In 2006, Case Western Reserve University (Case) initiated the acquisition, customization, and implementation of a new student information system (SIS). The Case SIS Project was intended to integrate the capture and management of all student information and student‐facing administrative functions across the university's distinct schools. Key functions supported by the platform include admissions...

An asynchronous course in the introduction to economic analysis depends on mastery of content before students may progress to the next module. Each module is formulated with introduction, content, graded and non-graded assessment. Student success in a similar course over four semesters is pronounced with little withdrawal and mostly grades of A being received. This paper tells why the instructi...

The present study aims to determine the impact of blended learning model on student attitudes towards Geography course and their critical thinking dispositions and skills. An experimental pattern with pretest-posttest control group was used in the study. The study group consists of a total of 57 students – 28 in the experiment group and 29 in the control group – at Kırşehir High School. The exp...

The mobile robotics course introduced at the University of Missouri-Columbia is similar to other robot-building courses, with one important distinction-instead of competition among student teams, cooperation and information sharing are encouraged across all students in the class. The course covers the design and development of intelligent machines, particularly emphasizing topics related to sen...

An asynchronous course in the introduction to economic analysis depends on mastery of content before students may progress to the next module. Each module is formulated with introduction, content, graded and non-graded assessment. Student success in a similar course over four semesters is pronounced with little withdrawal and mostly grades of A being received. This paper tells why the instructi...

An asynchronous course in the introduction to economic analysis depends on mastery of content before students may progress to the next module. Each module is formulated with introduction, content, graded and non-graded assessment. Student success in a similar course over four semesters is pronounced with little withdrawal and mostly grades of A being received. This paper tells why the instructi...

An encompassing model of a business loan contract with the bank is constructed to establish the roles and relative importance of asymmetry of information, market power, borrower (entrepreneurial) effort and quality in explaining contract features. Special cases of the model include symmetric versus asymmetric information regimes, competition versus monopoly power, adverse selection versus moral...

“Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School”: Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even...

The aim of this study was to examine whether student achievement and school location may influence a range of homework management strategies. The participants were 633 rural and urban students in Grade 8. These homework management strategies include: (a) setting an appropriate work environment, (b) managing time, (c) handling distraction, (d) monitoring motivation, and (e) controlling negative ...

The dynamic and on-going process of developing a state-of-the-art student record information system by a consortium of six Finnish universities is both described and analyzed. Using a social process model as the basic framework to describe the development, the