scholarly journals Soft Skills of American University Teachers: Self-Concept

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12397
Author(s):  
Pablo Fernández-Arias ◽  
Álvaro Antón-Sancho ◽  
Diego Vergara ◽  
Amelia Barrientos
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Optimal Level ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Educational Model ◽  
American University ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Age Range

Today, soft skills (transversal competencies) are increasingly appreciated by employers as essential skills for professional success. Likewise, these competencies are necessary to be able to operate as individuals in today’s society. In view of this situation, in the future post-COVID-19 educational model it is necessary to design training programs that promote both hard skills (specific competencies) and soft skills. This fact brings to the table the need for university teachers to have an optimal level of soft skills so that their students can acquire them. Given this situation, this paper aims to analyze the degree of acquisition of this type of competencies in American university teachers from different regions: (i) North America; (ii) Central America, and (iii) Southern Cone. To achieve this objective, it has been necessary to develop a questionnaire on the self-concept of soft skills, based on several variables: (i) gender, (ii) age range, (iii) geographic area, (iv) area of knowledge, (v) years of teaching experience, and (vi) university tenure (public-private). The questionnaire developed was based on the soft skills included in the Bochum Inventory of Personality and Competences (BIP). Results, obtained by descriptive and inferential statistical analysis of the means and deviations of the data collected from a sample of 473 participants, reflect that, in general, the American university teachers have a high self-concept about their degree of soft skills development. Although results show significant differences depending on each variable considered in this study, it can be suggested that the American university teachers are prepared to face a mixed university educational model, which promotes equally both hard skills and soft skills.

scholarly journals Self-Assessment of Soft Skills of University Teachers from Countries with a Low Level of Digital Competence

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 2532
Author(s):  
Álvaro Antón-Sancho ◽  
Diego Vergara ◽  
Pablo Fernández-Arias
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
American University ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Global Innovation ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Digital Development

The lockdown of March and April 2020 as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced relevant changes in the educational environment in a very short period of time, making it necessary to suspend in-person instruction and generating the need to implement virtual learning mechanisms. In a future post-COVID-19 hybrid educational model, it will be necessary for university teachers to acquire an optimal degree of digital competence, as a combination of different competencies, namely, (i) technical, (ii) digital, and (iii) soft. Soft skills have been shown to have a decisive influence on the development of digital competence. The aim of this study was to analyze the degree of acquisition of soft skills in Latin American university teachers whose countries are less digitally developed. For this purpose, the countries with the lowest Global Innovation Index (GII) were selected: (i) Panama; (ii) Peru; (iii) Argentina; (iv) El Salvador; (v) Ecuador; (vi) Paraguay; (vii) Honduras; and (viii) Bolivia. To achieve this objective, it was necessary to develop a questionnaire on the self-concept of soft skills, based on the soft skills included in the Bochum Inventory of Personality and Competences (BIP). Results obtained from statistical analysis of the data collected from a sample of 219 participants show that university teachers are sufficiently prepared, in terms of their soft skills, for the increase in digital competence required as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, despite the low level of digital development in their respective countries.

scholarly journals Digital Content Creation Tools: American University Teachers’ Perception

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 11649
Author(s):  
Álvaro Antón-Sancho ◽  
Diego Vergara ◽  
Victoria Eugenia Lamas-Álvarez ◽  
Pablo Fernández-Arias
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Academic Degree ◽  
Academic Characteristics ◽  
American University ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Latin American Countries

This paper studies the perception of Latin American university teachers about the effectiveness of digital content creation (DCC) tools for the creation of e-learning training actions. For this purpose, the opinions of a group of 564 teachers from different universities in 16 Latin American countries have been collected and their answers have been analyzed according to different sociological and academic characteristics (gender, age, teaching experience, area of knowledge, and academic degree). The results indicate that Latin American university teachers express high levels of digital training and highly value the didactic effectiveness of DCC tools to develop e-learning training actions. This valuation is significantly higher among females than males. Gender is also revealed as the most influential characteristic in the perception of teachers about the use of digital resources in the classroom, above any other aspect.

scholarly journals Reflective Evaluation of Efl Teachers Versus Their Students’ Evalution

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Wiwik Andreani
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Visual Communication Design ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teaching Values ◽  
Reflective Evaluation

