FoE UIII Master's Student Awarded Best Paper at ANU Religion Conference in Australia
FoE UIII Master's Student Awarded Best Paper at ANU Religion Conference in Australia
April 28, 2023
Contributor: Dadi Darmadi | Editor: Supriyono
The conference, organized by the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, brought together 102 participants from approximately 20 different countries, including the USA, UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, Iran, Pakistan, Nigeria, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Taiwan, China, and Korea. The attendees included professors, lecturers, PhD candidates, and representatives from various associations.
Mariam's paper stood out among the impressive presentations, earning her two awards: “the Best Paper Award” and “the Student Bursary in Recognition of Outstanding and Active Participation” at the Conference. The former comes with a certificate of appreciation and 500 Australian dollars, while the latter includes 200 Australian dollars and an award certificate.
Mariam's success at the conference was made possible by the support of her UIII Faculty and Campus, who provided both material and other forms of assistance. Mariam feels grateful to have had the opportunity to attend such a prestigious international conference, and her experience highlights the benefits of her rigorous education at UIII's Faculty of Education. As Mariam continues her studies and research, she is confident in her ability to compete internationally and contribute to the field of critical thinking instruction in Islamic higher education.
Determination and Hardwork
Growing up in the remote area of Jasinga, Bogor, West Java, Mariam Ulpah faced many challenges in pursuing her dream of receiving a higher education. Her family had an irregular income, and her parents had the old-fashioned belief that women should only return to the kitchen and that higher education was not important. Therefore, she had to compete for scholarship opportunities to attend school.
With her determination and hard work, she was able to complete six years at the Ummul Quro Al Islami Islamic Boarding School in Leuwiliang, Bogor, with the help of a portion of the Outstanding Santri Scholarship. She then went on to pursue a double degree at two different universities in Jakarta, Al-Azhar Indonesia University majoring in Arabic literature and the Department of International Relations at Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta.
Despite the financial and cultural barriers, she excelled in her studies and even received cum laude honors for her double degree. Her thesis titles were "Honorifics Social Deixis in the Novel Imraatun Inda Nuqtotis Sidr by Nawal El Saadawi" and "Factors Pushing Turkey in Intervening in the Mosul War in Northern Iraq in 2014-2016." She also had the opportunity to study Arabic literature at the University of Tunis in Tunisia and even worked as part of the Media and Publication team at the Indonesian Embassy in Tunis.
Her story is a testament to the power of perseverance and the importance of education. Despite facing significant obstacles, she never gave up on her dream of receiving a higher education. With the help of scholarships and her own hard work, she was able to overcome financial and cultural barriers and achieve her goals. Her story is an inspiration to many who face similar challenges in pursuing their dreams.
Push Your Potential to the Max!
Mariam Ulpah is a first-generation master's program student at the Faculty of Education at the Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII). Being part of the first batch made her want to show that she was capable of finishing what she started and become a source of pride for the Faculty in particular and the Campus in general, despite the burden of being the first batch.
Before she became a UIII student, she had her own insecurities about her abilities and potential. At the beginning of college, she found it difficult to cope with the heavy and endless assignments. However, as time and semesters passed, she experienced a drastic and significant change where writing in English was no longer a burden and reading materials in English became a daily routine that didn't take long to comprehend.
She is grateful and appreciative of being a part of the UIII's first batch, especially in the Faculty of Education. The teachings and challenging assignments have helped her to become more confident and achieve more than she ever thought possible. She believes that her current achievements are the result of the sincerity of the lecturers at the Faculty and the staff who always go the extra mile to help their students.
To all the potential UIII students, she is confident that they will never regret being a part of this institution. The learning and socializing atmosphere on this campus is warm and feels like a family. The environment and the international friends make for a unique experience. Apart from academic matters, non-academic aspects will also be found on this campus. One of the things she enjoys is the opportunity to expand her network of great scholars both in Indonesia and abroad.
UIII offers something that she has never experienced before in any other institution. Being a UIII student is a major and special achievement for her. She is certain that the institution will help its students to be more courageous and confident to compete on the international stage.
Her message to fellow students is that making good history wherever they are is one of the foundations of success. They should keep growing, push their potential to the max, never feel satisfied, and keep reading and writing. If they feel challenged by very heavy assignments, they should be grateful because it means that the lecturers love their students.
