence to face the exam. Comparing the marks scored by the participants and the non-participants, the students who participated in the kinaesthetic learning exercise scored significantly higher than the non-participants (p=0.002) Discussion: Kinaesthetic learning skills using 2D posters and 3D working models preparation helped to improve the academic performance among students in need of additional curricular care by enhancing their critical thinking skills and team-building capacity.


Author(s):  
Sunjoo Jang ◽  
Haeyoung Lee

This study aimed to determine the academic performance and learning skills of students who studied through remote teaching methods during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It was conducted in February 2021 with 398 university students in South Korea. Data were collected through online surveys. Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) with an autoregressive correlation structure were employed to distinguish differences in core competencies, academic performance, satisfaction, and usefulness of teaching methods before 2019 and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings revealed that the overall core competencies of participants were significantly lower in 2020 than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, knowledge construction, responsibility practice, and socialization were significantly low during the COVID-19 pandemic, whereas information management and identity value did not show a significant difference. However, problem-solving was higher during the COVID-19 pandemic. Enhancing the core competencies of university students is integral in the new learning environment of the post-COVID-19 era. It is necessary to devise approaches that improve the effectiveness of remote teaching methods and simultaneously augment student satisfaction.


Author(s):  
William B. McCombs ◽  
Cameron E. McCoy

Recent years have brought a reversal in the attitude of the medical profession toward the diagnosis of viral infections. Identification of bacterial pathogens was formerly thought to be faster than identification of viral pathogens. Viral identification was dismissed as being of academic interest or for confirming the presence of an epidemic, because the patient would recover or die before this could be accomplished. In the past 10 years, the goal of virologists has been to present the clinician with a viral identification in a matter of hours. This fast diagnosis has the potential for shortening the patient's hospital stay and preventing the administering of toxic and/or expensive antibiotics of no benefit to the patient.


1969 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-104
Author(s):  
JC Hickey ◽  
MT Romano ◽  
RK Jarecky
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