Isolated Island Engineering Helps Students Develop

Network helps hospitals develop own evidence-based medicine.

A Research Network Based in London, Ont., aims to improve hospital care by having hospitals share information. The research points out the ways some hospitals do things differently. Dr. William Sibbald, who heads the network, says that if hospitals overcome some of the variations between them, they may be "able to save money and become more efficient."

Web site helps students with housing search

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Interleaving Helps Students Distinguish among Similar Concepts

When students encounter a set of concepts (or terms or principles) that are similar in some way, they often confuse one with another. For instance, they might mistake one word for another word with a similar spelling (e.g., allusion instead of illusion) or choose the wrong strategy for a mathematics problem because it resembles a different kind of problem. By one proposition explored in this re...

Adapting Experiential Learning to Develop Problem-Solving Skills in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Engineering Students.

Individuals who are deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions, and this may be due in part to their level of preparation in the development and retention of mathematical and problem-solving skills. An approach was developed that incorporates experiential learning and best practices of STEM instruction to give firs...

Encouraging students to develop lifelong learning.