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BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2025
The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has sparked widespread debat... more The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has sparked widespread debate about their societal implications, prompting a need to understand public attitudes, particularly anxiety, toward AI. This study aimed to develop and validate a scale to measure AI-related anxiety, exploring its correlates across demographic groups. Using an online survey of 708 Romanian adults conducted in October 2024, we constructed a 14-item scale with a 5-point Likert format, balancing positive and negative statements. Psychometric validation, including structural equation modeling to address method effects, confirmed the scale’s reliability (Cronbach’s alpha > 0,7) and fit (CFI = 0,963, RMSEA = 0,053). Results revealed that AI anxiety varies by education, occupation, income, and region, with lower anxiety among the highly educated, self-employed, and high-income individuals. Convergent validity was supported by correlations with technological readiness (-0,411) and a summated AI anxiety score (0,698). These findings align with prior research on AI perceptions and underscore the role of information access and experience in shaping attitudes. Despite this scale offers a robust tool for assessing AI anxiety, with implications for tailoring AI adoption strategies to diverse populations. Future research should pursue longitudinal and qualitative approaches to deepen understanding of this evolving phenomenon.
Sociologie românească, Dec 14, 2023
Research in recent decades examining the correlates of educational outcomes highlights the role o... more Research in recent decades examining the correlates of educational outcomes highlights the role of religiosity in students' academic progress and achievements. An increasing number of recent studies in the fi eld of education confi rm this hypothesis, the one of the positive infl uences of religiosity on behavior and attitudes with a positive eff ect on the achievement of educational goals and academic results. As such, denominational schools are also under the attention of many researchers who observe diff erences between these religious schools and other, non-religiously affi liated schools. The sociological literature even speaks of a "religious school eff ect", inspired by the original idea of the "Catholic school eff ect", stressing that beyond the impact of individual religiosity on school outcomes, mediated mainly by attitudinal and psychosociological eff ects, there are also moderators at the institutional level resulting from the specifi city of denominational schools. In the present study we test these two hypotheses simultaneously by modeling the learning averages of a large sample of 8th graders in Bihor County, Romania, using simple linear regression. Our results confi rm what we have already found in previous studies, namely that personal religiosity has a positive eff ect on learning outcomes, while a separate eff ect at the institutional level cannot be shown.
Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, Nov 27, 2023
Researchers use often self-reported grades as indicators of students' educational achievement bec... more Researchers use often self-reported grades as indicators of students' educational achievement because of difficulties in obtaining the official records. However, the results of such studies are questionable due to doubts regarding the reliability of self-reported grade data and factors that may lead to distortion. In this study, we help to resolve this issue by comparing self-reported grade point averages (GPAs) of 926 eighth grade Romanian students from the previous academic year with their official GPAs. At the descriptive and practical levels, we conclude that the distortions are positive-overreporting is more frequent than underreporting-and that their limited magnitude allows for the use of self-reported grades for the usually description i.e. of achievements in a population of students but not for individual students' diagnostics. At the explanatory level, the distortions are non-random, and there are two main causal mechanisms. First, overreporting is a cognitive and commitment-based error. Second, overreporting is an effect of social desirability, according to which students are expected to perform well based on their social characteristics. However, this second causal channel is not visible in bivariate tests because it is statistically suppressed by the main mechanism and the correlation of actual GPA with gender and socioeconomic status (SES -parents' education and class) variables.
Assessing Situational Awareness of Universities Concerning Student Dropout: A Web-Based Content Analysis of Romanian Universities’ Agenda
Journal of Research in Higher Education, Dec 20, 2020
Universities have a strong internet presence where they publish large amounts of documents availa... more Universities have a strong internet presence where they publish large amounts of documents available for analysis. The relevance of these documents has been rarely put to scrutiny in a policy anlysis context. In our paper we use data from Romanian universities to achieve two objectives: 1) to assess the actual presence of the issue of student dropout at the level of universities' agenda in Romania as it is apparent in their web pages; 2) to evaluate the degree to which the agenda of Romanian universities reflects the actual issue of student retention as reflected in factual data. The results show a significant correlation between the presence of the topic in documents and the actual dropout rate, but there are some limitations, though: the correlation is not linear, universities seem to be inertial in their public aknowledgement of the problem, web-scrapping and web based content-analytic procedures still have numerous reliability issues.
