Modeling the Critical Success Path of Practitioners’ Support for Student Development in Practitioner–Instructor Collaborations

Purpose: development of recommendations for the study of security-oriented disciplines by students of higher educational institutions. Methodology: Analysis and generalisation of research results regarding the need of higher education students to study security-oriented disciplines. Results: In the conditions of modern warfare, knowledge and understanding of security issues are of critical importance for students of technical specialties. It helps them to be aware of the threats and risks associated with armed conflict and make the right decisions to ensure personal and collective security, and provides the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively respond to emergencies and save lives. Therefore, in the article: information on the state of higher education in Ukraine until February 2022 has been studied and summarised; the need of students of higher technical education to study security-oriented disciplines during the war was investigated; an expert survey was conducted among students who are studying for the Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees of two higher technical educational institutions – the State Higher Educational Institution “Donetsk National Technical University” and Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture. It was established that about eighty percent of the respondents are in favour of mandatory study of security-oriented disciplines during martial law, as an opportunity to ensure their own safety and the safety of others, help others and be useful in war conditions. A new concept of civil security education in higher technical institutions under martial law from the point of view of studying individual disciplines is proposed, which consists of the following: improvement of training plans for higher education applicants. recommendations for students of technical higher education institutions to study the following disciplines (in order of priority): “Life safety”, “Occupational safety”, “Fire safety”, “Civil protection”, “Environmental safety”, “Psychology of hazards”. Mandatory courses for students on pre-medical care, psychological help for themselves and others, military training should be introduced. Scientific innovation: a scientific approach has been developed to clarify the new concept of civil security education in higher technical institutions under martial law. Practical significance: the results of the work can be used in the preparation of educational plans for applicants of higher technical educational institutions.

The rapid development of technology, particularly in the field of social media, has proven beneficial in identifying entrepreneurial opportunities among Higher Education Institutions (HEI) students. Students with heightened entrepreneurial alertness are more attuned to environmental changes that create new business prospects, especially in the evolving technological landscape. However, the entrepreneurial benefits of social media usage are not universally recognized by students. Hence, this study aims to ascertain the level of benefits derived from social media usage, entrepreneurial alertness and opportunities among HEI students. A total of 353 students from public and private HEI in Kelantan participated in this survey-based study, employing questionnaires as the research instrument. Data were analyzed using SPSS 29 software .The study findings reveal that the benefits of social media usage among students are at a high level. Besides, the levels of entrepreneurial alertness and opportunities are moderately high. Moreover, a positive and significant correlation exists between the benefits of social media usage, entrepreneurial alertness, and entrepreneurial opportunities among HEI students. Consequently, proactive measures should be taken by HEI to enhance entrepreneurial education modules in line with current needs. This will ensure that students are more receptive to entrepreneurship, recognizing social media usage as an advantage in creating business opportunities on a broader, global scale.

Purpose This research paper is intended to find out the impact of social media addiction on the academic performance of students pursuing higher education directly and indirectly by means of the mediation role of mental health and emotional distress. By combining psychological and behavioural theories, the study aims to reveal the indirect mechanisms through which overuse of social media influencing the academic performance of students in higher education institutions or universities. Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire was developed and shared with students at various universities in India through a convenience sampling technique. The analysis was conducted using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) in Smart PLS 4. Findings The results reflected that social media addiction has a significant negative direct effect on academic performance and an additional indirect effect and hence results in the deteriorating mental health of students, confirming a psychologically mediated pathway. Practical implications The study offers implications to policy-makers, teachers and counsellors to develop interventions that enhance digital health and emotional wellbeing and thus, improve academic achievements of students. Originality/value The paper is one of the limited empirical studies in the education domain to test a mediation model in which social media addiction predicts academic performance through students’ mental health.

This study attempted to point out the role of social capital and explicit as well as tacit knowledge sharing to build human capital of students in higher educational institution in Indonesia. The research model was adapted and inspired from Aslam et al.'s model, however, we modified knowledge sharing variable by dividing it into two types of knowledge, i.e. explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge. The data collection conducted by spreading online questionnaires to students in several higher educational institutions in Indonesia. As many as 420 valid sample data was used to test hypotheses by using structural equation modeling (SEM). The result shows that the influence of component social factor between tacit knowledge sharing and explicit knowledge sharing is different. The components of social capital that influence to explicit knowledge sharing are shared language, social interaction ties, norm of reciprocity, identification and trust. However, the components of social capital that influence to explicit knowledge sharing are identification, norm of reciprocity, social interaction ties, shared language, shared vision. Moreover, tacit knowledge sharing is more influenced to human capital than explicit knowledge sharing. The result of this research can be used as basic knowledge for system developer to define features of knowledge sharing system in higher educational institution in Indonesia.

