The "Survey of Academic Orientations" ("SAO") measures six orientations in college students believed to represent desirable or undesirable perspectives. Previous research established the connections of "SAO" orientations with grades and persistence. This study shows the extended utility of the "SAO" as an early warning indicator, enabling advisors…

This article outlines a re-conceptualization of school culture that moves beyond the limited models used hitherto and illustrates its use in an analysis of the Sixth Form culture in a West Midlands school. The approach adopted here is based on a model of school culture that incorporates five distinctive pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that combine to…

This study describes the bullying behaviors reported by 198 students in grade 8 in two middle schools in the same southern city. Of the students, 92% reported observing some type of bullying at their school at least "sometimes." Nearly one half of the students did not tell anyone when they were bullied. Those who did report bullying were most…

In this article, the authors present the results of a survey of students at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands concerning the students' opinions about how PowerPoint should be used in university lectures. The most important outcome of the survey is that a vast majority of the respondents prefer a modest layout. Most students dislike…

This study examines undergraduate students' research habits in a strictly electronic library environment at a large public university. Unlike most information commons, the campus' electronic library is not housed within a traditional library space and provides access to electronic research materials exclusively. This study finds that undergraduate…

The purpose of this study was to determine the status of the health appraisal services provided for primary school children in Edo State, Nigeria. Using the cross-sectional survey design a total of 1506 primary school children were selected from across the state as the study participants. The analysis of data collected through a 14-item…

With the introduction of online course surveys comes the related issue of reporting survey results. This article is based on the experiences of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (Georgia Tech), a large, Doctoral/Research-Extensive institution where all end-of-term course surveys have been online since the fall semester of 1999. This…

In the past few years there has been a "student boom" in the development of higher education: the number of college students in all of the Russian Federation rose from 2,612,800 in the 1993-94 academic year to 4,741,400 in the 2000-2001 academic year, that is, by 1.82 times. What is noteworthy is that the number of students enrolled in…

This article talks about the quality of education in a nonstate institution of higher learning. At a meeting of college and university vice rectors for instruction held in early 2004, it was suggested that all specialist training ought to be concentrated in state-run educational institutions. Analysis of practices in institutions of higher…

In this article, the authors examine a number of questions that make it possible to characterize the different aspects of students' involvement with the Internet. They will analyse the regularity of students in using the Internet, the age at which they begin to use means of electronic communication, the place where they use it, the intensiveness…

The inability to write scientific papers effectively remains a problem for many college students. To identify pedagogical constructs that help undergraduates write well in scientific formats, we evaluated the effect of the number and type of college composition courses previously taken, science writing experience, and tutorial services. In our…

Introduction to Biological Investigations is a course that was developed to introduce the scientific method through practical application. This active, student-centered experience fosters fundamental skills that promote creativity, critical thinking, and scientific-communication. The course has been well received by first-year students, and…

A year-long collaborative action research project used networked technologies to connect researchers at a university-based online professional development program and a group of practitioner researchers based in a range of schools and educational agencies in several countries. They studied the process and effects of online professional development…

The authors studied a course in which an instructor allowed individuals at a distance to participate. Although these students were not formally enrolled in the university where the class took place, the instructor gave them full access to all course materials and encouraged them to complete course assignments. The authors examined the time and…

In this article, the authors examine pre-service special education teacher reaction to and experience in a collaboratively taught higher education course. Forty-three full-time postbaccalaureate students participate in a course designed to examine critical issues in special education, taught by two faculty members, one specializing in mild and…