This study examined students’ grade expectations over the course of a semester. Students provided their expectations at 3 times: within the first week of the semester, midway through the semester, and within the week just prior to the final exam. Results demonstrate that expected grades decreased over the semester and that the rate of change interacted with students’ cumulative grade point aver...

Question 3: The fourth Thesi s on Peuerbach concerns itsel f with, among other matters, the nature of dialectic understanding. A proper dialectic understanding addresses itself to the immanent contradictions in the real concrete, rather than merely the contradictions between this real concrete and its ideological manisfestations -such as religion. Yes, the self as part of the system of religion...

Throughout introductory tertiary statistics subjects, students are introduced to a multitude of new terms for statistical concepts and procedures. One such term, significance level, has been considered in the statistical literature. Three themes of discussion relate to this concept the problem of interpretation (and misinterpretation), the selection of an appropriate level, and the evaluation o...

We implemented a guided problem based learning (guided PBL) approach to teach a core business analysis course to study its effectiveness in improving learning, with special regard to critical thinking skills. To aid this approach in class, we created a reversed book that presents problems first, with blank space for students to work out problems or analyze and answer conceptual questions. Stude...

A Lesson Study Project is carried out to examine various teaching methodologies on the students' learning through support from the Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID) of University of Wisconsin System. The study involves a diverse body of faculty and students affiliated with three different departments on campus. One of the methodologies of interest is the "flipped class...

It is the end of semester and you have two students waiting to talk with you about their score in the final exam. You know what they want. Are you sure they deserve to fail? Are you wondering if that student who miraculously passed, deserved to pass? You are a fair teacher, and put all your effort into elaborating a fair final exam but have you ever tested how reliable your final exam was? Do y...

In recent decades, traditional pathology education methodologies have been noticeably affected by new teaching approaches, including problem-based learning (PBL) and team-based learning (TBL). However, lack of outcome-based studies has hindered the extensive application of the TBL approach in the teaching of pathology in Chinese medical schools. In this study, a pilot TBL format on four topics ...

In the 2010/11 academic year the Institute of Informatics at Wroclaw University of Technology issued ’Software Engineering Team Project’ as a course being a part of the final exam to earn bachelor’s degree. The main assumption about the course was that it should simulate the real environment (a virtual IT company) for its participants. The course was aimed to introduce issues regarding programm...

Numerous research have been discovered to developed internationalization process model (investment to other country market). Like Johanson and Vahlne, they are among the first to discuss the internationalization process model. There are four key items underlying Johanson and Vahlne’s model, those are market knowledge, market commitment, commitment decision, and current activities. However, many...

Course Catalogue Description: Sample spaces, counting, random variables and their distributions , expected value, central limit theorem. Estimation and confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, analysis of variance and regression. MAT 421 does not count towards the Mathematics or Applied Mathematics major or minor. Cannot be taken for credit after successfully completing MAT 521. Course Descripti...