Basic statistics for postgraduate students

Design of a Statistics Lecture for Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Students Using a Range of Tools and Techniques

Teaching statistics is a critical and challenging issue especially to students from multidisciplinary and diverse postgraduate backgrounds. Postgraduate research students require statistics not only for the design of experiments; but also for data analysis. Students often perceive statistics as a complex and technical subject; thus, they leave data analysis to the last moment. The lecture needs...

Honours and Postgraduate Students

Chinese Postgraduate Medical Students Researching for Publication

The value of including a research component in medical students’ training programs has been widely recognized. Nevertheless, examples of how this may be done are rarely found in the literature. The case study reported in this short paper aimed to address this gap in the literature by investigating how a group of postgraduate students attached to the Orthopedics Department of a major hospital in...

Educational Motivation Improvement Strategies for Postgraduate Students: Nominal Group Technique

Introduction: One of the most important factors in studentschr('39') learning process is academic motivation that can affect different aspects of studentschr('39') performance in educational environments and directly affects their academic success. Motivation is also considered as the key to learnerschr('39') learning. The main goal of this study is to provide ways to increase educational motiv...

Contents Advice to Postgraduate Students

The University of Sydney’s school of chemistry is one of the largest chemistry departments in Australia with a strong record of achievement and an international research reputation. There are typically around 100 postgraduate students undertaking research towards doctorate and masters degrees. The school offers postgraduate programs in all areas of contemporary chemistry leading to the followin...