by N. Sasikumar and R. Bapitha
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The study investigated the relationship between examination stress and academic achievement of high school students. More people feel stress during exam time. It usually occurs during the revision period before exams and immediately before the exams themselves. Stress is defined as an individual's response to pressure. When stress is perceived negatively or becomes excessive, it leads to anxiety before and during examinations and ultimately affects their academic achievement. The present study was conducted to know the examinations stress felt by high school students of Tamilnadu. A total of 300 high school students randomly selected from nine schools of Pudukkottai educational district, Tamilnadu, India have participated in this study. Examination stress among high school students has been a topic of interest for many years. High school students experience high stress due to various reasons such as lack of preparation, nature of their study and lack of needed information.
American Journal of Educational Research. 2019, 7(9), 654-659. DOI: 10.12691/education-7-9-9
Pub. Date: September 28, 2019
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by Nguyen Duc Hanh, Nguyen Thi My Nga, Vu Quynh Loan and Nguyen My Viet
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In today's fast-changing and highly volatile world, improving the quality of education has become a universal goal. The curriculum and content of higher education are all directed toward forming the personality and intellectual abilities of students to meet the job market. Striving to ensure the quality of education is an important goal for any country, especially for developing countries, because it has been proven that economic growth is determined by educational growth. If they ignore the quality of education or are not interested in accrediting the quality of education, universities in developing countries, including Vietnam, will face the risk of development being pushed back. Accreditation in education is a process by which agencies evaluate an educational institution or an educational program and recognize that it has met and satisfied, or exceeded, predetermined educational quality requirements and standards. However, instead of implementing effective activities to ensure the quality of teaching and learning, many universities in developing countries, including in Vietnam, are trying to seek external assessment and recognition though missing preparing records, documents, reports, and evaluations, quality assurance plans about policies, and community services.
American Journal of Educational Research. 2019, 7(9), 649-653. DOI: 10.12691/education-7-9-8
Pub. Date: September 22, 2019
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by Godfrey Bagonza, Nicholas Itaaga and Anthony Muwagga Mugagga
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This study investigated the effect of institutional facilities on the quality of university education in Uganda in Uganda. Quality of university education was measured by satisfaction of students with their current university experience and their labour market expectations. Institutional facilities were measured by adequacy of classroom space and environment, Library facilities and availability of books, Laboratory facilities and availability of teaching apparatus, and Computer facilities and Internet Access. A correlational, cross-sectional survey design was used with quantitative approaches to collect data from a sample of 300 university students of the graduating class and qualitative approaches to collect data from 12 university heads of academic departments and 12 human resource managers of selected employers. The study found a positive significant correlation between institutional facilities and the quality of university education in Uganda. The study recommends that improving the quality of university facilities will improve efficiency in teaching and learning which in the long run should improve the quality university graduates.
American Journal of Educational Research. 2019, 7(9), 644-648. DOI: 10.12691/education-7-9-7
Pub. Date: September 20, 2019
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by Sujeet Kumar Mishra and Amrita Bohra
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Liberal Feminism focuses on women’s ability to maintain their equality through their own activities and choices. Liberal feminists accept that due to different superstitions and orthodox women are not getting equal status. The purpose of this study is to find out the difference among the Universities (Central, State and Private) with reference to Legal Equality and political awareness. Researcher used survey method to collect the data for this study and randomly (disproportionate) selected 335 girl students girl students from all the three Universities. A self-developed tool Feminism Reflection Inventory (F.R.I) is used in this study and researcher has taken two dimension of Liberal Feminism which is legal equality and political awareness for this study. It was found that legal equality in Liberal Feminism in girl students of Central, State and Private university are differ from each other while there is no significant difference in the reflection of Political Awareness as dimension of Liberal Feminism among the girl students of Central, State and Private Universities.
American Journal of Educational Research. 2019, 7(9), 640-643. DOI: 10.12691/education-7-9-6
Pub. Date: September 19, 2019
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by Dinh Xuan Khoa, Pham Minh Hung, Pham Le Cuong and Nguyen Thi Thu Hang
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The article mentions the current situation about the awareness of managers and lecturers of Vietnamese public universities on implementing the accountability. Survey results show that the awareness of managers and lecturers of Vietnamese universities on implementing the accountability still has certain limitations and shortcomings. From that, the article has proposed a number of measures to raise the awareness of Vietnamese university managers and lecturers on the implementation of accountability: Organizing research, thoroughly grasping in managers and lecturers about the need to implement the accountability; Diversifying the forms of dissemination and propaganda for managers and lecturers to be fully aware of the implementation of the accountability; Overcoming the incorrect and incomplete perceptions of implementing the accountability in universities.