Sexual Permissivness - an Element of Cultural Rift
Journal of population studies, 2009
La pandémie de Covid-19 et l’éducation en Roumanie
Revue internationale d'éducation Sèvres, Sep 1, 2021
Geoff Payne & Malcolm Williams (Eds.), Teaching Quantitative Methods. Getting the Basics Right, Sage, London, 2011, 187 p. Book review
Journal of Social Research & Policy, Jul 1, 2012
GeoffPayne & Malcolm Williams (Eds.), Teaching Quantitative Methods. Getting the Basics Right... more GeoffPayne & Malcolm Williams (Eds.), Teaching Quantitative Methods. Getting the Basics Right, Sage, London, 2011, 187 p.The volume at hand - Teaching Quantitative Methods. Getting the Basics Right, edited by GeoffPayne and Malcolm Williams - is a systematic and reflexive answer to the so-called 'problem of numeracy' that is negatively affecting the global reach of British social sciences. The 11 chapters of the book, including the Introduction written by the editors, are justified by the recognition of difficulties faced by British social science undergraduate programs to equip their students with adequate skills in quantitative research methods and hence discuss the significance of this context as well as solutions to it.Contrary to what one might expect, the content of the volume raises little to a collection of recipes at to how the quantitative techniques should be taught in the tertiary education in the social sciences curriculum. As the editors of the volume state from the very beginning, they endeavor mostly as being an argument in favor of the need for strengthening of the transmission of statistical skills for several simple reasons: a need to strengthen the place of British social sciences in a worldwide competition of knowledge; the need to improve the skills of British specialists, faced with a global competition of labor but also the fact that the most basic understanding of society, which constitutes the very foundation of active and critical citizenship, requires statistics. The volume editors make it clear from the very beginning that they do not promote statistics and quantitative methods for their vocational virtues - as it is often done by advocates of commodification of higher education - but especially because they really believe in the value of numerical skills for logical reasoning and for scientific methods.Although it is not within the scope of the book the delivery of strictly technical solutions to the main practical issue that the book is addressing, of improving the numerical skills of social science students at the undergraduate level, the case studies described in the book render some hints to the right directions. This is done either by interpreting the history of quantitative methods in the British sociology and social policy curriculum seen through the lenses of personal experience (a chapter written by Martin Bulmer) or by discussing the experiences of students and teachers involved in various innovations in teaching research methods (chapters by Katharina Adeney, Sean Carey, Jane Falkingham, Teresa McGowan and Jo Wathan) or in describing several large projects which make use of IT instruments for easily sharing of teaching and learning contents (chapters by Rebecca Taylor, Angela Scott and Jackie Carter).We understand first that there is a strong resistance on behalf of both students and academics against quantitative methods, either per se, or indirectly, as hostility against the rigors that come along in teaching with quantitative methods and statistics. …
Central European journal of educational research, Apr 30, 2021
Although the topic of the profile of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) ... more Although the topic of the profile of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) is important for those involved in therapy or teaching, we found very few studies focusing on Romanian populations, and those targeting the North-Western region (Bihor County) are even fewer. ADHD is the most common childhood disorder , and it is important not only to know and understand the symptoms, but also to pay attention to the cultural specificity of the ADHD diagnosis, if it is possible. We conducted a documentary analysis, aiming to identify the profile of children diagnosed with ADHD in Bihor County and in this regard, we analyzed 196 files registered at the Municipal Hospital from Oradea in 2015. We focused on the demographic data, the symptoms, the comorbid disorders, the treatments, the school environment and type. Our findings confirmed that boys diagnosed with ADHD are more numerous than girls, and we also found significant differences between children depending on their ADHD core symptoms.
Sociologie românească, May 16, 2004
Education Systems
Springer eBooks, 2021
Cum alocă Ministerul Educației granturile doctorale către universitățile publice din România?
Review of Sociology Vol, 2009
During the transition the topic of Hungarian higher education in Romania has been very intensely ... more During the transition the topic of Hungarian higher education in Romania has been very intensely debated as its polemic has been often characterized by ethnicist and nationalist arguments. One major issue of the debate is, however, that in Romania Hungarians have lower chances of access to tertiary education diplomas than the Romanian majority. The present study aims at clarifying the distribution and the covariates of educational and subsequently social chances among citizens of Romanian and Hungarian ethnicity in Romania. Using the consolidated data of the Romanian Public Opinion Barometer of 1998-2004 (N=11040) our multivariate analyses test three models of educational achievement: an ethnic determination hypothesis, a model of regional discrepancies in educational achievement and the basic social reproduction hypothesis. Though bivariate analyses indicate that there is a significant gap in educational chances for Hungarians, measured through educational achievement, the multivariate analysis proves that the thesis of lower educational chances of Hungarians from Transylvania does not hold. However, educational inequalities seem to be more a regional issue: Szeklerland, with an overwhelming majority of Hungarians provides significantly lower chances of attaining a diploma of higher education than the rest of Transylvania. One explanation for this could rely on the modernization deficit of the region. The topic requires further research in order to clarify the impact of the diverse covariates on career decisions and status attainment.
Vasile Boari and Sergiu Gherghina (Eds.) Weighting Differences: Romanian Identity in the Wider European Context, New Castle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, 272 p.(Book Review)
The implications of the research for Central and Eastern European policy design on active citizenship and governance: final report
Cercetare și Politici Sociale. Volumul conferinței naţionale cu participare internațională organizată de Facultatea de Ştiinţe Socio-Umane, Universitatea din Oradea, în 28-29 Mai 2010 (Research and Social Policies. The Volume of the National Conference with International Participation Organized b...
Social Science Research Network, Mar 30, 2012
Sustainability, 2022
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Studies on the determinants of school results have shown that they depend largely on the context ... more Studies on the determinants of school results have shown that they depend largely on the context of learning. Concerning the pandemic, teachers have been forced to find online teaching methods, which leads us to the central issue of this study of whether the effectiveness of online education depends on teachers’ digital skills. Therefore, in this study, we analyzed the perceived digital competences of Romanian pre-tertiary cycle teachers about their professional status, school location, gender, age, taught field, and prior participation in training for online teaching. Using data from 3,419 self-completed questionnaires in an online survey of teachers performed at the beginning of the global lockdown in March 2020, we have built two reliable measures of perceived digital skills, namely the Self-Assessed Multimedia and Online Skills Score (SMOS) and the Self-Assessed Digital Office Skills Score (SDOS), which were the dependent variables in our study. Hierarchical linear regressions w...
Sociologie Româneasca = Romanian Sociology, 2012
Postcommunist transition has been the excellent occasion for cvasiexperiments on the impact of la... more Postcommunist transition has been the excellent occasion for cvasiexperiments on the impact of large scales of policies aimed at managing social inequalities including those in the field of education. The present article is investigating the dynamics of access to education for several cohort of Romanian citizens born until 1985 by following the expansion of various levels of education but especially of the factors that have influenced the probability of accomplishing a specific educational career using the model of educational transitions. Our study of 4500 Romanian citizens confirms the observations of previous works which, using models of educational transition, recorded the fact that the communist regimes from Central and Eastern Europe did not have any notable and durable performances in leveling of the chances of access to high levels of instruction. Moreover, social inequalities had a significant impact on the probability of graduating from high-school and university in the wh...
