The Impact on Writing Skills of Tablets in College Developmental English Classes

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 14 mai 2013)Disponible en français : Les Répercussions des tablettes électroniques sur les compétences en rédaction dans les cours de perfectionnement en anglais de niveau collégial.Bibliogr

Some Thoughts on Framing the Work on the Commission and the National Dialog (1)

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Improving the Quality of Higher Education Institution Through Well-Traced Accounting Education Graduates

The objective of this research is to improve the quality of higher education institution, namely: the Study Program of Accounting Education through well-traced graduates from the view of the alumni of the Study Program of Accounting Education – the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Sebelas Maret University and their users. The population of this research was all of the alumni. Its samples consisted of 860 alumni of the class of 2000s. The data of research were collected through observation, documentation, and focus group discussion with the users of alumni and APRODIKSI (Association of the Study Programs of Accounting Education). They were then analyzed by using the descriptive statistics. The results of research are as follows: 1) 88% of the alumni are satisfied with the education and learning process management at the Study Program of Accounting Education, Sebelas Maret University. 2) Based on the view of its alumni, the waiting time to get the first job is short; 60% of the graduates get their first job within three months following their graduation; 25% of them get their first job from three months to six months following their graduation, and the rest get their job after six months following their graduation. 3) Only 30% of the graduates have a job which is relevant to their field of study – they become Accounting teachers, or instructors in some related courses and staffs at the Ministry of Education and Culture. Furthermore, 70% of the graduates have varied positions namely: Directors in manufacturing companies, Financial Managers, Marketing Managers, staffs of financial institutions such as banks or leasing companies. Moreover, only 5% of them become entrepreneurs. 4) The first salary that they earn is decent enough, but only 10% of the graduates get the first salary in the amount of more than IDR 3,000,000 and 90% get the first salary in the amount between IDR 1,000,000 – 3,000,000. In addition, from the view of the users of alumni, they feel fairly satisfied with the alumni\u27s performance, and they expect that the institution will enhance the ‘flexible attitudes\u27 of their graduates in facing certain situations which require wise solutions to solve the existing problems

Barriers to Higher Education

[Excerpt] In this report, we focus on the pathway to higher education, scanning existing research for evidence of any barriers that block families and their children from achieving their educational goals. We are interested here in what barriers still exist and how they vary by factors like income and family background. Essentially, we want to gauge the extent to which a child’s merit—his or her academic ability, separate from family income, wealth, or background—is truly a determining factor in helping him or her get into, and graduate from, a good school in order to tap into the advantages that a college education provides in today’s economy. Why does this matter? Because a clear pathway to a college education is a clear pathway into the middle class. We don’t intend to imply that post-high school education or training is a cure-all to any economic problem one may face. In the current recession, for example, we’ve seen the unemployment rates of college grads double—folks of all skill levels have faced tough times. But we do know that absent some degree of postsecondary education, thriving in today’s competitive, global economy becomes much more difficult

Higher education in the Mediterranean : managing change and ensuring quality

Provides an overview of the key themes raised at the November 1996 Malta conference concerning the quality of higher education in the Mediterranean, including international networking in education as well as managing change and quality assurance. It synthesizes the main contributions made by the presenters and identifies several transversal themes that emerged.peer-reviewe

Enhancing experience and support provided to students within the Bologna professionally-focused master’s degree

The main objective of this study is to analyse Master's students’ views on the competences of (i) the ideal profile of a Master's supervisor, and (ii) the ideal profile of their own, as Master's students. Accordingly, a descriptive and reflective perspective regarding the results is adopted. Additionally, the authors have the objective of presenting a set of recommendations that can help students to deal with the different dimensions and contexts of their student/professional experience: theoretical and pedagogical content, teacher training pre-service tasks, and practice-based research projects. The recommendations go in line with the promotion of support programmes that should not follow a one-size fits all approach, but should instead consider the diversity among students’ profiles as a flagship towards institutional quality enhancement

Report of the Higher Education Study Commission [to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia]

This 1965 Report of the Higher Education Commission, appointed by Governor Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., was created to review higher education in Virginia to be used as a basis for long-range planning by the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Commission was led by Senator Lloyd C. Bird and supported by the staff of the State Council for Higher Education. Divided into eleven sections, this 200-page report details information including geographical location of students, library services, and different instructional services.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/vcu_books/1005/thumbnail.jp

Statistical Methods For Detecting Genetic Risk Factors of a Disease with Applications to Genome-Wide Association Studies

This thesis aims to develop various statistical methods for analysing the data derived from genome wide association studies (GWAS). The GWAS often involves genotyping individual human genetic variation, using high-throughput genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays, in thousands of individuals and testing for association between those variants and a given disease under the assumption of common disease/common variant. Although GWAS have identified many potential genetic factors in the genome that affect the risks to complex diseases, there is still much of the genetic heritability that remains unexplained. The power of detecting new genetic risk variants can be improved by considering multiple genetic variants simultaneously with novel statistical methods. Improving the analysis of the GWAS data has received much attention from statisticians and other scientific researchers over the past decade. There are several challenges arising in analysing the GWAS data. First, determining the risk SNPs might be difficult due to non-random correlation between SNPs that can inflate type I and II errors in statistical inference. When a group of SNPs are considered together in the context of haplotypes/genotypes, the distribution of the haplotypes/genotypes is sparse, which makes it difficult to detect risk haplotypes/genotypes in terms of disease penetrance. In this work, we proposed four new methods to identify risk haplotypes/genotypes based on their frequency differences between cases and controls. To evaluate the performances of our methods, we simulated datasets under wide range of scenarios according to both retrospective and prospective designs. In the first method, we first reconstruct haplotypes by using unphased genotypes, followed by clustering and thresholding the inferred haplotypes into risk and non-risk groups with a two-component binomial-mixture model. In the method, the parameters were estimated by using the modified Expectation-Maximization algorithm, where the maximisation step was replaced the posterior sampling of the component parameters. We also elucidated the relationships between risk and non-risk haplotypes under different modes of inheritance and genotypic relative risk. In the second method, we fitted a three-component mixture model to genotype data directly, followed by an odds-ratio thresholding. In the third method, we combined the existing haplotype reconstruction software PHASE and permutation method to infer risk haplotypes. In the fourth method, we proposed a new way to score the genotypes by clustering and combined it with a logistic regression approach to infer risk haplotypes. The simulation studies showed that the first three methods outperformed the multiple testing method of (Zhu, 2010) in terms of average specificity and sensitivity (AVSS) in all scenarios considered. The logistic regression methods also outperformed the standard logistic regression method. We applied our methods to two GWAS datasets on coronary artery disease (CAD) and hypertension (HT), detecting several new risk haplotypes and recovering a number of the existing disease-associated genetic variants in the literature