International Journal of Education and Management Engineering (IJEME)

ISSN: 2305-3623 (Print)

ISSN: 2305-8463 (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme

Website: https://www.mecs-press.org/ijeme

Published By: MECS Press

Frequency: 6 issues per year

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IJEME is committed to bridge the theory and practice of education and management engineering. From innovative ideas to specific algorithms and full system implementations, IJEME publishes original, peer-reviewed, and high quality articles in the areas of education and management engineering. IJEME is a well-indexed scholarly journal and is indispensable reading and references for people working at the cutting edge of education and management engineering applications.

 

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Depression Detection: Unveiling Mental Health Insights with Twitter Data and BERT Models

By Rohini Kancharapu Sri Nagesh Ayyagari

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2024.04.01, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2024

Social media platforms serve as avenues for individuals to express themselves and share pertinent details concerning their mental well-being through posts and comments. However, many individuals tend to overlook their mental health. This data lends itself to insightful analysis of an individual's psychological state through sentiment analysis techniques. The research explores the utilization of sentiment analysis techniques on social media data, specifically focusing on mental health discussions. Data gathered from platforms like Twitter is preprocessed and then used to train various Transformer models including DistilBERT, Albert, and a hybrid BERT-CNN model. Notably, the BERT-CNN hybrid model achieved a remarkable accuracy of 95%. This outcome underscores the effectiveness of advanced model architectures in analyzing mental health-related sentiment on social media. The significance of this research lies in its potential to offer valuable insights into individuals' mental states through computational analysis of their online expressions. The study's thorough methodology, encompassing data collection, preprocessing, and model training, sets a strong precedent for future research in this domain. Additionally, the successful performance of the BERT-CNN hybrid model highlights the importance of innovative model design in achieving accurate sentiment analysis results. Overall, this research contributes to the growing body of knowledge aimed at leveraging technology for mental health awareness and support.

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Optimization of Curriculum Content Using Data Mining Methods

By Firudin T. Aghayev Gulara A.Mammadova Rena T. Malikova Lala A. Zeynalova

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2024.04.02, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2024

The purpose of this article is to search and extract the necessary content, identifying curriculum topics. Classification and clustering of text documents are challenging artificial intelligence tasks. Therefore, an important objective of this study is to propose and implement a tool for analyzing textual information.
The study used Data Mining methods to analyze text data and generate educational content. The work used methods for classifying text information, namely, support vector machines (SVM), Naive Bayes classifier, decision tree, K-nearest neighbor (kNN) classifier.
These methods were used in developing the curriculum for the specialty “Cybersecurity” for the Faculty of Information and Telecommunication Technologies. About 48 curricula in this specialty were analyzed, topics and sections in disciplines were identified, and the content of the academic program was improved. It is expected that the results obtained can be used by specialists, managers and teachers to improve educational activities.

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Evaluating the Feasibility of a Photovoltaic-Fuel Cell Hybrid Energy System for the Ice Cream Factory in Fukuoka City, Japan: An Economic and Technical Analysis

By Md. Ahsan Habib Sumon Kumar Debnath Md. Shahin Parvej Jannatun Ferdous Md. Ali Asgar Md. Ahasan Habib Md. Asaduzzaman Jemy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2024.04.03, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2024

This paper is dedicated to a comprehensive analysis of hybrid energy options, with a specific focus on exploring their economic and environmental advantages within the context of an ice cream factory located in Fukuoka, Japan. The study takes a holistic approach, delving into various facets such as power generation, energy expenses, and related factors to uncover the potential benefits associated with specific configurations of hybrid energy solutions.  The analysis presented in this study serves as a valuable tool for assessing the impact of different power generation technologies and energy management strategies. It sheds light on how these choices can influence not only the factory's operational costs but also its environmental footprint. By quantifying these effects, the study provides critical insights  
that can guide decision-makers toward more sustainable and economically sound energy solutions. As a forward-looking application approach, this research envisions the utilization of a PV-wind-diesel-grid-electrolyzer power system. This hybrid configuration serves as a versatile platform for conducting simulation studies, allowing for the exploration of a wide spectrum of potentially viable solutions. The insights derived from these simulations not only facilitate informed decision-making but also pave the way for anticipating and strategically planning future energy implementations. In essence, this study represents a proactive and data-driven approach to energy optimization, offering the ice cream factory in Fukuoka a roadmap to harnessing the benefits of hybrid energy systems, ultimately contributing to both economic efficiency and environmental sustainability. So, at a cost of energy (COE) of 18.313¥ per kWh, this arrangement stands out as an economically advantageous and environmentally friendly solution for the electrification of the ice cream factory.

