Asia Pacific Journal of Contemporary Education and Communication Technology

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Authors: Muniza Askari

The article deals with the concept of confidence in one’s own abilities under a natural environment. Sixty-six university students are observed over a semester in Economics at the Masters level. Subjective confidence estimates in successfully clearing the course is asked from each student just minutes before the start of three exams, respectively. Feedback was provided in terms of the marks attained after every exam. The students were graded into two groups, i.e., low- and high ability, depending on the percentage marks attained in the very first exam. Some existing results in the literature of Economics and Psychology were re-confirmed, like the availability bias and the Dunning-Kruger effect. The observed bias in confidence judgment estimates are explained by the Bayesian up-dating model by incorporating the element of doubt in one’s prior perceptions. The main contribution of the article is that females, of an underdeveloping country, are found to be persistently under-confident in their own abilities. The result is contrary to what has been reported in the research literature of Economics and Psychology.

32-41

Authors: Dr. Elvira B. Catangay

Geographic location and proximity of schools influence the academic performance of every single learner. Based on the gathered data of the district performance in the last three years, Science, English and Mathematics have become the least performed learning areas. Thorough analysis on the situation is deeply rooted to reading foundation and more so on comprehension aspects. Consistent with the Department of education thrusts in improving the learning output, strengthening the academic tasks has to be institutionalized. This research intends to Strengthen the basics of learning, reading, writing and arithmetic in creative approaches. Adopt extended learning time on academic tasks. Liberate teachers to ascertain desirable learning outcomes in every classroom instruction. Track the learning approaches which define the need of diverse learners. The Pretest-Posttest methodology is utilized to measure the efficacy of the initiated school-based instructional program. This investigation follows the INPUT-PROCESS-OUTPUT conceptual model of continuous improvement and limited to the application of basics learning activities like daily spelling drill, involving basic sight and commonly encountered words in the curriculum, drill on four fundamental operations, on-the-spot test, vocabulary development and ladderized reading in grade one to six learners for the period of six months. (July-December). The increase of 102% of independent readers over pretest-posttest of school years 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 clearly indicates the efficacy of the school-based instructional program.

49-56

Authors: MARLENE EBUENGA-AMORA

This study aimed to determine the interrelationship of teachers’ organizational commitment, teaching efficacy belief, performance level and their pupils’ attitudes towards Mathematics. The descriptive-correlation method was applied to the 377 pupils and 45 Math teachers drawn from Division of Dasmariñas. Also, Likert Scale instruments adapted from Copia (2012) and Paragsa (2014) were used. The study revealed that organizational commitment relates teachers’ performance but not with teaching efficacy belief and pupils’ attitudes in mathematics. However, teachers’ performance is related to teaching efficacy beliefs and pupils’ attitudes in Mathematics. While teaching efficacy beliefs and pupils’ attitude towards mathematics are related, knowing the teachers’ variability along commitment, efficacy beliefs and performance level in relation to pupils’ attitudes is very significant for better understanding the pupils, especially with negative attitudes towards Mathematics. Time constraints were experienced in retrieving CB-PAST, since it is accomplished at the end of school year.

65-72

Authors: T.P. Yum, T.X.P Zou, Q.B. Ye, H. Peng, J.P. Chen

New education technology drives the pedagogical changes nowadays. Teaching and learning collaborations can now be extended beyond institutional boundaries. This study reports a new attempt of cross-institution collaboration in co-teaching a Chinese Medicine course. A Cross-institution Online Problem-based Learning (COPBL) is designed and implemented by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CDUTCM). There are 25 students from HKU and 24 students from CDUTCM who have participated in the COPBL. It is a supplementary component to courses and a sevenstep approach has been adopted. Students work individually and collaboratively with floating-facilitators. The classes are blended with face-to-face and online components. As an initial step to understand the effectiveness of COPBL, this study specifically focuses on students’ use of the discussion forum, which is a key online component in COPBL. There are 91.8% of students who have viewed the discussion forum in total, 839 of view counts in all discussion forums. There are 63 replies recorded in all of the discussion forums. The replies could be identified into following categories, comments (33%), comments and questions (27%), responses (37%), and others (3%).This study has demonstrated that problem-based learning can be conducted in a blended form with traditional classroom teaching methods and well-designed online components. The COPBL offers new possibilities in redesigning pedagogy with new education technology. It could bring our education into a new era surrounded with new learning experiences.

