...MYT 1:32:48 PM Malaysian students are poor problem solvers, survey says BY PATRICK LEE Email Facebook 1K PETALING JAYA: When it comes to problem-solving, Malaysian 15year-olds are among of the world’s poorest, a survey by Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has determined. The 2012 survey conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found that more than one in five Malaysian students could not even reach basic levels of problem solving. Malaysia came in at 39th with a mean score of 422 points among the 44 countries surveyed. In comparison, Singapore topped the list of countries with 562 points. Malaysia’s score also put it below the OECD average of 500 points. The survey divided problem solving proficiency into six levels, with Level 6 being the highest and Level 1 being the lowest, though it was added that there was a level below Level 1. “... and in Uruguay, the United Arab Emirates, Montenegro, Malaysia, Brazil and Israel, more than one in five students do not reach this level (Level 1),” the report said. The PISA 2012 report said students proficient at Level 1 can only explore problems given to them in a limited manner. “In general, students at Level 1 can solve straightforward problems provided there is only a simple condition to be satisfied and there are only one or two steps to be performed to reach that goal.” According to the survey, students were given problems to explore and come up with solutions. These...
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...1) Why would firms use InnoCentive’s service to solve scientific and technical problems? A) Seekers would use Innocentive’s services since they haven’t been able to solve the problem in their own firm. The problem is defined and handled based on local expertise with limited tools that may not be the effective solution. It is looked over by in-house scientists leading to local search where as IC enables external search. Problems no more remain dormant if not handled by local group as they are solved by outside diverse scientists. Firms increase their R&D capacity while reducing the risk and cost of research failure. Use of such services may lead to potential innovations. Firms get to choose from the pool of solutions as the challenge is broadcasted on IC’s website. And this pool of Solvers is from varied backgrounds, countries, personal and professional experiences. 40% are PhD’s. It is cost effective since seekers pay for solution and not for failure. They also decrease the uncertainty in the initial investments. 2) What is the motivation for Solvers to participate in Innocentive? A) Value to solvers is many fold. Monetary advantage. Cash prize for the solution if accepted by the seekers. Intrinsic motivation- Solvers are motivated by their curiosity, self pleasure, need to solve the problem to find the solution in novel way by applying their expertise knowledge. Not all solutions required validation...
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...looking at the organization’s policies, values, and rules to come up with a solution. This learning form allows people to follow a process that’s been put in place in order to resolve a problem. Single loop learning is for simple problems that can be fixed by knowing what’s expected from looking at past events and comparing the results. This is considered the simplest learning form. This is a good learning form for an organization because it can lead to adaptive learning. People will begin to adjust to certain processes because of certain changes that take place. When individuals see a certain process repeatedly, they will tend to reflect those behaviors. For example, an organization is trying to limit the amount of slip and falls especially during rainy weather. Problems solvers discover that these accidents are taking place because of the access waters that drips off the umbrellas once the individual is inside the building. So now a way for them to minimize slips and falls is to provide plastic covers to everyone entering in with wet umbrellas. The organization installed appliances with these plastic covers at every entrance with a sign instructing people to take one. Now everyone knows to grab a plastic cover when entering the building when applicable. Double loop learning is when problem solvers or individuals eliminate issues by looking at organizations policies, regulations and rules to attempt to make changes to them. This is when individuals feel like a certain process or...
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...instead of thinking “outside the box”. Ex. Using a coat hanger to unlock your car door. Limiting the problem unnecessarily- explore and challenge the boundaries of the problem. Ex. Racing another person on foot to a location, while there taking main streets your running through fields and jumping fences. Saturation or information overload- too much information can be just as bad as not enough information. You can become overloaded with minute details and unable to sort out critical aspects of the problem. Ex. When trying to solve a word problem minute details can distract you from the actual problem. Emotional blocks Fear of risk taking- fear of making a mistake due to childhood teachings, being rewarded for doing right and punished for doing wrong. Ex. Not trying out for a sport team because you’re afraid of not making the team. Lack of appetite for chaos- problem solvers must learn to live with confusion. The best solution may seem contradictory. Ex. When solving math problems using equations, you just have to accept it. Judging rather than generating ideas- problems can stem from approaching problem with negative attitudes. Ex. When trying to learn how to do geometry you have a hard time because you keep telling yourself “it’s too hard” and “I can’t do it”. Lack of challenge- sometimes problem solvers don’t want to get started because they perceive the problem as being too trivial and easily solved. Ex. Someone who thinks they know everything may not start...
