On January 18, 2007, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Teagle Foundation convened about 20 administrators, faculty, and graduate students from prestigious research I universities for an open discussion on the uses of assessment—systematic measuring to identify specific learning gains—to invigorate undergraduate teaching. The meeting carried forward to...

man with considerable experience of teaching E.S.N, boys of secondary school age. It is practical, and from it many teachers will be able to get some help in how to get on with and teach such boys. Naturally, this presupposes that headmasters will agree with the "total" approach outline. It becomes quite clear on reading the book that what really takes place between the teacher and his pupils i...

OBJECTIVE To explore financial wellness (FW) awareness amongst public and private sector medical college students of Karachi. METHODS A cross sectional questionnaire based survey was conducted on medical students from 3 public and 5 private sector medical colleges of Karachi from February 2011 to December 2011. All ethnic groups having age range of 18-23 years were included. A questionnaire t...

In this article, we evaluate the factor structure of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM; Phinney, 1992) and test whether the MEIM exhibits measurement invariance across ethnic groups taken from a diverse sample of students from 30 different colleges and universities across the United States (N = 9,625). Initial analyses suggested that a bifactor model was an adequate representation of...

Throughout Britain, nurse teachers and higher education staff are learning more about each other as the incorporation of colleges of nursing and midwifery (and colleges of health) into higher education gathers momentum. The Times Higher Education Supplement, now simply The Higher has been part of my weekly reading for the past ten years, as befits a career which combines nursing and higher educ...

The impetus for this report originated with my attendance at the Japan Studies Institute sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). The month-long Institute, held at San Diego State University is sponsored expressly for the purpose of introducing participants to Japan and the Japanese. The format of the Institute is centered around invited Japan experts in...

Effective and careful research has been performed by the Section of Mechanics Teaching and Research, Southwest Petroleum University on the content, status, student characteristics of the non-mechanical and non-civil-engineering engineering mechanics course system. Reform ideas and measures, which are also applicable to other common colleges, have been suggested in the course content and course ...

Similar to 4-year institutions, community colleges are struggling to find ways to increase the success rates of racial and ethnic minority students in general and Black males specifically. According to data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS), compared to their male counterparts, Black males have the lowest retention and graduation rates among their peers. Given t...