and the participants of the Stanford GSB Joint Accounting/Finance student seminar for their helpful comments and suggestions. All remaining errors are my own.

The format of the seminar will be a series of presentations. Each student will have to choose one subject (from the list presented in this paper or from any other source) and to define, together with the coordinator (a.k.a “merakez”), an exact framework of the specific subject. Each presentation is assumed to be 45-90 minutes length (subject to the number of registered students). In addition to...

PURPOSE Formal presentations are a common requirement for students in health professional programs, and evaluations are often viewed as subjective. To date, literature describing the reliability or validity of seminar grading rubrics is lacking. The objectives of this study were to characterize inter-rater agreement and internal consistency of a grading rubric used in a grand rounds seminar cou...

A preliminary inventory was carried out for a sample of male and female student teachers who had email accounts. Preliminary inventory data revealed that the mean number of times per week that males used email was significantly higher than the mean number for female students. This inventory data indicated that characteristics such as gender affect Internet educational technology utilization, an...

Manion • Editorial A noted in previous contributions to JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (2005;105:19), the Student Osteopathic Medical Association (SOMA) is “[commited] to promoting student involvement in research at all the colleges of osteopathic medicine.” Currently, two student awards are acknowledged each fall at the AOA Research Conference, an event that takes pla...

The results of this pilot survey have shown the importance of evaluation of medical student knowledge in pharmacology using three independent parts of the examination. The final mark includes the results of a written test, oral examination and evaluation of seminar essay. We evaluated students with final grade A (n=76) and F (n=61) in relation to the results of tests and seminar essays. Most of...

In recent years, there is a growing interest in developing online collaborative learning environments. In a learner-centered online collaborative environment, students work together to construct knowledge and negotiate meanings through collaborative learning activities. Computer-mediated conference can not only greatly amplify human intellect online, but also enhance collaboration and facilitat...