MUVOT - Establishing an International Vocational Training Program on the Topic of Measurement Uncertainty

Measurement results represent important information, which are necessary for evaluating and improving the quality of manufactured products and to control manufacturing processes. Furthermore, they build the basis for numerous decisions in the field of quality management, process and production automation or product development and design. Knowledge about the acquisition, evaluation and interpretation of measurement data as well as an understanding of the relevant influences on those measurement results are essential for employees working in the field of manufacturing metrology. Measurement results are always afflicted with deviations, due to a variety of causes. It follows that in order to assign a value to the reliability and quality of a measurement result its uncertainty must be determined and considered. However, employees in the field of quality management or metrology are often not familiar with methods for determination and interpretation of measurement uncertainty, because appropriate opportunities for training are missing in current vocational education. This need has led to the creation of the European project MUVoT, which will create a course for advanced vocational training in determining measurement uncertainty. The training course is based on a blended learning concept, combining self-dependent learning via a web-based platform and face-to-face workshops. This allows the adaption of individual knowledge and skills by self-controlled learning of abstract contents whilst the exercises enable the practical application of typical methods, which are generally considered as quite complex by many employees, and thus assure correct understanding. The featured Blended Learning concept facilitates the integration of the training into a workplace setting, thus the idea of Lifelong Learning is promoted in new fields of application. The curriculum and training concept for this newly developed training program have been designed such that the course can be applied internationally. To facilitate this, a harmonized scheme for course structure and contents has been defined albeit with inherent flexibility, allowing the adaptation to specific constraints

Benchmark of structured machine learning methods for microbial identification from mass-spectrometry data

Microbial identification is a central issue in microbiology, in particular in the fields of infectious diseases diagnosis and industrial quality control. The concept of species is tightly linked to the concept of biological and clinical classification where the proximity between species is generally measured in terms of evolutionary distances and/or clinical phenotypes. Surprisingly, the information provided by this well-known hierarchical structure is rarely used by machine learning-based automatic microbial identification systems. Structured machine learning methods were recently proposed for taking into account the structure embedded in a hierarchy and using it as additional a priori information, and could therefore allow to improve microbial identification systems. We test and compare several state-of-the-art machine learning methods for microbial identification on a new Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) dataset. We include in the benchmark standard and structured methods, that leverage the knowledge of the underlying hierarchical structure in the learning process. Our results show that although some methods perform better than others, structured methods do not consistently perform better than their "flat" counterparts. We postulate that this is partly due to the fact that standard methods already reach a high level of accuracy in this context, and that they mainly confuse species close to each other in the tree, a case where using the known hierarchy is not helpful

Supervision of Universal Basic Education Centers in Anambra State, Nigeria: Concept, Challenges and Prospects

Supervision of schools in the UBE programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria is an aspect of quality control. It is bound with the efficiency of learning and improvement of the teaching/ learning services. Quality control of Basic Education centers is closely associated with a vital component of education (Monitoring & Evaluation). Today, ‘Quality Control’ is used more or less as a synonym for supervision or inspection which is within the comprehension of the wider segment of the educated publics. Instructional supervision in Nigeria began as a process of external inspection. In the 18th century, supervision was characterized by inspection for control and was carried out by laymen (Onoyase, 1991). Supervisors were appointed who were clergies and had little or no background on educational administration and management. The priest was made a supervisor of school on the basis of the priesthood belonging. Supervisors were inexperienced in the act of supervision. They had little or no formal training of the ethics, concept and practice of supervision. Until the control of schools by government in 1967, school supervision was left in the hands of the missionaries

Application of the Authentic-UG using Augmented Reality to Support Geometry Learning in Authentic Learning Design.

Development of Authentic-UG adopting augmented reality technology on the Android platform with ARCore SDK that can measure lines and measure angles with high accuracy is an advantage that can be used for learning geometry to students in authentic learning design. Authentic-UG can detailed record each student's learning activities with the xAPI technology, the system also implemented with annotation features to facilitate student for explaining the answers after searching for geometry objects. Authentic-UG has a flexible system with the use of the RESTFUL API protocol that can be connected to the Dashboard-UG system, so that teachers can see each student's process when doing authentic activities. In this study, we developed the Authentic-UG to facilitate student in authentic learning and we investigate the relationship between learning behavior and learning assessment with learning achievement in fourth-grade elementary school students to learn geometry in the concept of angle and the concept of line. The participants of this study with 50 students, divided two groups that 25 students in the experimental group using Authentic- UG and 25 students in the control group for 10 weeks with the same initial prior knowledge between groups. The statistical results after using Authentic-UG in the learning process indicate that the experimental group has a better learning achievement, especially in the skill of estimation ability on geometry objects. The results of authentic work also checking by teacher assessment and peer assessment using scaffolding. Therefore, the most influential learning activities to help estimation ability in the combine topic which combines the angle concept & line concept and also the scaffolding can work well to help peer assessment quality. There is a phenomenon that students only focus on the concept of angle which is shown by the level on the accuracy of angle is more influent than the level of accuracy of the line. Student feel that using Authentic-UG is more happy learning experience because student feel motivated also healthy to active explore to searching geometry object and make measurement in the authentic environment