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BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2025
The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has sparked widespread debat... more The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has sparked widespread debate about their societal implications, prompting a need to understand public attitudes, particularly anxiety, toward AI. This study aimed to develop and validate a scale to measure AI-related anxiety, exploring its correlates across demographic groups. Using an online survey of 708 Romanian adults conducted in October 2024, we constructed a 14-item scale with a 5-point Likert format, balancing positive and negative statements. Psychometric validation, including structural equation modeling to address method effects, confirmed the scale’s reliability (Cronbach’s alpha > 0,7) and fit (CFI = 0,963, RMSEA = 0,053). Results revealed that AI anxiety varies by education, occupation, income, and region, with lower anxiety among the highly educated, self-employed, and high-income individuals. Convergent validity was supported by correlations with technological readiness (-0,411) and a summated AI anxiety score (0,698). These findings align with prior research on AI perceptions and underscore the role of information access and experience in shaping attitudes. Despite this scale offers a robust tool for assessing AI anxiety, with implications for tailoring AI adoption strategies to diverse populations. Future research should pursue longitudinal and qualitative approaches to deepen understanding of this evolving phenomenon.
Sociologie românească, Dec 14, 2023
Research in recent decades examining the correlates of educational outcomes highlights the role o... more Research in recent decades examining the correlates of educational outcomes highlights the role of religiosity in students' academic progress and achievements. An increasing number of recent studies in the fi eld of education confi rm this hypothesis, the one of the positive infl uences of religiosity on behavior and attitudes with a positive eff ect on the achievement of educational goals and academic results. As such, denominational schools are also under the attention of many researchers who observe diff erences between these religious schools and other, non-religiously affi liated schools. The sociological literature even speaks of a "religious school eff ect", inspired by the original idea of the "Catholic school eff ect", stressing that beyond the impact of individual religiosity on school outcomes, mediated mainly by attitudinal and psychosociological eff ects, there are also moderators at the institutional level resulting from the specifi city of denominational schools. In the present study we test these two hypotheses simultaneously by modeling the learning averages of a large sample of 8th graders in Bihor County, Romania, using simple linear regression. Our results confi rm what we have already found in previous studies, namely that personal religiosity has a positive eff ect on learning outcomes, while a separate eff ect at the institutional level cannot be shown.
Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, Nov 27, 2023
Researchers use often self-reported grades as indicators of students' educational achievement bec... more Researchers use often self-reported grades as indicators of students' educational achievement because of difficulties in obtaining the official records. However, the results of such studies are questionable due to doubts regarding the reliability of self-reported grade data and factors that may lead to distortion. In this study, we help to resolve this issue by comparing self-reported grade point averages (GPAs) of 926 eighth grade Romanian students from the previous academic year with their official GPAs. At the descriptive and practical levels, we conclude that the distortions are positive-overreporting is more frequent than underreporting-and that their limited magnitude allows for the use of self-reported grades for the usually description i.e. of achievements in a population of students but not for individual students' diagnostics. At the explanatory level, the distortions are non-random, and there are two main causal mechanisms. First, overreporting is a cognitive and commitment-based error. Second, overreporting is an effect of social desirability, according to which students are expected to perform well based on their social characteristics. However, this second causal channel is not visible in bivariate tests because it is statistically suppressed by the main mechanism and the correlation of actual GPA with gender and socioeconomic status (SES -parents' education and class) variables.
Assessing Situational Awareness of Universities Concerning Student Dropout: A Web-Based Content Analysis of Romanian Universities’ Agenda
Journal of Research in Higher Education, Dec 20, 2020
Universities have a strong internet presence where they publish large amounts of documents availa... more Universities have a strong internet presence where they publish large amounts of documents available for analysis. The relevance of these documents has been rarely put to scrutiny in a policy anlysis context. In our paper we use data from Romanian universities to achieve two objectives: 1) to assess the actual presence of the issue of student dropout at the level of universities' agenda in Romania as it is apparent in their web pages; 2) to evaluate the degree to which the agenda of Romanian universities reflects the actual issue of student retention as reflected in factual data. The results show a significant correlation between the presence of the topic in documents and the actual dropout rate, but there are some limitations, though: the correlation is not linear, universities seem to be inertial in their public aknowledgement of the problem, web-scrapping and web based content-analytic procedures still have numerous reliability issues.