83-89

Authors: Etim P. J., Akpaetor F. Benson

The study was on the use of Power Point Instructional Package on Academic Performance of SS II Agricultural Science students in Ukanafun Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. To undertake the study, two research questions and two research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The quasi experimental design was used to select 90 out of 1621 senior secondary two students for experimental and control. The package for experimentation was developed using the systematic principles and the analysis design and evaluation model that detailed what should be done in the design process. The experimental group was treated to the use of power-point instructional media while the control group was taught using expository strategy. After the exercise, the learners were exposed to Agricultural Science Performance Test (APT) that was validated by experts with reliability co-efficient of .86. The scripts were collected and analysed using mean, standard deviation and t-test statistics. The analysis shows that there was a significant difference in academic performance of students taught using power-point instructional package and those taught without. There was also no significant difference in academic performance of male and female Agricultural science students taught using powerpoint instructional package. Based on these findings, it was recommended that power-point instructional package be integrated in instructional presentations in schools. Also, power-point instructional packages should be used in all schools, irrespective of gender among other recommendations.

97-103

Authors: R S Vignesh Raj, Ashik Ali, Dr. BabakKhazaei

Brahmanism in today's world is largely viewed as a 'caste' within Hinduism than its predecessor religion. This research paper explores the impact and influence religious affiliation could have on using certain advanced technologies such as the voice-to-text. This research paper attempts to reintroduce Brahmanism as a distinct religion and justifies through an empirical study and other literature as to why it is important, more specifically in language-related technology.

114-123

Authors: Indri Agustini, Puspita Kencana Sari

This research was conducted to examine security awareness of the users of Path as one of the social media which is based on demographic aspects. The purpose of this research is to comprehend the level of security awareness by involving the demographic aspects such as gender, age, income, and education background. The variables used are security awareness and demographic. Moreover, the method used in this research is a quantitative descriptive research as the basic foundation for conducting research. The population consists of the social media users of Path with the total sample of 400 respondents, while non-probability sampling is the way to use the sampling technique for these respondents. The data analysis technique in this research is using Crosstab technique and Chi square. The data processing is using Microsoft excel software and SPSS statistics tool version 2.0. The results of this research show that according to factor of gender, the men are more aware about information security. Regarding age factor, respondents within 26-29 year-old are more aware. Furthermore, the respondents which have anincome of>RP.6.000.000 and those with apostgraduate education background show the same result which are more aware about the security awareness. However, there are the obvious differences accordingto gender, age, income, and education background through some items of security awareness such as privacy setting, the limitation of information access, privacy education, sensitiveissue report, information sharing, and responseto threats.

131-141

Authors: Ulaa Al-Haddad, Ghadah Aldabbagh

Through there is an increasing demand for mobile broadband, especially in densely populated areas where there is are lack of cellular spectrum resources, to take more efficient approaches and to take advantage of unused white-spaces are essential. Long Term Evolution (LTE) continues to evolve with higher data rates and improved services, even for the cell edge users as the major aim. In this paper, we present a solution to carry out performance of the fraction frequency reuse (FFR) scheme in an LTE cellular network using TV white space and show that the FFR scheme improves the spectral effectiveness by allowing one out-of-cell interference. Power control system have been used in this simulation in order to enhance the capacity of the cell considering possible network implementation in the densely populated City of Tents Mina.

151-161

Authors: Rokhmatul Insani, Hira Laksmiwati Soemitro

Business Intelligence is a methodology that exploits the data to produce information and knowledge systematically.Business intelligence can support the decision making process. Some methods in business intelligence are data warehouse and data mining. Data warehouse can store historical data from transactional data. For data modelling in data warehouse, we apply dimensional modelling by Kimball. While data mining is used to extract patterns from the data and get insight from the data, Data mining has manytechniques, one of them is segmentation. For profiling of telecommunication customers, we use customer segmentation according to customer’s usage of services, customer invoice and customer payment. Customers can be grouped according to their characteristics and can be identified as the profitable customers. We apply K-Means Clustering Algorithm for segmentation. The input variable for that algorithm we use RFM(Recency, Frequency and Monitary) model. For all the processes in data mining, we use tools IBM SPSS modeller.

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Authors: Kyoung Yeon Kim, Yonghwa Kim, Jaehyun Park, Yoo-Sung Kim

This paper proposes real-time performance evaluation metrics for the object detection and tracking algorithms used in intelligent video surveillance systems. Since an intelligent video surveillance system should support real-time performance, as well as the spatial accuracy of the object detection and tracking, the performance evaluation tool should evaluate not only the spatial accuracy, but also the real-time property. In this paper, a total of eight performance evaluation metrics for the real-time object detection and tracking system have been proposed. The proposed metrics have been designed by combining the degree of precision of the detected objects, the ratio of the incorrectly detected objects, and real-time performance of the algorithm.