The relationship between school climate and students’ non-cognitive skills: A systematic literature review
Zynuddin, S.N., Kenayathulla, H.B. and Sumintono, B. (2023). The relationship between school climate and students’ non-cognitive skills: A systematic literature review. Heliyon, Volume 9 (4), e14773, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14773
A B S T R A C T
The school climate plays a substantial part in student development. A positive and nurturing school climate encourages the growth of all-rounders and holistic individuals. Past literature has highlighted several domains related to the school climate, including academic performance, wellbeing, student engagement, attendance in school, delinquent behaviors, bullying, and school safety. However, little is known about the development of other related domains, like noncognitive skills, in school. The purpose of the study is to review the linkages of school climate with the development of students’ non-cognitive skills. The current study employs a systematic literature review that adheres to PRISMA to determine the association between school climate and students’ non-cognitive skills. First, this study conducted three stages of rigorous and systematic searching: identification, screening, and eligibility. As a result of the search, this study identified 65 relevant articles from Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect as the leading databases and Google Scholar and Dimension. ai as supporting databases. Next, the current study highlights five clusters based on the analysis of network visualization by the VOSviewer software. These clusters are: the non-cognitive skills’ intrapersonal and interpersonal key characteristics, a nurturing school climate and the presence of non-cognitive skills mitigate deviant behaviour in school settings, the non-cognitive skills as a predictor of academic outcomes, the multifaceted antecedents of school climate in promoting the development of student non-cognitive skills, the role of school domains and non-cognitive attributes towards students’ cognitive development. This systematic literature review contributes a novel framework and an in-depth understanding of the relationship between school climate and students’ non-cognitive skills. The current research serves as a starting point for future researchers to delve deeper into this subject matter to provide educational organisations with valuable guidance when navigating for better educational outcomes. In addition, the current review will shed light on the school climate and students’ noncognitive skills to further examine what has already been learnt and the missing links, contributing to the body of knowledge on this topic.
Embracing AI Chatbot ChatGPT: For Better or Worse?
Embracing AI Chatbot ChatGPT: For Better or Worse?
March 29, 2023
Contributor: Magello Fenis & Maroof Ahmed | Editor: Supriyono
An artificial intelligence chatbot dubbed ChatGPT has recently been on trending on social media and becomes a spotlight of discussions in academic circles. ChatGPT is developed by OpenAI—an American artificial intelligence research laboratory. Later, a multinational technology firm Microsoft Corporation joined the share by investing $1 billion in an attempt to develop the artificial intelligence to the next level.
Generating the public response to the AI tool, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted on December 5, 2022, that ChatGPT had crossed 1 million users in just five days after its launch. By the end of January 2023, the number multiplied to 100 million users worldwide, proving the high enthusiasm from the public for its presence.
Since ChatGPT is an AI language model, it can yield the processing of data at a tremendous speed and efficiency—less than 10 seconds as per our own observation. In this regard, chatbots are designed to simulate conversation with the absence of human feelings and emotions.
In its technicality, ChatGPT can operate 24/7. Due to the simplicity of its practical use, an individual may no longer need instructional aid to utilize this tool. As an implication, a student may use this chatbot to seek clarity about their lessons. Or if they are just sad and looking for someone to talk with, ChatGPT can even provide therapeutic advice on how to alleviate stress and anxiety.
Yet, despite the positive implications that ChatGPT carries, educators and AI experts around the world are concerned on its possible adverse implications, especially on plagiarism and data privacy. While some would use this cutting-edge tool as a beneficial educational tool, this generative language model can also be used for cheating. In this regard, it is difficult for assessors to really evaluate human-like responses if the output is done by the learners themselves or by the ever-dynamic chatbot.
In response to the raising phenomenon of AI Chatbot ChatGPT, an educational expert who is also the head of the Ph.D. in Education program at Universitas Internasional Islam Indonesia (UIII), Dr. Bambang Sumintono, stressed that the use of it would most likely become more common and thus will make significant changes, especially for businesses like tuition services since AI gives unrivaled answers.
“Many universities as well as journal [publishers], still [do] not recognize machine as a co-author for paper/article/manuscript. So far our university also [does] not permit the use of ChatGPT in terms of assignments and thesis. [Thus] it is still considered cheating, especially when [it is] not declared openly by the student,” Dr. Sumintono said.
In terms of the students’ use of ChatGPT, Dr. Sumintono exemplified this as any other website, meaning that it is open for use, yet only for looking up information. With that being said, Dr. Sumintono stressed that it will become a problem if the students utilized ChatGPT for doing scholarly works that need valid citations.