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Towards an Intelligent Electricity Data Management

By Amadou Diabagate Yazid Hambally Yacouba Jean-Marc Owo Adama Coulibaly

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2024.04.04, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2024

The large volume of electricity consumption data calls for the aggregation of this data. The implementation of aggregation methods is therefore a major concern to which an answer is given by presenting a case of aggregation of electricity consumption data using the jump process. A data set made it possible to carry out simulations and to present the results obtained for the daily, monthly and annual aggregations. The principle of using the jump process for the approval of these data is highlighted. This work is a concrete presentation of a simulation for the aggregation of electricity consumption data in a network of wireless sensors that can constitute a network of smart meters. The approach of this work consists in using aggregation methods to reduce the flow of data exchanges in wireless sensor networks. In fact, this work highlights several interesting properties that justify the choice of the jump process including flexibility, modeling of rare events, management of uncertainties adaptability to non-stationary data management of fluctuations in demand, consideration of volatility effects and scalability. Many significant impacts are expected, including improving network stability, optimizing resource management, reducing operational costs, integrating renewable energies, and data-driven decision-making. The jump process also presents limitations including modeling complexity, model calibration, computational complexity, interpretability of results, uncertainty management.

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A Proposed Concept of Digital Libraries in Metaverse to Facilitate Education for School Students

By Namira Khorshed Khan Kaniz Fatema Kanta Tabammum Haque Pranty Dip Nandi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2024.04.05, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2024

The Metaverse is an emerging virtual universe that combines technologies such as VR, AR, AI, and IoT, to captivate the user in an artificial universe that blends reality and technology seamlessly. The metaverse provides a plethora of opportunities to vastly expand and realize the capabilities of our imagination as technology materializes ideas into intractable objects for an enhanced experience. The metaverse can also impact the education sector offering a unique opportunity to revolutionize education by providing immersive and interactive learning experiences through 3D avatars. In traditional libraries, students read books to learn about a vast array of topics and can visualize those topics through 2D images provided in the books, but such images might not always be the best stimulus to enhance the reader’s imagination. The introduction and integration of “Digital Libraries” through the Metaverse enable school students to explore various subjects in 3D environments, providing a practical approach to knowledge and improving comprehension, resulting in enjoyable and effective learning experiences. Metaverse enables seamless embodied user communication in real-time and dynamic interactions with digital antiquities. Besides, a digital library is defined as an online database of digital collections. It contains a lot of papers and resources which are arranged digitally. Its benefits include effectiveness, accuracy, authenticity assurance, simpler plagiarism management, easy accessibility, and high convenience. However, it has its drawbacks too such as copyright issues, distractions due to notifications, and various health hazards. In response to those drawbacks, how a digital library may use the Metaverse to add visual and auditory effects to enrich information provided in books has been illustrated, and how digital libraries in the Metaverse have the potential to revolutionize education while also addressing and potentially solving the problems that afflict traditional libraries has been highlighted by suggesting a prototype of the digital library in the Metaverse.

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Push Management Platform Based on Wechat Small Program and Cloud Development

By Yan Wu Fang Wang Yanying Zou Huaijin Zhang Bingsheng Chen Mengshan Li

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2020.01.03, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2020

On the Wechat platform, the current article push is mainly completed by the Wechat Public Account, but it is not perfect in the aspects of user information collection, user service, data storage and management. With economic development and progress of the times, people seek development in spiritual and cultural aspects. This program "One Thing One Story" uses Wechat Web Developer Tools as the medium and Wechat Small Program and Cloud Development as the platform. The purpose of push management platform is "use at any time". Small program cloud development has a relatively complete cloud background. It does not need to rebuild the server in the development cycle. Through the relevant interface, small program development can be started and time cost can be reduced. Using JavaScript, CSS style, JSON database and other technologies, we can realize user data collection, article push, push classification management, push data storage, user praise collection and other functions. This program is applied to article pushing, cultural dissemination and other aspects. Through the platform of Wechat applet, the dream of "accessible" can be realized. 

