... 1/05 �Pulling the plug on living wills: How living wills have failed to live up to their mandate.� Edward F. Mielke Lecture Series in Biomedical Ethics ...

These lectures procide an introduction to the theory of plasmas and their instabilities. Starting from the Bogoliubov, Born, Green, Kirkwood, and Yvon (BBGKY) hierarchy of kinetic equations, the additional concept of self-consistent fields leads to the fu...

for the post of Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Neurology Fixed term for 6 years Introduction The Clinical Lecturer (CL) in Clinical Neurology post is designed to offer a full clinical neurological training Reviews of clinical and academic Competency Progression The aim is that the CL will obtain neurology CCT

Although nonverbal behaviors have been shown to be learned, meaningful, systematic, and sometimes culture bound, kinesics, the science of body behavioral communication, has been a neglected factor in second language instruction and research, particularly in the area of academic listening. This paper describes steps taken to develop materials, methodology, testing, and research ...

For many years (1995-2002), the Department of English of the University of Blida witnessed low rates of academic achievement of students preparing an English Degree. An analysis of the second year students' course grades in academic years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 and data from a preliminary survey with some teachers reflected signs that the students were ...

This is the text of a series of lectures given as part of the CERN Academic Training Programme and primarily intended for young engineers and technicians in preparation for the running-in of the 400 GeV Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). Following the defini...

This article presents a descriptive case study on the use of technical vocabulary in the lectures of a first-year graduate theology course in Canada. It first contextualizes this research by noting four kinds of English vocabulary and the study of classrooms as lexical environments. Next it outlines the study's methodology, including the observation of 23 classes over one ...

Today's academic faculty was typically trained under an education system based entirely on didactic lectures. However, if the aim is to teach thinking or change attitudes beyond the simple transmission of factual knowledge, then lectures alone, without active involvement of the students, are not the most effective ...

Pinnacle is the ANU's teacher training programme for full time PhD students. The Pinnacle Teacher Training Program provides a mentoring system that aims to equip postgraduate students with the skills and theoretical background that they will need to become high quality lecturers. This article describes Pinnacle, and discusses the ...

OBJECTIVE--To evaluate the effect of staff mobility on student teaching, the training of young surgeons, and the volume of research in an academic department of surgery of a tropical teaching hospital. DESIGN--Retrospective study of academic staffing in the department of surgery of the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital between ...

Aug 30, 2010 ... Academic training is defined as a class for academic credit offered ... they do not obtain a passing grade and do not complete the course. ...

Education, the process of teaching and learning, has remained a passion of those in academic medicine. The context has changed over time, but the skills required are universal. The goal of these efforts is training the finest otolaryngologists who deliver the best care to their patients and build the future or our specialty. Laryngoscope, 2011. ...

audience to basics of entrepreneurship Academics Distinguished Lecture Series Community Engagement Level Academics Community Engagement Venture Acceleration � Moderately intense programs that provide Business Accelerator #12;Academics Distinguished Lecture Series Community Engagement ...

The study on ethical values in academic programmes has attracted the attention of many researchers throughout the world especially in view of its important role today. Many academic programmes today focus on how to make profit both for the individual and the organization and on how to increase the firm`s market share and shareholders value and in the ...

These lecture notes for criticality safety are prepared for the training of Department of Energy supervisory, project management, and administrative staff. Technical training and basic mathematics are assumed. The notes are designed for a two-day course, ...

This article analyses recent national policy on further education and training (FET) college lecturer development in South Africa in the light of more established curricula and practice for the training of vocational teachers internationally. The policy published by the national Department of Education suggests standards for college ...

" if the student is: P Primarily in the US to study rather than engage in Academic Training. P Participating inAcademicWhat is Academic Training? Academic Training is a period of employment authorization for J-1 of study while still maintaining J-1 visa ...

An article in The Physiologist from the 2010 Walter C. Randall Lecture in Bioethics - Scientific Integrity: Positive & Negative Academic/Industry Relationships given by Debra A. Schwinn.

. The lecture notes will emphasize novel examples and connections with other field of mathematics. 5. Lecture notes: Booklets of lecture notes and problem-sets will be distributed during the programme. Mathematical software: Lectures and tutorials of free mathematics softwares in the subjects of the school

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze a new educational program introduced on an experimental basis at the David Yellin Academic College of Education in the 2005/6 academic year. The program is entitled "Difference and diversity in Israeli society". The focus is on selected social issues and the relations between different groups and ...

