Our research reports on an ongoing study of the impact of entrepreneurial interventions within first-year engineering courses on changes in the mindsets of engineering students. Entrepreneurial mindset in our study is operationally defined as a more growth oriented mindset versus a fixed oriented mindset. This operational definition and an accompanying mindset measurement instrument was develop...

The six Rice colleges are once again facing the complex task of integrating the individual into the group life of an academic community. We say "complex" because this process must be accomplished while maintaining the proper amount of respect for the "one-ness" of each person in the sea of new faces which composes the second largest freshman class in Rice's history. The Rice freshman is a rare ...

ABSTRACT In order to achieve success in college, students need have fine adjustment skills. This study aims describe college and subjective well being freshman, as the relationship between those two variables. research is a quantitative with cross sectional design, which was conducted on 171 freshman of class 2022 at Malahayati University. The researc instrument used this were Student Adaptatio...

Last year when UC President Atkinson proposed discontinuing UC's use of the SAT I examination as an admissions requirement in favor of the SAT II, UCOP released several papers describing a series of studies assessing the relative predictive validity of SAT I and SAT II test scores and high school GPA on UC freshman GPA. The mediating effect of socioeconomic status (SES) was also considered. The...

background: academic success depends on curriculum planning and goals- setting, choosing suitable teaching methods, considering students' learning style and the teacher and the manner in which material is presented and effective time management. learning style is the processing of information and comprehension. if teachers present contents in a style that matches a student’s preferred learning ...

INTRODUCTION Successful approaches are needed to decrease the burden of obesity on America's youth. Researchers often look to the high school interscholastic sports experience as a promising area for intervention. The purpose of this paper is to examine trends in participation over the course of a 4-year educational period. METHODS Two research questions are posed in this study: (1) how does ...

College SCienCe TeaChing F aculty at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, often look for potential collaborations between departments to provide the cadets (students) with a broader sense of how topics interrelate in their courses. Because our curriculum is very structured, with 30 core courses in a 40to 43-course program, students are generally enrolled in the same cours...