What concepts of Pharmacology are 'DIFFICULT' to understand, 'TROUBLESOME' to integrate with the background/prior knowledge?

The learning of a troublesome (or threshold) concept is usually not a straightforward experience, as the learners may "need to pass through conceptual portals to adopt important and advanced ways...

06 July 2019 8,122 4 View

What are the more 'Dynamic' approach to assessment-methods that can monitor students at every single step of their learning progress and development?

The traditional, static, snapshot approach to assessment can prepare a student to produce 'right' answer while retaining fundamental misconceptions (Meyer, Land & Baillie, 2010). How we can...

01 February 2019 4,309 2 View

If there are appropriate guidelines available for phenomenographic analysis of students interviews?

10 November 2018 7,881 17 View

What is the most effective, frequently used informal format of professional development programs of recent times other than 'Conventional workshops?

Workshop is the most outdated, frequently used formal concept of Faculty development programs. What are the current trends of professional development , contextually rich activities? Looking...

01 February 2018 1,845 7 View

What is the role of students as stakeholders in curriculum designing and Problem based learning (PBL)?

All the stakeholders effectively attribute towards curriculum designing, integration and problem based learning methodology. What effectively students can contribute as stakeholders?

31 December 2017 7,391 9 View

How can graphic medicine based approach to learning be linked to students formative and summative assessment?

The effective utilization of the underrated medium of Graphic medicine and pathographies can foster learning and teaching about diseases in an innovatively creative way. However, this medium has...

10 November 2017 1,279 1 View

How the reliability of a questionnaire can be established by item separation index?

02 March 2017 4,005 0 View

What are the constructs that can be quantified in a research focused on delving out student academic performance and satisfaction in PBL approach?

What are the constructs or theoretical construct that can be measured in research focused on delving out student academic performance and satisfaction in PBL approach?

08 September 2016 6,067 0 View

What is short inventory of approaches to learning (SIAL)? If there is any reliable, authentic, research article on this topic?

short inventory of approaches to learning (SIAL)

07 August 2016 5,359 2 View

How will you classify the research type, if it is purely based on online survey or questionnaire answered on five point Likert's Scale?

07 August 2016 5,008 2 View

How to access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 1 View

What role should journals play in leading academic fields?

A recent paper by Yeung and Thomas (2021) on journals in event management opens up an interesting debate on the role of journals as academic fora. They demonstrate that event management publishing...

28 February 2021 3,494 6 View

How to use bag of words for action prediction?

Hi everyone, I'm working on an action prediction (i.e., early recognition) using Bag-of-Words. I know how to use BOW, but regarding action prediction, there is a subtle problem. In the...

19 February 2021 1,442 4 View

Any Homemade Organic Synthesis Practices?

Hi everyone, I am a teacher of Heterocycles Synthesis, Is there a home practice that you recommend for undergraduate students? A simulator would also be useful Due to the pandemic, students...

18 February 2021 2,769 4 View

How can we assess applied digital skills and soft skills through online examinations during COVID-19 semester?

The final qualification assessment for major programs is a strict regimen that involves different stages - oral and written exams, final project viva, internal and external review. How are ICT...

16 February 2021 1,762 8 View

What are the available keys and descriptions for the identification of lice and fleas in domesticated animals?

I am an undergraduate student at the University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka, currently working on ecto-parasites in domesticated animals. I found difficulties in the identification due to a lack of a...

15 February 2021 277 1 View

Does learning mathematics exclusively improve cognitive abilities?

Teaching Mathematics at school to all students is commonly justified by the opinion that it improves their problem-solving skills and "makes them smarter" (whichever measure is implied by this). I...

15 February 2021 7,391 7 View

Room Occupancy Calculation ?

15 February 2021 1,997 6 View

Can we help fellow mathematicians get free ?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2021/02/08/a-statement-from-mathematics-department-faculty-at-stanford-and-mit/ Terry Tao blogged about this unfortunate event. Kindly share among Mathematical...

08 February 2021 1,055 3 View

How to best engender critical thinking in K-12 education?

From my observations, there appear to be three principal avenues to engender critical thinking in education K-12: debate; mathematics, and science. For some students, all three avenues are...

04 February 2021 9,605 7 View