The mission of the University of Florida training reactor (UFTR) is to serve the regional needs of Florida and the Southeast for access to quality reactor usage in a variety of areas to support educational and training needs as well as research and service, including public information about nuclear energy. UFTR utilization for education and student ...

Medical school professors and lecturers are often called to be practicing clinicians, researchers in their own field, in addition to executing their education and curricular responsibilities. Some further accumulate healthcare management responsibilities. These areas pose conflicting demands on time and intellectual activity, but despite their apparent differences, knowledge ...

... Accession Number : AD0635304. Title : ACADEMIC GRADES IN PRIMARY FLIGHT TRAINING AS PREDICTORS OF FLIGHT SUCCESS. ...

... Title : Engineering Management Training: Comparing Experiential Versus Lecture Methods of Instruction. Descriptive Note : Journal article. ...

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Iowa State University, through a program called Project BIO, is using an innovative new approach to offer biology courses via the World Wide Web. The approach features online lectures similar to those a student might experience in a traditional classroom. Students listen to the lectures using RealAudio while viewing lecture materials ...

Effectively targeting a heterogeneous student population is a common challenge in academic courses. Most traditional learning material targets the "average student," and is suboptimal for students who lack certain prior knowledge, or students who have already attained some of the course objectives. Student-activating learning material supports effective ...

In the UK, most initial nurse and teacher education is provided by university departments working in partnership with local health trusts and schools. New university lecturers in these professional fields are generally selected due to their successful performance as practitioners, as nurses or school teachers, rather than on more traditional requirements for appointment as an ...

Swiss-born Arnold Henri Guyot (1807-1884) was the first professionally trained geographer to hold an academic position in the United States. After his migration to this country in 1848 he lived for several years in Massachusetts. During this period he introduced contemporary German-Swiss ideas of geography to key opinion leaders in an important series of ...

This paper focuses on the relationship between preferential teaching approach (PTA) and the concept of teachers' questioning practices (TQP), as part of a large-scale three-year project aimed at developing the scholarship of teaching and learning at one Portuguese university. In order to contribute to understandings of how teachers' questioning is connected to teachers' concepts and motivations, ...

In the past five years the staff of the Physical Sciences Library at Cornell has developed an active formal instruction program for the new searcher. Much of this training was done through lectures based on the CAS materials provided through Searching STN: The Basics. Discussions with graduate students showed us that more advanced instruction was needed. ...

Lecture evaluation questionnaires have been carried out to students because they are the suitable ways to improve the classes. Though the purpose of lecture evaluation questionnaires is to confirm whether it has fulfilled faculties' responsibility or not, we consider that our lectures should be evaluated from the three viewpoints, ...

Despite critical voices lectures are still an important teaching format in current medical curricula. With the curricular reform at Hamburg Medical Faculty in the year 2004, all subject specific lectures were replaced by cardinal symptom oriented lectures (LSV) in the new clinical curriculum. LSVs are taught throughout all six thematic ...

anatomy training medium. Current anatomy instruction is primarily in the form of lectures ... limits anatomy instruction to textbooks and lectures. However, ...

This volume contains a study guide for training Radiological control Technicians. Covered here are core academic training in basic nuclear science and radiobiology.

... academic, synthetic, and flight training; the integration ... systems-engineered training program; the ... objective proficiency assessment techniques; and ...

As any patient may require rehabilitation and physical therapies, all physicians need to acquire at least a basic knowledge of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM). In 2005 PRM teaching was implemented in all phases of the curriculum for medical students in Germany. The curriculum includes, among others, the following topics: principles of rehabilitation; the model of the International ...

Five articles on research and development in higher education and three review articles are presented. Titles and authors are as follows: "Students' Assessments of Instruction as a Basis for Teaching Improvement and Promotions Decisions: A Case-Study" (John Jones); "The Making of Academic Promotion Decisions: Criteria and Processes" (A. J. Lonsdale); "Some Characteristics and ...

The seminar, organised by Joan Cutting and Brona Murphy, aimed: (1) to bring together researchers involved in both emergent and established academic corpora (written and spoken) as well as linguists, lecturers and teachers researching in education, be it language teaching, language-teacher training or continuing professional ...

The curriculum of our medical school has a hybrid structure including both traditional training (lectures) and problem-based learning (PBL) applications. The purpose of this study was to determine the learning styles of our medical students and investigate the relation of learning styles with each of satisfaction with different instruction methods and ...

