Do Online Students Perform as Well as Lecture Students?

Software Tutors Help Female Students Learn Programming Concepts Just as Well as Male Students

Several studies suggest a significant difference between women and men in their attitude towards programming as well as their attitude towards interacting with computers. So, it is reasonable to question whether women learn computer programming concepts as well as men do using software tutors. In order to answer this question, we analyzed data from the evaluation of three programming tutors use...

Do Online Students Perform Better than Face-to-face Students? Reflections and a Short Review of some Empirical Findings

The increases in the number of online courses given by universities have been quite dramatic over the last couple of years. Nowadays, many universities even give complete degree programs online where instructions and lectures in the form of, for example, streaming videos, are available for students to watch 24 hours a day. In a sense, the use of Internet and Interactive Computer Technologies (I...

How well do medical students express empathy?

PURPOSE Empathy is an important trait of a physician and a key element in the physician-patient relationship. This study evaluated the ability to express empathy in medical students. METHODS Medical student empathy was measured by the modified Pencil-and-Paper Empathy Rating Test of Winefield and Chur-Hansen. The subjects comprised 110 medical students. The data were analyzed by descriptive a...

Do NIHR health technology assessment randomised clinical trials perform as well as expected?

Results 125 clinical trials published in the HTA Journal Series met the inclusion. Five trials were reported to have been abandoned and were excluded from analyses. 72% of clinical trials achieved 50% or better of their original recruitment target. 90% of clinical trials recruited their targeted number of centres with 50% recruiting more than the initial number they expected. One third of trial...

Online or Print: Which Do Students Prefer?