Academic inbreeding: local challenge, global problem [PDF]
Why examine “academic inbreeding,” a seemingly small and peripheral aspect of the academic profession, involving the appointment of faculty members who graduated from the institution employing them? Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education: Global Perspectives had its origins in a concern at the National Research University — Higher School ...
Philip G. Altbach +2 more
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Poor attention rather than hyperactivity/impulsivity predicts academic achievement in very preterm and full-term adolescents [PDF]
Background: Very preterm (VP) children are at particular risk for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) of the inattentive subtype. It is unknown whether the neurodevelopmental pathways to academic underachievement are the same as in the ...
Achenbach +16 more
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Academics and Social Networking Sites: Benefits, Problems and Tensions in Professional Engagement with Online Networking [PDF]
The web has had a profound effect on the ways people interact, with online social networks arguably playing an important role in changing or augmenting how we connect with others.
Bastian +22 more
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The Nature and Development of Giftedness [PDF]
Following a short discussion of conceptual and theoretical problems of giftedness, the methodological foundations and selected results of a (presently) four year longitudinal study are presented.
Heller, Kurt A.
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Space-time domain decomposition for advection-diffusion problems in mixed formulations [PDF]
This paper is concerned with the numerical solution of porous-media flow and transport problems , i. e. heterogeneous, advection-diffusion problems. Its aim is to investigate numerical schemes for these problems in which different time steps can be used ...
Hoang, Thi-Thao-Phuong +3 more
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To Frame or Reframe: Where Might Design Thinking Research Go Next? [PDF]
Design thinking is gaining widespread attention in the practitioner and academic literature. Successful implementation has been documented, and its value shown in empirical studies.
Beckman, SL
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Editorial: The engaged university [PDF]
Gateways has been a place where university researchers and community members join together to better understand the broad range of issues confronting communities across the globe, including academic communities. It is well positioned to promote a healthy
Ashton, Paul +2 more
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Black Box Metadata Creation: The Academic Problem
Adaptive learning systems attempt to adapt learning content to suit the needs of the learners using the system. Most adaptive techniques, however, are constrained by the pedagogical preference of the author of the system and are always constrained to the system they were developed for and the domain content.
Maycock, Keith, Keating, John
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Problems in Students’ Academic Writings
Los estudiantes en colegios, universidades y escuelas reciben varios tipos de escritos académicos como tareas, informes de laboratorio, informes de proyectos, ensayos y muchos más como parte de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje. Pero la preocupación observada por muchos tutores son los tipos de problemas que se ven en sus escritos académicos.
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Cultural identity and academic achievement among Māori undergraduate university students [PDF]
Cultural identity and academic achievement were investigated among a nonrandom sample of 72 undergraduate Māori university students studying at Massey University.
Bennett, Simon T.
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