Saturday Onsite Presentation Session 3

Interdisciplinary Education

Session Chair: Anu Anna Jossan

13:15-13:40

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| Educating Societal Messages – The Role of Time Orientation, Risk, and Reward Frame

Myoung-Jin Chae, Soonchunhyang University, South Korea

The importance of investment in education is becoming greater with its capability to improve society and future generations. While extant literature focuses much on content characteristics to enhance engagement for promotional messages, relatively little is known about how to deliver effective societal messages to generate greater engagement. In this study, we use a combination of societal messages in social media from an agency and LIWC software along with online experiments to examine content characteristics and message frames that improve audience engagement. Based on Construal Level Theory, we show that societal messages with future orientation generate higher audience engagement. The findings suggest that a higher fit between message scope and audience mental representation leads to effective delivery for societal contents. In addition, we explore whether societal messages should be framed with risk or reward based on Regulatory Focus Theory. Preliminary findings and implications in learning will be discussed during the session.

13:40-14:05

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Professional Writing and Data Analytics Immersion Bootcamp

Steve Zhou, University of Houston Downtown, United States

Song Ge, University of Houston Downtown, United States

There is always a critical shortage of nurses, especially competent nurses in the US. The shortage has escalated in the past years due to COVID-19 and population aging. To become nurses, students choose to complete an associate degree in nursing (ADN) from a community college and pass the NCLEX exam. Then, working as part-time RNs, they complete their RN to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) study, which opens their doors to numerous opportunities.

However, research studies have revealed that many nursing students experience significant challenges in professional writing, looking up and critiquing health-related research papers, understanding the meaning of data, and working on group writing projects. This is partly because, during their ADN study, they are not exposed to instructions about writing and data analytics. These challenges could last during their RN-BSN studies and even after students complete the program, eventually leading to poor clinical performance and patient care.

Research has shown that the use of workshops is an effective approach to enhance nursing students’ writing skills. We construct a professional writing and data analytics immersion Bootcamp to facilitate nursing students in developing essential writing, data analytics, and research skills before they begin their RN-BSN study. This Bootcamp is to be used as a focused, structured, extended orientation where we teach nursing students many practical skills needed for their study and work through faculty lectures, guest lectures, one-on-one mentorship, quizzes, and readings. This Bootcamp will lay a solid foundation for students’ success in their RN-BSN study and future careers.

14:05-14:30

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| Critical Thinking Skills Gap in Data-Driven Decision Making: An Exploration in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance Industry

Anu Jossan, Al Rayyan International University College - University of Derby, Qatar

Banking, financial services and insurance companies (BFSI) are leading employers for business graduates. With heavy usage of data in the BFSI companies' departments, graduate employees make data-driven decisions (DDD) that impact businesses. Hence, decision quality remains a crucial criterion for graduate employability and business success. Critical thinking (CT) for decision-making is proven to be an effective way for quality decisions. Nevertheless, CT usage on data-driven decision-making (DDDM), in the context of BFSI companies, remains unexplored. A skill gap analysis shall throw light on the employer expectation vs satisfaction on graduate data-driven decision quality using critical thinking. This research explores the perception/expectation, and satisfaction of the BFSI employers on graduate employees' data-driven decision outcomes and the critical thinking skill usage on DDDM is analysed to find out if there is an evident gap in the same. Data were collected from 106 Junior, middle, senior and executive-level managers from different parts of the world. Various non-parametric tests, including Kruskal Wallis tests, are done on the data.