The study aimed to compare health status and lifestyle in university students. The participants were college freshmen from physical education majors (N = 195, Mean = 20.9, SD = 1.87) and the school of Urban and Environmental majors (N = 195, Mean = 21.73, SD = 0.93) in Dalian, China. The Diagnostic Inventory of Health and Life habit (DIHAL.2) scale (Tokunaga, 2003) was administered to all parti...

This study investigates how college students form their expectations on each major and how they choose their majors in relation to their expectations. In particular, we investigate: (i) the relationship between students perceived ability in each field of study and the likelihood of majoring in that field, and (ii) the relationship between students expected major-specific earnings at age 30 and ...

This research uses 10 years of institutional data at a large public university in the USA to investigate trends undergraduate majors students declare, drop, and earn degrees, especially comparing physics other disciplines. We find that has lowest number all science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) disciplines it also highest rates attrition who declare major. While many STEM have migrating...

Medical physics is currently a rapidly growing field of physics. Numerous academic, clinical and industrial opportunities are open to physicists in the medical world. I report on an intermediate level physics course on medical physics taught at Carleton College. The topics covered in this course cover all areas of physics, but with examples drawn from medical applications. In addition to physic...

In the critical period of modernization transformation and development in China's construction industry, cultivation intelligent talents is still practical stage. Taking at Dianchi College Yunnan University as an example, this article explores teaching reform local civil engineering majors guided by student employment.

Low representation in the extreme upper tail of the mathematics test score distribution is often assumed to explain the small numbers of women in engineering, mathematics, computer science and physical science (EMS) college majors and careers. However, this study finds that fewer than one-third of the college-educated white men in the EMS workforce had SAT-Math scores above the threshold previo...

This study examined college students’ attitudes towards science in a course designed with Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Responsibilities (SENCER) ideals. SENCER uses socially engaging issues to teach basic science to non-science majors. A combination of methods was used to measure changes in attitudes (confidence and interest) and scientific literacy after completing this SENCE...