Professional skills development for mathematics undergraduates

Preparing Undergraduates for Professional Writing

Research skills for undergraduates: a must!

Dear Sirs, Research serves a vital purpose in furthering the knowledge base on which medicine is practised. Furthermore it may be defined as the method to which we inform our action. In order for us to practice evidence-based medicine, we must be informing our action, which is reliant on robust and rigorous research. Tomorrow’s Doctors 2009 relates to three domains: the scholar, the scientist a...

Assessing undergraduates' practical clinical skills.

A list of practical skills to observe or learn was included in an undergraduate child health core curriculum. The ability of students to perform these tasks was assessed in a short objective test. This testing has encouraged them to become more proficient in these important skills.

English Teachers Professional Development Needs for Web Development Skills: Meeting the Challenges of Teaching English Language in the Information Age

Utilizing the resources of the web in educational practices has made instructional processes more efficient and interesting and has made the learning process on the other hand much easier and attractive. With the web, English language teachers now have the option of engaging learners in online (web-based) instructions in addition to the use of conventional classroom instructions or alternativel...

The Effects of Professional Development on Elementary Students’ Mathematics Achievement

This paper describes the effects of a professional development (PD) program – Developing Mathematical Thinking – on student achievement. Six Title I elementary schools with similar demographics, within one school district, were chosen to participate as either a treatment or comparison school. Three schools were chosen to participate in professional development that incorporates effective PD rec...