Sexual Permissivness - an Element of Cultural Rift
Journal of population studies, 2009
La pandémie de Covid-19 et l’éducation en Roumanie
Revue internationale d'éducation Sèvres, Sep 1, 2021
Geoff Payne & Malcolm Williams (Eds.), Teaching Quantitative Methods. Getting the Basics Right, Sage, London, 2011, 187 p. Book review
Journal of Social Research & Policy, Jul 1, 2012
GeoffPayne & Malcolm Williams (Eds.), Teaching Quantitative Methods. Getting the Basics Right... more GeoffPayne & Malcolm Williams (Eds.), Teaching Quantitative Methods. Getting the Basics Right, Sage, London, 2011, 187 p.The volume at hand - Teaching Quantitative Methods. Getting the Basics Right, edited by GeoffPayne and Malcolm Williams - is a systematic and reflexive answer to the so-called 'problem of numeracy' that is negatively affecting the global reach of British social sciences. The 11 chapters of the book, including the Introduction written by the editors, are justified by the recognition of difficulties faced by British social science undergraduate programs to equip their students with adequate skills in quantitative research methods and hence discuss the significance of this context as well as solutions to it.Contrary to what one might expect, the content of the volume raises little to a collection of recipes at to how the quantitative techniques should be taught in the tertiary education in the social sciences curriculum. As the editors of the volume state from the very beginning, they endeavor mostly as being an argument in favor of the need for strengthening of the transmission of statistical skills for several simple reasons: a need to strengthen the place of British social sciences in a worldwide competition of knowledge; the need to improve the skills of British specialists, faced with a global competition of labor but also the fact that the most basic understanding of society, which constitutes the very foundation of active and critical citizenship, requires statistics. The volume editors make it clear from the very beginning that they do not promote statistics and quantitative methods for their vocational virtues - as it is often done by advocates of commodification of higher education - but especially because they really believe in the value of numerical skills for logical reasoning and for scientific methods.Although it is not within the scope of the book the delivery of strictly technical solutions to the main practical issue that the book is addressing, of improving the numerical skills of social science students at the undergraduate level, the case studies described in the book render some hints to the right directions. This is done either by interpreting the history of quantitative methods in the British sociology and social policy curriculum seen through the lenses of personal experience (a chapter written by Martin Bulmer) or by discussing the experiences of students and teachers involved in various innovations in teaching research methods (chapters by Katharina Adeney, Sean Carey, Jane Falkingham, Teresa McGowan and Jo Wathan) or in describing several large projects which make use of IT instruments for easily sharing of teaching and learning contents (chapters by Rebecca Taylor, Angela Scott and Jackie Carter).We understand first that there is a strong resistance on behalf of both students and academics against quantitative methods, either per se, or indirectly, as hostility against the rigors that come along in teaching with quantitative methods and statistics. …
Central European journal of educational research, Apr 30, 2021
Although the topic of the profile of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) ... more Although the topic of the profile of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) is important for those involved in therapy or teaching, we found very few studies focusing on Romanian populations, and those targeting the North-Western region (Bihor County) are even fewer. ADHD is the most common childhood disorder , and it is important not only to know and understand the symptoms, but also to pay attention to the cultural specificity of the ADHD diagnosis, if it is possible. We conducted a documentary analysis, aiming to identify the profile of children diagnosed with ADHD in Bihor County and in this regard, we analyzed 196 files registered at the Municipal Hospital from Oradea in 2015. We focused on the demographic data, the symptoms, the comorbid disorders, the treatments, the school environment and type. Our findings confirmed that boys diagnosed with ADHD are more numerous than girls, and we also found significant differences between children depending on their ADHD core symptoms.
Sociologie românească, May 16, 2004
Education Systems
Springer eBooks, 2021
Cum alocă Ministerul Educației granturile doctorale către universitățile publice din România?
Review of Sociology Vol, 2009
During the transition the topic of Hungarian higher education in Romania has been very intensely ... more During the transition the topic of Hungarian higher education in Romania has been very intensely debated as its polemic has been often characterized by ethnicist and nationalist arguments. One major issue of the debate is, however, that in Romania Hungarians have lower chances of access to tertiary education diplomas than the Romanian majority. The present study aims at clarifying the distribution and the covariates of educational and subsequently social chances among citizens of Romanian and Hungarian ethnicity in Romania. Using the consolidated data of the Romanian Public Opinion Barometer of 1998-2004 (N=11040) our multivariate analyses test three models of educational achievement: an ethnic determination hypothesis, a model of regional discrepancies in educational achievement and the basic social reproduction hypothesis. Though bivariate analyses indicate that there is a significant gap in educational chances for Hungarians, measured through educational achievement, the multivariate analysis proves that the thesis of lower educational chances of Hungarians from Transylvania does not hold. However, educational inequalities seem to be more a regional issue: Szeklerland, with an overwhelming majority of Hungarians provides significantly lower chances of attaining a diploma of higher education than the rest of Transylvania. One explanation for this could rely on the modernization deficit of the region. The topic requires further research in order to clarify the impact of the diverse covariates on career decisions and status attainment.
Vasile Boari and Sergiu Gherghina (Eds.) Weighting Differences: Romanian Identity in the Wider European Context, New Castle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, 272 p.(Book Review)
The implications of the research for Central and Eastern European policy design on active citizenship and governance: final report
Cercetare și Politici Sociale. Volumul conferinței naţionale cu participare internațională organizată de Facultatea de Ştiinţe Socio-Umane, Universitatea din Oradea, în 28-29 Mai 2010 (Research and Social Policies. The Volume of the National Conference with International Participation Organized b...
Social Science Research Network, Mar 30, 2012
Sustainability, 2022
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Studies on the determinants of school results have shown that they depend largely on the context ... more Studies on the determinants of school results have shown that they depend largely on the context of learning. Concerning the pandemic, teachers have been forced to find online teaching methods, which leads us to the central issue of this study of whether the effectiveness of online education depends on teachers’ digital skills. Therefore, in this study, we analyzed the perceived digital competences of Romanian pre-tertiary cycle teachers about their professional status, school location, gender, age, taught field, and prior participation in training for online teaching. Using data from 3,419 self-completed questionnaires in an online survey of teachers performed at the beginning of the global lockdown in March 2020, we have built two reliable measures of perceived digital skills, namely the Self-Assessed Multimedia and Online Skills Score (SMOS) and the Self-Assessed Digital Office Skills Score (SDOS), which were the dependent variables in our study. Hierarchical linear regressions w...
Sociologie Româneasca = Romanian Sociology, 2012
Postcommunist transition has been the excellent occasion for cvasiexperiments on the impact of la... more Postcommunist transition has been the excellent occasion for cvasiexperiments on the impact of large scales of policies aimed at managing social inequalities including those in the field of education. The present article is investigating the dynamics of access to education for several cohort of Romanian citizens born until 1985 by following the expansion of various levels of education but especially of the factors that have influenced the probability of accomplishing a specific educational career using the model of educational transitions. Our study of 4500 Romanian citizens confirms the observations of previous works which, using models of educational transition, recorded the fact that the communist regimes from Central and Eastern Europe did not have any notable and durable performances in leveling of the chances of access to high levels of instruction. Moreover, social inequalities had a significant impact on the probability of graduating from high-school and university in the wh...