The curriculum of our medical school has a hybrid structure including both traditional training (lectures) and problem-based learning (PBL) applications. The purpose of this study was to determine the learning styles of our medical students and investigate the relation of learning styles with each of satisfaction with different instruction methods and ...

The curriculum of our medical school has a hybrid structure including both traditional training (lectures) and problem-based learning (PBL) applications. The purpose of this study was to determine the learning styles of our medical students and investigate the relation of learning styles with each of satisfaction with different instruction methods and ...

In the United States accredited residency programs in addiction exist only for psychiatrists specializing in addiction psychiatry (ADP); nonpsychiatrists seeking training in addiction medicine (ADM) can train in nonaccredited "fellowships," or can receive training in some ADP programs, only to not be granted a certificate of completion ...

In the United States accredited residency programs in addiction exist only for psychiatrists specializing in addiction psychiatry (ADP); nonpsychiatrists seeking training in addiction medicine (ADM) can train in nonaccredited "fellowships," or can receive training in some ADP programs, only to not be granted a certificate of completion ...

For the purpose of experimenting with the use of tele-lecture in training programs for public welfare workers, 18 lectures were presented during which the taped telephone message was augmented by visual materials. Feedback was obtained during a question-a...

The context of this research is an academic writing course for first-year Social Science students on a four-year extended curriculum at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. This course traditionally uses written formative feedback on drafts of students' assignments and the lecturers were frustrated by the students' negative, minimal responses to the extensive ...

The Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) provides high school students with academic training and military leadership experience. The academic portion of the program consists of a 4-year naval science curriculum that includes these subjects: naval history, sea power, maritime geography, navigation, ...

Academic Earth provides videos of lectures by top scholars in "Subjects" that range from Astronomy to Entrepreneurship to Religion, from "Universities" as celebrated as MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford. Visitors must register to view the lectures, but registration is free. There are over 1500 video lectures ...

Faculty clinician-educator tracks have become increasingly common at US academic medical centers. Although many radiology faculty members belong to such tracks, there is little training in radiology residencies to prepare residents to take on these roles. The authors present a summary of a novel radiology residency clinician-educator pathway developed and ...

The system of higher education of the German Democratic Republic is described. Information on the different kinds of colleges--universities, university colleges, and engineering and technical colleges--is provided, including admission procedures, course objectives, course content and structure, further education, paths leading to the award of higher academic degrees, types of ...

Building the research capacity of the vocational education and training (VET) sector is a key concern for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). To assist with this objective, NCVER supports an academic scholarship program, whereby VET practitioners are sponsored to undertake university study at honours', master's or doctorate ...

The new pharmaceutical education system starts in Japan, those constructions are performed at a lot of universities aiming at the execution of a common examination and the clinical training, and the workshop for directive pharmacists have been held actively since last year. Moreover, various educational lectures, open lectures, and the ...

The report is a series of lectures on physical fitness and hygiene written as part of a training package for rehabilitation clients. Designed for use over a 4-week period, the 23 lectures include such topics as: (1) exercises, (2) hygiene, (3) sleep, (4) ...

... 2009-04-01 false Academic training. 62.73 Section 62.73 Foreign Relations DEPARTMENT OF STATE ...and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) § 62.73 Academic training. (a) Students...

Steffen Staab ISWeb � Lecture ,,Semantic Web" (1) Ontology Lifecycle Steffen Staab ISWeb � Lecture ,,Semantic Web" (2) Ontology Ontologies enable a better communication between Humans/Machines Ontologies." [Davenport & Prusak, 1998] Steffen Staab ISWeb � Lecture ,,Semantic Web" (3) PostDocPostDoc ProfProf ...

... Study of the Attitudes of University Academic Advisers Toward the Reserve Officers Training Corps on the Campus of South Dakota State University ...

... Title : A Poisson Regression Analysis of the Academic Setback in Naval Training Deadtime. Descriptive Note : Master's thesis. ...

... a series of lectures used to develop a substantial capability in the essential and fundamental concepts and techniques in probability and statistics. ...

... mobilization was selected for the purposes of AMIC ... and lectures for the purpose of obtaining ... Length- 5 days Requirements/Restrictions- Tuition fee. ...