American Journal of Educational Research. 2019, 7(9), 632-639. DOI: 10.12691/education-7-9-5
Pub. Date: September 19, 2019
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by Mira Hardiyani, Aceng Rahmat and Rahayu Surtiati Hidayat
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The translation of audiovisual materials like movies and television program is growing rapidly. It helps audiences who have limitations of language to understand the meaning and message of the movie. This paper will specifically discuss the translation strategies in dialog movie of Captain Phillips and describe its uses influence the equivalence in source text and target text. This research uses qualitative methods with comparative analysis techniques. The data of this study were nautical terms and its translation. Meanwhile, the study indicates thirty nautical terms found in the source text were translated by using translation strategies transfer, paraphrase, and deletion. The most used translation strategy in this research is transfer. Therefore, the application of translation strategies is the most essential for translator to produce a good subtitle.
American Journal of Educational Research. 2019, 7(9), 624-631. DOI: 10.12691/education-7-9-4
Pub. Date: September 10, 2019
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by Cao Cu Giac
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Using the results from students' mistakes to make interferential options (confused plans) in multiple choice questions will help teachers analyze the wrong situations and take corrective measures. With the learner's error-based teaching method, students will remember their mistakes and avoid repeating the same mistakes in learning. Multiple choice questions are widely used in the annual National High School Exam in Vietnam. However, in order to assess students' mistakes in the process of organizing teaching and learning in high schools, the design of multiple choice questions should focus on the results of the interferential options. From analyzing the results from wrong situations, the interferential options are strong enough to assess the impact from mistakes.
American Journal of Educational Research. 2019, 7(9), 618-623. DOI: 10.12691/education-7-9-3
Pub. Date: September 08, 2019
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by Nesreen Ali Alzahrani
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The relationship between workplace ergonomics (Temperature, furniture arrangement, facilities, lighting, noise, equipment) and academic staff performance in Umm Al-Qura University (UQU) at Makkah is the aim of this study. Study sample consisted of (154) academic staff at the College of Education in UQU. The descriptive relational approach was used to detect the level of workplace ergonomics satisfaction and employee’s performance. Moreover, a survey has been used to collect data for formulating) information. At the end of this study, the study concluded that the workplace ergonomics satisfaction level was medium. The performance level of academic staff at the College of Education in UQU, regarding the workplace ergonomics is high. Finally, there is no statistical significance difference regarding the correlation coefficients of workplace ergonomics satisfaction relationship with its dimensions and academic staff performance according to gender.
American Journal of Educational Research. 2019, 7(9), 604-617. DOI: 10.12691/education-7-9-2
Pub. Date: September 02, 2019
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by Khamdi Afandi and Bernardus Sentot Wijanarka
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The objectives of this study were: (1) to describe the outcome of the Vocational High Schools (VHSs) in the field of machining expertise in the labor market, and (2) the efforts of VHSs in increasing the distribution of graduates. The location of this study was in four VHSs in the field of nationally accredited machining expertise in the Yogyakarta. The technique of data collecting used interviews and documentation. The data analysis of this study used descriptive statistics. The results of this study are: (1) Outcomes of VHSs in machining expertise in the category of work with an average of 66% (unsuccessful), in the category of entrepreneurship with an average of 9% (above standard), in the category of continuous studies with an average of 14.5% (stable), and graduates work according to expertise with 45% (good), (2) The efforts of VHSs in increasing the distribution of graduates include workshop activities, collaboration in the business and world industry, strengthen alumni associations, counseling guidance, jobs vacancies in schools, and Professional Certification Institutions. Constraints faced by VHSs in the distribution of graduates, namely: the low work motivation of graduates to work, the amount of labor needed by the labor was small compared to the number of prospective workers, and personal ability in the office of school work market was still lacking in graduate management.
American Journal of Educational Research. 2019, 7(9), 599-603. DOI: 10.12691/education-7-9-1
Pub. Date: September 02, 2019
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