Assembly members last night abolished the Saint Mary's Student Assembly by a majority vote. The Assembly. as it stands now, is "nothing but an 1neffecrive student government organization, ' according to Stu· dent Body President Kathy Sweeney. A proposal submiaed by Sweeuey, would p \ace the Assembly under investigation by ad ad-hoc commit tee who will assess tht· needs and structure of the asse...

In the paper, the activities of the ISPRS WG VI/5 in cooperation with the ISPRS Student Consortium (SC) in the period 2004-2008 are presented. The main purpose of the WG VI/5 is stimulation to scientific and research work, and promotion of the ISPRS profession to talented graduate, post-graduate students and young researchers. The working group presents the main link between students from diffe...

Previous research shows inconsistent relationships between parent involvement and academic achievement and often asks why such inconsistencies occur. The research proposes a theoretical model that separates parent involvement into those practices linking parents to children and those practices linking parents to other adults in the school environment. The researcher hypothesizes that parent-chi...

Contributing to a student organization, such as the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) and its Regional Student Group (RSG) program, takes time and energy. Both are scarce commodities, especially when you are trying to find your place in the world of computational biology as a graduate student. It comes as no surprise that organizing ISCB-SC-related activi...

Student academic success in college on-line courses was examined in relation to motivation, time-management and organzation. Participants included 40 students enrolled in college on-line courses. The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire was utilized to identify participants motivation level, time-management skills and organizational skills. A multiple regression analysis was used in ...

Introduction Application of business principles to education is not new. The perspective taken here is one of viewing the school as an organization, not unlike a business organization. The new breed of successful business organizations recognizes the primacy of the customer and acknowledges the customer as its purpose for existence. Customer need and service drive and inform the management syst...

The pivotal importance of registering clinical trials is increasingly accepted, and several governmental and non-governmental bodies, including the Italian Ministry of Health, have developed guidelines or set up registries in recent years and months1. Three initiatives at the international level seem to us to foster the global awareness of the ethical and scientific obligation to register clini...

This article applies Casual Layered Analysis (CLA) (Inayatullah, 2004) as a framework to examine factors that affect applying a student-centered learning approach in Vietnam. The Four layers of CLA help disclose weaknesses in the current traditional learning approach, causes that create the problems and hidden beliefs that keep traditional perceptions about learning permanent. The results revea...

Scholars in student learning have shown a growing interest in using Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) as a cooperative learning technique in classroom teaching. This study explores the effects of STAD on student achievement, attitude and motivation in economics education. Three research instruments, a Test of Economic Literacy (TEL); a Motivation Scale and an Economics Modular Test wer...

iii Acknowledgement To God be the glory for the things He has done! Thanks to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for giving me the strength and fortitude to make this endeavor a reality. A very special thanks to the loves of my life—Pamela, my darling wife, and Joneya, daddy's little princess—your encouragement and support have been unwavering and I love both of you immensely. Now that this is don...