... EDUCATION, THESES, LECTURES, LITERACY, INSTRUCTORS, LOGISTICS, SKILLS, STUDENTS, TRAINING, COMPUTERS. Subject Categories ...

Mar 1, 2011 ... Subject Category: not MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER SCIENCES (GENERAL) .... The material is based on lecture notes for a training course for ...

... 52 academic training; B-52 synthetic training; B-52 flight training; previous training ... serious than that introduced by varia- bility in length of recorded ...

and Guidelines: 1. Principles for Academic Advising Advice must be ethical, impartial, timely, up" about the issue; advice should be limited to the area of expertise of the adviser. Academic advice of the academic policies and regulations relevant to the advice they offer; training in academic ...

Peer assessment of teaching can improve the quality of instruction and contribute to summative evaluation of teaching effectiveness integral to high-stakes decision making. There is, however, a paucity of validated, criterion-based peer assessment instruments. The authors describe development and pilot testing of one such instrument and share lessons learned. The report provides a description of ...

) Senior Lecturer's Area (Examinations Office) � Administrative Officer (Grade 3/2)� Examinations Wilson (UCD) (ii) Senior Lecturer's Area � Manager, Academic Development (Senior Administrative Grade 3 approved: (a) Assistant Librarian (Bibliographic Data Management Department) � (Permanent) Librarian

sections. � Tropical Climatology (9 Lectures, Aug 26-Sept 23): Survey of the climatology of the climatology: it will be used in the lectures on tropical cyclones. Physical Climatology, 1994, D. Hartmann, Academic Press

This catalog describes a collection of 290 reels of audio-taped lectures suitable for the college and secondary school library. In total, the tapes represent a basic collection suitable for any college library. Most of the reels contain 45 to 60 minutes o...

This volume provides instructors in the GERT program with lesson plans for Phase 1- Core Academic Training.

This volume provides instructors in the GERT program with lesson plans for Phase 1- Core Academic Training.

The growth and influence of the Internet have been phenomenal in the past few years. Academic librarians are faced with a new service for their clientele who, in most cases, will need instruction in order to use the Internet effectively. Many academic libraries are already providing training sessions for their users. A survey of 150 ...

... 0 type gear magnetic gear acoustic gear. ... or informal training. Break down method of training further,e g., inr.o visual aids, lectures, etc. ...

The development of a curriculum for the training of security officers involves the integration of the importance of the subject, the difficulty of the subject and a consideration of the time available for the lecture. The importance of the subject is rega...

In 2003 The National Board of Health, Denmark, enforced a compulsory training course in academic research as part of the specialist training for doctors. The trainees must learn to search and evaluate relevant literature and be able to implement the results in clinical practice. The structure of the 20 days of ...

Training legal English specialists is one area in which cooperation between discipline and language specialists is particularly valuable. Seven short excerpts from a short training course run jointly by teachers of English for legal purposes and legal specialists are presented and analysed to illustrate the contribution an ESP oriented approach, involving ...

This document contains excerpts from material previously published by Australia's TAFE (Technical and Further Education) National Centre for Research and Development on the subjects of industry restructuring, the reasons for restructuring, revising curricula, and providing a service to business and industry. Its contents are "Industry Restructuring and TAFE: A Discussion Paper" (Hall, Hayton); ...

This teacher handbook provides guidelines and materials for graduate students who prepare entering freshmen at Bowling Green State University for the rigors of academic life. A series of exercises show summer instructors, called "facilitators," how to get students to: map their environment, use local resources, read and mark textbooks, study and train the ...

The U.S. intelligence community is in a race against international adversaries, and to win, it must link diverse data systems and information processes so that experts can learn enemy intentions and plans before disaster strikes. This race toward horizontal integration of intelligence has a two-pronged thrust that encompasses both data exchange at the collection level and information exchange at ...

The benefits of business/academic partnerships are described from both the corporate and university perspective. Examples are presented which demonstrate ways in which educational institutions have developed collaborative arrangements with area businesses in response to local needs. Communication processes involved in such cooperative agreements are handled in many ways, such ...

In reviewing what lecturers found valuable for their professional development, it has been argued that "professional reading" of both higher education research and literature in their disciplines is a major theme for individual enhancement. Despite the increased interest in the writing practices of students and staff in higher education, however, the continued "invisibility of ...

Table of Contents: Getting Ready To Train: Who Are You And Who Are You Training; Tools to Make A Training Work: Techniques (Icebreakers; Lectures, Role Play, Videotaping); Small Groups: How Do They Work; Even Experts Can Be Trainers: Communications Skills...

