Policy changes at the federal and state level are endeavoring to improve student achievement at schools serving children from lower-SES homes. One important strategy is the focus on using evidence-based core reading curricula to provide a consistent framework for instruction across schools. However, rarely have these curricula undergone rigorous comparative testing. Therefore, the purpose of th...

Funding agencies and institutions are creating initiatives to encourage interdisciplinary research that can be more easily translated into community initiatives to enhance health. Therefore, the current research environment calls for interdisciplinary education and skills to create sustained partnerships with community institutions. However, formalized opportunities in both of these areas are l...

• Multidisciplinary education through collaborative laboratory and course work • Teamwork as the necessary framework for solving complex problems • Incorporation of state-of-the-art technologies throughout the curricula • Creation of continuous opportunities for technical communication. The Rowan program emphasizes these essential features in an eight-semester, multidisciplinary, engineering cl...

A previous publication reported the etiology of mathematics performance in 7-year-old twins (Oliver et al., 2004). As part of the same longitudinal study we investigated low mathematics performance and normal variation in a representative United Kingdom sample of 1713 same-sex 9-year-old twins based on teacher-assessed National Curriculum standards. Univariate individual differences and DeFries...

Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring and the caring moment are based in part in the concepts of transpersonal psychology. This paper will provide a historical background around transpersonal psychology and how it relates to Watson’s human caring moment. The purpose of explicating these humanities-based concepts is to support nurses and nurse educators in creating a deeper understanding of Watso...

In traditional medical curricula, quality improvement used to receive only passing mention. However, in modern curricula quality improvement is integrated with other clinical and non-clinical subjects that professionals must learn. No professional’s practice can be perfect—so anything that can help all professionals improve their practice should also be able to help them with their professional...

This paper provides an overview of a recent 18-month project which set out for the first time to introduce training on tobacco control into the curricula of public health courses in Chinese universities. The aim was to produce graduates with appropriate knowledge and skills to be effective in advocating for policies that could lead to the reduction of tobacco use. Results from this initial proj...

This article describes how to compose instructional objectives for use in veterinary curricula, and describes the differences between course goals, competencies, and instructional objectives. The essential components of instructional objectives are described in detail, and guidance in choosing appropriate wording is provided. The paper concludes with a suggested framework for evaluating an inst...

This paper empirically investigates the link between ethics, earnings and gender. Using a self-reported measure from a longitudinal survey of registrants for the Graduate Management Admission Test, we find that ethical character is negatively associated with males’ wages. For females, however, this relationship does not hold. In addition, using measures of the degree to which ethics is emphasiz...

Medical schools are engaged in curricular renewal to meet the demands of training physicians in a changing healthcare environment for the twenty-first century. Therefore, there is an urgent need to reassess the breath and depth of basic sciences required to train physicians, and how the basic sciences can be integrated into a medical curriculum. During our curriculum renewal process, the Scient...