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Direct linkBritton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The students who are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
Download full textCarnevale, Anthony P.; Smith, Nicole; Melton, Michelle – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2011
The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) state-level analysis provides policymakers, educators, state government officials, and others with details on the projections of STEM jobs through 2018. This report delivers a state-by-state snapshot of the demand for STEM jobs, including: (1) The number of forecast net new and…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Technical Occupations, Mathematics, Professional Occupations
Mulvey, Patrick; Shindel, Brandon – Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics, 2011
Each fall the Statistical Research Center conducts its Survey of Enrollments and Degrees, which asks all degree-granting physics and astronomy departments in the US to provide information concerning the numbers of students they have enrolled and counts of recent degree recipients. In connection with this survey, the authors ask for the names and…
Descriptors: Astronomy, College Graduates, Employment, Salaries
Brown, Emma; Henderson, Linda – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2012
The Solution Circle (SC) approach is a flexible tool which encourages participants to maintain a positive, creative approach to problem-solving. This project focussed on the introduction of this approach to staff in a primary and a secondary school. The rationale was to implement a problem-solving/discussion tool that would allow staff to utilise…
Descriptors: Expertise, Scientific Personnel, Problem Solving, Elementary Secondary Education
Shibayama, Sotaro; Walsh, John P.; Baba, Yasunori – American Sociological Review, 2012
This study uses a sample of Japanese university scientists in life and materials sciences to examine how academic entrepreneurship has affected the norms and behaviors of academic scientists regarding sharing scientific resources. Results indicate that high levels of academic entrepreneurship in a scientific field are associated with less reliance…
Descriptors: Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Scientists, Norms
Barone, Carlo – Sociology of Education, 2011
This article examines the overall strength, the qualitative pattern, and the evolution over time of gender segregation in higher education across eight European countries. Although previous studies have focused primarily on the divide between humanistic and scientific fields, this work indicates that this divide accounts for no more than half of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Gender Differences, Selection
Varshavskii, A. E.; Vinokurova, N. A.; Nikonova, M. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2011
Russian science is in need of serious reforms if it is to provide the research and development needed for economic health. Issues of increasing average age of scientific personnel, poor working conditions, low salaries, and relatively low social prestige need to be addressed. This article reviews a questionnaire survey conducted in 2008 that aimed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Personnel, Attitudes, Social Problems
Machina, Kenton; Gokhale, Anu – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
This study investigated attitude changes of 18-year-old first-year college students at a large state-operated institution in the USA during their initial semester in college. Attitudes of 375 students enrolled in a non-science first-year student seminar during the Fall of 2004 were measured, using a new instrument designed to focus on five…
Descriptors: Seminars, Student Attitudes, Females, Natural Sciences
Noblitt, Lynnette; Vance, Diane E.; Smith, Michelle L. DePoy – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2010
This study compares a traditional paper presentation approach and a case study method for the development and improvement of oral communication skills and critical-thinking skills in a class of junior forensic science majors. A rubric for rating performance in these skills was designed on the basis of the oral communication competencies developed…
Descriptors: Scientific Personnel, Crime, Communication Skills, Speech Communication
Khoon, Koh Aik; Jalal, Azman; Abd-Shukor, R.; Yatim, Baharudin; Talib, Ibrahim Abu; Daud, Abdul Razak; Samat, Supian – College Student Journal, 2009
A survey of thirteen books on Einstein is presented. Its gives an idea on how much is written about the man and how frequent are the publications. The year 2005 saw the most publications. It is the centenary for the Miraculous Year. Interestingly some books can just sustain their readers' interest with just words. Einstein comes alive with the…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Biographies, Scientific Personnel, Scientists
Terzian, Sevan G. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
From 1942 to 1958, a national weekly programme on CBS radio and presented by Science Service, Inc. devoted 37 of its broadcasts to profiling American high school students' achievements in science talent searches, clubs and fairs. These "Adventures in Science" radio programmes cast scientifically talented youth as potential contributors to national…
Descriptors: National Security, Academically Gifted, Talent, War
Onoprienko, Valentin Ivanovich – Russian Education and Society, 2008
The focus of the study in the present article is the cadre situation in scientific organizations in the post-Soviet space. The older generation in academic institutes is increasingly predominant owing to the natural aging of scientific personnel along with a slower influx of young people. At the same time, older scientists serve in the role of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Personnel, Articulation (Education), Experience
Dezhina, I. – Russian Education and Society, 2007
In the period after the collapse of the Soviet Union, cadre problems in Russian science gradually came to be included among the problems that are the most pressing and whose solutions need to be given top priority. The mass exodus of young and middle-aged qualified specialists from scientific research institutes, design bureaus, and scientific…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, State Regulation, Foreign Countries, Russian
Pifat-Mrzljak, Greta; Juros, Luka; Vizek-Vidovic, Vlasta – Higher Education in Europe, 2004
For a long time after the proclamation of independence, Croatia suffered economic stagnation that negatively affected the development of science and higher education. However the turn of the millennium brought higher state investment in science and higher education, and all statistics now show a steady increase in the number of students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Personnel, Budgeting, Higher Education
Washington Univ., Seattle. – 1998
This booklet describes the DO-IT Pals program, a University of Washington program designed to encourage high school students with disabilities to explore careers in science, engineering, mathematics, and technology and learn more about how to prepare to enter these fields of study and employment. The program provides students with information…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Career Guidance, College Admission, Disabilities