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A Study on Malware and Malware Detection Techniques

By Rabia Tahir

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2018.02.03, Pub. Date: 8 Mar. 2018

The impact of malicious software are getting worse day by day. Malicious software or malwares are programs that are created to harm, interrupt or damage computers, networks and other resources associated with it. Malwares are transferred in computers without the knowledge of its owner. Mostly the medium used to spread malwares are networks and portable devices. Malwares are always been a threat to digital world but with a rapid increase in the use of internet, the impacts of the malwares become severe and cannot be ignored. A lot of malware detectors have been created, the effectiveness of these detectors depend upon the techniques being used. Although researchers are developing latest technologies for the timely detection of malwares but still malware creators always stay one step ahead. In this paper, a detailed review of malwares types are provided, malware analysis and detection techniques are studied and compared. Furthermore, malware obfuscation techniques have also been presented.

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Medicine Management System: Its Design and Development

By Ruth G. Luciano Rhoel Anthony G. Torres Edward B. Gomez Hardly Joy D. Nacino Rodmark D. Ramirez

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2023.03.02, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2023

The researchers conducted this study with the main purpose of helping the residents of the municipality to expedite the process of obtaining free medicine. In the current setup, an individual who needs to avail of free medicine from the barangay or municipal health center personally visits the place to request maintenance medicine. This motivated the researchers to make a research study focusing on converting the manual requisition system to something that people can access quickly and comfortably without necessarily going out of their households, especially during these challenging times – the pandemic. The researchers called it a “Medicine Management System”. The researchers aimed to speed up the requisition of medicine using this online system. The patients or qualified recipients need not consume time lining up to request medicine from the municipal health center. This system can be accessed over the internet anytime and anywhere. Users must register and upload a legit doctor’s prescription. Researchers have created this system using HTML for the system interface, XAMPP for maintaining database records, and PHP for other system functionalities.

[...] Read more.
An Internet of Thing based Agribot (IOT- Agribot) for Precision Agriculture and Farm Monitoring

By Kakelli Anil Kumar Aju. D.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2020.04.04, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2020

Developing nations like India have a huge potential for agricultural business and better cultivation. Because of the large size of cultivation land, improper water supply systems and lack of technology-based agricultural practices, there is a huge gap among expected and actual quantity and quality of agricultural products. Hence there is a need for significant revival in agribusiness using emerging technologies. The article proposes an intelligent water framework device called Agribot designed for the agricultural industry to minimize the water wastage and a better supply of cultivating materials using the Internet of Things (IoT). Our proposed IOT- Agribot will energize the water framework, improve the cost-effective water usage and reduce the labor force to achieve precision agriculture. The proposed IOT- Agribot has performed well for variable weather conditions, soli type, moisture content and crops.

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Stressors and Stress-Coping Mechanisms of Academic Scholars in HEIs: A Basis for Stress Management Plan Formulation

By Ruth G. Luciano Mickel John Salvatierra

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2022.03.01, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2022

This study aims to describe the stress coping mechanism of the academic scholars from the College of Education (COEd) in one of the private higher education institutions in Cabanatuan City, Philippines. This is an action research that focuses on the assessment of the academic scholars’ stressors and their correlates. It involves systematic observations and data collection that enables the researchers to reflect, decide and develop a training plan for stress management. The findings show that monthly family income and economic-related stressors were highly correlated. This further explains that students with high family income are less likely to experience frequent stress. In contrary, students who belong to low-income families are more prone to experience frequent stress. In other words, students who belong to poor families are more vulnerable to stress. Likewise, monthly family income and physiological responses to stress had high interdependence, which means that students with higher socio-economic status are less likely to experience severe anxiety, while students belonging to low-income families tend to experience severe anxiety. The results of this quantitative analysis served as basis in designing or preparing the stress management plan for these students. 

[...] Read more.
Classroom Management Strategies and Academic Performance of Junior High School Students

By Maxwell Kontor Owusu Bakari Yusuf Dramanu Mark Owusu Amponsah

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2021.06.04, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2021

The study examined the influence of classroom management strategies of Junior High School teachers on the academic performance of students in the Ashanti Akim North District. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. One hypothesis and two research questions were developed to guide the study. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 48 teachers and 297 year two students to respond to the Behaviour and Instructional Management Scale (BIMS). Test scores in English Language, Integrated Science, Mathematics and Social Studies were used to measure students’ academic performance. The statistical tools used to analyse the data collected were means, standard deviation, Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) and Multiple Regression. The findings revealed that both students and teachers identified good relationship and reinforcement as the mostly used classroom management strategies. It was found that a significant positive relationship existed between reinforcement and antecedent as classroom management schemes and students’ academic performance. However, good relationship and punishment as classroom management strategies did not have a positive relationship with the academic performance of students. It is recommended that teachers should use reinforcement and antecedent strategies frequently in their classrooms since they play a dual role of managing behaviour and predicting the academic performance of students. Good relationship as a classroom management strategy should be cautiously used because it could potentially be misinterpreted or abused and can lead to low academic performance. Using punishment as a classroom management strategy should be avoided as its use hinders academic performance of students.

