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SELF-CONSCIOUSLY CLEVER: AN EXPLORATORY SURVEY ON THE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS AT THE UNIVERSITY
2017
Social networks are a noteworthy opportunity to build a more caring and responsible society, a practice that is assimilated by learning to use the Web in a conscious way. The media competence takes the form of expertise both to active participation to the Web and to society. The focus is on the need to acquire the know-how to exploit the media, with particular reference to social networks, in a clever way so as to meke them intelligent instruments (Rheingold, 2013). From an educational point of view, social networks offer a different potential because they are able to support the functions of socialization, of sharing and of coordination (Anderson, 2009); to encourage dialogue, promote reso…
TikTok per una didattica universitaria efficace ed efficiente
2023
È ormai noto come l’utilizzo della tecnologia consenta da un lato una maggiore personalizzazione dell’apprendimento e dall’altro permetta una diversificazione dei contenuti da presentare. Un'ampia letteratura ha messo in evidenza la valenza dell'impiego dello storytelling nell'ambito della comunicazione didattica e per questo motivo si è voluto valutare con che impatto la produzione di contenuti su TikTok possa diventare una metodologia innovativa di apprendimento. Il seguente contributo presenta una ricerca che ha coinvolto 350 studenti del primo anno del Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Formazione Primaria dell’Università degli Studi di Palermo nell’anno accademico 2022/2023 sulla progett…
La progettazione del sé professionale alla fine dell’adolescenza
2020
Si è conclusa il 15 maggio 2019 la prima parte di una ricerca- intervento ispirata alla teoria del pensiero narrativo, ai principi dell’educational counseling e della didattica orientativa. Duran- te l’anno scolastico 2018-2019, 93 studenti (50 femmine e 43 maschi) del quarto anno di cinque licei di Palermo hanno partecipato a un’iniziativa sperimentale in cui scuola e università hanno collaborato con un duplice scopo: ridurre negli studenti il gap rilevato tra le conoscenze in uscita dal liceo e quelle richieste all’inizio dei corsi universitari e potenziare in loro la capacità di formulare il proprio progetto di vita professionale. È stata sperimentata l’azione congiunta di tre tipi di in…
SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNIVERSITY STRATEGIES AND FINANCIAL INDICATORS
2010
A very important role in establishment and foundation the activities of a university is strategies and policies developed by management authorities. Through this article we identify the relationship between the components of university strategy and financial indicators, taking into account that financial projections are those that can affirm or overturn the objectives. In this respect, the article is structured in such a way that could provide answer to questions like: What kind of university strategy must be adopted to insure academic success? What is the premises development strategy, as requirements for success in university management? What financial indicators can influence the compone…
Students' usage patterns of video recorded lectures in an undergraduate mathematics course
2018
International audience; It is customary for some universities to offer recordings of live lectures to students. Whether this improves learning and academic performance is debated in the literature. As with most technology, correct usage can lead to increased academic performance, but there are also usage patterns that can be considered counter productive, especially for learning mathematics. In order to investigate patterns in students' usage of such online recorded live lectures, we analyze log files from a server holding the recordings of an undergraduate mathematics course. This poster presents results from the statistical analysis and discusses some of the usage patterns found in light …
Información y Transparencia Pública: instrumentos de control para la toma de decisiones en la gestión de las universidades federales brasileñas
2016
Esta tesis doctoral está centrada en el e-government (gobierno electrónico) especialmente en lo que respecta a cuestiones relacionadas con la transparencia pública y divulgación de información contable en internet en las universidades públicas brasileñas. Para llevar a cabo este trabajo, se han elaborado tres artículos científicos relacionados entre ellos, lo que ha permitido avanzar en la investigación de cada trabajo, aprovechando los hallazgos de cada uno de ellos para llegar al resultado final. Los trabajos que integran esta tesis doctoral analizan qué información divulgan las universidades públicas en internet, qué factores determinan el grado de divulgación revelado, y cómo los gestor…
Can the students' career performance be helpful in predicting an increase in universities income?
2013
The students’ academic failure and the delay in obtaining their final degree are a significant issue for the Italian universities and their shareholders. Based on indicators proposed by the Italian Ministry of University, the Italian universities are awarded a financial incentive if they reduce the students’ attrition and failure. In this paper we analyze the students’ careers performance using: 1) aggregate data; 2) individual data. The first compares the performances of the Italian universities using the measures and the indicators proposed by the Ministry. The second analyzes the students’ careers through an indicator based on credit earned by each student in seven academic years. The pr…
Attività di orientamento all’Università: l’impatto delle buone pratiche
2023
The research was carried out as part of a vast project to combat failure in university studies, the provision of guidance and mentoring for students entering the university for the first time, with a view to improving the services offered. First, it was meant to verify the content validity of a self-assessment questionnaire of one's own study habits (ASU 2021) built and validated more than twenty years ago. The questionnaire invites the student to answer not about what he feels he should do, but about what he actually does. Depending on the study difficulties highlighted by the test, laboratory meetings were arranged to plan orientation activities for students of the last two years of secon…
Students’ university mobility patterns in Europe: an introduction
2022
AbstractThis thematic series collects some papers on Italian students' mobility. The aim of this thematic series is twofold. First, to describe the phenomenon which is important for universities and for its negative socio-economic implications for the South of Italy. Second, to propose new applications of statistical methods for this topic and applications which can be extended to other forms of migration, too.
Predictors of performance in engineering mathematics
2018
International audience; Mathematics in university courses was identified as a main obstacle for engineering students in the beginning of their study. Since difficulties with mathematics could lead to a dropout, our research aims to analyse students' profiles referring to individual characteristics that allow identifying possible risks for students' achievement or success in the first year of study. As a first step to identify possibly risky profiles, we started to find possible predictors of students' performance. For this, we give a short overview of the research state and our derived research interest. We discuss theoretical constructs that are possibly crucial characteristics of students…