Article investigated the grading of teaching values and its relation to the rating performance of the teachers. For this purpose, 27 EFL teachers were randomly chosen from Bina Nusantara University. Some teachers taught only English Department students and some others taught students of other Departments, for example Computer Science, Marketing Communication, Management, Visual Communication Design and Chinese Department. They were asked to grade twelve values in their teaching according to the order of importance and to answer a set of questions on those values. Besides, their students filled in a questionnaire with the aim of evaluating the teachers’ performance from September 2008 until June 2010 (three semesters).The results of the study suggest that there is a change in the teaching-value grading along with teaching experience. However, there is no relationship between teaching values and getting high/low rating performance, the reason of which is not dealt with in the study. Expertise, Enthusiasm, Reliability and Attentiveness were teaching values selected as most important for the EFL teachers. Moreover, most teachers were graded higher in their soft skills rather than hard skills, especially in giving the students an opportunity to ask questions and to have a discussion during the teaching and learning process. Finally, when teachers taught small and big classes, surprisingly most of them got higher rating performance from their students of big classes, for both their hard and soft skills. 

Implementation of Guidance nuanced Learning Model at MAN 1 Bandar Lampung

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52
Author(s):  
Rifda El Fiah ◽  
Saiful Bahri
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Expert Rating ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Process Implementation

This research was conducted based on the problems that often arise in formal education learning. This problem has an impact on learning achievement results obtained by students. This research was conducted at MAN 1 Bandar Lampung. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of the instructional model nuanced guidance data collection techniques using expert rating scale and user rating scale. The results of this study indicate that the nuanced learning model meets the achievement of student learning outcomes in MAN 1 Bandar Lampung, by developing students' knowledge and skills in the form of soft skills and hard skills. Guidance nuanced learning model design consists of learning process planning standards, learning process implementation standards, learning process outcome standards, and learning process control standards. 

THE ANALYSIS OF NURSING STUDENT SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN LECTURE AND PROBLEM BASED LEARNING APPROACHES 2011

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Hilman Syarif
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
P Value ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Significant Difference

Introduction: Student Centered Learning (SCL) is an effective method to develop student's soft skills and hard skills which are very important to support their successful carrier later. This research was conducted to identify the differences of developed soft skills between students who learn with PBL method and lecturing method. Methods: Descriptive comparative method was used in this study. The samples consisted of 15 students who learned with PBL method and 15 students who learned with lecturing method. The sample for this research was selected by random sampling method. Results: The result showed that the average of student's soft skills score in PBL method was 122.63, while student's soft skills score in lecturing method was 116.27. Discussion & Conclusion: There was significant difference of student's soft skills in PBL method and lecturing method (p value = 0.038; α = 0.05). This study recommends nursing program management, faculty of medicine at the University of Syiah Kuala keeps PBL method running and develops other methods which facilitate hard skills and soft skills are development. Keywords: nursing students, soft skill, PBL

scholarly journals Possible Selves Across the Lifespan

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 449-449
Author(s):  
Victoria Chen ◽  
Alysson Light
Keyword(s):  
Possible Selves ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Midlife Adults ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Possible selves are defined as “personalized representations of one’s self in future states” (Cross & Markus, 1991). Research has also found that thinking frequently about possible selves predicts lower well-being, whereas thinking clearly about possible selves is associated with higher well-being (McElwee & Haugh, 2010). However, possible selves differ across the lifespan (Hooker & Kaus, 1994; Cross & Markus, 1991) and life stages can impact exploration of possible identities (Arnett, 2000). Thus we hypothesize that the relationship between thought about possible selves and well-being differs across the lifespan. In a cross-sectional survey, 240 participants (age range: 18-92) reported on frequency and clarity of possible selves, as well as general self-clarity (Campbell et al., 1996). Results indicate curvilinear moderation by age of the link between possible self-clarity and well-being, with the association being stronger among midlife adults than among younger adults and older adults. Also, as clarity of feared possible selves increases, self-concept clarity decreases. Similarly, frequency of thinking about feared possible selves was negatively correlated with self-concept clarity. However, clarity and frequency of thought about hoped-for positive possible selves had no correlation with self-concept clarity.