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This study examines attitudes towards artificial intelligence (AI) in Romania, aiming to understa... more This study examines attitudes towards artificial intelligence (AI) in Romania, aiming to understand people's perceptions and level of readiness regarding AI in various areas of life, including work and services. The data, collected through an online survey involving 708 participants, predominantly from urban areas and with higher education, revealed that individuals with higher education and incomes experience lower AI anxiety. Perceived technological readiness was observed to increase with income and age, highlighting the importance of accumulated work and life experience.
The research showed that AI applications are more frequently used for translation and navigation, while chatbots are less popular. Respondents expressed trust in the use of AI in medicine and public safety but are hesitant regarding its use in education, workforce recruitment and driving vehicles. Additionally, AI anxiety was found to correlate with high levels of traditionalism and nationalism, suggesting a link between conservative values and the aversion towards technology.
Datele prezentate în raport sunt obținute în cadrul uni sondaj de opinie derulat în județul Bihor... more Datele prezentate în raport sunt obținute în cadrul uni sondaj de opinie derulat în județul Bihor. Instrumentul de cercetare a fost chestionarul, iar perioada de culegere a datelor a fost între 18-29 martie 2013. Interviurile au fost realizate față în față. Esantion: 394 adulti.
Our article aims to make a contribution to understanding the mechanisms involved in determining t... more Our article aims to make a contribution to understanding the mechanisms involved in determining the success of abstinence in alcoholics, a phenomenon little investigated but obviously particularly important. Having a database of 273 alcoholics in Romania divided into three categories from the point of view of abstinence (permanent abstainers, abstainers with at least one episode of relapse and former abstainers, currently relapsed) we tested several hypotheses, derived from the research literature on relapse risk factors. Multivariate models have shown, in contrast to many research that highlight covariates of the sustainability of abstinence, that only two factors have a significant impact on the type of abstinence (with or without relapse or recall): marital status and religiosity. Our research signals the special importance that the relational and normative context, social support, have in assisting the alcoholics who try to escape dependence.
Studiul investighează impactul absenței părinților și al fraților din familie asupra acumulărilor... more Studiul investighează impactul absenței părinților și al fraților din familie asupra acumulărilor cognitive ale copiilor de 15 ani folosind datele PISA România din 2012. Această relație este studiată prin testarea a două ipoteze invocate de obicei în acest context problematic: modelul resurselor sociale și economice și modelul controlului parental. Analizele multivariate arată un efect negativ semnificativ al absenței celor doi părinți, alături de o curioasă influență negativă a prezenței fraților de sex bărbătesc.
Cuvinte cheie: Structura familiei, acumulări cognitive, PISA 2012
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În acest studiu încerc să clarific logica alocării granturilor doctorale din ultimii 5 ani în Rom... more În acest studiu încerc să clarific logica alocării granturilor doctorale din ultimii 5 ani în România pe baza datelor statistice privind efectivele de doctoranzi și de coordonatori de doctorate disponibile în rapoartele CNFIS și în statisticile MENCI. După analiza corelațiilor distribuției granturilor doctorale în anul I la admiterea din toamna anului 2014 am concluzionat că nici oferta nici cererea de doctoranzi nu justifică deciziile ministerului de resort în măsura în care o face distribuirea consecutivă clasificării din 2011 a universităților și corecția ce a avut loc în 2012 ca urmare a modificării majorității guvernamentale. La acestea se adaugă variații punctuale a căror logică nu este surprinsă de nici una dintre variabilele incluse în prezenta analiză - poziția în clasificarea universităților, numărul de coordonatori și numărul de doctoranzi.
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În ciuda metodologiilor stufoase din Ordinele de Ministru privind alocarea fondurilor către unive... more În ciuda metodologiilor stufoase din Ordinele de Ministru privind alocarea fondurilor către universități, modul de distribuire a granturilor doctorale este rezultatul unui black-box instituțional care nu de puține ori naște întrebări nu doar privind transparența dar și referitor la obiectivele de politică ale unei anumite alocări a banilor publici pentru organizarea studiilor universitare de doctorat. Dacă în anul universitar 2011-2012 această alocare s-a făcut după o metodologie clară, aferentă Legii 1/2011, în anii următori modalitatea de distribuire nu a mai fost la fel de transparentă, ceea ce a dat naștere la suspiciuni și la îngrijorări cu privire la caracterul echitabil al distribuirii, pe de o parte, dar și cu referire la impactul acestor decizii aparent arbitrare asupra calității studiilor doctorale la noi în țară.
În paginile care urmează voi încerca să clarific în măsura posibilităților logica alocării granturilor doctorale pe baza datelor statistice privind efectivele de doctoranzi - pe ani calendaristici, pe ani de studiu și pe formă de finanțare - și pe baza celor referitori la numărul de coordonatori de doctorate – disponibile în bazele de date ale Ministerului Educației . Voi descrie la început evoluțiile naționale ale efectivelor de studenți doctoranzi iar apoi voi explora logica alocării granturilor doctorale în anul I către universități din 2014 punând în relație această variabilă cu numărul de coordonatori de doctorate, cu numărul global de studenți doctoranzi și cu numărul de granturi doctorale din 2012. La finalul studiului voi elabora câteva concluzii dar și unele recomandări de politici în vederea unor practici transparente, echitabile și eficiente de distribuire a resurselor publice pentru formare doctorală.
