First-Year Students Need Time to Grieve

Teaching Functional Programming to First-Year Students

In the period experiments have been carried out with an introductory course in computer programming based on functional programming Due to thorough educational design and evaluation a successful course has been developed This has led to a revision of the computer programming education in the rst year of the computer science curriculum at the University of Twente This article describes the appro...

COMPARISON OF SELF-ESTEEM AND SOCIAL ANXIETY AMONG FIRST TO FOURTH YEAR NURSING STUDENTS

Introduction: Good mental health while studying in university makes students able to deal effectively with numerous stressors that they experience. The purpose of this study was to determine and compare the self-esteem and social anxiety of nursing students in grades one to four of medical universities in Tehran. Methods: In this analytical cross-sectional study, 400 students of the medical uni...

Time-to-Credit Gender Inequities of First-Year PhD Students in the Biological Sciences

Equitable gender representation is an important aspect of scientific workforce development to secure a sufficient number of individuals and a diversity of perspectives. Biology is the most gender equitable of all scientific fields by the marker of degree attainment, with 52.5% of PhDs awarded to women. However, equitable rates of degree completion do not translate into equitable attainment of f...

Correction for Time-to-Credit Gender Inequities of First-Year PhD Students in the Biological Sciences

Comparing Lecture and Problem-based Learning Methods in Teaching Limb Anatomy to First Year Medical Students

Introduction: Problem-based learning has replaced traditional teaching in most universities around the world but still there are many challenges in replacing traditional methods by this new method of learning. Two methods of lecture and problem-based learning (PBL) for teaching anatomy to junior medical students are compared in this study. Methods: Forty students of Artesh University of Medica...