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IMPROVING SPEAKING SKILL BY USING FISHBOWL TECHNIQUE TO THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF MTS PLUS BAHRUL ULUM ISLAMIC CENTRE SUNGAILIAT

The objectives of the study were to explain the implementation of fishbowl technique in improving speaking skill and to find out there was any significant difference speaking skill between students who were taught by using fishbowl technique and students who were taught by non-fishbowl technique at Mts Plus Bahrul Ulum Islamic Centre Sungailiat. The samples were 67 students that were taken from the second year students of eight classes of Mts Plus Bahrul Ulum Islamic Centre Sungailiat. The samples were VIII D as experimental group and VIII C as control group. The result of the test was analyzed by using statistical analysis of Paired sample t-test and Independent sample t-test. Based on Paired Sample T-Test, it could be seen that the mean difference of pre-test and post-test in experimental group was -50.48, while the mean difference of pre-test and post-test in control group was -31.50. In addition, the result of difference analysis in post-test of experimental and control group showed that the value of to obtained was 11.15 which exceed the critical value of t-table 2.00 (at the significant level p<0.05 in two tailed testing with degree of freedom 65). It means that the null hypothesis was rejected and the research hypothesis was accepted. The result of this study revealed that the post-test scores were better than the pre-test scores of experimental group. It could be seen by comparing their means. The mean of the pre-test scores was (12.27) while the mean of the post-test scores was (62.75). In line with the result, the researcher suggests that the fishbowl was one of the effective techniques to increase students’ enthusiasm in learning English. This result hopefully would motivate the English teachers of Mts Plus Bahrul Ulum Islamic Centre Sungailiat

The Transparency President? The Obama Administration and Open Government

President Obama has trumpeted transparency as a major part of his reform agenda, promising an unprecedented degree of governmental openness and overseeing a variety of open government reforms, from changes in Freedom of Information Act policies to the creation of new websites like Recovery.Gov. Although transparency is politically popular, and the Obama Administration benefits in the short run by contrasting itself with the Bush Administration\u27s reputation for secrecy, in the long run President Obama\u27s rhetoric on openness in government may backfire politically. Too much emphasis on making government a fishbowl will only raise expectations about an unattainable or undesirable level of openness. Transparency has clear benefits but it also has its costs, as when, for example, the prospect of disclosure dampens internal deliberation and self-criticism by government officials. The real choice for government, then, is how much transparency, and what type, to offer over different processes. The Obama Administration has already found itself needing to make tradeoffs and place limits on transparency, and it is likely to continue to do so in the years to come. Yet members of the public, and certainly open-government activists, are unlikely to appreciate the need for making such tradeoffs, generating disappointment among the administration\u27s supporters and charges of hypocrisy by its opponents. It remains unclear whether Barack Obama will ultimately earn the mantle of the transparency president - or whether the unrealistic hopes for openness in government he has raised will, when unfulfilled, only serve to reinforce public cynicism about government

The Transparency President? The Obama Administration and Open Government

President Obama has trumpeted transparency as a major part of his reform agenda, promising an unprecedented degree of governmental openness and overseeing a variety of open government reforms, from changes in Freedom of Information Act policies to the creation of new websites like Recovery.Gov. Although transparency is politically popular, and the Obama Administration benefits in the short run by contrasting itself with the Bush Administration\u27s reputation for secrecy, in the long run President Obama\u27s rhetoric on openness in government may backfire politically. Too much emphasis on making government a fishbowl will only raise expectations about an unattainable or undesirable level of openness. Transparency has clear benefits but it also has its costs, as when, for example, the prospect of disclosure dampens internal deliberation and self-criticism by government officials. The real choice for government, then, is how much transparency, and what type, to offer over different processes. The Obama Administration has already found itself needing to make tradeoffs and place limits on transparency, and it is likely to continue to do so in the years to come. Yet members of the public, and certainly open-government activists, are unlikely to appreciate the need for making such tradeoffs, generating disappointment among the administration\u27s supporters and charges of hypocrisy by its opponents. It remains unclear whether Barack Obama will ultimately earn the mantle of the transparency president - or whether the unrealistic hopes for openness in government he has raised will, when unfulfilled, only serve to reinforce public cynicism about government

