Pecafrom Project September 21, 2015 Proiect Pecafrom IT Skills for Graduates in Human, Economic and Medical Sciences Alina Andreica, PhD Faculty of European Studies Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania September 21, 2015

Pecafrom Project IT Skills for Graduates in Human, Economic and Medical Sciences Introduction Training Goals, Participants and Calendar Training Content Participants’ results and feed-back Conclusions Acknowledgements References

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Pecafrom Project Training Goals, Participants & Calendar Goal: provide proficient IT skills for a group of ladies graduates in human, economic and medical sciences Training group ladies graduates in human, economic and medical sciences Initially: 28 participants, 3 renounced before the course began 2 abandoned during the course from personal reasons 23 concluded the training Course – OIPVD (operator for introducing, processing, validating data) course

Pecafrom Project Group profile Age distribution Graph contains values and percents

Pecafrom Project Group profile Spcialization distribution Graph contains values and percents

Pecafrom Project Calendar M1 - Basic concepts M2 - Windows 25- Fe b 26- Fe b 27- Fe b 28- Fe b 01- Ma r 04- Ma r 05- Ma r 06- Ma r 07- Mar 08- Mar 09- Mar 11- Mar 12- Mar 13- Ma r 14- Ma r 15- Mar 18- Ma r M4 - Word - basic operations M5 - Word - formatting operations 20- Ma r 21- Ma r 22- Ma r 25- Ma r 26- Ma r 27- Ma r 28- Ma r 29- Ma r 01- Apr 02- Apr 03- Apr 04- Apr 05- Apr 06- Apr 07- Apr 08- Apr 09- Apr 10 - Ap r M6 - Word – integrated objects and advanced facilitiesM3 - Installations 14- Apr 15- Apr 16- Apr 17- Ap r 18- Apr 19- Apr 22- Apr 23- Apr 24- Apr 27- Apr 28- Apr 29- Apr 30- Apr

Pecafrom Project Calendar M10 – Powerpoint – basic operations M11 - Powerpoint – slide formatting 02- Ma y 03- Ma y 04- Ma y 05- Ma y 06- Ma y 07- Ma y 08- Ma y 09- Ma y 10- Ma y 13- May 14- Ma y 15- Ma y 16- Ma y 17- Ma y 20- Ma y 21- Ma y M12 - Powerpoint – integrated objects and animations M7 - Excel – basic operations 22- Ma y 23- Ma y 24- Ma y 27- Ma y 28- Ma y 29- Ma y 30- Ma y 03- Jun 04- Jun 05- Jun 06- Jun 07- Jun 08- Jun 09- Jun 10- Ju n 11- Jun

Pecafrom Project Calendar M8 - Excel – computations and formulas M9 - Excel - graphs & data synthesis facilities 12- Ju n 13- Ju n 14- Ju n 17- Ju n 18- Jun 19- Jun 20- Ju n 21- Jun 24- Jun 25- Jun 26- Jun 27- Jun 28- Jun M13 - Internet Revision 01- Jul 02- Jul 03- Jul 04- Jul 05- Jul 08- Jul 09- Jul 10- Jul 11- Jul 12- Jul

Pecafrom Project Training Content Module 1 – Basic concepts –Computer components and their role –Information media Module 2 – Windows –Windows system elements and characteristics Module3 – Installation –Antivirus, archiving program Module 4 – Word – basic operations –Document operations Module 5 – Word – formatting operations –Fonts –Paragraphs –Pages Each module contained a theoretical and a practical part. Practical applications: 2 consistent sets of exercises, comprising around 28 elementary exercises – huge amount of work Each individual exercises graded and results centralized in Excel worksheets

Pecafrom Project Training Content Module 6 – Word – integrated objects and advanced facilities –Clipart, Wordart, Smartart, Drawing, Chart, Insert picture –Mailmerge Module 7 – Excel – basic operations –creating, saving and basic workbook operations –worksheet operations Module 8 – Excel – computations and formulas –formulas –built-in functions Module 9 – Excel –graphs and data synthesis facilities –types of graphs, creating and editing graphs –Pivot tables, subtotals, database functions

Pecafrom Project Training Content Module 10 – Powerpoint – basic operations –Operations with Powerpoint presentations Module 11 – Powerpoint – slide formatting –Slide operations –Slide editing and and formatting Modul 12 – Powerpoint – integrated objects and animations –Clipart, Wordart, Smartart, Drawing, Chart, Insert picture –Animations (content), Transitions (slides) Module 13 – Internet –E-commerce –HTML Language –WordPress

Pecafrom Project Participants’ results and feed-back For each module, participants were evaluated for the theoretical acquired knowledge (with standard tests) and practical skills A total of 604 practical grades, 2 grades / participant / module; 23 participants fully graded + 6 grades for participants who did not complete the whole training Grades computed in Excel worksheets automatically adding the grades from each module – huge amount of work Synthesis were also computed in Excel spreadsheets, with dcount database function: we have computed the number of grades for each interval [6,7), [7,8), [8,9), [9,10]

Pecafrom Project Practical grades M1-1M1-1 M1-2M1-2 M2-1M2-1 M2-2M2-2 M3-1M3-1 M3-2M3-2 M4-1M4-1 M4-2M4-2 M5-1M5-1 M 5- 2 M 6- 1 M 6- 2 M 7- 1 M 7- 2 M 8- 1 M 8- 2 M 9- 1 M 9- 2 M10-1M10-1 M10-2M10-2 M M M M M M

Pecafrom Project Practical grades

Pecafrom Project Practical grades

Pecafrom Project Pratical grades synthesis Module[6,7)[7,8)[8,9)[9,10]Total M M M M M M M M M M M M M M

Pecafrom Project Pratical grades synthesis M M M M M M M M M M M M Total [6,7)[7,8)[8,9)[9,10]

Pecafrom Project Pratical grades synthesis Graph contains values and percents

Pecafrom Project Conclusions knowledge based society - digital skills have become indispensable competencies We analyze the IT training aiming provide proficient digital skills for a group of ladies graduates in human, economic and medical sciences From a group of 25 participants who began the course, 23 fully completed the program

Pecafrom Project Conclusions Although the course schedule and requirements were very demanding, participants successfully completed the training and scored very well at the final exam Participants positively evaluated the course and its outcomes We expect the acquired competencies to have a very positive impact on the professional path oh the participants