ABSTRACT: Purpose: The communication sciences and disorders (CSD) field has a critical shortage of PhD students and faculty. This study examined master’s in speech-language pathology and doctorate of audiology students’ and faculty’s perspectives regarding reasons students do or do not pursue a PhD as well as students’ perceptions of a faculty career and lifestyle. Additionally, students’ respo...

N ewly-elected studen t body president and vice-president, Lloyd Burke and Bob Yonchak, believe the poor tu rnout at the recen t student elections reflects the problem of com m unication betw een student governm ent and the students. In an interview yesterday, they said the 42 percen t tu rnou t is a signal to them that studen t governm ent needs m ore con tac t w ith the studen t body. Burke c...

Minority students’ English learning is a special and an indispensable component of English education system in China. This article studies students’ linguistic knowledge that live in Northwestern China – Gan Nan Autonomy State of Gan Su Province with majority population of Tibetan, mixed with Chinese and some Muslim. An analogous analysis is conducted between L2 students (Chinese students who l...

The purposes of this study are: (1) to investigate students’ perceptions of computer-assisted whole language instruction; (2) to examine the effectiveness of whole language instruction on students’ reading improvement; and (3) to determine the difference between basic-level and advanced-level students’ improvement in reading skills. A total of 212 freshmen (98 low level and 114 high level stude...

The aim of this study was to evaluate differences in physical education students’ perception on an educational innovation based on formative and peer assessment through the blogosphere. The sample was made up of 253 students from two Spanish universities. Data was collected using a self-reported questionnaire and t tests were employed in order to find differences among students’ groups. Results...

the aim of this study is to examine the effects of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention of technical and vocational university students. technical and vocational higher education centers are among the centers providing students with both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. entrepreneurship and business skills are the courses that students are required to pass during t...

This paper tries to study the effect of information and communication technology on the skills of the third grade of high school students in Neka . Among 1400 students were randomly chosen. More than 302 ones were randomly selected(boys and girls). By a questionnaire which had 40 questions shows more than 87% of Alfa Cronbach coefficient. One group T-Test and independent T-test were analyzed an...

This chapter chronicles the early careers of NRSA predoctoral recipients in the biomedical sciences, contrasting them with those of their Ph.D. counterparts who did not receive such support. The outcomes examined range from the time required to earn the doctorate to the number of publications authored and citations received by 1995. Of interest are those Ph.D.s who earned their degrees between ...