Using Dialogue to Engage Agricultural Audiences in Cooperative Learning About Climate Change: A Strategy with Broad Implications

Dialogue with stakeholders has been recognized as an effective educational strategy for addressing complex topics such as climate change. We report here on the Carbon, Energy, and Climate fishbowl discussion series developed by Michigan State University Extension to assist the state\u27s agricultural community in understanding and adapting to the changing climate. Facilitated dialogue reduced barriers to communication and promoted cooperative learning for target audiences and the project team, generating useful information on the current status of climate change adaptation within Michigan\u27s agriculture sector and revealing needs to be addressed by future Extension programming. Using a dialogue-based approach such as the one we describe can highlight challenges and opportunities Extension faces in addressing various complex issues with diverse audiences

Building Student Teams: A Self-Managed Work Team (SMWT) Cooperative Learning Model

This paper examines the team formation process which can beemployed when utilizing group projects in information system (IS) classes. The paper presents a model for building team skills, creating positive interdependence, individual accountability, and group accountability, thus increasing team effectiveness. This model has been successfully employed in fifteen system analysis and design, software engineering, and business information system classes in which team projects were utilize

Multi-Head CNN based Software Development Risk Classification

Agile methodology for software development has been in vogue for a few decades, notably among small and medium enterprises. The omission of an explicit risk identification approach turns a blind eye to a range of perilous risks, thus dumping the management into strenuous situations and precipitating dreadful issues at the crucial stages of the project. To overcome this drawback a novel Agile Software Risk Identification using Deep learning (ASRI-DL) approach has been proposed that uses a deep learning technique along with the closed fishbowl strategy, thus assisting the team in finding the risks by molding them to think from diverse perspectives, enhancing wider areas of risk coverage. The proposed technique uses a multi-head Convolutional Neural Network (Multihead-CNN) method for classifying the risk into 11 classes such as over-doing, under-doing, mistakes, concept risks, changes, differences, difficulties, dependency, conflicts, issues, and challenges in terms of producing a higher number of risks concerning score, criticality, and uniqueness of the risk ideas. The descriptive statistics further demonstrate that the participation and risk coverage of the individuals in the proposed methodology exceeded the other two as a result of applying the closed fishbowl strategy and making use of the risk identification aid. The proposed method has been compared with existing techniques such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), Generalized Linear Models (GLM), and CNN using specific parameters such as accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity. Experimental findings show that the proposed ASRI-DL technique achieves a classification accuracy of 99.16% with a small error rate with 50 training epochs respectively

Improving Students’ Confidence and Competence Using Critical Media Literacy Skills in a Secondary English Language Arts Class

This is a dissertation for a six-week action research study that investigated how self-regulated learning strategies can affect students’ perceived and demonstrated critical abilities in discussing informational media texts in the secondary ELA classroom. This dissertation examines topical research, gaps in the literature, and theoretical frameworks to justify the study. The qualitative action research study implemented a version of the Article of the Week program alongside self-regulated learning (SRL) and student-led discussion strategies to collect data on students’ self-reported levels and observed critical media literacy (CML) skills. The purpose of this study was to build upon existing research on SRL, critical media literacy, and student discussions; a key component of this research is that it includes students’ self-reported data on their perceived critical abilities. This study also sought to add scholarly research to the practice of Article of the Week. The findings are consistent with the existing literature on self-efficacy that states that repeated practice can increase self-efficacy levels. It also demonstrates the usefulness of implementing SRL strategies in the secondary ELA classroom

CHIPS Science Investigation: Exploring the Interstellar Medium

This booklet describes the interstellar medium and the local bubble that is being studied by NASA’s Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) satellite. It contains review questions and problems for students, plus two activities to help to understand some of the concepts discussed. Educational levels: High school, Undergraduate lower division