Practical surveying in schools

Gps for Cadastral Surveying – Practical Considerations

GPS technology, in particular real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS, has matured to the stage where it has become another tool for the professional surveyor. Commercial products offer user-friendly hardware/software and suggest techniques that can improve productivity at a high accuracy. Government services such as SCIMS in NSW and AUSPOS (Geoscience Australia) support improved GPS positioning and surv...

Conducting Research in Schools: A Practical Guide

Cognitive development unfolds in many contexts, and one of the most important of these contexts is school. Thus, understanding the school context is critical for understanding development. This article discusses some of the reasons why cognitive developmental researchers might wish to conduct research in schools, describes how to get started conducting research in schools, and offers advice to ...

Introducing Principles of Land Surveying by Assigning a Practical Project

A practical project is used in an engineering surveying course to expose sophomore and junior civil engineering students to several important issues related to the use of basic principles of land surveying. The project, which is the design of a two-lane rural highway to connect between two arbitrary points, requires students to draw the profile of the proposed highway along with the existing gr...

A practical approach for successful small group teaching in medical schools with student centered curricula

There has been a paradigm shift in the teaching strategies fromdidactic or teacher-centered to more vibrant student centeredapproaches. For the last five decades, small group teaching(SGT) has been a hallmark of this reorientation of educationalstrategies especially in medical schools, which use problem-basedlearning as a core educational tool. The key strength of ...

Surveying Effective Factors on 'Sense of Unity' among Elites in the Cultural Field (Case Study of Seminary Schools and Universities)