How do university training and subsequent practical experience affect expertise in clinical psychology? To answer this question we developed methods to assess psychological knowledge and the competence to diagnose, construct case conceptualizations, and plan psychotherapeutic treatment: a knowledge test and short case studies in a first study, and a complex, dynamically evolving case study in t...

The purpose of the study was to establish which of (i) age (ii) gender and (iii) organizational culture is a correlate of use of knowledge management systems (KMS) among teachers, senior administrators and postgraduate students in Makerere University. The study was a co-relational and crosssectional survey biased to the quantitative approach, involving 444 respondents from the University, from ...

In this paper, we focus on the relationship between studying university mathematics and the ‘thinking styles’ of both undergraduate and postgraduate mathematics students. A crosssectional quantitative study (N = 238) was conducted in a large Greek university, identifying the thinking styles of second, third and fourth year undergraduates, as well as those of students following a postgraduate de...

Little work, however, has been done in this field in Northern Ireland. One of the main functions of the Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical Education is to provide a careers information and advisory service for recent graduates. This service is limited by a lack of basic information about the factors which influence young doctors in choosing a specialty and deciding in which part ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which psychological well-being variables (sense of coherence, research self-efficacy, locus of control and hope) could predict the academic achievement of students enrolled for a research methodology module at a postgraduate level in an open and distance learning (ODL) context, while controlling for the effect of biographical variables (g...

We study the broken windows theory with a field experiment in a shared area of a workplace in academia (department common room). We explore academics’ and postgraduate students’ behaviour under an order condition (clean environment) and a disorder condition (messy environment). We find strong support that signs of disorderly behaviour triggers littering. In the disorder treatment 59% of the sub...

The University of Pretoria’s ATM Lab provides opportunities to investigate and acquire hands-on experience in ATM related technologies and prepares postgraduate students for roles within a high speed networking environment. The ATM Lab will become a more integral part of “high speed network” related research and will also be included in the formal network curriculum. The learning experience not...

Identifying exceptional students for scholarships is an essential part of the admissions process in undergraduate and postgraduate institutions, and identifying weak students who are likely to fail is also important for allocating limited tutoring resources. In this article, we have tried to design an intelligent system which can separate and classify student according to learning factor and pe...

BACKGROUND UK medical students and doctors from ethnic minorities underperform in undergraduate and postgraduate examinations. Although it is assumed that white (W) and non-white (NW) students enter medical school with similar qualifications, neither the qualifications of NW students, nor their educational background have been looked at in detail. This study uses two large-scale databases to ex...