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Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) interests among young people has to be raised gradually. Incremental building of SET image for young people means employing several tools. One of them is educational background to be perceived by future students as attractive. This perception was observed in two case studies at secondary schools of technical and non-technical programe. It was the aim of the survey to gather and analyze the data about the perceptions concerning the SET issue. The objects of interest had bee...

Vocabulary selection for training purposes is one of the most significant and difficult factors because the program developer has to select the set of words relevant for the aims of the course. Selected vocabulary should ensure the development of speech abilities and skills within certain number of academic hours. Internationalism are helpful for demonstrating and testing pronunciation rules in the language since it is always a pleasure for a trainee to work on pronunciation words that he understands. We can use t...

English for Academic Purposes is a necess ity in quite a large number of companies. Compared to General English, English for Academic Purposes has its own characteristics which are taken into consid eration when developing the syllabus. This paper focuses on academic use of English which is required in certain companies as a part of professional development program.

Compared with other industries, construction is one of those that actually give contribution to the gradual damage of the environment and is one of the most dangerous sectors in field of occupational health and sa fety. Construction process at the site is not by nature environmentally fr iendly activity and all the s ector is one of the most physically demanding and risky sectors. Many existing researches suggest that construction activity is one of the major contributors to the environmental impacts which are typ...

Introduction And Purpose Environmental environment is defined as “a human notices significance of his/her relation with the envi ronment in terms of hi s/her existence”. In the society, several professional groups are of extreme importance for increasing awareness of subjects and leading to behavi or changes. Environmental behaviors of physicians having substantial effects on public health and education are important for social awareness. This study is conducted in order to assess environmental behaviors of st...

Introduction and Purpose: Environment is multi-dimensional notion that it has cultural, political, economic, ecologic, social and psychologi cal dimensions in addition to nature-related dimension. Impacts of environmental problems and negative consequences of those impacts on the society increases importance of subject’s knowledge, awareness, attitude s and behaviors. Knowledge on environmental views of doctor candidates and arranging education programs accordingly will make contribution to the solution of the p...

This Article presents a new follow-up Master 's degree course, the European School for brownfield redevelopment, which proposes to prepare graduates - Brownfield Managers - experts in the field of Renewal and Redevelopment of brownfields and "Derelict Lands" in different states of the European Union.

Recognizing the desirability of reaching out to new students and enga ging in innovative pedagogical approaches, academic staff continues to prefer traditional lectures, skeptical about the potential for student learning in online settings. There are also fears of loss of academic control to central administration. There are drivers and barriers which increase or decrease motivation to engage in e-learning, and provides some insights into the challenges of embedding e-learning in higher education. The most importa...

The aim of this paper is to review and identify the correlation among students’ anger, aggression and students’ performance. These concepts also have an important role in one’s daily life. This research aimed at exploring the relationship among students’ anger, aggression and students’ performance i nventories. To this end, a research has been conducted on the students of vocational st udies (n=184) in Istanbul. According to the results, a weak relationship (r<0,38) was revealed between students’ anger...

As far as technical education is concerned the lack of motivation plays a significant role in terms of academic achievement and failure within the concept of language learning and teaching. In order to supply a valid source of reference for the language teacher, we, at the V ocational School of Technical Studies, have conducted a survey to find out the effects of emotional and social skills of the learners, paying particular attention to the academic achievement, emotional intelligence and social skills and found ...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the correlation betw een students’ creativity and students’ performance at vocational studies. The research seeks to define educational performance by considering multidimensional nature of creativity. This research aimed at exploring the re lationship between self-esteem and academic performance by using creativity inventory. To this end, a research has been conducted on the students of vocational studies (n=312 ) in Istanbul. According to the results, a weak relationship (...

The importance of understanding the impact of digital competence has gravitated from the global business management to traini ng activities. The world is becoming a small village by means of digital t echnological environment. Digital competency plays a key role in people’ social, edu cational and occupational lives. When digital empowerment data gathered from participant were analyzed with respect to the sub dimensions such as awareness, motivation, technical access and digital competence. Many findings may be ...

The article deals with the utilization of electronic documentation and video presentation at the teaching on universities. The utilizatio n of the electronic study materials in PDF format with virtual interactive models enables to students not only better visualisation of the task which is being, but it enables to understand the problems and to obtain the geometrical data without their text or di mensional descriptions, too. Creation and utilization of DVD guides is the next step of the improvement of educ ational...

The article deals with the kinematics analys is of crank mechanism realized by three methods followed by comparison of achieved results. The crank mechanism is the most commonly used mechanism in practice; it is the part of the various machines and almost every car. It belongs to the fundamental mechanisms whereon the kinematic characteristics of mechanism are investigated by students on FMT TU KoЕЎice with seat in PreЕЎov within the scope of Technical mechanics lessons. Ar ticle hints as the utilization of suitab...

University accreditation is also an important mechanism for protecting the consumers of higher education, as well as an accountability factor to higher education providers. In Romania, the quality assura nce system has exercise d pressures towards the homogenization of hi gher education. By the nature of standards and quality indicators used, but also by his philosophy, quality a ssurance has encouraged higher education institutions to comply, both in content an d in the processes of relatively rigid institutional...

Wages and rewarding in the labour-intensive tourism sector are not only motivating for workers but also influential in helping them to cling to lif e and their work. In tourism sector, like in all sectors, worker satisfac tion is reflected on the enterprise. Wage awards lead to the satisfaction of workers in the tourism sector a nd especially in large accommodation enterprises. When we look at the same wage awards from the point of view of employers, we see that they are regarded as expense item. Wage awards, whic...