The student organization plays an important role in the university. With the increasing competitions among students organizations, the organizers in the associations have to devote significant amounts of time to the meetings, which is often inefficient and hurting the working passion. In this study, we have applied facilitated collaboration theories and methods for student organizations to solv...

background: dental students constitute a stakeholder group that is able to provide unique information concerning the effectiveness of the dental curriculum. the purpose of this study was to determine students’ perceptions of the learning environment, intellectual climate and teacher student relationships in dental school.     methods: this study was conducted among 341 dental students of two de...

University researchers and teacher facilitators implemented a state-funded professional development project during the 2005-06 academic year to help county middle school teachers improve student achievement in mathematics. In this paper, we discuss lessons and results from this innovative model, whose iterative cycle includes teacher content knowledge, item analysis from a high-stakes test, ped...

MaDiN (Ma)thematics and (Di)dactics (N)etwork is a fast growing knowledge base containing material about teaching mathematics (URL: http://visum2.uni-muenster.de ). Four universities in Germany participate in this project developing contents in different branches of primary, lower and upper secondary student teachers education in mathematics. The project is funded by the German ministry of scie...

The value of experiential learning in agricultural education has long been recognized as an important part of the educational process. Through practice and experience students apply what they have learned in real situations, thus the material becomes understandable and usable. Moreover, in the process of gaining experience, new problems and situations arise causing learners to seek additional i...

Background—The Iowa Department of Education undertook a study to determine district characteristics that are associated with success on statewide-standardized tests. A district profile was created for each Iowa public school district to determine if any association exists between a particular district’s characteristics and the test scores of 11th grade students. Contextual variables such as soc...

BACKGROUND The number of medical undergraduates taking part in Student Scientific Activities (SSA) at Jessenius Faculty of Medicine Comenius University in Slovakia remains low. The aim of this study was to discover some of the factors responsible and suggest improvements. METHODS An anonymous 30-item questionnaire was devised and sent to 245 medical undergraduates (UG) of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd an...