Developing and perfecting universal cognitive skills of students through integrating scientific knowledge about information in the learning content

The article substantiates the need to integrate the findings of linguistics and information theory for the selection of learning content aimed at developing and perfecting the universal cognitive skills of students of a technical university. Consideration of the concept of information in the learning process, the amount of information, and the quality of information may reveal new insights into the information processes produced by an individual in communication. The authors of the article understand the information process as an action with textual information, leading to its qualitative or formal change with one or another communicative aim.The learning algorithms for working with textual information, proposed by the authors of the article, allow not only to speed up the process of understanding and consolidating the course content but also provide for a self-reflection component of students' activity, which makes it possible to control, correct and modify the algorithm under the influence of changing communication conditions

Developing and perfecting universal cognitive skills of students through integrating scientific knowledge about information in the learning content

The article substantiates the need to integrate the findings of linguistics and information theory for the selection of learning content aimed at developing and perfecting the universal cognitive skills of students of a technical university. Consideration of the concept of information in the learning process, the amount of information, and the quality of information may reveal new insights into the information processes produced by an individual in communication. The authors of the article understand the information process as an action with textual information, leading to its qualitative or formal change with one or another communicative aim.The learning algorithms for working with textual information, proposed by the authors of the article, allow not only to speed up the process of understanding and consolidating the course content but also provide for a self-reflection component of students' activity, which makes it possible to control, correct and modify the algorithm under the influence of changing communication conditions

Efektivitas Pengelolaan Mutu Dosen Perguruan Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri

This research aims to describe and design integrated university governance model which is focused on lecturer quality control. This study reveals that high education shows no integrated governance. The research refers to evaluative study of High Education quality insurance concept. The research used survey approach with qualitative method. The informants in this research are leaders of High Education and lecturers. Results of the research show (1) quality control principles refer to organizational lifecycle concepts namely plan, do, act, check (PDAC); (2) implementation process refers to technical targets such as completeness of formal learning; (3) improvement of lecturer professionalism competence is conducted in the forms of education and training as well as comparative study; (4) monitoring activity on quality improvement evaluation is conducted by weekly routine meeting, mid-semester meeting and beginning of education year meeting. Results of the evaluation are used as the lecturer performance assessment and decision making instrument aspects. Implication of research results are manifested in the form of reward and punishment-based counseling. The research aims to examine the effects of quality control practices in state Islamic high education in Ace

Model Pengembangan Mutu di Lembaga Pendidikan

Improving the quality of education is aimed at improving the quality of Indonesian people through exercise, thinking, sports and sports in order to have competitiveness in facing global challenges. Increasing the relevance of education is intended to produce graduates in accordance with the demands of the needs based on the potential of Indonesia's natural resources. Improving the quality of Islamic education institutions needs to be continuously pursued by prioritizing quality analysis theories and their application in every managerial process. Quality problems always have implications for the selling value of an educational institution. The achievements and prestige of the institution are highly dependent on the quality of learning, facilities and infrastructure, supporting facilities, teachers and students, and learning outcomes. This type of research used in this research is a library (Library Research). This research is aimed at collecting data and information with the help of various materials in the library room, such as books, magazines, document notes and other historical stories. Some of the Quality Concepts put forward by experts, namely the concept of quality according to Joseph Juran with the Theory Juran trilogy, namely Quality planning, Quality control, Quality improvement and the quality concept according to Deming with Teoi POAC and the management cycle which is the reference in quality assurance activities, namely Plan, Do, Check, Action (PDCA). Meanwhile, efforts to improve or develop the quality of education are carried out on improving the quality of educational institutions and improving the quality of educators by using the following strategies: self-evaluation, self-assessment, formulation of vision and mission, planning, implementation and reporting.Keyword: Model, qualit

Improvement of existing coal fired thermal power plants performance by control systems modifications

This paper presents possibilities of implementation of advanced combustion control concepts in selected Western Balkan thermal power plant, and particularly those based on artificial intelligence as part of primary measures for nitrogen oxide reduction in order to optimise combustion and to increase plant efficiency. Both considered goals comply with environmental quality standards prescribed in large combustion plant directive. Due to specific characterisation of Western Balkan power sector these goals should be reached by low cost and easily implementable solution. Advanced self-learning controller has been developed and the effects of advanced control concept on combustion process have been analysed using artificial neural-network based parameter prediction model. (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved