Using a “Microbe Minute” to Improve Class Attendance and Increase Course Interest

Using a “Microbe Minute” to Improve Class Attendance and Increase Course Interest

The Effect of Quiz Frequency on Course Performance and Its Relationship with Class Attendance

To investigate the effect of quiz frequency on the course performance of Iranian university students of English, the mean scores of five groups of subjects were compared using a balanced one-way ANOVA procedure. Analyses revealed that quizzes significantly improve course performance. With some exceptions, it was also found that the more frequently the subjects were quizzed, the better their cou...

Relationship Between Students’ Performance and Class Attendance in a Programming Language Subject in a Computer Course

In this paper the correlation between class attendance and performance has been analyzed to identify whether attendance is a factor which affects the students’ performance in a computers related subject. The data for analysis was taken from two classes of undergraduate students of Computer Application Course at a college in New Delhi India. The correlation was found using Pearson correlation co...

The Queuine Micronutrient: Charting a Course from Microbe to Man

Micronutrients from the diet and gut microbiota are essential to human health and wellbeing. Arguably, among the most intriguing and enigmatic of these micronutrients is queuine, an elaborate 7-deazaguanine derivative made exclusively by eubacteria and salvaged by animal, plant and fungal species. In eubacteria and eukaryotes, queuine is found as the sugar nucleotide queuosine within the antico...

Developing strategies to increase faculty members effective attendance in educational activities in medical science universities

Introduction. Several studies have shown that the effective educational attendance of faculty members have been substantially decreased. This is due to many different factors. Lack of a comprehensive analysis of this issue has led the university managers to implement ineffective, arbitrary strategies to force the faculty members to increase their attendance in the educational activities. In ord...