Penerapan Model Kirkpatrick untuk Evaluasi Program Diklat Teknis Subtantif Materi Perencanaan Pembelajaran di Wilayah Kerja Provinsi Kepulauan Riau

Evaluasi yang mengunakan Model evaluasi Kirkpatrick dengan 4 level (Kirkpatrick Four Levels Evaluation Model) dilakukan bertujuan untuk mengetahui efektivitas program Diklat Teknis Subtantif Materi Perencanaan Pembelajaran di Wilayah Kerja Provinsi Kepulauan Riau. Data diperoleh melalui instrumen observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi serta dianalisis menggunakan teknik deskriptif kualitatif. Wawancara dilakukan kepada peserta diklat, atasan peserta diklat yakni kepala madrasah, dan teman sejawat peserta diklat yakni guru. Hasil evaluasi ini adalah bahwa penilaian pada level 1 reaksi, hasil reaksi peserta terhadap panitia penyelenggara dan narasumber sangat tinggi. Hanya perlu perhatian persiapan bahan materi pelajaran perlu disiapkan di awal diklat dan perlengkapan ATK (alat tulis kantor) seperti flashdisc perlu di cek kembali. Pada level 2 belajar, kemampuan kompetensi sikap, pengetahuan, dan keterampilan peserta sangat signifikan penilaiannya. Pada level 3 perilaku, pelaksanaan evaluasi dilakukan setelah peserta kembali ke tempat kerjanya masing-masing. Ada peningkatan Perubahan perilaku dari alumni diklat dari sebelum diklat dan setelah diklat. Perubahan perilaku seperti kedisiplinan kehadiran, cara berpakaian, memotivasi teman sejawat, berkomunikasi dengan baik, serta ketepatan dan kecepatan menyelesai tugas-tugas sehari-hari. Pada level 4 dampak, ada peningkatan kinerja alumni diklat. Alumni mampu membimbing dan mendesiminasi ilmu yang telah didapat dari diklat kepada sesama teman sejawatnya, mampu mengembangkan metode dan media pembelajaran dalam proses belajar mengajar, dan pembuatan Rancangan Program Pembelajaran (RPP) menjadi lebih baik

Pre-Service Teachers’ Use of Dynamic Discourse Variables During Classroom Teaching

The aim of this study is to examine the nature of questioning in primary classrooms taught by teacher candidates. The participants were 39 teacher candidates enrolled in the Department of Primary Education at a large university in Western Turkey as well as 3rd and 4th-grade students in four schools located in the area. Each teacher candidate has taught a course she or he selected from Mathematics, Science, Turkish or Social Sciences subjects for about 35-40 minutes and these courses have been recorded by a video camera. Classroom discourse has been transcribed into MS Word file. Questions of teachers and students and evaluation of student answers have been analyzed by the researcher using discourse analysis techniques. Descriptive statistics on number and types of questions and types and frequency of evaluation was determined using SPSS 18. It has been observed that while teacher candidates used numerous low-level questions in the classroom, they did not use high-level questions and task-related questions sufficiently. This may be due to not utilizing activities frequently or time management issues. It has been found that teacher candidates use significantly more lower-level evaluations in classrooms. Higher order teacher and student questions were observed in Science more compared to other subjects. This may stem from the fact that science classes cater to the curiosity of students and are directly related to their daily life. Findings indicate that teacher candidates are open to development in asking higher-level questions, high-level evaluation and promoting students to ask higher level questions. It is recommended to emphasize the importance of question and evaluation types, high-level questions and evaluations and student questions during teaching courses in education programs. Keywords: Question types, evaluation types, classroom discourse, IR

Faun Tail Nevus and Spinal Dysraphism: Cosmetic Improvement with Alexandrite Laser Epilation

Faun-tail presents as an abnormal lumbosacral hypertrischosis and may be associated with spinal dysrasphism. In addition to the problems due to spinal anomalies, patient's physico-social life may also be affected. Here, we report a case of 13 years old female patient with Faun-tail in association with sypinal dysraphism, in which cosmetic improvement was achieved with the help of Alexandrite laser. Alexandrite laser can be the method of choice for permanent hair removal method due to its safe, effective and easy to apply properties

Epidemiology of pemphigus in Turkey: One-year prospective study of 220 cases

Pemphigus is a group of rare and life-threatening autoimmune blistering diseases of the skin and mucous membranes. Although they occur worldwide, their incidence shows wide geographical variation, and prospective data on the epidemiology of pemphigus are very limited. Objective of this work is to evaluate the incidence and epidemiological and clinical features of patients with pemphigus in Turkey. All patients newly diagnosed with pemphigus between June 2013 and June 2014 were prospectively enrolled in 33 dermatology departments in 20 different provinces from all seven regions of Turkey. Disease parameters including demography and clinical findings were recorded. A total of 220 patients were diagnosed with pemphigus during the 1-year period, with an annual incidence of 4.7 per million people in Turkey. Patients were predominantly women, with a male to female ratio of 1:1.41. The mean age at onset was 48.9 years. Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) was the commonest clinical subtype (n=192; 87.3%), followed by pemphigus foliaceus (n=21; 9.6%). The most common clinical subtype of PV was the mucocutaneous type (n=83; 43.2%). The mean Pemphigus Disease Area Index was 28.14±22.21 (mean ± Standard Deviation).  The incidence rate of pemphigus in Turkey is similar to the countries of South-East Europe, higher than those reported for the Central and Northern European countries and lower than the countries around the Mediterranean Sea and Iran. Pemphigus is more frequent in middle-aged people and is more common in women. The most frequent subtype was PV, with a 9-fold higher incidence than pemphigus foliaceus.   </p

Design, Performance, and Calibration of the CMS Hadron-Outer Calorimeter

The CMS hadron calorimeter is a sampling calorimeter with brass absorber and plastic scintillator tiles with wavelength shifting fibres for carrying the light to the readout device. The barrel hadron calorimeter is complemented with an outer calorimeter to ensure high energy shower containment in the calorimeter. Fabrication, testing and calibration of the outer hadron calorimeter are carried out keeping in mind its importance in the energy measurement of jets in view of linearity and resolution. It will provide a net improvement in missing \et measurements at LHC energies. The outer hadron calorimeter will also be used for the muon trigger in coincidence with other muon chambers in CMS

Optimasi Portofolio Resiko Menggunakan Model Markowitz MVO Dikaitkan dengan Keterbatasan Manusia dalam Memprediksi Masa Depan dalam Perspektif Al-Qur`an

Risk portfolio on modern finance has become increasingly technical, requiring the use of sophisticated mathematical tools in both research and practice. Since companies cannot insure themselves completely against risk, as human incompetence in predicting the future precisely that written in Al-Quran surah Luqman verse 34, they have to manage it to yield an optimal portfolio. The objective here is to minimize the variance among all portfolios, or alternatively, to maximize expected return among all portfolios that has at least a certain expected return. Furthermore, this study focuses on optimizing risk portfolio so called Markowitz MVO (Mean-Variance Optimization). Some theoretical frameworks for analysis are arithmetic mean, geometric mean, variance, covariance, linear programming, and quadratic programming. Moreover, finding a minimum variance portfolio produces a convex quadratic programming, that is minimizing the objective function ðð¥with constraintsð ð 𥠥 ðandð´ð¥ = ð. The outcome of this research is the solution of optimal risk portofolio in some investments that could be finished smoothly using MATLAB R2007b software together with its graphic analysis