Introduction. Nowadays, modern students graduate from higher education institutions in the conditions of unwarranted employment, and they are given full freedom of the professional choice after graduation. The aim of the research is to describe the process of the professional choice among graduates with an accredited bachelor degree as a prognostic task solution. Methodology and research methods. The research is based on the analysis and generalization of research literature on the issues of professional self-determination, the theory of anticipation, forecasting psychology, and modeling of predictive activity at the speech-thought level. The method of experiment was used as an empirical method wherein the predictive task was the stimulus material. Results and scientific novelty. The characteristic of a predictive task is given. The authors’ technique «Predictive Task: Professional Choice» is briefly presented; empirical data on professional intentions of graduates with a bachelors degree were collected during the approbation. The weakest links of the professional choice process among the students are revealed as follows: a lack of relevant system information for implementation of the professional choice; incompleteness of professional self-identification and hypothetical thinking among students during their training in higher education institutions. Thus, the directions of further studies of professional self-determination of university graduates are planned: identification of psychological determinants; comparison of initial attitudes of employment of students of federal and regional higher education institutions; analysis of features of the professional choice of graduates of various specialties. Practical significance. The materials of the present research can form the basis for development of the practical recommendations to optimize pedagogical maintenance of professional self-determination of students of higher education institutions according to their education. In authors’ view, purposeful work on formation of professional identity and training of students in forecasting techniques is in need to reduce the contingent of the graduates who do not plan to find a job according to the specialty. Moreover, such fundamental work could lead to conscious professional self-determination and skills acquisition to cope with various professional tasks.

Background: Psychoactive substances are those substances which have various natural or synthetic compounds that act on the nervous system causing change in the function that regulate thoughts, behavior and emotions. Abuse of such substances involves increasing the risk of injuries, aggressions and the risk of unsafe sexual behaviors. The problem is even worse when it happens among young people such as students of higher educational institutions. Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the magnitude of substance use and factors associated among regular undergraduate students of private higher education institutions from June 2018 up to August 2018 in Adama Town, Oromia, Ethiopia, Method: Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted. Study participants (596) selected using systematic random sampling technique. Data collected using pre-tested self- administered modified WHO Model core questionnaire. The collected data cleaned, coded and entered to Epi-Info 7.2 computer software and analyzed by SPSS version 21.Descriptive statistics used to summarize variables as appropriate. Binary logistic regression used to select variables for multivariable analysis. Result: A total of 596 students participated in the study. The response rate was 100%. Three hundred eighty nine (65.3%) participants were female, Four hundred seventy two (79.2%) were in the age group 18-24 years. Based on this study magnitude of substance use at least for one substance in the last 12 months among the study participants was 33.9% with 95%CI (29.9, 37.6), The most commonly used substance in descending order was Cigarette (7.0%), Khat (6.4%) and Alcohol (3.4%). Based on this study finding all substance use (Cigarette, Khat and Alcohol) together counted (17.1%). Female participation had high significance, family members using substance, believing substance use as good and knowing the risk of substance use also had significance. Based on this study associated factors for substance use showed that to increase work performance 10.2%, to minimize tension 9.7% and due to peer influence 8.7%. Pattern of substance use showed most of the participant’s use substance weekly 14.4%, monthly 7.7%, daily abusers 7.0% and other occasional users were 5.2%. Conclusion: This study showed magnitude 33.9% for at least one substance use for the past 12 months. Family history of students using substance had more significant. Showing the risk of Substance use among study subjects, the created_at of awareness for family members and consistent health education should be continued to fully address the problem of using substance.

The advent of the big data era brings opportunities and challenges to the innovation of mental health education for college students in higher education institutions. In this paper, we monitor the mental health of college students in higher education institutions by collecting students’ consumption data, access control data, network data and historical achievement data, and use a convolutional neural network to extract features from behavioral data and then input the feature set into random forest model for training. The recognition effect of the RF algorithm is analyzed by comparing it with other algorithms, and the problems of college students’ mental health education are analyzed based on the correlation of features. The accuracy of identifying mental health problems of college students based on RF analysis of big data reached 0.72, the recall rate reached 0.58, and the F1-Measure was 0.67. For the correlation of different features, the most significant correlation effect was the time spent in the dormitory on rest days and the number of swiping access cards, with the correlation coefficients reaching 0.2719 and -0.2191, respectively. The analysis based on big data can accurately grasp the current situation and problems of mental health education of college students in higher education institutions and promote the comprehensive development of mental health education of college students.

