Each Carnegie Mellon course number begins with a two-digit prefix which designates the department offering the course (76-xxx courses are offered by the Department of English, etc.). Although each department maintains its own course numbering practices, typically the first digit after the prefix indicates the class level: xx-1xx courses are freshmen-level, xx-2xx courses are sophomore level, et...

Smith is a sophomore in Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The ordering of our names reflects only alphabetical order. We are grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and other donors for supporting our research through their support of the CHERI and to David Morgan, Vice President of the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) for granting us access to the data files that underl...

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2003;16:85–103 Pete Dysert (Figure 1) was born in Dallas, Texas, on July 8, 1954. Growing up, he spent time in several Texas cities and also in New York City before settling in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he completed his sophomore through senior years of public high school. He then entered the University of Oklahoma (OU) in Norman on a scholastic scholarship. After 3 years in colle...

Grades Because these programs have small cohorts, there is a competitive GPA requirement. Average GPAs of admitted students range from 3.0 to 3.7 depending on the program. Prospective students are required to complete the prerequisite courses with a grade of C or better prior to beginning the program. Students should aim to take the prerequisites during their first year or sophomore year ? and ...

Being an exchange student exhibits significant benefits beyond the educational scope, with regard to interacting a different cultural environment, learning accept diversity, acquiring local language, and developing self-confidence. In this light, each year International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) provides opportunity approximately 15,000 medical students carry out clin...

Outcomes based assessment has shown that introducing a platform for learningTM based on a robot referred to as TekBotsTM into the first two electrical and computer engineering (ECE) courses enhances students’ sense of community, innovation capabilities, and troubleshooting skills. At Oregon State University, Corvallis, ECE students enhance their fundamental understanding of ECE concepts as they...

since the early 2000s, many departments at Seattle University have adopted a “discourse approach” to outcomes assessment in which an instructor’s report on the results of a course-embedded assignment leads to productive faculty discussion of student performance (Bean, Carrithers, and Earenfight 2005). Using this approach, a department typically identifies a senior-level assignment requiring “ex...

514 Journal of Chemical Education • Vol. 79 No. 4 April 2002 • JChemEd.chem.wisc.edu There are several reports in the literature on efforts to use cooperative learning in general and physical chemistry (1, 2). Fewer attempts have been made in organic chemistry, although the Workshop Chemistry Project of the Rochester group is a notable exception (3). In this paper we provide a description of co...

The objective of this study was to determine some of the factors that affect student success in a genetics course. Genetics for the Kansas State University College of Agriculture is taught in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry and covers Mendelian inheritance, molecular genetics, and quantitative/population genetics. Data collected from 1,516 students over 7 yr included year and sem...