Liberal Studies at Longwood College: Preparing Teachers for Virginia\u27s Future

The Liberal Studies Major provides future teachers studying at Longwood College with an excellent opportunity to prepare for all aspects of teaching in elementary school classrooms. In the area of mathematics and science, the Liberal Studies Major contains a total of 24 hours of mathematics and science, and prepares future K-6 classroom teachers to teach all components of the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) in these disciplines. Longwood College is currently studying how requirements can be modified within the Liberal Studies Program to make it possible for students to complete the discipline specific course work that will be necessary for middle school endorsement

Spartan Daily, November 9, 1982

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Overeducation

According to manpower requirements economists, overeducation occurs when an individual has more schooling than is required by their job. Studies have found that men (but not women) who exceed the schooling norm for their job by 4 or more years are more dissatisfied with their current job and more likely to look for a better one, but that they are not more likely to be politically alienated or to support left wing causes. Individuals whose schooling achievement (competence in reading and math) exceeds the norm for their job are significantly more productive than coworkers. This implies that a greater supply of well educated workers will increase productivity even if available jobs do not change. Overeducaton also refers to situations where highly educated workers are oversupplied relative to the norms of the past. These periods tend to be temporary because the circumstances which cause them are temporary and because the resulting decline in the wage premium for schooling causes a slowdown in the growth of university attendance which with some lag brings supply and demand back into balance. The third use of these terms is to refer to a chronic tendency of a society to overinvest (or underinvest) in education relative to some social standard. Those who believe overeducation is chronic apply a Does your job require it standard, which reflects a very narrow conception of education. When, however, people\u27s non-pecuniary tastes for higher learning, the tendency of the market to under reward expertise and the spillover benefits generated by scientists and artists trained in university are taken into account, most societies are chronically undereducated not overeducated

Spartan Daily, November 9, 1982

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Education or Reputation? A Look At America's Top-Ranked Liberal Arts Colleges

This report examines the country's most prestigious liberal arts colleges. Despite endowments soaring as high as $1.8 billion, nearly all institutions increased tuition during the Great Recession to finance bloated administrative spending, with many college presidents enjoying salaries higher than Barack Obama's. This report peels back reputation to find out what students are really getting for their diploma's$240,000 price ta

Boston University Common Data Set 2017-2018

This is the archive of common data sets of Boston University from 2017-2018, including general information, enrollment and persistence, first-time, first-year (freshman) admission, transfer admission, academic offerings and policies, student life, annual expenses, financial aid, instructional faculty, and degrees conferred

Computers in writing instruction

For computers to be useful in writing instruction, innovations should be valuable for students and feasible for teachers to implement. Research findings yield contradictory results in measuring the effects of different uses of computers in writing, in part because of the methodological complexity of such measurements. Yet the computer seems to be a promising tool in several new, theoretically based approaches to writing instruction. Research of these kinds of computer applications should continue, paying attention to context variables that influence the implementation process importantly

Factors affecting e-Learning effectiveness in a higher learning institution in Malaysia

The purpose of this research was to investigate factors that influence the effectiveness of the e-learning system in a higher learning institution. The participants were students randomly selected from diploma and degree programs. The main instrument was a questionnaire that was distributed to the students. The researchers collected 205 completed questionnaires out of a total of 300. Four factors were chosen as independent variables namely: reaction and satisfaction,learning outcome and achievement, familiarity with online learning technology, and participation and interaction. It was found that the effectiveness of the e-learning system was significantly affected by reaction and satisfaction, learning outcome and achievement, and familiarity with online learning technology. The participation and interaction factor had no apparent effect on the effectiveness of the e-learning system. Therefore, it is recommended that higher learning institutions interested in introducing e-learning should focus on students’ reaction and satisfaction towards the system.E-learning should focus on learning outcomes and achievement. It is also recommended that institutions first look into the issue of familiarity with online learning technology among students before introducing the e-learning system so as to determine whether students are comfortable with the online learning tools

Evaluating Digital Libraries: A Longitudinal and Multifaceted View

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