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A Critical Review by Teachers on the Online Teaching-Learning during the COVID-19

By Malik Mubasher Hassan Tabasum Mirza Mirza Waseem Hussain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2020.05.03, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2020

The world has witnessed a sudden change in the teaching-learning processes due to the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19. The worldwide compulsive lockdown for ensuring the preventive measures to stop the spread of this infection has equally affected education sector as other business sectors. As all of us know that quality education is the only long-term rescue for all the challenges and therefore, the need to find out the alternative solution to the traditional classroom teaching-learning is the concern of all stakeholders and the only option found is online mode of teaching-learning, which was somehow already available and had attracted an intense attention during this period. The aim of the paper is to study the teacher’s perspective in India about this mode of learning, challenges and issues faced by them in migration to online platform, experience about online tools/platforms used for instructional delivery and their suggestions to improve the process for effective teaching. This study will help in gaining insight towards the possible improvements in the ongoing mode of online teaching and in future situations also. The results obtained based on sample collection through web based questionnaire clearly gives some information, which could be an eye opener for enhancing the implementation of the online teaching-learning among the learners especially teachers, who can further help in implementation of the large. Although, the online mode was already in place and was utilized in blended form to a substantial level in the developed countries, but in developing countries like India, where teachers are not familiar with online platforms/tools, lack of knowledge and skills to handle the online ICT infrastructure in a challenging situation. The results also give an impression about the need of professional development with special focus on digital literacy skills and awareness among the teacher community about the merits of online platforms for the teaching-learning process.

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The Digital Literacy in Teachers of the Schools of Rajouri (J&K)-India: Teachers Perspective

By M Mubasher Hassan Tabasum Mirza

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2021.01.04, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2021

The present age is the age of information. The globalization has affected every sphere of the life including education. In spite of availability of ICT infrastructure in schools, their potential is underutilized because of digital incompetence of the teachers.  New digital technologies are acting as a catalyst towards improvement of learning outcome and enhancing quality of education, but only introduction of such technologies in schools for producing change and innovation is not enough, it requires digitally competent teachers to facilitate the use of ICT in education. These teachers will act as facilitators and mentors to students to lead them towards problem solving and innovation to meet the new challenges of globalization. Teachers must be able to create learning environments which are student centric and foster creativity, Meta cognition, meta-literacy, collaboration and communication in learners. Mere superficial use of ICT in teaching will not yield the required learning outcome, but the integration of ICT in pedagogy is important to enhance teaching, learning process. This can be done only when teachers are competent enough to use ICT tools and facilitate ICT integrated education. In this paper, we tried to assess the teacher’s perspective about the ICT and investigate the factors responsible for resistance of teachers in using ICT in schools and suggestive measures for successful integration of ICT in the teaching process by the teachers of Rajouri district (J&K, India). The ICT skills are very important for teachers to support alternative modes of teaching, learning, i.e. e-learning, mobile learning in the present outbreak of pandemic disease caused by Coronavirus-COVID19. 

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The Effectiveness of the TaRL Approach on Moroccan Pupils’ Mathematics, Arabic, and French Reading Competencies

By Abdessamad Binaoui Mohammed Moubtassime Latifa Belfakir

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2023.03.01, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2023

Teaching at the Right Level (henceforth, TaRL) is a new trending remedial educational approach being piloted in many countries. It basically matches pedagogical content to pupils’ educational needs through various adapted activities after segmentation of pupils’ depending on their actual difficulties and needs. In this respect, Morocco has been piloting this relatively new approach during the beginning of the school year 2022-23. Therefore, this study aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the TaRL approach on Moroccan pupils’ mathematics, Arabic, and French reading competencies. An experimental study took place involving 106 pupils from 4th grade to 6th grade during a one-month remedial course (half an hour per day, one subject per day) based on TaRL guidelines. After carefully examining the data through the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test by comparing the baseline and endline results in all three subjects. The results showed statistically high improvements with large effect sizes in the levels of the three subjects suggesting that TaRL was effective in raising the levels of numeracy and literacy and may be, safely, further adopted throughout Moroccan primary schools.

