In this qualitative study, we examined how two professors (a physicist and biochemist) of first year college students perceived their students’ development of identification in biochemistry or physics and how they actively supported this development. The professors described students who entered college with different levels of domain identification and different expectations for their college ...

St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Department of Radiology Research Institute of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine Received June 24, 2009; accepted after revision July 31, 2009. Correspondence to: Deok Hee Lee, MD, Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medici...

1 Department of Computer Science, University of Mississippi, Oxford MS 38677 www.cs.olemiss.edu/~bobcook Abstract  The National Classroom Project (NCP) is exploring the effective use of in-class palm computers and Internet technology to enhance student learning in grades K-12 through college. The paper discusses lessons learned from three years of practical experience both on a college campus ...

OBJECTIVE Between 2% and 8% of college students meet criteria for ADHD, with increased incidence in recent decades. There are very few clinical trials conducted on the meaningful intervention of ADHD in college. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) effectively treats college students with ADHD and could be more feasibly applied in college mental health clinics. METHOD Fifty-four undergr...

This thesis uses a unique dataset of five class-years to determine the factors that affect the academic experience of students at Connecticut College, particularly their cumulative grade point averages (CGPA) and persistence into sophomore year. Chapter I examines how changes in high school inputs affect students’ performance at Connecticut College. This chapter finds that high school inputs (v...

S IASP Special Interest Group on Sex, Gender and Pain Investigating Pain in Males and Females: Where are the Differences? Examining the Experimental and Clinical Evidence Satellite Symposium of the 4 Congress of the European Federation of IASP Chapters (EFIC) Charles University, Prague, 2 September 2003 Do birth partners help or hinder women's experience of elective caesarean section? Keogh E 1...

Members of Greek-letter societies are the heaviest drinkers on college campuses, and experience more alcohol-related problems than their peers. This study reports the results of a web-based survey administered to stratified random samples of college students from 10 North Carolina universities. Greek-letter status was a significant independent risk factor for increased injury (both experienced ...

In part one of this practitioner packet, we reviewed how colleges seeking to reduce complexity in the student experience can gather information through multiple methods and from multiple groups of college stakeholders in order to identify areas that need improvement. In this part, we discuss how colleges can use the collected data to devise and implement solutions to identified problems. We use...

0360-1315/$ see front matter 2008 Published by doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2008.09.005 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 904 620 3573; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (A.C. Carle). Can modern, computer-based technology engage college students and improve their academic achievement in college? Although numerous examples detail technology’s classroom uses, few studies empirically examine whether ...

OBJECTIVE Given the mixed literature in the area, the aim of the current study was to determine whether sex differences exist in inattention, hyperactivity, and impairment in college adults with ADHD. METHOD Individuals from three universities were recruited for the study. Participants with (n = 164) and without ADHD (n = 710) completed on-line measures of symptoms and impairment. RESULTS C...