Papers by Gabriel Mugurel Dragomir
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Socio-cultural patterns and communication styles differ from culture to culture. As such, the way... more Socio-cultural patterns and communication styles differ from culture to culture. As such, the way in which people deal with a crisis situation is also culture-dependent. The COVID-19 pandemic has pointed, once more, to the cultural diversity of the world through a variety of reactions to the measures imposed by the global spread of the deadly virus. The present research aims at identifying the feelings, coping behaviors and communication patterns of the younger Romanian generation during the COVID-19 pandemic and at explaining them from a cultural standpoint, in an effort to raise awareness of the cultural (un)predictability of human reactions to certain external stimuli. The survey conducted online on 409 students at Politehnica University of Timișoara (Romania) revealed that most of students’ socio-cultural behavior could have been anticipated by the Romanian authorities when they decided a certain pandemic action plan, and that the few unexpected results indicate the versatility ...
Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, 2021
This article addresses trends and perspectives in didactic evaluation in technical higher educati... more This article addresses trends and perspectives in didactic evaluation in technical higher education and in order to assist teachers in their continuous training through the results obtained. Thus, 263 students from Politehnnica University of Timisoara were interviewed. The research tool was a questionnaire with 25 items, of which 5 were factual. The issues addressed were related to an analysis of the state of affairs of the evaluation, as well as the proposals made by the interviewees to improve the evaluation. The suggested changes tackle a greater understanding and empathy on the teachers’ part, their objectivity, as well as a better correlation of the evaluation with the students’ psychological and personality traits. Regarding evaluation, particularly interesting was the suggestion of replacing teachers with senior students or even with computers. On the other hand, there is a reluctance of respondents to replace evaluators with intelligence devices or gadgets. The article can a...
Romanian Academic Mobility in the Light of the Bologna Process
The present study analyzes the way in which student and teaching staff mobility (one of the main ... more The present study analyzes the way in which student and teaching staff mobility (one of the main objectives set by the Bologna Process) was implemented within technical higher education in Romania during 2005-2008. The research was conducted in 28 technical Romanian universities and the results show that some of the universities in view have made significant steps in the implementation of student and teacher mobility. Nevertheless, they reclaim that some of the universities targeted will still have to study thoroughly the issue of mobility in higher education in order to make it more effective within the respective institutions.
Applied Sciences, 2021
Aiming at shedding light on the implications the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the students’ socia... more Aiming at shedding light on the implications the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the students’ social and personal lives, this study has focused on the verbal and non-verbal communication and on the surveyees’ personal lives during the pandemic as well as on the perspective of changing their communication behaviors after the pandemic. The 409 respondents, students at Politehnica University of Timisoara, took part in a survey, conducted between 1 April and 30 May 2021, that was posted on isondaje.ro, a Romanian online survey platform. The research has suggested the following results: the adjustment of the verbal communication by speaking in a more articulated manner or more loudly; the overuse of the upper part of the face to compensate for the concealed parts of the face due to face mask wearing; the analysis of the factors underlying the respondents’ actions, i.e., relational attitudes, various greeting forms, various non-verbal reactions, which are aspects that are likely to change e...
Sustainability, 2021
The response of most educational institutions to the health crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pand... more The response of most educational institutions to the health crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic was the adoption of emergency remote teaching and assessment. The paper aims to evaluate students’ satisfaction with assessment activities in a Romanian university and to identify elements pertaining to sustainable assessment in the post-pandemic period. A collaborative research strategy was developed with students being invited as co-researchers for data collection by distributing an online questionnaire and for interpretation of the results in a focus group. The factor analysis of the responses to the survey extracted two pillars pertaining to students’ appraisal of remote assessment activities: Knowledge, and leisure and stress. The discussion in the focus group showed that the research helped participants to process and reason their experience with remote assessment activities in the summer of 2020. Students missed their academic rituals and interactions with peers and teachers....
Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, 2019
The hereby paper presents the de Romanians have while travelling to the USA through the Work & Tr... more The hereby paper presents the de Romanians have while travelling to the USA through the Work & Travel Program and its personal and professional benefits. For this purpose we interviewed 145 students who participated in this program, in order to assess the following aspects: the advantages and disadvantages of the program, the issues young people faced while away and the added value of this experience. Approximately 70% of the interviewed students state that they signed up of the Work & Travel program in order to live the American Dream, being driven by curiosity and the desire to be financially independent, but also in order to perfect their English language skills. Among the advantages of the program, mentioned by over 50% of the respondents, we would like to mention the following: the experience they gained, developing their integration and socializing abilities in the new cultural, professional and social environment; the opportunity to travel and visit new places; and personal ...
The current paper is based on a survey conducted on 321 engineering students studying at Universi... more The current paper is based on a survey conducted on 321 engineering students studying at University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest and University POLITEHNICA of Timişoara. The research aims at outlining the profile of the teacher in technical higher education as depicted by engineering students. The results of the study highlight the importance of the student-teacher relationship and of the teacher’s roles as evaluator and examiner. Moreover, the test data show significant statistical differences between the real and ideal teacher in technical higher education from a student perspective. Regarding the dimensions of the teacher in technical higher education, based on the statistics, on a 1 to 5 scale, the results show similarities of the two models. For instance, students rank first intelligence and last elitism and competitiveness as teacher attributes.