The paper examines the ongoing internationalisation of Danish higher education from the perspective of the academic staff. Drawing on a series of qualitative research interviews, the analysis highlights the implications of internationalisation for individual lecturer's ability to act and interact in the classroom, changing the form of the ...

Oct 17, 1997 ... The first post is for a Lecturer in the subject area of Geographic Information Science. The successful candidate will take over the teaching ...

... is a senior lecturer in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he is chief of General Academic ... at Dartmouth and professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School. He is the former associate chief of General ...

... at all institutions rated designing lectures and leading classroom discussions as most important; exam-writing, facilitating small group discussions, designing a course syllabus, and designing ... ...

This review article extends the conventional notion of academic listening to include reciprocal (two-way) listening events in academic settings, as well as (one-way) listening to lectures. The introductory section highlights the comparatively low profile of listening in EAP research, due in part to the inherent complexity of listening ...

.sas.upenn.edu/lps/event. 9 MES Lecture Series: Fracking in the Upper Delaware Watershed: How Safe is Our Drinking Water

Aug 19, 1988 ... Kerri L. Nelson. Academic Rank: Lecturer. University and Department: SUI Ross State University. Analytical Laboratory. Alpine, TX 79832 ...

This research paper investigates if the traditional lecture is no longer appropriate for Neomillennial Learning Styles and whether an alternative blended approach could/should be used? Over the past decade the lecture as we know it, has gradually been under attack from constructivists, Twigg (1999) for example argues that the lecture ...

Statewide physical fitness testing is gaining popularity in the United States because of increased childhood obesity levels, the relations between physical fitness and academic performance, and the hypothesized relations between adult characteristics and childhood physical activity, physical fitness, and health behaviors. Large-scale physical fitness testing can be fraught ...

Academics, not athletics, were the game in the 1988 International Physics Olympiad held in Bad Ischl, Austria, June 23 to July 1. AGU was one of about 20 principal sponsoring organizations that helped send 135 students from 27 countries to compete; the American Institute of Physics was another. The U.S. team brought home three of the 22 silver medals for 12th, 17th, 26th, ...

The introduction of the computer into the curriculum of the School of Medicine at The George Washington University began in 1986 with the imposition by the faculty of a requirement that students demonstrate computer literacy by the end of their second academic year. The requirement can be satisfied by interview for those students with prior computer science education. Students ...

This article explores teacher educator Lillian de Lissa's working life in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1944 the McNair report criticised residential colleges and their female staff as isolated and intellectually impoverished. However, in Australia and then as the foundation Principal of Gipsy Hill Training College, de Lissa was not only committed to teaching and ...

worked in higher and adult education as a researcher and a lecturer at the University of Manchester and the Open University and also within the NGO sector internationally. She has written on gender and labour issues, codes of conduct and most recently on Fair Trade and co-operatives for both academic and wider audiences. The Co-operative College works with ...

concerned with professional practice or creative arts, evidence of independent or professional work which with professional practice or creative arts, evidence of independent or professional work which has recognised and effectiveness as evidenced by Student Evaluations of Teaching, supervisor, peers; � tutorials, practical classes

(academics committee) representation on the board for Feynman. Everhardt Lecture Series WINNERS: Houman and have a reception for winner Amir will look at whether or not Feynman prize and student faculty award

... upon the language studied. ... Descriptors : *FOREIGN LANGUAGES, MEASUREMENT, SYMPOSIA, TRAINING, ATTRITION, SCORING ...

The Alcohol Medical Scholars Program (AMSP) is designed to improve medical education related to substance use disorders (SUDs) through mentorship of junior, full-time academic faculty from medical schools across the United States. Scholarship focuses on literature review and synthesis, lecture development and delivery, increasing SUD education in their ...

The Alcohol Medical Scholars Program (AMSP) is designed to improve medical education related to substance use disorders (SUDs) through mentorship of junior, full-time academic faculty from medical schools across the United States. Scholarship focuses on literature review and synthesis, lecture development and delivery, increasing SUD education in their ...

In order to develop a comprehensive program of simulator-interfaced instruction and research, the American Electric Power Corporation and Centerior Energy Corporation are working with the Nuclear Engineering programs at the University of Cincinnati and The Ohio State University. Funding and resources for the program are being provided by the Department of Energy and the utilities. The program was ...

