Pub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340476
Jan Uriel A. Marcelo, Aryan Arora
The project began with the researchers trying to see how each gender assimilates learning based on visuospatial and verbal memory of selected Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) adolescents. The project was based from other studies as well as Bem's Gender Schema Theory. The participants included in this project were from the ages of 16–19 years old in Grades 11 and 12. The researchers used the brain training app Peak to be able to measure each participant's capacity for both visuospatial and verbal memory. After measuring the scores and determining the mean for each gender, there seemed to be no significant advantage found by either gender in both male and females, contrary to most found results from other studies. While the female participants tested did have a better mean score than males on both memory tests, the difference found was not significant enough based on the results of the both two sample z-tests, with the results being −0.43 for visuospatial and 1.63 for verbal, which did not meet the required z-score of 1.645 to reject the null hypothesis. Given the opportunity to have access to more resources and time, the researchers plan to continue the study to include other testing methods and not limited to brain training apps in order to come up with more conclusive findings.
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Pub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340474
John Lorenzo E. Cardino, Gian Carlo D. C. Gutierrez
This research studies the effect of physical activity on a STEM student's sleep quality through a comparison between STEM student athletes and non-athletes. A total population of sixty-three participants was surveyed and randomly sampled from the Grade 12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Strand of a private school for boys in the Philippines. The researchers gathered data using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (Buysse et al., 1989) that assesses the sleep quality of an individual through several components that produce a score ranging from 0–21 with a score of five and below indicating good sleep quality. Athletes obtained a mean score of 7.42 while non-athletes showed a mean score of 7.91. Based on the limited data gathered, it was concluded that both STEM student athletes and non-athletes do not receive good sleep quality despite the physical activity engaged by athletes. Furthermore, using the statistical test: Z Test for two sample means, the researchers concluded that there was no significant difference in the sleep quality of student athletes and non-athletes. The study tends to suggest that changes to students' lifestyles need to be considered to obtain a satisfactory performance in school work. The researchers recommend that other factors affecting a person's sleep quality be considered.
本研究通过比较STEM学生运动员和非运动员，研究体育活动对STEM学生睡眠质量的影响。共有63名参与者接受了调查，并从菲律宾一所私立男孩学校的12年级科学、技术、工程和数学系随机抽样。研究人员使用匹兹堡睡眠质量指数(Buysse et al.， 1989)收集数据，该指数通过几个组成部分来评估个人的睡眠质量，得分范围从0-21分，5分及以下表示睡眠质量良好。运动员的平均得分为7.42分，非运动员的平均得分为7.91分。根据收集到的有限数据，得出的结论是，尽管运动员进行了身体活动，STEM学生运动员和非运动员都没有获得良好的睡眠质量。此外，通过对两个样本均值进行统计检验:Z检验，研究人员得出学生运动员和非运动员的睡眠质量没有显著差异。该研究倾向于表明，要想在学业上取得令人满意的成绩，需要考虑改变学生的生活方式。研究人员建议考虑影响一个人睡眠质量的其他因素。
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Pub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340462
S. Gokhale
Most undergraduate computing students have limited professional software development experience due to which they lack the motivation to study software engineering, which is a mandatory course in their curricula. To compensate for this inherent lack of motivation, instructors of introductory software engineering courses continually devise novel strategies to enhance the appeal of SE education. These strategies seek to tie key SE concepts to industrial practices as well as students' real-life experiences. This paper presents one such approach; it leverages the prevailing reality that most computing students are now avid users of software technology. The approach consists of developing “focused questions”, where each question pertains to a specific SE concept, technique, or a best practice. Students are then asked to find evidence that illustrates this concept from their everyday encounters with technology. This paper analyzes the students' responses from two such focused questions. The analysis finds the students' responses to be thoughtful, broad, diverse, well rationalized, nuanced and deeply anchored in their own personal experiences. Moreover, the responses also highlight the students' knowledge and awareness of how software is now an integral part of the social and cultural landscape. Finally, anecdotal comments written by the students while reviewing the course at the end of the semester indicate that the students received this focused question approach in a positive light. They view it as a way to bring realism into the classroom, to keep them engaged and to encourage class participation.
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Pub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.1109/isecon.2018.8340481
Aaron Zakon
My invention is the Thermo Vest — a dog vest with an attached thermometer to notify you of the dog's temperature. Because of the thermometer that we used you can check the temperature of the dog via Bluetooth connection to your phone. This invention is to help owners keep track of their working or service dog's temperature so they do not over heat. There were four main steps to creating this vest; identifying a problem, researching a solution, testing out the design, and building a prototype. The FIRST® Lego® League (FLL) team that I was on generated the idea. FIRST Lego League is a STEM program that has three main parts: robot game, research project, and core values. Each year the project and robot game have a theme. Two years ago, it was Animal Allies, and while researching that theme, we identified the overheating of working dogs as a problem we wanted to solve.
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