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Development of a Prediction Model on Demographic Indicators based on Machine Learning Methods: Azerbaijan Example

By Makrufa Sh. Hajirahimova Aybeniz S. Aliyeva

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2023.02.01, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2023

The accuracy of population forecasts is one of the most important calculations in demography statistics. However, traditional demographic methods used in population projections are tend to produce biased results. The need for accurate prediction of future behavior in a number of areas require the application of reliable and efficient methods. Recently, machine learning (ML) models have emerged as a serious competitor to classical statistical models in the forecasting community. In this study, the performance and capacity of the four different ML models such as Random forest (RF), Decision tree (DT), Linear regression (LR) and K-nearest neighbors (KNN) to the prediction of population has been examined. The aim of the study is to find the best performing regression model among these machine learning algorithms for forecasting of population. The data were collected from the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan website were used for the analysis. We used five metrics such as mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), mean absolute error (MAE), root mean squared error (RMSE), mean square error (MSE) and R-squared to compare the predictive ability of the models. As the result of the analysis, it has been known that the all ML models showed high results with correlation coefficient of 0.985 - 0.996. Also the KNN and RF prediction models showed the lowest root mean square deviation, means square error and mean absolute error values compared to other models. By effectively using the advantage of the ML algorithms, the forecast of population growth the near future can be observed objectively, and it can provide an objective reference to the strategic planning in the public and private sectors, particularly in education, health and social areas.

[...] Read more.
Push Management Platform Based on Wechat Small Program and Cloud Development

By Yan Wu Fang Wang Yanying Zou Huaijin Zhang Bingsheng Chen Mengshan Li

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2020.01.03, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2020

On the Wechat platform, the current article push is mainly completed by the Wechat Public Account, but it is not perfect in the aspects of user information collection, user service, data storage and management. With economic development and progress of the times, people seek development in spiritual and cultural aspects. This program "One Thing One Story" uses Wechat Web Developer Tools as the medium and Wechat Small Program and Cloud Development as the platform. The purpose of push management platform is "use at any time". Small program cloud development has a relatively complete cloud background. It does not need to rebuild the server in the development cycle. Through the relevant interface, small program development can be started and time cost can be reduced. Using JavaScript, CSS style, JSON database and other technologies, we can realize user data collection, article push, push classification management, push data storage, user praise collection and other functions. This program is applied to article pushing, cultural dissemination and other aspects. Through the platform of Wechat applet, the dream of "accessible" can be realized. 

[...] Read more.
Medicine Management System: Its Design and Development

By Ruth G. Luciano Rhoel Anthony G. Torres Edward B. Gomez Hardly Joy D. Nacino Rodmark D. Ramirez

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2023.03.02, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2023

The researchers conducted this study with the main purpose of helping the residents of the municipality to expedite the process of obtaining free medicine. In the current setup, an individual who needs to avail of free medicine from the barangay or municipal health center personally visits the place to request maintenance medicine. This motivated the researchers to make a research study focusing on converting the manual requisition system to something that people can access quickly and comfortably without necessarily going out of their households, especially during these challenging times – the pandemic. The researchers called it a “Medicine Management System”. The researchers aimed to speed up the requisition of medicine using this online system. The patients or qualified recipients need not consume time lining up to request medicine from the municipal health center. This system can be accessed over the internet anytime and anywhere. Users must register and upload a legit doctor’s prescription. Researchers have created this system using HTML for the system interface, XAMPP for maintaining database records, and PHP for other system functionalities.

[...] Read more.
A Study on Malware and Malware Detection Techniques

By Rabia Tahir

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2018.02.03, Pub. Date: 8 Mar. 2018

The impact of malicious software are getting worse day by day. Malicious software or malwares are programs that are created to harm, interrupt or damage computers, networks and other resources associated with it. Malwares are transferred in computers without the knowledge of its owner. Mostly the medium used to spread malwares are networks and portable devices. Malwares are always been a threat to digital world but with a rapid increase in the use of internet, the impacts of the malwares become severe and cannot be ignored. A lot of malware detectors have been created, the effectiveness of these detectors depend upon the techniques being used. Although researchers are developing latest technologies for the timely detection of malwares but still malware creators always stay one step ahead. In this paper, a detailed review of malwares types are provided, malware analysis and detection techniques are studied and compared. Furthermore, malware obfuscation techniques have also been presented.

