Prospects for Higher Shia Religious Education in Post-Soviet Countries

Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Education for Technology Readiness: Prospects for Developing Countries*

The technology gap between developing and advanced countries has been increasing during the last few decades. In the process of technology development human capital plays a critical role as an absorption capacity for new technologies in developing countries. The cross-country regression shows that human capital interacts with inows of foreign technology embodied in machinery imports as well as...

High-stakes testing in employment, credentialing, and higher education. Prospects in a post-affirmative-action world.

Cognitively loaded tests of knowledge, skill, and ability often contribute to decisions regarding education, jobs, licensure, or certification. Users of such tests often face difficult choices when trying to optimize both the performance and ethnic diversity of chosen individuals. The authors describe the nature of this quandary, review research on different strategies to address it, and recomm...

Shift from eLearning - 1 to eLearning - 2 Problems & Prospects for Higher Education in Developing Countries like Pakistan

New technologies offer opportunities for the developing countries to resolve their long-standing problems of national/international isolation and mass-education. However, it is neither automatic nor devoid of challenges and problems rather there are both development and use problems for the developers, users and institution. The effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs)...

Higher Education and Religious Liberalization among Young Adults.

Going to college has long been assumed to liberalize students' religious beliefs. Using longitudinal data from the National Survey of Youth and Religion, we compare change in the content of religious beliefs of those who do and do not attend college. We find that, in general, college students are no more likely to develop liberal religious beliefs than nonstudents. In some cases, collegians act...