A study was undertaken to determine the impact of online lecture notes on learning outcomes of students in a web-assisted first engineering thermodynamics course taught in a traditional faceto-face classroom setting. In the control group lectures were presented using a classroom computer projector and chalkboard. In the test group the same material and approach were taken, but the instructor's ...

African American college students tend to obtain lower grades than their White counterparts, even when they enter college with equivalent test scores. Past research suggests that negative stereotypes impugning Black students’ intellectual abilities play a role in this underperformance. Awareness of these stereotypes can psychologically threaten African Americans, a phenomenon known as “stereoty...

This project aims to evaluate the effect of using web accessible recorded lectures and slides as a supplement to traditional face-to-face teaching for International students. Specifically, we examine whether the use of blended learning has an impact on students’ exam results. In our study, held in accounting classes, we have used traditional teaching methods (lectures and seminars) during the f...

in the open-pit mining, one of the first decisions that must be made in production planning stage, after completing the design of final pit limits, is determining of the processing plant cut-off grade. since this grade has an essential effect on operations, choosing the optimum cut-off grade is of considerable importance. different goals may be used for determining optimum cut-off grade. one of...

the purpose of the present study was to determine gender differences in the language development and skills of first grade students of primary schools in marivan-iran. to do this, 260 first grade students (140 males and 120 females) were chosen by multi stage cluster sampling and stratified random sampling methods among the first grade students in elementary schools in the 2011-2012 academic ye...

ABSTRACT Purpose: to characterize and compare the reading fluency performance of public- private-school fifth-grade students. Methods: a total 44 elementary-school students both sexes, aged 10 11 years, participated in study were divided into Group I (GI, with 25 public-school students) II (GII, 19 private school students). They submitted Assessment Reading Fluency Performance (ADFLU). The anal...