International Journal of Education and Management Engineering (IJEME)

IJEME Vol. 13, No. 3, Jun. 2023

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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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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.

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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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Exploring the Factors and Dimensions of Information Quality for E-learning Systems: A case of Tanzanian Higher Learning Institution

By Renatus Mushi Deogratius M Lashayo

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2023.03.04, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2023

The role played by the E-learning system is crucial, especially in the urgent need for working away from the universities and colleges such as on holidays, weekends, and during pandemic situations like COVID-19. Researchers have constantly been producing more sophisticated alternatives for effective usage of E-learning systems and among them include models which explain how users accept, use, and evaluate such systems as they use them on daily basis. Due to the low ICT readiness in developing nations like Tanzania, there is a lack of grounds for the inclusion of various factors and dimensions to the conceptual models which in turn results in testing incomplete, intuitive, and ad hoc sets or irrelevant dimensions. This study closes this gap by conducting a systematic documentary review of studies from 2007 to 2020 on E-learning systems to identify the key factors and their associated dimensions. The findings provide foundations that further research on e-learning acceptance in the contexts of developing countries including Tanzania can adopt on formulating hypotheses and generating information on their research contexts.

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Exploratory Analysis of Access Control Mechanisms for Cloud-Based Iot

By Keerti Naregal Vijay Kalmani

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2023.03.05, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2023

Computing as a utility has been possible with cloud computing technology. Another technology that has evolved with the internet and has become an inseparable part of our lives is the internet of things (IoT). With the growing use of IoT devices, the data generated and used by them is increasing tremendously, and resource-constrained IoT devices can make use of the cloud for data and computing needs. When IoT and cloud converge there are security and privacy issues as the cloud is a shared resource. Access control mechanisms play an important role in maintaining the security of users' data. Attribute-based encryption provides fine-grained access to data, thus ensuring selective access to data. We review the literature on access control mechanisms for cloud-based IoT and provide an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses. We present a comparison of the mechanisms, highlighting the challenges and open research questions in the field of cloud-based IoT access control and provide suggestions for future research and development. Our findings contribute to the understanding of access control mechanisms for cloud-based IoT and provide insights for their selection and deployment in real-world scenarios.

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