Values Attached to Educational Goals, Study Processes, and Educational Motivation

the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality

this thesis is about the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality.

Mental Discipline and Educational Values

great an undertaking in hand, it is just as well that Mr. Heck puts himself on the safe side by adding, "The problems of mental discipline are too unsettled at present for anyone to be dogmatic or to attempt more than brief suggestions." The author's secondary purpose is "to sum up and organize the discussions and experiments," and this he has done most ably. He remarks, "In class discussion of...

Integrating Educational Research and Practice: Reconceptualizing Goals

PicPot: a small satellite with educational goals

PicPot is a small satellite designed and built at Politecnico di Torino, as a cooperation between the Electronics and the Aerospace Departments. The goal of the project is mainly didactic: a real satellite is a good example of complex system, with specific constraints and requirements. Such a project makes possible to have students, in the final graduation work, going through the complete desig...

Commentary: Educational planning to achieve the goals of community pediatrics.

In “Teaching Community Pediatrics to Pediatric Residents: Strategic Approaches and Successful Models for Education in Community Health and Child Advocacy,” Shipley et al1 provide useful, practical suggestions and models for building and implementing community-pediatrics experiences during residency. To identify where they fit in the overall goal of improving child health through community pedia...