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...intelligences, is being independent and problem solving. I’m independent because I make my own decisions on my own without asking someone there opinion. I like to do stuff on my own I don’t like having someone telling me what to do. I like to be independent I do like having someone telling me what’s time something is do I like to do stuff on my own time. My other strongest emotional intelligence is being a problem solver. When there is a problem I always try my hardest to fix the problem. Sometimes I don’t resolve the problem but I do my best to give suggestions to fix the problem. Some of the time I have problems of my own but I never give up I like to approach the problem and fix it step by step. My two emotional intelligences that I think are the weakest to me is stress tolerance and optimism. I don’t know how to get my stress under control sometimes. I feel that when I have a lot of things going around my life and I do have enough time to do everything. Like when I have a lot of homework due that week and I don’t have time to do it I get stressed out a lot. I have found ways to reduce my stress by just try to set aside times to do stuff. Sometimes by taking a break sometimes it also helps me reduce my stress it gets my mind off of things. Optimism is my other weak emotional intelligence. Sometimes I don’t see the “bright side” of everything. I’m not confident about myself. When something difficult happens to me I do not always know how to face the problem. But I’ve been working on being...
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...an organization is thinking of implementing a New It Initiative they must ensure that they are well organized and fully understand the length and time a project may take. According to Cook “ Project failure occurs when a project is significantly over budget, takes must longer than estimated timeline, or has to be terminated because of so many problems have occurred that proceeding is no longer judged to be viable.” With Memorial Health System failed implementation of a CPOE system they had many problems including an over budgeted project, Lack of belief in project, Insufficient leadership support, Failure to respect uncertainty, Failure to anticipate short-term disruptions, and initiative undernourishment. In this paper we will discuss all six of these problems along with give possible solutions to each of them. Failure to respect uncertainty: When the system was finally implemented it was had a lot of bugs in the system. They implemented the system at all of facilities. Because of this as well as a few other issues such as lack of training the system was taken offline and they continued with the old system. The solution to this problem would have been to implement the system in one location instead of the entire hospital. This place can be used as the test facility in which you can do two things. One you can work all the bugs out and the other would be to use it as a training facility where you can send employees to get training on a system that is up and running. This will...
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...SUMMARY Recently there is something wrong with the performance of our company and I think what we should do is to upgrade the office furnitures. Because more and more of our employees claimed about the poor working condition. We can reduce the surgery fee and the sick days from the employees after the upgrade. Therefore, we can increase our productivities a lot. THE PROBLEM 1 Increase health problem- More of our employees are having health problems because of the uncomfortable furnitures. 2 Sick days increase-Because of their health problem, employees asked for the extra vacation day. 3 Surgery fee increased- Three employees had to have carpal tunnel surgery, and another had back surgery 4 Insurance fee increase- The insurance carrier was threatening to raise its premiums. 4 Productivities reduce- The day-to-day productivity of the office reduced THE REASON The problem came up from last year. If we don’t care about the problem, it will cost us a lot. For example , we already have three employees need to do carpal tunnel surgery . Cost of surgery and rehabilitation is in the range of $5,000 to $10,000 (data from :http://www.mycarpaltunnel.com/surgery-release-carpal-tunnel.shtml).And we have one employee need to have back surgery. According to the data from www.ehow.com. This procedure costs an average of $12,000to$15,000. So far the maximum cost is approximately $45000. And if we ignore that, the number of employees who need surgery would double in the next...
