Academic literature on the topic 'Learning Community Culture Indicator (LCCI)'

When it comes to measuring the quality of a school, policy leaders tend to embrace standardized tests as the go-to indicator, whereas parents and community members tend to rely on reputation, word-of-mouth, and what they perceive with their own eyes. The authors suggest a better approach: a new framework that looks at three categories of inputs (the teaching environment, school culture, and resources) as well as two categories of outputs (academic learning and cultivation of student character and well-being). Parents and community members who used the new interactive tool came away with significantly more positive perceptions of unfamiliar schools.

The objectives of this research is to know the characteristics of ethnoscience learning in developing creativity and testing its effect on students' creativity. This type of research is a Quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design. A total of 31-third year students from Physics Education study programs were chosen as the sample of the research through a purposive sampling technique. The data collection methods used were Torrance Test Creative Thinking, creativity questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and documentation. T-test with T-value test by LISREL 8.8 Second-order CFA application was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the ethnographic science learning model is a strategy for creating and designing a learning environment that integrates community culture through environmental studies. Based on the t-test, the indicator of creativity is 4.47, flexibility is 5.22, originality is 4.88, elaboration is 5.96, and redefinition is 6.24, with Ttable of 1,97. It means that ethnoscience learning is effective in increasing student creativity. It is recommended to reconstruct the original science into scientific science to preserve the culture of society which is a challenge in the era of industrial revolution 4.0.

Language gives people the opportunity to express their feelings, desires, thoughts and ideas. Language is a tool, whereby is discovered, acquired, transmitted, stored and inherited knowledge about the world and universe. Language is one of the most significant indicator of linguistics and cultural identity of the language community and individual personality. Language is the carrier of a culture, social behaviour and custom of the respective users. One of the four language skills in the process of learning English, is speaking skill as the first and main form of communication. It occupies a central place in the process of people enlightenment. Information is received, understood and easily processed through speaking or discourse than through writing. The speaking skills are donated to human beings in biological way. Speaking is a vital activity. Meanwhile, the language is a structural model of the system we use to convey our message while we are speaking. This study seeks to assess achievements and to determine the problem areas in the process of learning English speaking skills by high school students overall Kosova, suggesting appropriate recommendations for overcoming obstacles encountered. Thus, through it, are identified communication strategies that second-language learners use, whenever there are discovered linguistics deficiency, as well as difficulties in the process of learning verbal communication; interlinguistisc and intralinguistics communication strategies are revealed, that students use during oral communication, and their skills in the field of discourse are assessed

Race, class, and gender dynamics can result in power differentials and discrimination in organizations. Such deleterious effects are particularly troubling for non-profit agencies with diverse employee and community bases and that endeavor to redress social inequality through service and program provision. Foucault (1975, 1980) as well as Andersen and Collins’s (2007) theories provide a means to conceptualize race, class, and gender as power processes that contribute to the production and maintenance of organizational privilege (unearned benefits and advantages). This study uses bivariate and multivariate analyses and data from five health and human service organizations to assess employee perceptions about dynamics that foster organizational privilege. Modeling results indicate that although organizational position is the most influential indicator in explaining perceptions about participation in decision-making, race is the most important predictor of perceptions about access to learning resources and influential relationships. These results also suggest that formally educated White employees are best positioned to access privilege. Thus, such organizations may be fostering social injustices with detrimental effects for employee culture and the communities they serve.