Pornind de la recentele declarații ale ministrului educației privind gradul de fericire al elevil... more Pornind de la recentele declarații ale ministrului educației privind gradul de fericire al elevilor din România am explorat acest concept pentru cazul la care făcea referire înaltul demnitar folosind datele anchetei PISA din 2012.
Rezultatele sunt următoarele:
1. Confirmă de o manieră sumbră diagnosticul ministerial: dintre toate țările și teritoriile participante la anchetă România este cea cu cel mai scăzut sentiment al apartenenței (belonging) la școală (construct care include și un item de fericire).
2. Sentimentul apartenenței la școală este corelat semnificativ, atât la nivel individual cât și la cel de țară cu rezultatele la testele la matematică.
3. Sentimentul apartenenței la școală este prezis în proporție de 75% în România de percepția relațiilor cu profesorii și de evaluarea rezultatelor învățării și a conținutului învățării.
La final am formulat câteva recomandări sumare de politici care reies din analizele efectuate.
The article approaches the Romanian educational research of the last two decades in the context o... more The article approaches the Romanian educational research of the last two decades in the context of evolutions in the Romanian education and society. After concluding that as a strategic action field educational research is not yet institutionalized I have attempted to explain this weakness relating it to other fields and by analyzing the dynamics of educational research agenda on the bases of data published by the single state owned educational agency: Institute of Educational Sciences. This content analysis underlines several contradictions in evidence based policy-design which one had to add to the other sources of inconsistencies in educational policies mentioned in the article. Although many recommendations can be made starting from my results I have highlighted two very concrete and of high emergency: recognition for educational research as a specific domain and an improved position for research in the training and practice of teachers at all levels.
Rezumat Articolul investighează de o manieră descriptivă evoluția selectivității admiterii în uni... more Rezumat Articolul investighează de o manieră descriptivă evoluția selectivității admiterii în universitățile din România în contextul modificărilor dramatice ale cifrelor privind înmatricularea în învățământul superior în perioada 2007-2013. Prin analiza datelor statistice publicate la nivel național și european și a indicatorilor de selectivitate culeși de pe paginile web ale univeristăților publice și private din România autorii discută: distribuția expansiunii și contracției înmatriculărilor după formă de proprietate, forma de finanțare și domeniul de studiu; practicile de publicare a indicatorilor de selectivitate la admitere; evoluția indicatorilor de selectivitate pe specializări și pe tipuri de universități. Autorii concluzionează că rezultatele sugerează faptul că expansiunea și contracția subsecventă s-au datorat cererii și ofertei inflaționiste din domenii credențialiste furnizate mai ales de universități private. Toate evoluțiile constatate sugerează o saturare a cererii pentru aceste specializări și orientarea cererii, prin mecanismul inegalității menținute eficient, către alte domenii mai retributive din punct de vedere social, precum medicina. Cuvinte cheie: expansiune și contracție în învățământul superior, selectivitatea programelor de studiu, echitate în acces în învățământul superior
Volumul începe printr-o punere în context cantitativă a evoluțiilor demografice din județul Bihor... more Volumul începe printr-o punere în context cantitativă a evoluțiilor demografice din județul Bihor, subsumate conceptului de „spațiu social al tranziției”, care indică faptul că modificările din realitățile socio-politice din epoca post-1990 sunt reflectate și condiționate în același timp de majore modificări în structura demografică a regiunii, într-un mod similar celor de la nivelul întregii țări. Autoarele (Chipea, Ștef, pp. 21-47) capitolului de deschidere se referă, făcând apel la date statistice, inclusiv la comparații la nivel de regiune și la nivel național, la evoluția populației județului, la structura acesteia pe sexe, medii de rezidență, grupe de vârstă, resurse de muncă și șomaj, pe de o parte, și la transformări ale comportamentelor demografice pe de alta, cu concentrare pe structura familie, dinamica căsătoriilor și a divorțurilor. Punerea în context continuă cu o abordare a cadrelor economice, preluând aici limbajul gustian, în capitolul următor redactat de Floare Chipea și Sorana Săveanu (pp. 48-74). Aici sunt prezentate, folosind principalii indicatori economici disponibili, transformările din structura economică a județului din ultimele decenii: evoluția PIB-ului, a productivității, a structurii economiei pe ramuri industriale, mărimea întreprinderii, a investițiilor etc.
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testări și competiții multietnice, problematica identităților și atașamentelor este una care nu poate lipsi dintr-o analiză regională. Folosind datele unei anchete desfășurate în cadrul unui proiect de cercetare transfrontalier, Sergiu Bălțătescu și Zsolt Bottyan investighează în articolul lor (pp. 75-98) componentele identității la populația județului Bihor, cu o focalizare pe dimensiunea etnică a analizei. Rezultatele comparațiilor dintre români și maghiari confirmă în mare măsură așteptările fundamentate teoretic: românii au o mai puternică componentă națională în identificare, în timp ce la maghiari elementele locale și cele europene sunt mai pregnante.
Tot aspecte de identitate sunt analizate și în articolul lui Buhaș și colaboratorii (pp. 99-122), unde este abordată dintr-o perspectivă de branding urban percepția Oradiei de către locuitorii săi și, complementar, de către turiștii care vizitează orașul. Reiese din analiza unor date de anchetă pe mai multe subeșantioane faptul că orașul are în general o imagine pozitivă, atât printre turiști, cât și printre locuitori, pentru ambele categorii de subiecți elementele de patriomoniu jucând un rol important ca ancore perceptive. Articolul oferă și recomandări utile pentru eventuale politici de promovare turistică și branding local, fiind unul dintre exemplele de cercetare aplicată înfăptuite de echipa de sociologi locali pentru a veni în întâmpinarea nevoilor de dezvoltare ale regiunii.