[...] Read more.
An Internet of Thing based Agribot (IOT- Agribot) for Precision Agriculture and Farm Monitoring

By Kakelli Anil Kumar Aju. D.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2020.04.04, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2020

Developing nations like India have a huge potential for agricultural business and better cultivation. Because of the large size of cultivation land, improper water supply systems and lack of technology-based agricultural practices, there is a huge gap among expected and actual quantity and quality of agricultural products. Hence there is a need for significant revival in agribusiness using emerging technologies. The article proposes an intelligent water framework device called Agribot designed for the agricultural industry to minimize the water wastage and a better supply of cultivating materials using the Internet of Things (IoT). Our proposed IOT- Agribot will energize the water framework, improve the cost-effective water usage and reduce the labor force to achieve precision agriculture. The proposed IOT- Agribot has performed well for variable weather conditions, soli type, moisture content and crops.

[...] Read more.
Development of a Prediction Model on Demographic Indicators based on Machine Learning Methods: Azerbaijan Example

By Makrufa Sh. Hajirahimova Aybeniz S. Aliyeva

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2023.02.01, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2023

The accuracy of population forecasts is one of the most important calculations in demography statistics. However, traditional demographic methods used in population projections are tend to produce biased results. The need for accurate prediction of future behavior in a number of areas require the application of reliable and efficient methods. Recently, machine learning (ML) models have emerged as a serious competitor to classical statistical models in the forecasting community. In this study, the performance and capacity of the four different ML models such as Random forest (RF), Decision tree (DT), Linear regression (LR) and K-nearest neighbors (KNN) to the prediction of population has been examined. The aim of the study is to find the best performing regression model among these machine learning algorithms for forecasting of population. The data were collected from the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan website were used for the analysis. We used five metrics such as mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), mean absolute error (MAE), root mean squared error (RMSE), mean square error (MSE) and R-squared to compare the predictive ability of the models. As the result of the analysis, it has been known that the all ML models showed high results with correlation coefficient of 0.985 - 0.996. Also the KNN and RF prediction models showed the lowest root mean square deviation, means square error and mean absolute error values compared to other models. By effectively using the advantage of the ML algorithms, the forecast of population growth the near future can be observed objectively, and it can provide an objective reference to the strategic planning in the public and private sectors, particularly in education, health and social areas.

[...] Read more.
The Effectiveness of the TaRL Approach on Moroccan Pupils’ Mathematics, Arabic, and French Reading Competencies

By Abdessamad Binaoui Mohammed Moubtassime Latifa Belfakir

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2023.03.01, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2023

Teaching at the Right Level (henceforth, TaRL) is a new trending remedial educational approach being piloted in many countries. It basically matches pedagogical content to pupils’ educational needs through various adapted activities after segmentation of pupils’ depending on their actual difficulties and needs. In this respect, Morocco has been piloting this relatively new approach during the beginning of the school year 2022-23. Therefore, this study aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the TaRL approach on Moroccan pupils’ mathematics, Arabic, and French reading competencies. An experimental study took place involving 106 pupils from 4th grade to 6th grade during a one-month remedial course (half an hour per day, one subject per day) based on TaRL guidelines. After carefully examining the data through the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test by comparing the baseline and endline results in all three subjects. The results showed statistically high improvements with large effect sizes in the levels of the three subjects suggesting that TaRL was effective in raising the levels of numeracy and literacy and may be, safely, further adopted throughout Moroccan primary schools.

[...] Read more.
Stressors and Stress-Coping Mechanisms of Academic Scholars in HEIs: A Basis for Stress Management Plan Formulation

By Ruth G. Luciano Mickel John Salvatierra

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2022.03.01, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2022

This study aims to describe the stress coping mechanism of the academic scholars from the College of Education (COEd) in one of the private higher education institutions in Cabanatuan City, Philippines. This is an action research that focuses on the assessment of the academic scholars’ stressors and their correlates. It involves systematic observations and data collection that enables the researchers to reflect, decide and develop a training plan for stress management. The findings show that monthly family income and economic-related stressors were highly correlated. This further explains that students with high family income are less likely to experience frequent stress. In contrary, students who belong to low-income families are more prone to experience frequent stress. In other words, students who belong to poor families are more vulnerable to stress. Likewise, monthly family income and physiological responses to stress had high interdependence, which means that students with higher socio-economic status are less likely to experience severe anxiety, while students belonging to low-income families tend to experience severe anxiety. The results of this quantitative analysis served as basis in designing or preparing the stress management plan for these students. 