Historical experience and scientific researches witness that both an individual’s life success and a country’s prosperity and the living standard of population depend not on the quality of education itself, but on its effectiveness. The effectiveness of education, in turn, is determined by a social productivity of science, which can be presented elementarily by such a simple indicator as a number of Nobel laureates. The USA holds the leading place among countries in this area. Thus, the United States is the country that can maximally ensure human development, and most importantly – a realization of human natural gifts and an acquisition of appropriate material welfare. This is evidenced not only by the high level of science development, but also by the phenomenon of a success of a number of immigrant communities compared with the US European population. The most successful ethnic groups in the United States are Jews, Indians, Chinese, Nigerians, Cubans, Iranians and Lebanese. Particularly impressive is the success of the Nigerians and Cubans against a background of comparatively small achievements of the African and Latin Americans. It has been found that all most successful ethnic groups in the USA have three mental traits: a superiority complex, an insecurity, and impulse control. The superiority complex lies in deep inner confidence in an uniqueness of your community compared to others. This confidence can be based on religion, majestic history and culture, origin, and so on. Insecurity means anxiety uncertainty in its significance in society, concern about a lack of results of its activities. Key sources of insecurity are scorn by other communities, fear and parents’ pressure. A scorn by the people of a strange country and its own indignation in this regard may be the most powerful incentive for growth. The second source of the insecurity is fear of being unable to survive in a strange country, which can lead to despair, paralysis of will, capitulation, even shame. But it can also cause a completely different reaction – an urge to rise, earn money, reach power, either to become successful here, or to have same means to escape. The third and most common source of the sense of threat in successful immigrant communities is the pressure from parents to children to be succeed. Parents bring up children's to conviction that success, foremost in learning, is a responsibility of family honor, as well as protection from an uncertain and hostile world. Impulse control means an ability to withstand various temptations, especially the temptation to relinquish difficulty and challenge a difficult task rather than to perform it. No human society can exist without control of impulses. However, it must be remembered that individual control of impulses is just a futile austerity. Success is only possible as a result of combining all three principles – a conviction of superiority, a sense of threat, and an impulse control. Philosophy of a successful life is an extremely effective means of achieving a high social status, if it is important for you. However, it should be used only to succeed. After this it is necessary to get rid of success philosophy, because in the future it can cause a pathological drive to extremes. The experience of bringing up children in the successful communities of America will undoubtedly be useful in the current reforming of Ukrainian education.

The development and implementation of information and technology in education, give an impact to literacy. The implementation of information and technology with literacy is known as digital literacy. Digital literacy not only talks about the skill or competency of using technology as a teacher in the learning process, but how school as a formal education institution can help the students to have digital literacy competency since this skill is needed by the students and teachers who are imposed by the technology as an impact of the pandemic. Schools not only have a responsibility to educate students about digital literacy competency in the learning process, but in all the school aspects must support the implementation of digital literacy. This research wants to explore how digital literacy competency has been implemented at senior high school level in Indonesia. Therefore, this descriptive qualitative research objective is to explore the digital literacy competency implemented at Citra Kasih School in Indonesia. The data collection techniques used in this research were observing and interviewing the principal by asking questions that had passed the validity test. Following the digital literacy competency which was set by Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture (2017), this research explored the implementation of digital competency into three bases, class based, school environment based, and community based. From the research, it can be concluded that Citra Kasih Senior High School has applied three bases of digital literacy competency indicator at school. In the class based, Citra Kasih Senior High School has attended digital literacy training, applied and utilized digital literacy, and understood how to use digital media and the internet. Based on the school environment Sekolah Citra Kasih High School has implemented digital literacy in reading references, book borrowing frequencies, school activity, school policy. School service, and information presentation. However, on community based, Citra Kasih Senior High School has implemented digital literacy in facilities and infrastructure and in the involvement of parents and institutions.

