1 Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, Associate Prof. (Engineering), Univ. of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD. 21853-1299, [email protected] 2 Gurbax Singh, Professor (Physics), University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD. 21853-1299,[email protected] 3 Manpreet Kaur, Graduate Student, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD. 21853 ( Applied Computer Science...

With the rapid development of tourism, new needs are put forward for cultivation tourism talents. The innovation and entrepreneurship education in local colleges universities is need survival develop-ment college students under normal economic conditions, it also requirement construction innovative country comprehensive higher our country. This paper analyzes pre-sent situation management profe...

In recent years, we have seen an increased use of pair programming in CS-1 courses. Widespread evidence shows pair programming as beneficial at all levels of programming skill. During three academic years, we studied what students in CS-1 choose when given the option to either pair program or to program independently. We explore which students choose to pair and how often, and examine the major...

College students, especially women, demonstrated negativity toward math and science relative to arts and language on implicit measures. Group membership (being female), group identity (self female), and gender stereotypes (math male) were related to attitudes and identification with mathematics. Stronger implicit math male stereotypes corresponded with more negative implicit and explicit math a...

Almost worldwide, females still comprise a minority of degree-holders and employees in the physical sciences. Although a significant amount of research has been done to investigate and improve the underrepresentation of females in science, the problem is far from solved. Since this is still a global issue, this cross-cultural study uses qualitative survey responses completed by approximately hu...

In order to get a good understanding of the situation of health, sports consciousness and practice, a study on the management of physical exercise is conducted based on the different genders, grades and majors. The related data is obtained through the sampling survey. By using the theories and methods of parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, variance analysis and regression analysis and com...

[Purpose] Academic performance of college students can be impacted by the efficacy of students' ability and teaching methods. It is important to assess the progression of college students' cognitive abilities among different college majors and as they move from junior to senior levels. However, dearth of studies have been examined the role of cognitive ability tests as a tool to determine the a...

Bowdoin College is a small liberal arts college that offers a comprehensive Neuroscience major. The laboratory experience is an integral part of the major, and many students progress through three stages. A core course offers a survey of concepts and techniques. Four upper-level courses function to give students more intensive laboratory research experience in neurophysiology, molecular neurobi...

We present a simple theoretical framework in which we allow individuals to choose a college major based on comparative advantage considerations, but also on the basis of tastes for actions related to college majors and their occupational fields. Using data of a large Dutch longitudinal youth cohort study, we are able to estimate the effect of personality measured at age 12 on college major choi...