<p>The article is devoted to the problem of adaptation of first-year students to the conditions for mastering educational programs at the university. It is based on the results of monitoring of students of Russian higher educational institutions within the framework of the research "Change in Composition and Life Priorities of Students of Higher Educational Institutions and Their Social Stability ", executed by the Penza State University of Architecture and Construction. More than 400 students from 13 state universities in 5 federal districts of Russia took part in the monitoring.</p><p>The article features the results of monitoring of Russian students concerning their readiness for higher educational institutions. The results of the monitoring showed that the problem of adaptation of first-year students is a major issue, which still remains a subject for discussions while being the foundation of education in junior courses. The paper defines the concept of adaptation, presents the types and functions of the student's social adaptation and summarizes the conclusions of the study. Some proposals to improve the adaptation of first-year students have been developed and implemented.</p>

Students’ drop out has been one of the challenges in the higher education institutions of Nepal. Compared to boys, the number of girl students’ dropout is more increasing and there might be several contributing factors. In this context, this study explores the factors influencing for the dropout of girl students in higher education in the Gorkha Campus. This study follows the theoretical tenets of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and motivation and engagement. It is a qualitative study. The data was collected from Gorkha Campus where the total girl students of Gorkha Campus constituted the population an only 15 percent dropout students of bachelor’s degree under faculty of education and five teaching faculties of Gorkha Campus (under education stream) were selected as the respondents through random sampling procedure. Open ended interview was used as the tool for the collection of required information. This study has found that personal (student-related) factors, institution related factors, socio-cultural factors and geographical factors play highly significant role in determining girl students’ dropout. The main reasons of girl students’ dropout explored from personal or student related factors were their getting married, low academic achievement in examination, irregularity in classroom; institution-related factors were lack of academic support, feedback, motivation and encouragement from teachers, and problem of institutional information system, and alternative teaching mode; family-related factors were lack of financial support of family and different family problems and at last geographical factor were transportation problem and facility of hostel.

Recently cloud computing services have been adopted by many people and organizations. Google Drive is one of the cloud computing platforms that has gained popularity among students in higher education institutions. This study examines the perceptions and the current usage of Google Drive among students in higher education institutions in Brunei Darussalam. The study adopted the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and two additional factors namely perceived speed of access (PSA) and perceived security (PS). The primary objectives of this research are to explore the factors affecting the usage of Google Drive by the students in higher education institutions in Brunei, to investigate the perceptions of the students on the use of Google Drive and to find whether attitude influences the behavioral intention to use Google Drive among the students. The findings of this study connote that the students’ perceptions on Google Drive have a significant influence towards their attitude to use Google Drive which in turn influence their behavioral intention to use Google Drive in the future.

Results of the study aimed at establishing the types and effectiveness of behavioural adaptation strategies in 358 psychology students studying at the bachelor's, specialist and master's levels are presented. Subject of the study: behavioral adaptation strategy of students of higher education institutions is considered as a stable form of organization of specific behavioral attitudes and actions, providing active mastery of the professional skills with the help of the educational process. The actual (expression of indicators of adaptation to the group and to study) and potential (indicators of professional identity and self-assessment of readiness to work) effectiveness of strategies are offered. Scientific novelty is represented by the studied behavioral adaptation strategies, the proposed indicators of their effectiveness, the established links between the expression of the strategy and its actual and potential effectiveness depending on the course and level of education received. Methods: questionnaire survey; testing (“Adaptation of University students” (T.D. Dubovitskaya, A.V. Krylova); methodology of professional identity research, “MIPI” (L. Schneider); self-assessment of readiness to work in the specialty obtained in higher education institution. As a result, the following strategies were empirically established: search for social and informational support; academic deception; possession of a status position; academic diligence; use of administrative resources; presentation of academic inclusion; academic independence. The dependence of the dynamics of student choice of these or those strategies on the course and level of education received at a higher education institution is shown. It is established that the adaptation strategy chosen by students is selective with regard to its actual and potential effectiveness depending on the level of education received. The results can be useful for teachers, students, higher education institution psychological service specialists and employers.