Ca în majoritatea regiunilor României, o pondere importantă a populației județului Bihor o reprezintă locuitorii din mediul rural. Mulți dintre aceștia, mai ales cei din localitățile izolate, aflate la mare distanță de centrele urbane importante duc încă moduri de viață tradiționale bazate pe ocupații manuale și agricultură de subzistență. Contactul acestei categorii de locuitori cu modernitatea și globalizarea poate fi dramatică. O astfel de întâlnire a abordat Adrian Hatos în articolul său (pp. 123-142) care analizează un caz de opoziție rurală la un proiect de dezvoltare a unui parc eolian într-o regiune rurală izolată de la limita dintre județle Bihor și Sălaj. Spre deosebire de situații similare din Occident, unde rezistența la implementarea unor astfel de proiecte e justificată adeseori de considerente ce țin de atitudini de responsabilitate socială, în cazul țăranilor români și slovaci din estul Bihorului motivațiile opoziției sunt cel mai adesea judecăți de echitate referitoare la distribuția comensațiilor financiare pe care corporația urma să le plătească localnicilor.
Un volum de studii aplecate asupra dimensiunilor vieții sociale nu putea ignora latura religioasă. Șerban Olah (pp. 143-156) testează câteva modele concurente ale comportamentului religios, încercând să explice donațiile financiare motivate religios. Folosind articolul și ca pretext pentru a descrie peisajul religios bihorean, colegul nostru utilizează date de sondaj pentru a
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ajunge la concluzia că modelul economic al vieții religioase explică mai bine fenomenul dependent decât cel al secularizării sau al socializării religioase.
Dragoș Dărăbăneanu (pp. 157-174) investighează la nivel teoretic relația dintre sondajele de opinie și structurarea opiniei publice în societățile democratice. Excursul teoretic și analitic mai ales în raport cu evoluțiile sociale și politice din România și Europa ultimelor două decenii arată importanța în creștere a cunoașterii și măsurării opiniei publice în contextul în care aceasta devine o miză politică, iar discursul și acțiunile actorilor politici își văd legitimitatea din ce în ce mai contestată.
Câteva dintre articolele din volum abordează probleme sociale și politici sau intervenții specifice de o manieră comparativă, local-națională-internațională. Cristiana Marc și Claudia Bacter (pp. 175-196) investighează folosind date statistice oficiale evoluția problematicii copiilor aflați în situații de risc constatând caracterul incremental al situațiilor de abandon în spitale sau al copiilor din familii cu părinți aflați la muncă în străinătate, al copiilor abuzați sau neglijați. În concluziile lor cu o puternică latură aplicativă, cele două autoare subliniază necesitatea extinderii măsurilor de sprijin pentru familii și a celor preventive, a întăririi politicilor și serviciilor pentru copiii cu dizabilități, dar și pentru cei abuzați și neglijați.
Traficul de ființe umane este una dintre cele mai grave probleme contemporane și, totuși, destul de rar abordată în literatura dedicată situațiilor de criză și politicilor sociale, inclusiv la nivel local. Rețeaua de organizații non-guvernamentale cu activitate dedicată combaterii traficului de persoane și efectelor acesteia este descrisă într-un mod analitic în articolul Aurorei Gavriș (pp 197-216). Cele trei ONG-uri identificate și descrise completează prin adaptabilitate, rapiditate și disponibilitate activitatea structurilor de stat cu activitate în domeniu.
Ultimul capitol al volumului cuprinde o analiză de impact la nivel local a programului Laptele și Cornul (Adelina Iacob, pp. 217-228) într-una dintre cele mai solide metodologic investigații de acest tip, necesară în contextul dezbaterilor aparent interminabile privind oportunitatea unei asemenea politici. Rezultatele obținute pe un eșantion reprezentativ de elevi de școală primară din Bihor atestă că, pe ansamblu, programul are rezultate nete pozitive, înregistrându-se o rată mică de pierderi și o corelație pozitivă a consumului de lapte și corn cu rezultatele școlare și cu nevoia. Un rezultat interesant al analizelor cantitative este corelația dintre tipul rezidenței și preferința pentru cele două componente ale programului, cei din mediul rural fiind mai interesați de corn în timp ce elevii din mediul urban sunt mai interesați de consumarea laptelui.
Rostul volumului de față este în primul rând unul simbolic și emoțional. Asumând cu realism imposibilitatea reprezentativității în oricare dintre cele două direcții menționate mai sus, ne propunem, modest, să marcăm o etapă importantă din viața științelor sociale organizate la nivel local, prin aniversarea a 20 de ani de la înființarea învățământului sociologic orădean. Mai mult, prin centrarea pe aspectul local sau regional al lucrărilor selectate încercăm să adăugăm câteva tușe acestui domeniu al activității noastre de cele mai multe ori neglijat, dar esențial. În timp ce reputația și vizibilitatea științifică depind de cele mai multe ori de universalitatea rezultatelor, eforturile simple de a răspunde nevoilor locale ajung să fie minimalizate sau chiar neglijate indiferent de efectele lor.
Învățământul superior românesc este (o știe toată lumea) supus unor multiple presiuni care îl obl... more Învățământul superior românesc este (o știe toată lumea) supus unor multiple presiuni care îl obligă la o reformă reală: cea a conținuturilor. Nu doar că numărul potențialilor studenți a scăzut ca urmare a unor dinamici demografice binecunoscute, dar dificultățile economice de după 2008 au modificat atât așteptările cât și logica deciziilor deopotrivă la nivelul cererii de calificări și la nivelul cererii de competențe. Familiile și tinerii, pe de-o parte, și angajatorii, pe de altă parte, sunt mai prudenți din punct de vedere economic: tinerii și părinții lor chibzuiesc atent beneficiile economice și sociale ale deciziilor lor de carieră, iar angajatorii evaluează cu mult mai mare atenție plusul de competitivitate pe care un nou angajat îl aduce. În noua realitate economică săracă în lichiditate, marcată de austeritatea alocărilor bugetare, chiar și instituțiile din sectorul public și cele non-profit sunt constrânse să evalueze cu atenție eficiența utilizării resurselor umane. Relevanța pentru piața muncii a conținuturilor transmise prin cursurile universitare a crescut astfel semnificativ în importanță, ghidând în mare măsură și evaluările din partea potențialilor studenți, dar și pe cele din partea beneficiarilor universităților – angajatorii resursei umane formată de acestea.