[...] Read more.
Classroom Management Strategies and Academic Performance of Junior High School Students

By Maxwell Kontor Owusu Bakari Yusuf Dramanu Mark Owusu Amponsah

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2021.06.04, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2021

The study examined the influence of classroom management strategies of Junior High School teachers on the academic performance of students in the Ashanti Akim North District. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. One hypothesis and two research questions were developed to guide the study. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 48 teachers and 297 year two students to respond to the Behaviour and Instructional Management Scale (BIMS). Test scores in English Language, Integrated Science, Mathematics and Social Studies were used to measure students’ academic performance. The statistical tools used to analyse the data collected were means, standard deviation, Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) and Multiple Regression. The findings revealed that both students and teachers identified good relationship and reinforcement as the mostly used classroom management strategies. It was found that a significant positive relationship existed between reinforcement and antecedent as classroom management schemes and students’ academic performance. However, good relationship and punishment as classroom management strategies did not have a positive relationship with the academic performance of students. It is recommended that teachers should use reinforcement and antecedent strategies frequently in their classrooms since they play a dual role of managing behaviour and predicting the academic performance of students. Good relationship as a classroom management strategy should be cautiously used because it could potentially be misinterpreted or abused and can lead to low academic performance. Using punishment as a classroom management strategy should be avoided as its use hinders academic performance of students.

[...] Read more.
The Techno-Economic Feasibility Serves to Optimize the PV-Wind-Hydro Hybrid Power System at Tangail in Bangladesh

By Nuhim Ahamed Noman Md. Sariful Islam Md. Ahsan Habib Sumon Kumar Debnath

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2023.03.03, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2023

Bangladesh has been using fossil fuel sources for the last years to generate electricity. The electricity power generation capacity of Bangladesh must enlarge to support the increasing electricity demand nowadays. As the conventional fuel resources are limited on the earth, renewable resources (ex: PV, wind) must be used in the future. The aim of this study is to design a hybrid electricity and hydrogen production system with the photovoltaic, wind turbine, hydro, diesel generator, electrolyzer, and reformer using Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewable (HOMER) software under the study area Delduar, Tangail, Bangladesh (2408.5/N, 89054.1/E). This research focuses on maximum electricity generation using renewable energy sources with a minimum cost of energy (COE). According to the Homer optimization model, the levelized cost of energy (COE) based on a PV-wind-hydro-diesel generator-electrolyzer-reformer-battery hybrid electricity generation system is $0.281, the net present cost is $3.22 million, and operating cost $60,401 with 99.5% renewable fraction respectively. Furthermore, the analysis confirms that hybrid PV-wind-hydro-diesel generator-hydrogen power plant construction in Delduar, Tangail area is economically feasible.

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Design Online Learning System for Kampus Merdeka: A Case Study Web Programming Course

By Budi Harijanto Meyti Eka Apriyani Elok Nur Hamdana

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2021.06.01, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2021

Distance learning is an online-based learning model with an open model or a combination of face-to-face learning models. Currently, the term "Independence Campus" implies that students are given the option of attending lectures on campus or off campus according to their talents and interests, one of which does not leave the nature of online lectures. Currently, the learning model that can provide one of these facilities is the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC). This online learning can provide access anywhere and anytime by integrating technology into the learning process that can help improve the ability to understand the material. In this study, it will be measured how learning design using MOOC for "Kampus Merdeka" can affect the implementation of lectures, especially for the Web Programming Design course. A trial will be conducted to be able to see the effect of the implementation of the use of MOOC on the users of this MOOC. The choice of case studies for this course is because this course can provide practical learning activities that require an understanding of a strong theoretical basis so that it can be implemented in practicum. The result of learning web programming with the online learning design method using MOOC, which is useful for students is that they can practice source code directly through MOOC. In this study, the effect of using online learning design with MOOC which was attended by 30 people showed that an average of 78.2% was interested in joining MOOC online classes. This interest is because MOOC can provide self-development models such as material in the syllabus, learning videos and the ability to do practicals

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