Preparing Graduate Students for Success

Preparing Students for Calculus

This quantitative study compared the implementation of a problem-based curriculum in precalculus and a modular-style implementation of traditional curriculum in precalculus to the historical instructional methods at a western Tier 2 public university. The goal of the study was to determine if either alternative approach improved student performance in precalculus and better prepared students fo...

Stress, Coping, and Success among Clinical Psychology Graduate Students

A practical and comprehensive graduate course preparing students for research involving scientific computing

We describe a new graduate course in scientific computing that was taught during Fall 2010 at Louisiana State University. The course was designed to provide students with a broad and practical introduction to scientific computing which would provide them with the basic skills and experience to very quickly get involved in research projects involving modern cyberinfrastructure and complex real w...

Preparing Graduate Students for Industry and Life Long Learning: A Project Based Approach

The case is made that by undertaking projects that have a real-world dimension the students are more likely to gain the skills and abilities which industry requires. Background information is presented relating to links between academia and industry and the role of student projects. Details are given of taught masters level computing programmes at the University of Sunderland and the project th...

Preparing Graduate Students for Virtual World Simulations: Exploring the Potential of an Emerging Technology

At Seton Hall University (SHU), developing skill-building scenarios that increase management competencies is a priority for both the on-campus and the online Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) programs. Realizing a need to provide online students with similar learning opportunities to those available to on-campus students, Anne M. Hewitt and Susan Spencer, faculty members in the online M...