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... VII Appendix 7 1. Introduction- a The purpose of this survey is to gain a prospective view on what goes on inside a alcohol anonymous program and the benefits and experiences people gain from it. I also want to see how the community gets involved with people who have alcohol problems and the actions taken by the community to get help for these people. b The epidemiology of the program i surveyed is to study; the patterns that go on for people with alcohol related problems, the causes of these patterns and the problem itself, and the effects this problem has on the person and people related to that person. c. The intent of this survey is to collect all the necessary information need by someone with alcohol related problems therefore allowing them to access this information and receive help. II. About the organization: St Joseph's Gift Of Life Walk in or Phone St. Joseph's Chruch Rev. Jon Murry 208 South Main St. Attleboro Ma 508-226-1115 III. About the Program A.The program takes in people from the community with alcohol abuse problems to try and help cope with these...
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...Buenavista Plywood Corporation The Problem The problem confronting Mr. Antonio Garcia, the Plant Superintendent of Buenavista Plywood Corporation is how to deal with the absentee rates of the employees from Bohol such that the production of the plant will operate at capacity, with adequate workforce and the interests of the company and employees be served. Objectives More specifically, the problem resolves itself into the following objectives which Mr. Garcia has to achieve in the course of action he has to take: 1. To maintain a stable and reliable workforce; 2. To protect the company’s reputation by avoiding confrontation with formal union groups; 3. To address production problems and costs; 4. To meet the rated capacity of the plant; 5. To safeguard the long-run profitability and stability of Buenavista Plywood Corporation. Situational Analysis The Buenavista Plywood Corporation was organized in Cagayan de Oro City in 1950 by the Santiago Family. Don Jose Santiago, the present head of the family, was well qualified to carry the traditions of this prominent family. The Santiagos have been involved in politics in nearby Bohol, the ancestral home. They had been pioneering industrialists in the plywood business. Don Jose had been an early advocate of local processing of lumber as opposed to the shipping of log abroad. VISTAWOOD, the trademark chosen for their plywood, was one of the first export plywood production in the Philippines. Late in the...
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...to discuss the staff management problem Arthur Reed faces every summer. Arthur Reed, a supervisor at the Blue Grocery Stores, has an issue with hiring temporary workers in sufficient numbers to cover the sick and vacationing workers for the summer months. As warehouse supervisor in charge of two shifts on the shipping dock, Arthur usually manages to run the shifts smoothly every year except in the summer months. During the summer months, Arthur faces a shortage of staff when most of his senior staff call in sick or take vacation. Arthur runs into this problem every summer and does not look forward to the frustration of trying to hire sufficient temporary workers this summer. Although Arthur has earned the respect within the industry and has 20 years experience in the grocery industry, when it comes to dealing with staff shortage, Arthur does not know how to manage the problem. If Arthur knows he will faces this problem yearly, then why does he not plan ahead to avoid the frustration? Perhaps Arthur is not managing his staff as well as he can because he is lacking in supervisory skills; otherwise, he would not have run into this problem every summer. What are the problems? Staff management and on-call workers are the problems. In my opinion, Arthur is having a problem managing his senior staff because he is not communicating with them effectively regarding scheduling vacation and call-in sick days. The reason he keeps having the same problem every summer is that there are no...
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...there for learning but they want to network with other people within the class. They are looking to make connections in order to have more connections for a later date, maybe for a better job or for something they may need in their current company. The vacationer mindset person is there to get away from everything not to learn. They want to get away from the office and enjoy their time away. The prisoner feels as if they were forced to be there and they come in mostly with a closed mind about the training they are attending. Rosner also speaks about some problems that people have within their organizations and how some of these problems are misdiagnosed because the proper people are not in the proper positions with the proper training. Rosner quotes from Valerie Oberfie, a former vice president at Disney University that has done business consulting and training for corporations. She says that to avoid misdiagnosing a problem businesses should do their homework (Rosner, 2009)....
