This study examined how motivation for learning English, the amount of contact with English, and  length  of  residence  in  the  target language area affects Korean graduate students’ English pragmatic skills. The study attempted to account for differential pragmatic development among 50  graduate-level  Korean  students  in  relation  to  individual  factors  mentioned  above.  The  data were...

Previous studies have examined the online research behaviors of graduate students in terms of how they seek and retrieve research-related information on the Web across diverse disciplines. However, few have focused on graduate students’ searching activities, and particularly for their research tasks. Drawing on Kuiper, Volman, and Terwel’s (2008) three aspects of web literacy skills (searching,...

The study was conducted to access the attitude of B.Ed. students towards learning through ICT in relation to their learning style. The objectives of the study was to study the overall favorable attitude of B.Ed. students towards learning through ICT, to study relationship between the attitudes of B.Ed. students towards ICT and their learning style, to study the difference in the attitude of mal...

A 3-year project of curricular renaissance undertaken by the faculty of an entry-level master's degree program is described. This project culminated in a thoroughly redesigned program of study centered around the construct of occupation and built on a foundation of knowledge in occupational science. Described herein are three developmental and highly iterative domains of activity that were cruc...

The annual PIMS Graduate Industrial Mathematics Modelling Camp (GIMMC) is held in one of the PIMS universities as part of the PIMS industrial programme. It is part of PIMS' commitment to providing training for young mathematical scientists who are either pursing careers in academia or in industry. The goal of the GIMMC is to provide experience in the use of mathematical modelling as a problem-s...

With the development of internet technology, professional virtual community (PVC) is becoming the valuable external knowledge source for graduate students. Students search information and knowledge in specific domain, share research experiences and weave their social network in these professional virtual communities (PVCs). How to use PVC to increase graduate students’ creativity should be an i...