Mastering of new professional practice-oriented competences by library specialists is necessary for achieving positive changes in the cultural space of civil society. The article reveals prerequisites for the development of competence and qualification training of specialists of domestic libraries, mechanisms for strengthening integration of the professional education system and library information sphere. The Federal project “Creative People” within the framework of the National project “Culture” (2019—2024) is considered as a new model of professional development, an indicator of innovative activity of library specialists and consolidation of professional library community. The article presents the additional professional training programs of Krasnodar State Institute of Culture which have been developed taking into account the current trends in the organization of library activities within the frames of the Federal project “Creative People”. Implementation of library’s mission as a socio-cultural institution of society is impossible without a specialist — subject of innovation, strategist and organizer in the field of project management of activity. From this perspective, there was developed additional professional educational program “Innovative project and grant activities of libraries” tailored to top managers, deputy managers, heads of sectors and departments and methodologists of libraries. The article presents the analysis of intermediate results of fulfilment of the program aimed at acquiring new professional competence in the field of development and management of innovative projects in library-information sphere and participation in grant competitions. The author reveals the content of the program modules: innovative development of modern library, technologies of innovative project activity of modern library, grant activity of libraries. The analysis of specific features of full-time and distance learning forms under the program “Innovative project and grant activities of libraries” allows the author to make conclusion about the degree of its implementation as an interactive discussion platform for specialists of libraries of the Russian Federation.

It is the great honor for me to edit proceedings of “8th World Conference on Design and Arts (WCDA- 2019)”, 27 –29 June 2019, Tirana International Conference Centre, Tirana, Albania. This privileged scientific event has been contributing to the field of educational research for eight years. As the guest editor of this issue, I am glad to see variety of articles focusing on Art Management, Art and Corporate Identiy, Art and Media, Art and Advertising Design, Art and Globalization, Civil Society and Art, Community Arts, Experimental Typography, Fashion Design, Game Design and Cinema, Game Design and Art, Gastoronomy and Art, Industrial Design, Interactive Arts, Interactive Sound Design, Interior Design, Jewelry Design, New Media for Learning and Teaching, Packaging Design, Performing Arts, Sonic Sculptures, Sound Installations, Teacher Training, The Science of Arts, Typeface Design, Urban Culture and Art, Visual Culture and Art, etc.. Furthermore, the conference is getting more international each year, which is an indicator that it is getting world widely known and recognized. Scholars from all over the world contribute to the conference. Special thanks are to all the reviewers, the members of the international editorial board, thepublisher, andthose involved in technicalprocesses.Wewouldlike tothank all whocontributed to every process to make this issue actualized. A total of 47 full papers or abstracts were submitted for this conference and each paper has been peer reviewed by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total of 14 high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication. I hope that you will enjoy reading the papers. Best Regards Guest Editors Prof. Dr. Ayse Cakir Ilhan, Ankara University, Turkey Editorial Assistant Zeynep Genc, Phd. Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey

With the spread of COVID-19, the “untact” culture in South Korea is expanding and customers are increasingly seeking for online services. A recommendation system serves as a decision-making indicator that helps users by suggesting items to be purchased in the future by exploring the symmetry between multiple user activity characteristics. A plethora of approaches are employed by the scientific community to design recommendation systems, including collaborative filtering, stereotyping, and content-based filtering, etc. The current paradigm of recommendation systems favors collaborative filtering due to its significant potential to closely capture the interest of a user as compared to other approaches. The collaborative filtering harnesses features like user-profile details, visited pages, and click information to determine the interest of a user, thereby recommending the items that are related to the user’s interest. The existing collaborative filtering approaches exploit implicit and explicit features and report either good classification or prediction outcome. These systems fail to exhibit good results for both measures at the same time. We believe that avoiding the recommendation of those items that have already been purchased could contribute to overcoming the said issue. In this study, we present a collaborative filtering-based algorithm to tackle big data of user with symmetric purchasing order and repetitive purchased products. The proposed algorithm relies on combining extreme gradient boosting machine learning architecture with word2vec mechanism to explore the purchased products based on the click patterns of users. Our algorithm improves the accuracy of predicting the relevant products to be recommended to the customers that are likely to be bought. The results are evaluated on the dataset that contains click-based features of users from an online shopping mall in Jeju Island, South Korea. We have evaluated Mean Absolute Error, Mean Square Error, and Root Mean Square Error for our proposed methodology and also other machine learning algorithms. Our proposed model generated the least error rate and enhanced the prediction accuracy of the recommendation system compared to other traditional approaches.