'Riding the wave: 'Social Science Curriculum and Teaching in Higher Education in an Age of Crisis... more 'Riding the wave: 'Social Science Curriculum and Teaching in Higher Education in an Age of Crisis' brings together contributions from both members of our project and colleagues which joined only in this endeavor of publishing an edited book, from our universities and others, from Romania and Hungary, experts in various areas - educationalists, sociologists, social workers. The most significant and valuable, I hope, is the diversity of the topics and approaches of the content, means and outcomes of the teaching in areas we label social sciences usually.
Regarding the tracing the professional career of social sciences graduates we receive a valuable input in the article of Roland Hegedűs (University of Debrecen) who discusses in great detail, using the data of the 2013 Hungarian Graduate Tracking System (HGTS) survey, the processes of transition from school to work, the mobility of graduates and their experiences in the labor market. Aside the general conclusion that social science graduates are in a bad position on the Hungarian labor market I can but emphasize the value of the analyses in the article as well as that of the entire HGTS survey. Both are worthy of being translated in other countries which are contemplating means to monitor the careers of graduates. This is not, though, the only article that focuses on the careers of social sciences graduates. Sources of professional contentment among social workers drives the attention of the article authored by Enikő Albert-Lőrincz (Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj) and Albert-Lőrincz Mártin (Sapientia University - Târgu-Mureș). Relying on the data of a survey with a large sample of Social Work graduates from Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Eger (Hungary) they conclude that helper's professional satisfaction is hindered by low social prestige of the profession, low wages, improper allocation of resources in the system and poor practical training.
Most of the articles in the volume rely directly on the outputs of the SocioPLus volum. Florica Ștefănescu and Sorana Săveanu underline in their article (Occupational standards and skills. Case study for Human Resources Management Program) the recommendations that entail from the comparison of the curriculum of University of Oradea's MA program in Human Resource Management with similar European study program. The authors conclude that an appropriate approach to the elaboration of curriculum should start from the analysis of the occupational standards of the concerned profession, in this case Human Resources Manager.
Other participants in the project refer to actual improvements in pedagogy and teaching methods that had been implemented while adjusting their own programs. Thus Alina Roman and Evelina Balaș highlight the uses and benefits of interactive pedagogy while providing several examples of exercises put in practice during seminars aiming to improve the communication skills of future social workers.
Some of the authors that have taught improved disciplines within the project relied in their articles on their own experiences. Mihaela Gavrilă, in her article „Improving the Curriculum for a Social Services Masters' Degree Program" delivers the results of the evaluation of piloting of the adjusted course content. Camelia-Nadia Bran, from the 'Aurel Vlaicu' University in Arad, describes also the results of evaluation of engagement and satisfaction of students in Social Work who were involved in the delivery of improved contents within the project. A related topic is approached in the paper by Serban Olah who describes the theoretical and practical rationale of teaching Sociology in higher education, on the one hand, and the outcomes of evaluation delivery of his own adjusted course in Economic Sociology. With a larger focus but a similar topic, the article authored by Sorana Săveanu and Raluca Buhaș presents the results of the evaluation of the adjusted curriculum on all the 210 students involved in the SocioPlus project. Complementary to their article is the one authored by Sergiu Bălțătescu, Floare Chipea, Claudia Bacter, Zsolt Bottyan and Cristiana Marc describing the methodological issues involved in developing reliable and valid instruments for monitoring and evaluating of study programs.
While most of our contributors that took part in the SocioPlus project, we have very valuable input from outside the project inspired also by the efforts of overcoming the challenges of teaching in university. Simona Laurian-Fitzgerald, Carmen Popa and Carlton Fitzgerald build on their experiences with non-traditional students in Oradea and New England (USA) from whom the conventional expectations are lower than from the other students. They conclude that adjusting teaching practice to the students' teaching and emotional needs educators in universities can bring non-traditional students to reach the same levels of learning results as obtained from traditional students. Close to this topic is the article by Gabriela Kelemen and Alina Costin who evaluate ways to increase student engagement during seminar and conclude that motivation and involvement on behalf of students can be boosted by using 'dynamic, modern, interactive' methods by a teacher interested in the needs of the group of learners.
Concerned also with the issues of quality teaching in social sciences programs several articles in this volume are more general in topic they are addressing. Cristiana Marc and Claudia Bacter sum up in a resourceful literature review several important reference points concerning teaching in undergraduate Social Work programs. Ethical aspects in the practice and teaching of sociology are discussed by Ionel Cioara in his article that pleads for the institutionalization of ethics in sociology as a means, among others, to its professionalization. Our colleague Imre Fenyő from the University of Debrecen describes, using time as a reference, the main features of the practice of teacher training at the University of Debrecen focusing on the role of the subjects related to the social sciences. While in the previous intervals the humanities (1914-1949) or the communist political ideology (1950-1989) were dominant, in the last decades applied social science became key components of teacher training.
Evoluția numărului de doctoranzi, granturi doctorale an. 1, covariate ale numărului de granturi 2... more Evoluția numărului de doctoranzi, granturi doctorale an. 1, covariate ale numărului de granturi 2012-2016. Identificarea de inechități în alocare. Comparație Universitatea din Oradea, restul universităților.