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...

Although the rise in subprime lending and the ensuing wave of foreclosures was partly a result of market forces that have been well-identified in the literature, in the United States it was also a highly racialized process. We argue that residential segregation created a unique niche of poor minority clients who were differentially marketed risky subprime loans that were in great demand for use...

Research has established that individual student interest has a positive effect on learning and academic achievement. However, little is known about the impact of a blended learning approach on individual student interest and whether combinations of online and face-to-face learning activities significantly enhance student interest. This paper assesses the effect of blended learning on perceived...

Declining student numbers in the Information Technology field has prompted considerable discussion amongst academics in the past two years. Several authors (Young (2005), McGettrick, et al. 2004) have explored likely contributing factors and identified strategies for improvement. Key to many of those strategies is a change in student perception of the value of a career in computing. The authors...

Background indices in the TIMSS 2007 data are complex variables referring to educational contexts which are presumed to affect students’ achievement in science subjects. The objective of this paper is to examine, for the Italian 4th grade data, the relationships between these indices both at school and at pupil level and the proficiency scores for overall achievement in science subjects. A mult...

The use of virtual learning environments (VLEs) has become increasingly common in most higher education (HE) institutions. Recent developments have proposed the interoperability of software systems and content, to create component VLEs in contrast with the integrated, monolithic ones that are currently prevalent. This paper examines the student experience of two VLEs, one integrated approach an...

Interdisciplinary collaboration is an important aspect of industrial design, which involves interaction with other disciplines, such as engineering and management. The main purpose of this study was to investigate and evaluate student interaction with an augmented reality system in interdisciplinary design teams. The result indicated that design students and engineering students tended to regar...

Spyware has been identified as one of the emerging and growing threats to organizations. Because the Internet is an essential component of the student’s education experience, it is important to discern if our students are at risk and how to mitigate potential negative consequences. As a result, this paper describes spyware issues and empirically explores spyware incidence and student attitude. ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate students’ perception of concept maps as a learning tool where knowledge transfer is the goal. This article includes an evaluation of the learning performance of 42 undergraduate students enrolled in a nanotech course at a university in Taiwan. Canonical correlation and MANOVA analyses were employed to examine if students’ perceptions toward concept ma...

Social norm campaigns assume that college students desire to increase their drinking, and may eventually do so, to match inflated perceptions of peer drinking. We assessed 171 college students on self-reported drinking, desired drinking and perception of peer drinking at baseline, and assessed 139 of those students one month later. Participants who believed their peers drank more than they were...