AIM This study examined how one pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing program at a public university in the southeastern United States integrated concepts and issues of culture and culturally competent practice into its curriculum. BACKGROUND Teaching and learning about culturally competent practice in pre-licensure nursing programs are essential to ensure a culturally competent health care wor...

It is known that study groups speed up learning. Recent studies have shown that stable study groups are more efficient than shiftingmembership groups. In this paper, we provide a theoretical explanation for this empirical observation. 1 Formulation of a Problem Group work, its success and its challenges. It is well known that study groups and group work enhance education. Of course, one needs t...

The pilot implementation of a Short Messaging Service (SMS) system for student-academic staff administrative information exchange in a higher education environment is described. Assessment results and related alerts were broadcast to students and access was provided to information relating to their subject schedules and assessment performance. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collect...

Tutors often have difficulty in accurately assessing their tutees‟ understanding. However, it is unclear how tutors‟ professional experience influences their assessment accuracy. Therefore, we conducted a study with N = 46 tutor-tutee dyads and compared the accuracy with which teacher tutors and student tutors assessed a tutee‟s understanding of the human circulatory system at the level of ment...

This paper publishes the results of a study of Hong Kong Chinese upper secondary students (Form 4 and Form 6) regarding their motivation orientations for learning English. The study analysed male and females student groups using Gardner and Lambert’s (1972) ‘extrinsic and intrinsic motivation’ theoretical framework in order to elicit the most revealing results from the data. Findings will have ...

A commonly known and widely studied problem of massive open online courses (MOOCs) is the high drop-out rate of students. In this paper we propose and analyze the composition of small learning groups as a solution to this problem. In an experiment, we composed such small learning groups in a MOOC context using two methods: Random grouping and grouping by an algorithm that considers selected stu...

This study identified why students in China, Taiwan, and Korea at both undergraduate and master’s level want to major in hospitality and tourism management (HTM), why they prefer to study abroad, and their preferred concentration of study in the HTM major. Three Asian national student groups were selected at both the undergraduate and master’s student level. In a comparison of motivations for H...

Success in college is not simply a matter of students demonstrating academic ability. In addition, students must master the ‘‘college student’’ role in order to understand instructors’ expectations and apply their academic skills effectively to those expectations. This article uses data from focus groups to examine the fit between university faculty members’ expectations and students’ understan...

INTRODUCTION High stakes are involved in student selection, for both medical schools and applicants. This thesis investigated the effects of selection on the medical student population and applicant pool in the Dutch setting. METHODS This thesis consists of six papers: two quantitative studies, one qualitative study, two mixed methods studies and one perspective paper based on a review of the...