Romanian Academic Mobility in the Light of the Bologna Process
The present study analyzes the way in which student and teaching staff mobility (one of the main ... more The present study analyzes the way in which student and teaching staff mobility (one of the main objectives set by the Bologna Process) was implemented within technical higher education in Romania during 2005-2008. The research was conducted in 28 technical Romanian universities and the results show that some of the universities in view have made significant steps in the implementation of student and teacher mobility. Nevertheless, they reclaim that some of the universities targeted will still have to study thoroughly the issue of mobility in higher education in order to make it more effective within the respective institutions.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
The present study analyzes the way in which student and teaching staff mobility (as one of the ma... more The present study analyzes the way in which student and teaching staff mobility (as one of the main objectives set by the Bologna Process) was implemented within technical higher education in Romania during 2005-2008. The research was conducted in 28 technical Romanian universities and the results show that some of the universities in view made significant steps in the implementation of student and teacher mobility, nevertheless, they reclaim that some of the universities targeted will still have to study thoroughly the issue of mobility in higher education in order to make it more effective within the respective institutions.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011
The present paper researches the way adolescents' frustration tolerance changes under the influen... more The present paper researches the way adolescents' frustration tolerance changes under the influence of violence-based movies. The Rosenzweig frustration test was applied before and after watching such a film. The variables taken into consideration are: the index of group conformity as well as the paricipants' overall tendencies. The outcomes have revealed insignificant alterations with regard to tolerance of frustration as a result of watching violence-based movies. Still, there has also been revealed the parameters likely to change under such circumstances. Identifying the impact mass-media may have on frustration, could provide a way to reduce subsequent criminal acts.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011
The present study intends to establish the existence of meaningful statistical differences regard... more The present study intends to establish the existence of meaningful statistical differences regarding aggressiveness, between adolescent girls and boys. The target group: 141 high school pupils. Used tests: Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire, Hostility Inventory and Freiburg Personality Inventory: the results showed that general aggressiveness of adolescents is higher at 14 years than at 16 years and that the aggressiveness of boys on the whole, but, also, on its components, at 14 years and, also, at 16 years is higher than the aggressiveness of girls, regardless the age. There are no differences among teenagers as far as verbal aggressiveness and rage are concerned.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
This study focused on the characteristics of postmenopausal breast cancer in the population of so... more This study focused on the characteristics of postmenopausal breast cancer in the population of southeastern Europe. This retrospective study explored the clinical, epidemiological, and molecular characteristics of women with postmenopausal breast cancer. Material and methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed on 721 postmenopausal breast cancer patients selected from the database of our institution. The data collected consisted of age, living environment, location of the breast tumor, stage of the disease, and molecular sub-type. Patient characteristics were collected based on a systematic chart audit from medical records. The data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0 and Pearson analysis. Results: The most frequent age range for breast cancer diagnosis was 51 to 70 years old. Most of the patients (80.7%) came from an urban environment. The vast majority of patients were initially diagnosed in stage II (40.3%) and III (30.3%). The most frequent molecular sub-types were luminal B (...
Sustainability
This paper aims to diagnose Romanian engineering students in relation to their migration intentio... more This paper aims to diagnose Romanian engineering students in relation to their migration intentions, motivations, and destinations, and to predict the magnitude of migration in the polled population. It presents the results of a quantitative study based on a questionnaire survey consistent in terms of number and structure of variables and responses. The online questionnaire was self-administered by 1782 students from the five major technical Romanian universities, which are the main providers of the highly skilled labor force in the area of engineering. Regression analysis was carried out to correlate the drivers of migration and the potential for real migration. According to the results, Romanian students from technical universities are inclined to migrate in a significant proportion; the economic factor being the main migration driver. The predictive model built on the logistical regression and the collected data accounts only partially for the variations of the variable decision ...
Editura Politehnica, ISBN 978-606-35-0236-1 , 2018
Monografia 25 DE ANI DE COMUNICARE ȘI TRADUCTOLOGIE ÎN UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA TIMIȘOARA, 1993-... more Monografia 25 DE ANI DE COMUNICARE ȘI TRADUCTOLOGIE ÎN UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA TIMIȘOARA, 1993-2018, prezintă cele mai importante momente care au marcat evoluția specializărilor de comunicare și limbi moderne aplicate în Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara, de la înființarea primei specializări de Comunicare profesională în anul 1993, până în prezent, când, în cadrul Facultății de Științe ale Comunicării, funcționează trei programe de studii la ciclul de licență și două la ciclul de master, care însumează aproximativ 550 de studenți. Sunt prezentate pe larg istoricul și specificul specializărilor, resursa umană și rezultatele cercetării.
After the Fall: East European Women since the Collapse of State Socialism
Contexts, 2002
In the Jiu Valley, traditional prohibitions against women working in the mines were relaxed durin... more In the Jiu Valley, traditional prohibitions against women working in the mines were relaxed during state-mandated industrialization in the 1960s and 1970s. But when the state began closing mines in 1996, women were among the first to be laid off. The women still working in the mines ...
Emo phenomenon – An actual problem in adolescence
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011
The aim of the present study was to study personality features characteristic for the teenagers i... more The aim of the present study was to study personality features characteristic for the teenagers involved in the EMO subculture. The study sample was represented by 100 adolescents, average age 17, 5 years. First group of 50 adolescents that are considered ...
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Papers by Gabriel Mugurel Dragomir