“I do not think it is a good choice but regulations about independent work, accountability, [and] transparency needs to be looked at [in] more detail, to what extent we can accept work by machine in students’ work,” explained Dr. Sumintono.
Concurring with Dr. Sumintono’s statement, a Ph.D. student at UIII’s Faculty of Social Sciences, Ararat Kostanian, said that the positive and negative aspects of ChatGPT should be taken into consideration. “It is positive when artificial intelligence becomes a method to help researchers, whether in terms of finding articles or keywords by algorithms, but I find tools such as ChatGPT negative when some sources are trying to present it as an alternative to written articles by human beings,” he said.
Indeed, ChatGPT like any other technological tool in the world can be used as either a medicine or a poison. It can be used as a medicine in providing fundamental information and assistance to users which can be used for research and development in inflicting positive impacts to the society. On the other hand, it can also be used for fraud and malicious activities which can spread malicious content and unethical activities.
Thus, this phenomenon becomes a collective homework for all of us in the education field to address this issue in the future.
source: https://www.uiii.ac.id/features/read/57315/embracing-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-for-better-or-worse
FoE Holds Software-Based Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop
FoE Holds Software-Based Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop
March 03, 2023
Contributor: Maroof Ahmed | Editor: Supriyono
As part of its effort to produce research-competent graduates, the Faculty of Education (FoE) at the Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII) holds on March 1-3, 2023, a three-day workshop themed ‘Qualitative Analysis with Software’ delivered by Dr. Bambang Sumintono as the head of program in Ph.D. in Education.
Derived from the fact that most qualitative analysis is conducted manually—at least in the Indonesian context, the faculty seeks to equip the students with skills that could ease them in doing research, whilst also highlighting the importance of making use of technology in producing academic works.
Primarily targeted to the fourth-semester students who are currently completing their master’s thesis, the workshop saw a sizeable crowd of around forty-five participants hailing not only students, but also researchers, and faculty members at UIII.
"Managing a lot of data is sometimes overwhelming for students. So, it needs certain tools that could help them ease [the process]" Dr. Bambang said, highlighting the importance of using software to manage and retrieve data, as it could make the process of coding and analyzing the data easier, faster, and more efficient.
In Indonesia, qualitative data analysis is a commonly used approach in the field of education. However, Dr. Bambang pointed out that the kind of software used for qualitative analysis remains complicated to carry out. Thus, the workshop is projected to equip students, researchers, and faculty members with the necessary skills to manage and analyze qualitative data using the Quirkos software.
"Learning how to use Quirkos will help a lot in terms of managing the [qualitative] data, identifying the coding, finding the pattern, and doing the analysis. [Also] It will help a lot in terms of doing interpretive analysis", Dr. Bambang told the UIII’s media team.
Aiming to be a research-based university, UIII currently offers MA and Ph.D. programs for both local and international students at four different faculties namely Islamic Studies, Social Sciences, Business and Economics, and Education.
source: https://www.uiii.ac.id/events/read/57301/foe-holds-software-based-qualitative-data-analysis-workshop
How to Overcome Obstacles on the Process of Writing Thesis Report
Dr Destina Wahyu Winarti explains further about thesis writing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWT8mKum5Z4&list=PLX82ye7O55ccCMY63ts2o9wzDjKyktx2T&index=4
What Needs to be Prepared to Write a Thesis Report
Dr. Destina Wahyu Winarti talks about preparation of thesis writing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tNXi0mRy5g&list=PLX82ye7O55ccCMY63ts2o9wzDjKyktx2T&index=3
'Leading Futures' book Review by Hazrat Syah Kayen
"Leading Futures" edited by Alma Harris and Michelle Jones is a forward-thinking book that delves into educational leadership for sustainable success in a rapidly changing world. It emphasizes the need for adaptive leadership approaches to navigate complex challenges in education. Harris explores the concept of distributed leadership, promoting collaboration and shared responsibility among educators. The book also addresses equity and inclusion, advocating for leadership practices that empower diverse voices. "Leading Futures" offers insights into fostering a learning-centric environment and embracing innovation to prepare students for an uncertain future. Through practical examples and research-based strategies, Harris guides educators and leaders toward creating positive educational transformations. Mr Hazrat Syah Kayen, an MA in Education student from Afganistan share his review in this podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4E9Wx6F-90