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Criteria of affective characteristics
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p class="0abstract">Twenty-first century learners are media-centric and heavily reliant on technology. Internet-accessible resources are always at the students’ finger-tips and they learn through such resources anywhere, anytime. Unfortunately, formal education in most part of Asia remains largely examination focused given the immense pressure to o...
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... addition, all affective characteristics must meet the following three criteria-intensity, direction and target [13]. Table 1 captures the meaning and essence of the aforementioned criteria as explained by Anderson and Bourke [13] in their book entitled Assessing Affective Characteristics in the Schools. Based on the information in Table 1, intensity shows to what extent a person's feeling towards a target while the direction of that feeling reflects one's positive or negative inclination. ...Context 2
... 1 captures the meaning and essence of the aforementioned criteria as explained by Anderson and Bourke [13] in their book entitled Assessing Affective Characteristics in the Schools. Based on the information in Table 1, intensity shows to what extent a person's feeling towards a target while the direction of that feeling reflects one's positive or negative inclination. ...Citations
... In the education system, considering the attained numbers (marks) or letters (grades) by the students as an actual and only indicator of their holistic and scholastic attainment is not a valid measure (Schinske, & Tanner, 2014: Wong, 2020. Research indicates that the ultimate focus of the education system on students' grades is a key barrier to being more innovative (Schinske, & Tanner, 2014). ...
The aim of this study was to develop and validate a comprehensive instrument to measure the holistic academic performance of higher secondary school-level students in Pakistan. Data were collected from 1035 higher secondary school level students enrolled in public sector colleges and higher secondary schools. Content validity was determined by eight national and international experts' opinions. The reliability coefficient was found (α=.74) for the said scale. Initially, 52 statements were developed by integrating the students' academic characteristics, students' performance domains, and academic listening, speaking, reading, and writing tasks.Finally, 24 statements were retained after applying the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). It resulted in two distinct sub-factors of Students’ Individual Performance (SIP) and Students' Group Performance (SGP). Findings of the research indicate that Students' Academic Performance may be used as a reliable and holistic measure by the educational stakeholders for higher secondary school level students.
Today, an increasing number of jobs require pronounced and developed soft skills, and some kind of digital skills. The coronavirus pandemic COVID-19, only accelerated inevitably, and all stakeholders in the business world had to keep up with many of today's available technologies and platforms. Although work from home is already known to many companies, in schools and faculties a such way of working is not common, and contact teaching is preferred. The teaching staff are faced with numerous challenges in the new situation, and a new way of knowledge transferring. Based on this fact, in addition to the training of teaching staff, it is necessary to adequately train and prepare students for such a form of teaching, in order to ensure the current level of quality of teaching. Students should be prepared in the best possible way for the challenges that await them in the business world, provide them a quality education in order to easily adapt to the needs of the new digital era required by the labour market. In the knowledge transfer today, except hard and digital skills, soft skills also play a significant role. It is extremely important to raise awareness on this topic, because teamwork, creativity, togetherness and empathy have never been more important and necessary. It is extremely important to show collegiality among employees but also in relation to students and thus also contributing to reduce stress in the teaching process, especially during the pandemic. Taking all the above into account, through a questionnaire which was conducted at the undergraduate professional study of mechanical engineering, it was tried to gain insight into the importance of soft skills from the students' perspective. Young educated people are the future of every country, and constant investment in their development and progress is needed.
