The number of colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs), osteopathic medical students, and osteopathic physicians in practice has been consistently growing since the 1960s. In recent years, the growth of the profession has been exponential. Despite this growth, graduates of COMs are increasingly choosing allopathic residencies. The authors believe that this trend may stem from a lack of focus on ...

solidarity rights, formally, introduced by karel vasak as new human rights in 1979. he suggested that these rights, based on the fraternity and solidarity, are vehicles for reforming international relations especially for moralization, socialization and humanization of international law. this article studies theoretical basis of solidarity rights and will discuss whether the approach of 'g...

Cultural psychology ultimately aims to increase intercultural understanding, but it has also been accused of reifying stereotypes. Can learning about cultural psychology research cause students to increase their cultural sensitivity, or does it increase stereotyped and rigid thinking about cultural others? Students in an undergraduate cultural psychology course (N = 34) were compared to student...

We investigated whether students liked and learned more from PowerPoint presentations than from overhead transparencies. Students were exposed to lectures supported by transparencies and two different types of PowerPoint presentations. At the end of the semester, students preferred PowerPoint presentations but this preference was not found on ratings taken immediately after the lectures. Studen...

For a limited period of time, exchange students study abroad in a host culture they may know little about, leaving behind their culture, social networks and institutions. In the current study, students going to collectivist countries and students going to individualist countries were investigated, to test if the different characteristics of the host cultures would produce different patterns of ...

The effects of written feedback in a computer-based assessment for learning on students’ learning outcomes were investigated in an experiment at a Higher Education institute in the Netherlands. Students were randomly assigned to three groups, and were subjected to an assessment for learning with different kinds of feedback. These are immediate knowledge of correct response (KCR) þ elaborated fe...

This study examined connections between paranormal beliefs and educational level, discipline, length of education, gender, and analytical and intuitive thinking. Finnish students (N = 3141) from 14 university and six vocational school disciplines filled in an Internet-based questionnaire. The results showed that university students had less paranormal beliefs than vocational school students, wh...

A major focus of the IEA Civic Education Study concerned attitudes of adolescents towards different aspects of social life. One of these aspects deals with the attitudes towards immigrants. There are four countries – Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and England – in which more than 10 percent of the students are likely to disagree or strongly disagree to all statements regarding the rights of immi...