Little is known about incidents of bias specific to college classrooms or how they are handled by instructors. To learn more about this subject, professors, graduate instructors, and undergraduates (N ! 2,523) completed surveys assessing perceptions of classroom bias. Results indicated that about a quarter of instructors and half of students perceived an incident of bias in a classroom in the l...

But the curriculum in Indian medical colleges has barely been able to meet the above objectives, as evidenced by a study conducted among undergraduates at the Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute and among doctors in private and government practice in Karnataka (7). Many undergraduates and practising doctors are not very confident about performing routine medicolegal duties. Further...

This study explores the relationship between undergraduates’ epistemological beliefs and their information-seeking behavior. Kuhlthau’s information search process (ISP) model and four models of epistemological development from educational psychology formed the theoretical foundation of this investigation. Twenty undergraduates attending an Ivy League university were interviewed about their sear...

The ability to construct proofs is a crucial skill in advanced mathematics that most students lack. To investigate the causes of students' difficulty, we observed a small group of undergraduates and doctoral students constructing proofs about group isomorphisms. Undergraduates were able to construct very few proofs, despite having an understanding of mathematical logic and often possessing the ...

Implementation and adoption of Electronic Government are in early stage in most of the developing economies. Users of such electronic government services include individual citizens, businesses, government agencies and other governments. The rewarding benefits of such implementation effort depends both on governments’ end as well as users’ end. This study amended and used Unified Theory of Acce...

OBJECTIVES This study explored sexual knowledge, attitudes and practices of female only-child undergraduates and made a comparison with students with siblings. METHODS Anonymously completed questionnaires were received from 4,769 female undergraduates, recruited using randomized cluster sampling by type of university and students' major and grade. Multivariate logistic regression was used to ...

BACKGROUND Injuries affect all age groups but have a particular impact on young people. To evaluate the incidence of non-fatal, unintentional, injuries among undergraduates in Wenzhou, China, assess the burden caused by these injuries, and explore the associated risk factors for unintentional injuries among these undergraduates, we conducted a college-based cross-sectional study. METHODS Part...

In this paper we explore the difficulties undergraduates from Greek Higher Educational Institutions faced during transition to online learning due COVID-19 pandemic. By analyzing qualitative data an survey (N = 2093), were able identify barriers encountered and make inferences about quality of way was implemented. The most frequently reported include problems that perceived as being caused by t...

Objectives: We aimed to identify the influence of using social media on the sleep quality of undergraduate students in Chongqing, China. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on undergraduate students in Chongqing, China. A multistage stratified sampling was adopted. The study population was composed of 1,444 (72.97%) females and 535 (27.03%) males. Results: More than half of undergrad...

BACKGROUND Career maturity is an important parameter as nursing undergraduates prepare for their future careers. However, little is known regarding the relationships between attributions, future time perspective and career maturity among nursing undergraduates. The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of career maturity and its relationship with attributions and future time persp...