Connecting students with learning activities to promote academic engagement has been a focus of higher education over the past decade, partly driven by an increasing rate of student participation in part-time employment, and a growing concern about the quality of the student experience. Using a prospective survey design, this study selected three elements of ...

Probation is little used as a frame of reference in academic development literature. Frequently, the focus is on evaluating teaching qualifications for new lecturers. Less often investigated is the issue of situating such a course within the overall experience of new academics, to consider the role that teaching qualifications have ...

In the academic year 2006-2007, the Training and Development Agency (TDA) set up a development programme to enable Initial Teacher Training and Education (ITTE) placements in specialist special education provision. The goal of the programme was to enhance the knowledge, skills and understanding of inclusive practice for special ...

... Title : Contract Ground Based Training Evaluation. ... The current F-5 training program consists of academic and flying instruction only. ...

academic advising too? We have all heard that the research demonstrates that students are more persistent of Advising & Retention ACADEMIC ADVISOR TRAINING The Academic Advising Council is hosting a program just of the National Academic Advising Association. For more infor- mation about Dr. ...

The Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology at Tokyo University of Science developed a two-campus system to produce well-trained engineers possessing both technical and humanistic traits. In their first year of study, students reside in dormitories in the natural setting of the Oshamambe campus located in Hokkaido, Japan. The education program at Oshamambe instills a rich ...

Two geoscience course sections were provided with lecture content in different formats--one with static text that contained no graphics, the other with a link to a virtual lecture. Follow-up quizzes showed no difference in learning between the two sections, yet attitudes and academic performance differed with gender.

& Management Art History Cinema Theater Business International Relations Video Game Design & Management #12;AP/2 Students GE requirements completed Writing 130/140 completed Must complete WRIT 340 Minimum of 48 units discussion lecture discussion lecture 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. WRIT AME 201 WRIT AME 201 WRIT 340 lecture 340

Approximately 33% of all health care-associated infections are preventable. It is therefore important to provide training for nursing students about this topic. In collaboration with the local hospital, the Department of Nursing evaluated a newly developed e-learning program on infection control normally used among employees in the hospital but now tried in the setting of ...

Today universities can offer a variety of educational resources to their students through the internet. These may include lecture notes, PowerPoint presentations, or even an entire recording of a lecture in video format. At the Hannover Medical School (Hannover, Germany), the Trauma Surgery Department in collaboration with the Institute of Medical ...

This is a first attempt to set forth information of a basic nature on Underwater Sound suitable for training purposes. The material presented here was compiled from lecture notes, and contains only a portion of the wealth of unclassified data available on...

The report describes the student responder and presents information as to how the device may be used to obtain student responses during programmed instruction lectures. In Air Force flying and technical training programs, the device can be used in a dimly...

Many higher education institutions are now digitally capturing lectures in courses and making them available on the web for students to view anytime and in anyplace. This study is an attempt to understand the relationship between student perceptions of lecture capture and academic performance in large undergraduate courses where the ...

Nursing continues to struggle to integrate the theoretical and clinical aspects of nurse education for the development of competent practitioners. Collaborative approaches to nurse education as well as the development of joint clinical-academic roles have had questionable success to date on merging the theoretical and clinical components of nursing. ...

Differences between postgraduate academic training for medical librarianship and the less formal, nonacademic postgraduate training in this field are described. Strengths and weaknesses of each kind of learning experience are given.

This paper evaluates whether university-industry relationships (UIR) and academic research activities have complementary effects on the scientific production of university lecturers. The analysis is based on a case study of two Spanish universities. We find that the effects of R&D contracts with industry, and academic research ...

In this study, the author examined how attendance in the lab is associated with students' lab grades and overall course grades in an introductory biology course. Results from this study indicate that academic motivation, as expressed by high rates of class attendance, is critical to students' success in introductory science courses. The highest levels of ...

In an attempt to devise protocols for the microteaching of university teachers, an experiment was undertaken using 15 subjects in four training sessions. Attitudes of lecturers to training were used as the dependent variable. Independent variables were th...

This document describes procedures and outlines technical guidance for assistance in establishing effective visible emission observer training programs. Smoke generator operating information is presented and appendices gives examples of sample classroom training lectures as well ...

The training regimen for personnel entering an Aerospace Operations Center (AOC) must cover a complex organizational structure with complex information flows, both horizontally and vertically. Training and orientation includes classroom lectures on many d...