In 1996 the US construction industry comprised 5.4% of the annual US employment but accounted for 7.8% of nonfatal occupational injuries and illness and 9.7% of cases involving at least a day away from work. Information in the published literature on the disability arising from construction injuries is limited. The construction claims experience (n = 35,790) of a large workers' compensation insurer with national coverage was examined. The leading types and sources of disabling occupational morbidity in 1996 in the US construction industry were identified. Disability duration was calculated from indemnity payments data using previously published methods. The average disability duration for an injured construction worker was 46 days with a median of 0 days. The most frequently occurring conditions were low back pain (14.8%), foreign body eye injuries (8.5%), and finger lacerations (4.8%). Back pain also accounted for the greatest percentage of construction claim costs (21.3%) and disability days (25.5%). However, the conditions with the longest disability durations were sudden-onset injuries, including fractures of the ankle (median = 55 days), foot (42 days), and wrist (38 days). Same-level and elevated falls were the principal exposures for fractures of the wrist and ankle, whereas elevated falls and struck by incidents accounted for the majority of foot fractures. Manual materials handling activities were most often associated with low back pain disability. The results suggest that these most disabling injuries can be addressed by increasing primary prevention resources in slips and falls and exposures related to injuries of sudden-onset as well as in reducing manual materials handling and other exposures associated with more gradual-onset injuries.

By sending out questionnaires to 106 counselors of 98 colleges and universities, panel discussion and interviewing, the authors implement a fairly comprehensive survey on the development of the financial aid system of assisting impoverished students in higher education institutes (HEIs) in China, including national student loans, award fund supported by government, on campus work-study and subsidy, etc. This paper aims at probing into some major problems that exist in this system and offer some suggestions and countermeasures on how to improve and develop the system.

W artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań nad statusem społeczno-ekonomicznym studentów kilku polskich uczelni różniących się pod względem prestiżu. Starano się w nim odpowiedzieć na pytanie: Co sprawia, że dana osoba wybiera studia na tej, a nie innej uczelni wyższej? Pytanie to ma szczególną wagę w kontekście polskiego systemu szkolnictwa wyższego, co do którego uzasadnione wydają się założenia o zróżnicowaniu jakościowym uczelni oraz wynikającym m.in. z umasowienia kształcenia na tym szczeblu zróżnicowaniu społecznym osób podejmujących studia na poszczególnych uczelniach. Dorobek badań nad nierównościami szans edukacyjnych wyraźnie sugeruje, że studenci uczelni o różnym poziomie prestiżu istotnie różnią się pod względem statusu społeczno-ekonomicznego. Potwierdzenie tej hipotezy w zgromadzonych danych pozwoliło na weryfikację kolejnej: można mówić o istnieniu horyzontalnych nierówności w dostępie do szkolnictwa wyższego w Polsce, czyli sytuacji, w której część osób podejmuje studia na uczelniach o niższym prestiżu z powodów innych niż przygotowanie szkolne (spełnianie kryteriów kwalifikacji). Interesujące przy tym jest nie tyle samo odnotowanie tego zjawiska, ile rozpoznanie jego zakresu oraz wywołujących go czynników, a także ich relatywnej siły. Mające temu służyć badanie ankietowe przeprowadzono w drugim kwartale 2015 r. na populacji polskich studentów I i II roku studiów I stopnia w dziedzinie nauk ekonomicznych na uczelniach publicznych i niepublicznych w Polsce.

The work analyzes the features of the language representation of the Russian cultural code in the minds of the youth socio-demographic group based on the results of a sociolinguistic study.Nowadays, the concept of «code» is becoming a subject of study in various humanitarian disciplines as one of the means to understand culture. The relevance of the research topic is determined by the fact that the formation of the Russian culture code in the field of constructing national identity is one of the key features of the civilizational development of Russian society and the state in modern social and political dynamics. In the global world with its high degree of uncertainty and dynamism, the state and society are faced with new challenges, the main goal of which is the transformation of traditional models of functioning. The latter require adaptation to domestic politics in order to ensure the stability of the political system and preserve national unity.The aim of the study is to identify the structure of language representation of the Russian culture code in the consciousness of a youth socio-demographic group (students of Kursk higher educational institutions of aged from 17 to 20), and also to determine the specifics of the verbalation of components of the Russian culture code.The research methods are: descriptive, comparative, statistical, content analysis (method), definition analysis, questionnaire. The research was based on the answers received during the sociolinguistic study among 124 students of higher education institutions in Kursk.As a result of the experimental study (work, research), the components of the concept of ‘culture code’ in the respondents’ minds were identified. During the survey, the structural components of the language (linguistic) representation of the Russian culture code in the youth environment were determined. It has been established that the most significant means of objectification of the studied phenomenon are tropes.