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...Title: Problems Encountered by Irregular BSMAR-E Students of University of Antique INTRODUCTION Time spent at college is fond memory and happy experience for most, college life is not without its rough patches and problems. While each person’s are unique to their current circumstances, I know that there are few problems that almost all college students deal with at least once during their time at school. Academic performance really means three things: this means the ability to study and remember facts, it also means being able to think in relation to facts and thirdly, further means being able to communicate one’s knowledge verbally or practically. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In the society of university, students form their own interpersonal relations with their fellow students. They discuss commonalities and bond until they form sense of trust in each other. There are students who had given full load of subjects that a student in the specific year and semester. These students are called regular students. Every students in the block aims to pass every class, and some may even aim to pass with high marks, but not every student in the block can achieve this goal. Failure in a subjects or more require/s to repeat the course either in the summer or the following year. These students are called irregular students, but not all regular students became irregular students because they failed a subject or more. Some students became irregular because they are shifters from...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction This research deals on the common factors that affect the study of BEED-2ND year students and their academic performance. These factors are the problem of the 2nd year BEED students in their studies. It has been an interplay of so many factors on gender, IQ, study habits, age, year level, parents educational attainment, social status, numbers of sibling and etc. This research focuses on the factors that affect the studies of BEED-2nd year students and their academic performance. These factors can help students on how to face these problems in their studies. This study also can help the parents and the teachers understand the problem of their students. Furthermore, this research helps us as a future teacher because if we know the problem of our students we can understand them clearly especially on financial aspect. Theoretical Framework One of the problems that besets our educational system is poor study habits several studies found this problem challenging and therefore, efforts have to be exerted in order to determine the root cause. According to Lass and Wilson(1965), students fails not because they do not have intelligence to understand why they are studying, not because their lesson are too difficult for them but because they do not know how to study or understand what study means. Students failure in his academic subject may not be to lack of intellectual capacity, but perhaps it may be due to negative attitude...
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...act on the problem, but a professor from Lynchburg College, Virginia called Dr. Thomas R. Nicely discovered the problem around June 1994 he was the one that noticed it in two sets of numbers and did some tests on 486 and Pentium-based computers, Dr. Nicely was certain that the error is caused by the Pentium Processor. Dr. Nicely then contacts Intel Technical Support on October 24, 1994 Intel technical support then duplicates the problem and confirms it, but it was not reported before. Later the Intel person he had contacted admitted that Intel had been aware of the problem since May 1994, when the flaw was discovered by Tom Kraljevic. When Intel first knew about the problem they decided not to tell anyone, thinking that the flaw would hardly affect anyone and that it was just a commonplace for a complex microprocessor to have a few bugs. Then, when it was forced to acknowledge the problem, Intel pushed it away again and dismissed the chances of it causing problems for the average user. In my opinion, Intel was acting very unprofessional when they knew about the problems and did nothing to fix the problem. I think that Intel was just trying to save money with them thinking “maybe if we don’t fix it and just let it hurt a couple of people, the consumer will have to try to fix it themselves and keep buying parts from us”. But instead it was the other way around the people found out about the problem with the help of Dr. Nicely and him telling the people about the problem so they could...
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...the proceeding suggestions for analyzing your case studies in this class. All grades for case analysis will be based on the values theory, suggestions made by the instructor, and the directions given in your VDM textbook. You can follow the enclosed steps for the case analysis. This is usually about 5-8 pages (excluding appendices). More pages are okay. VDM Case Analysis Guidelines: A. Read the case carefully and determine the key issues. B. Determine what the main problem or opportunity is in the case as you see it. Clearly state this as either the problem or opportunity statement in one to two sentences. C. State three to four realistic alternatives to effectively resolve the stated problem or to take advantage of the possible opportunities. D. Determine which Value Drivers are the most important to consider in establishing Value Over Time (VOT) maximization in the case. • Take Each Value Driver and accomplish the following: 1. Identify specific aspects (Facts, problems, potential problems, data needs for further analysis, etc.) of the case as they relate to this particular Value Driver. (Be very specific and concrete in this step.) 2. List the potential positive and negative impacts on Value Over Time of each aspect and whether it has a short-term effect, long-term effect and what you would expect the effect to be on Value Over Time. 3. Consider potential actions (alternatives) you could take to turn the particular negative effects of each aspect to neutral...
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