Tutorials for Enhancing Skills Development in First Year Students Taking Biological Sciences

First year clinical tutorials: students’ learning experience

BACKGROUND Bedside teaching lies at the heart of medical education. The learning environment afforded to students during clinical tutorials contributes substantially to their knowledge, thinking, and learning. Situated cognition theory posits that the depth and breadth of the students' learning experience is dependent upon the attitude of the clinical teacher, the structure of the tutorial, and...

Correction for Time-to-Credit Gender Inequities of First-Year PhD Students in the Biological Sciences

The Development and Assessment of a Course for Enhancing the 3-D Spatial Visualization Skills of First Year Engineering Students

In January 1993, we received NSF funding to develop a pre-graphics course for freshman engineering majors who are weak in 3-D spatial visualization skills. A text and computer lab exercises utilizing I-DEAS software were written specifically for this course. The course is 3-credits (quarter system) with two hours of lecture and two hours of computer lab each week. It was offered at Michigan Tec...

The Effects of Taking the Life Skills Course on First Year High School Students\' Self-Efficacy and Assertiveness

The Effects of Taking the Life Skills Course on First Year High School Students' Self-Efficacy and Assertiveness M. Parto, Ph.D. To assess the effectiveness of the life skills course in improving students' self-efficacy and assertiveness two student samples were drawn from among all first year high school students in Tehran, one from schools offering the course and the other from...

Time-to-Credit Gender Inequities of First-Year PhD Students in the Biological Sciences

Equitable gender representation is an important aspect of scientific workforce development to secure a sufficient number of individuals and a diversity of perspectives. Biology is the most gender equitable of all scientific fields by the marker of degree attainment, with 52.5% of PhDs awarded to women. However, equitable rates of degree completion do not translate into equitable attainment of f...