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Pengantar QTAFI

11 March, 2008 (19:08) | Education, Statistics | By: Bhina Patria

QTAFI (Questions, Tables and Figures) adalah suatu aplikasi yang dikembangkan untuk mempermudah pelaksanaan survey. Dengan QTAFI kita bisa dengan mudah membuat kuisioner, membuat lembar data di SPSS dan mempermudah proses analisis data dengan SPSS. Aplikasi ini sangat cocok bagi mahasiswa yang akan membuat kuisioner ataupun fakultas atau universitas yang akan mengadakan survey penelusuran alumni (graduate survey atau tracer study).

QTAFI adalah aplikasi yang berbasis makro. Bentuk aplikasi ini berupa file dokumen berekstensi doc (seperti dokumen yang biasa kita buat lewat MS Word), hanya saja terkandung makro QTAFI di dalamnya. Untuk menjalankan aplikasi ini tentu saja MS Word harus sudah terpasang di komputer kita.

Saya mulai menggunakan aplikasi ini sejak tahun 2003, pada waktu itu aplikasi ini membantu pelaksanaan survey penelusuran alumni di UGM. Sejak saat itu saya terlibat dalam pengembangan QTAFI dan online.QTAFI (QTAFI berbasis web) walaupun hanya sebagai tester setia :D. Sampai saat ini pengembangan aplikasi ini terus berlanjut, terutama untuk versi online yang sudah sampai pada versi 2. Saat ini puluhan online survey secara bersamaan berjalan di server online.QTAFI2.

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Studentenmobilität

23 November, 2007 (23:00) | Deutsch, Education | By: Bhina Patria

Mobilität bedeutet Bewegung mit einem bestimmten Ziel. Viele Leute sind in Bewegung, wenn es um Ausbildung geht. Viele von uns sind internationale Studenten. Internationale Erfahrung sind sehr wichtig für Studenten. Akademische Leistung, Fremdsprachenkenntnisse, kulturelle Bereicherung, persönliche Enwicklung und berufliche Auswirkungen, in diese Bereichen findet man den Vorteil des Studiums im Ausland.

Fremdsprachenkenntnisse

Der Lernen einen Fremdsprache ist die führende Motivation für ein Studium im Ausland. Studenten werden ihre Fremdsprachen verbesseren, weil sie sie täglich benützen müssen. Die Sprache des Gastlandes und die Sprache des Studienprogramms sind wichtig. Zum Beispiel: wenn man in Deutschland studiert, aber die Unterichtssprache Englisch ist, natürlich wird man ihr Deutsch nicht viel verbessern.

Kulturelle Bereicherung
Studieren im Ausland bietet die Möglichkeit an andere Kultur kennen zu lernen. Studenten weden ein besserer Verständniss für andere Ländern haben, Verständnis der politischen Perspektiven und Toleranz für unterschidliche Standpunkte.

Akademische Leistung
Studium im Ausland hat auch einen positiven Einfluss auf die Akdemische Leistung. Studenten erfahren verschiedene Lehrmethoden im Gegensatz zu ihrem Heimland. Studenten haben die Möglichkeiten, besser entwickelte Einrichtungen (z. B. Labor) zu benützen.

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Why study abroad?

30 August, 2007 (11:18) | Education, English | By: Bhina Patria


Sending students to studying abroad has been the most prevalent approach in internationalisation of higher education. Having international experience is considered as beneficially for students and graduates by many researchers in higher education. Most of them agreed that studying abroad have a positive impact on student life. The benefit of study abroad usually analysed in five spheres: academic achievement, foreign language proficiency, cultural enrichment, personal development and professional impact.

Foreign Language Proficiency
One of the leading motivations to study abroad is to have better foreign language proficiency. The improvement of language proficiency generally assumed to be the main consequence of studying abroad. Student reported that upon return they felt enhancement in language proficiency of the host country, in everyday context as well as in academic context. Obviously the language of the host country and the language use in the instruction must be taking in to account. For example: If you study in German but the language of instruction is in English, obviously your German proficiency will not improve much.

Cultural Enrichment
Study abroad provides direct opportunity to learn other culture. The most obvious impact for this is a better understanding of the conditions in other countries. This experience will stimulates some reflection about ones own culture and even reconsideration of values in general. Improved understanding of political rationales and tolerance for different views is just some of the examples of the result. Ones also will have more experience in comparing their own countries and the host country where they study. They will learn how to be proud of their home country and in the same time learn to accept the deficiency of their home country compared to the host country.

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March: Child Prodigy from Indonesia

28 August, 2007 (01:02) | Education, English | By: Bhina Patria

March Tian Boedihardjo

A little bit shock and excited when I read my rss subscription for BBC today. “Child star wins university place” that is the title of BBC article on March, the youngest (9) ever student to enroll in a university in Hong Kong. He is enrolled in HKBU (Hong Kong Baptist University). After reading his full name, March Tian Boedihardjo, I knew that he is from Indonesia :). Well, Boediharjo is for sure a Javanese name.

Maybe it is to naive to say that he is an Indonesian child prodigy since he and his family now live in Hong Kong. I also don’t know whether they still have Indonesian nationality or not. However I just feel happy to hear that every media refers him as “Indonesian-Chinese boy” followed by a lot of compliments. For just a moment I want to forget about how terrible education management in Indonesia. Forget about the high tuition fees, forget about the low teacher salary, forget about the terrible infrastructure… forget everything for just a moment and enjoy the good news..:D.

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