263 Background: The radiation treatment community has traditionally had a strong focus on the safety and quality of the care provided to cancer patients. Recent well publicized events in the United States and around the world have served to further sharpen this focus and have resulted in the generation of many reports offering advice and recommendations on how we could do better. While advice is plentiful, practical tools for the on-going improvement of safety and quality in radiotherapy are generally lacking. The online Safety Profile Self-Assessment Tool, described here, is being developed to fill this gap. Methods: The tool was built principally on three foundations: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) validated survey tools, an analysis of recommendations in seven recent authoritative documents and the AAPM’s Work Group on the Prevention of Errors “Consensus recommendations for incident learning database structures in radiation oncology”. A core group developed a demonstration version of the tool. Both the content and functionality of this version were extensively discussed and further developed at a Workshop including representatives of ASRT, ASTRO, AAMD and SROA. Iterative refinement of the tool took place after the Workshop. Results: The tool is divided into four major sections: (1) Institutional Culture, (2) Quality Management, (3) Managing Change and Innovation, and (4) Clinical Performance. The fourth section, Clinical Performance, is further subdivided into the major steps in the radiotherapy process. The 90 safety/quality indicators take the form of statements with which the assessor identifies the degree of compliance on a five point Likert scale. An example of a Safety/Quality indicator isClinical staff submits reports of errors and near-misses.The assessor responds to this statement on a scale ranging from “Always” to “Never”. The online tool includes a Safety/Quality Improvement log to facilitate tracking the implementation of remedial actions taken in response to identified system weaknesses. Conclusions: An online tool to facilitate Safety/Quality improvement in Radiotherapy is at an advanced stage of development. The tool will be released for general use in the fall of 2012 and fully evaluated thereafter.

Because of disunity among prominent professional learning community (PLC) authors, experts, and researchers, the literature was studied to develop a ten-element model that represents a unified and reconceptualized list of characteristics of a PLC. From this model, the Learning Community Culture Indicator (LCCI) was developed to measure professional learning community (PLC) implementation levels based on the ten-element model. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed to determine the structural validity of the LCCI. Factor analyses provided successful levels of fit for the models tested in representing the constructs of the LCCI. Reliability measures also indicated high levels of internal consistency among the responses to the survey items. Although some items and elements had moderate levels of fit and need additional revisions and validity testing, the LCCI produced substantial evidence that this survey was a valid and reliable instrument in measuring levels of PLC implementation across the ten elements. Because this research validated the LCCI, school leaders can implement, monitor, and diagnose elements of PLCs in their schools. The LCCI also provides a method in which future research can be conducted to empirically support the influence of PLCs and student achievement. Potential uses and recommendations for further research and consideration are presented. A call for more empirical research is made in connecting the PLC reform model to improved student learning. The theory of PLC is at a point of substantiation and growth. The LCCI is recommended as potential tool for studying and facilitating the implementation of PLCs in schools.

This book is the result of the inter-institutional research project carried out by the Catholic University of Colombia and the University of La Salle. It presents an inter-institutional proposal for the improvement of tutorials as an academic support strategy for the tutoring programs in the areas of Mathematics and Chemistry of both universities. For achieving this, during a period of five years, a mixed research methodology was used. It began with the characterization of the programs based on the review of different documents, as well as the institutional results, and the articulation of these with the theory that founded them. It was found that the two departments of Basic Sciences have understood the tutoring sessions as a space for academic accompaniment in which they seek to improve the academic performance of students, and this as an indicator of learning. This support has been categorized, in both cases, by promoting actions related to the creation of a culture of autonomous work in students and one of participation from teachers. Subsequently, a comparative analysis was carried out between the implemented strategies. And, finally, the incidence of the academic accompaniment strategies was evaluated from the perspective analysis of the academic community.