Design and Validation of the Brief Self Online Scale (SO-8) in Early Adolescence: An Exploratory Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 027243162097853
Author(s):  
J. Ortega-Barón ◽  
J. M. Machimbarrena ◽  
I. Montiel ◽  
S. Buelga ◽  
A. Basterra-González ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Problematic Internet Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Correlated Factors ◽  
Age Range

For the Z-Generation, the Internet has become a very important experimentation laboratory for the discovery and validation of their identity. Despite the importance of the process of building the self in the adolescent, there are hardly any validated instruments that measure the self online. The aim of this research was to design and validate the Brief Self Online Scale (SO-8). A total of 843 students (384 boys, 45.6%), with an age range of 10 to 14 years participated. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirmed the hypothesized model of two correlated factors (Online Self-Perception and Online Idealized Projection), previously obtained through exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The reliability coefficients of Self Online dimensions were adequate. Indicators of convergent validity were obtained, finding significant correlations with self-concept, problematic Internet use, and online emotional intelligence. The SO-8 has adequate psychometric properties to be considered a reliable and valid tool to measure the construct of the Self Online in adolescents.

Planning for uncertainty: soft skills, hard skills and innovation

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 615-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Chell ◽  
Rosemary Athayde
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Hard Skills

РОЗВИТОК ТВОРЧОСТІ ЧЕРЕЗ СИСТЕМУ ОЦІНЮВАННЯ УСПІШНОСТІ НАВЧАЛЬНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ СТУДЕНТІВ МЕТОДОМ КАФЕТЕРІЮ

2022 ◽  
pp. 123-128
Author(s):  
А. А. Бабич ◽  
К. О. Яндола
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Hard Skills

У статті наведено приклад рейтингової системи оцінки успішності освітньої діяльності закладу вищої освіти. Автори наголошують, що така система буде мотивувати збагачення творчого потенціалу та повністю забезпечувати формування траєкторії розвитку особистості. Спираючись на сучасні наукові праці, автори дослідили поняття «творчість» та відзначили важливість творчого складника для формування hard-skills та soft-skills. У статті зазначається, що для здобувачів освіти більшості спеціальностей розвиток творчого складника залишається на другому плані. Автори переконані, що набуття професійних знань, умінь та навичок має відбуватися у тісному взаємозв’язку з розвитком творчого потенціалу. Складність використання повною мірою творчого складника в освітньому процесі пов’язана в тому числі і з тим, що специфічність поняття «творчість» ускладнює процес його оцінювання. Оцінювання є важливою складовою частиною організації навчального процесу. Автори підкреслюють основні протиріччя, що виникають під час оцінки творчого складника. У літературі питання пошуку шляхів розвитку творчості переважно полягає у застосуванні різних форм і методів організації занять. У роботі запропонована система оцінювання успішності результатів освітньої діяльності, в основі якої лежить принцип «кафетерію». Основна ідея полягає у наявності двох складових частин оцінювання: обов’язкової (спрямованої значною мірою на перевірку знань та вмінь) та варіативної (яка забезпечує прояв творчості та формування траєкторії особистого розвитку). Автори наводять приклад обов’язкової та змінної складових частин системи оцінювання для окремих дисциплін. Але у статті підкреслено, що така структура не може бути однаковою для всіх дисциплін. Проведений педагогічний експеримент дав змогу довести ефективність та доцільність застосування такої системи. Ефективність запропонованої системи підтверджується високими освітніми результатами (якістю освіти). Результати перевірки та оцінки мотивації досягнень здобувачів освіти методом А. Мехрабіана також підтвердили ефективність запропонованої системи оцінювання.

Relevance of Soft Skills in Career Success

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Mitashree Tripathy
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Work Atmosphere

In this fast transforming business economy caused by globalization, it has become incredibly important that employees keep on upgrading their hard skills and polish their soft skills if they aspire for a career that not only pays them well but also promises better opportunities in career development. Though the importance of soft skills is recognised in everyday life, in maintaining interpersonal relationships, in buildings strategies for success, its implications are mainly found in organisations and workplaces. Soft skills, however, play a significant role in building a career. Today to succeed and survive in the competitive workplace employees are expected to change their attitude, attention, and commitment to work. Besides, they are also expected to develop other abilities like effective communication skills, teamwork, leadership qualities, stress management, emotional intelligence etc. Competition is progressively increasing across workplaces worldwide. The need to be fit, flexible and existing is highly intrinsic. Soft skills thus help deal with challenges as they offer essential factors to influence the success of the employees and the organisations. This paper focuses on discussing the relevance of soft skills in career success, job satisfaction, creating a better work atmosphere and bringing about productivity at the workplace.

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