In this lecture the following common features of education and training systems are described: description of general school education, vocational training and engineering study programs, allocation of categories of activities to normal school training ba...

The Spacelab Mission Independent Training Program provides an overview of payload operations. Most of the training material is currently presented in workbook form with some lecture sessions to supplement selected topics. The goal of this project was to d...

The Cooperative Agricultural Surveillance Training (CAST) program was developed to provide training for surveillance personnel; the program consisted of 18 videotaped lectures, accompanied by outline notes and references. This instructors manual accompani...

Purpose. The estimated new cancer patient load in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is 0.1�0.12 million per year. Approximately two thirds of these require treatment by a radiation oncologist. Radiation oncologists: cancer patient ratio in this state is 1?:?2000 as compared to the recommended 1?:?250. This problem is compounded by the poor infrastructure of radiation oncology departments in the ...

The National Academies of Science recently criticized the state of scientific innovation and competitiveness in the United States. Evaluations of already-established creativity training programs-examining a broad array of students, from school age to adult and with a wide range of abilities-have shown that such courses improve thinking skills, attitudes, and performance. ...

Purpose: Marketing has attracted increased interested over the past 15 years in both academic and commercial circles and there has been a market rise in the number of students. At the university level, the characteristics of the teacher play an essential role in student/teacher interaction and influence academic results and future professional success. ...

Two Louisiana community colleges--Bossier Parish Community College (BPCC) and Delgado Community College (DCC)--proposed, developed, and implemented a collaborative Pharmacy Technician program for delivery through the use of two-way interactive video. The new program was inspired by new certification requirements instituted by the state of Louisiana in 1997. BPCC and DCC both determined that the ...

In recent years, faculty have seen an increase in latecomers, sleepers, cell phone addicts, and downright disruptive students in their courses. Classroom incivility is the disruptive behavior that occurs in higher education learning environments at an alarming rate. Incivility is often a reciprocal process; both students and faculty may contribute to a climate of disrespect and disregard for the ...

Historically, invited lecturers have often challenged us to define excel lence in physical therapy practice, or in our academic programs. While some have addressed different char acteristics of excellence, our profession has not really come together to address 2 very important questions: what does �quality� mean in physical therapist education? And how ...

Academic Earth provides this 47-minute lecture from Harvard. In the class Introduction to Computer Sciences, Instructor David J. Malan discusses the concepts of pointers and arrays of dynamic memory allocation. This is a taped lecture of Malan using computer programs and practical demonstrations in a step-by-step process to show the ...

The current study examined the effects of non-interactive computer assisted instruction on students' performance, self-efficacy, motivation, and attitudes. Half the lectures presented to two Introduction to Psychology college classes were taught in a traditional lecture format and half were accompanied by PowerPoint multimedia. Lecture ...

The quality and quantity of lecturers in Tertiary institutions to a great extent determines the quality of graduates. To ensure quality and quantity the Colleges of Education in Nigeria have established internal and external mechanisms. Quantity is determined by the number of students to a given lecturer. Despite the mechanism put forward to ensure quality ...

... completes a short computer-based questionnaire, the PASS ... Instructors provide academic training, although drill ... with the new results in this survey. ...

WHAT FORMS DO YOU COMPLETE TO PROCESS ACADEMIC ACTIONS? The Request for Training Form, DFRC 141, and the Purchase Request, DFRC 131, are the forms used in ...

... pertains to general attitude, conduct, and fitness. ... that examination scores from academics and the ... completion of blocks of academic instruction and ...

Tuition and matriculation, registration, library, and laboratory fees related to an academic course can be paid by the Government. Books can also be covered ...

If teachers can be trained to attribute poor student performance to such things as insufficient instruction, low expenditure of effort, or poor strategy rather than students' lack of ability, they will modify instruction or provide a new learning strategy. For this to happen, teachers must first display attributional thinking about their own life events which will enhance a ...

Background:Student views of new curricula can shape training outcomes. This qualitative study elicited student opinions of CAM instruction to examine and distill best strategies.Methods:49 second, third and fourth year students participated in focus groups using a predefined question route. Interviews were audio taped and transcribed.Results:Students successfully ...

Psychology training programs have a responsibility to train multiculturally competent psychologists. Predoctoral interns were surveyed to compare the multicultural environment of academic and internship programs. Internship programs were perceived as more multicultural than were academic programs. Factors ...