scholarly journals In Memoriam: Nan Anthony (1933–2014)

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-353
Author(s):  
Michael Ashby
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Child Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Part Time ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

Annie (‘Nan’) Anthony died on 1 May 2014 after a short illness. Born Annie Rodger in Dysart in 1933, she gained her MA in Modern Languages in 1955 from the University of Edinburgh, and worked on the Linguistic Survey of Scotland 1956–1958. In 1957 she married James (`Tony') Anthony, who had charge of the Edinburgh phonetics lab. While their children Jo and Chris were young, she worked as a part-time lecturer in the Edinburgh Phonetics Department, and the family spent the academic year 1963–64 in the USA, Tony researching in Peter Ladefoged's new laboratory at UCLA. From 1966 Nan was Research Phonetician in the Department of Child Life and Health at Edinburgh, a period of work which led to The Edinburgh Articulation Test (Anthony et al. 1971), a significant clinical assessment tool. In 1971 she moved to Moray House College of Education, where she remained for the rest of her career, becoming Head of the Department of Speech there in 1982.

scholarly journals THE ATTRIBUTE ASSESSMENT PROCESS IN THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA: YEAR THREE

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Seniuk Cicek ◽  
Sandra Ingram ◽  
Nariman Sepehri
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Protocol ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
The Third ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

This paper describes the third year of a studyat the University of Manitoba aimed at exploring how theCanadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB)graduate attributes are manifested and measured in theFaculty of Engineering’s curriculum. Instructors from theDepartments of Biosystems, Civil, Electrical andComputer, and Mechanical Engineering were asked toconsider the presence of four attributes and theirsubsequent indicators in one engineering course taught inthe 2013-14 academic year. The attributes were: AKnowledge Base for Engineering, Individual and TeamWork, Impact of Engineering on Society and theEnvironment, and Economics and Project Management.Data were gathered using a self-administered checklist,which was introduced to instructors in a workshopsetting. The checklist has evolved over the three years inan effort to define student attribute competency levels andto create an assessment tool that meets the needs of boththe researchers and the instructors, as we work togetherto examine the graduate attributes in our courses andimplement an outcomes-based assessment protocol. Thedata from this third year give us the ability to report onhow the remaining four CEAB graduate attributes arepresently manifest and measured in our engineeringfaculty, to look for evidence of outcomes-basedassessment, to evaluate the checklist as an assessmenttool, and to reflect on the overall process.

scholarly journals Criteria Redesign for Student Loan Consideration Using Factor Analysis and Data Clustering Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
Klangwaree Chaiwut ◽  
Worasak Rueangsirarak ◽  
Roungsan Chaisricharoen
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Student Loan ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Application Form ◽  
The Family ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Clustering Approach ◽  
Parental Marital Status ◽  
Academic Year

This paper presents the importance of redesigning the student loan consideration criteria which had been revealed to have some fault in evaluating the candidates. The historical data of student loan candidates elicited from their application form in the 2016 academic year was collected and analyzed by using Factor Analysis. There are 507 samples with 17 information attributes. The factor analysis reduced the dimensions of the variance in the samples by identifying the discriminative factors for student loan consideration. The experimental result shows that only nine factors were identified as discriminative factors, which are 1) Part-time job taken by the student, 2) Other scholarships that the student had been receiving, 3) Father’s salary, 4) Family ownership of the land, 5) House rental expense, 6) Number of siblings in the family, 7) Number of siblings currently studying, 8) Amount of money that the student get from other scholarships, and 9) Parental Marital Status. The clustering technique was used to measure the group of important factors reduced from the factor analysis. The clustering result showed that the clusters are obviously separated from each other. Therefore, these discriminative factors were elicited by using factor analysis which can be used to reconstruct the student loan consideration criteria and implement a decision support system.

scholarly journals Birzeit University Students’ Perception of Bottled Water Available in the West Bank Market

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Buthainah Abdah ◽  
Issam A. Al-Khatib ◽  
Abdelhaleem I. Khader
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Bottled Water ◽  
The West ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Bottled Drinking Water ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

Water bottling industry has negative environmental impacts due to exploitation and possible pollution of water resources and due to solid waste problems related to the use of plastic bottles. To mitigate these impacts, it is important to study the link between consuming bottled drinking water and the perception of its quality. The objective of the study is to assess the perception of Birzeit University students’ of the bottled water marketed in the West Bank and its impact on the humans and the environment. Universities play an important role in providing awareness about environmental issues and sustainability, and university students are thought to be more environmentally conscious about these issues. A quantitative survey was used to analyze the behaviors and perceptions of Birzeit University students. The sample size was 375 students, distributed according to the college, gender, and the academic year at the university. The results show that the factors that affect the perception of the students are mainly the educational year at the university, the income, the family size, and the community type.

BOOK REVIEWS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-140
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Child Life ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
The University

Child Health and Development: A Symposium by Special Contributors; Edited by R. W. B. Ellis, O.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P. Price $4.00, 372 pages, 49 illustrations. J. & A. Churchill Ltd. London,American Publisher Grune & Stratton, New York 16, 1947. Dr. Ellis is Professor of Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh. His book reflects this point of view and not that of our ordinary professor of pediatrics. It deals specifically with the development

The Family Profile II: A Self-Scored, Brief Family Assessment Tool

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Lee ◽  
Wesley S. Burr ◽  
Ivan F. Beutler ◽  
Floyd Yorgason ◽  
H. Brent Harker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Functioning ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Family Assessment ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Intuitive Grasp

The Family Profile is a self-administered and easily interpreted measure of family functioning. Family members score and plot their results to create a graphical profile of their family's relationship strengths. The ability to graph their responses gives families immediate feedback and an intuitive grasp of their relationship strengths and opportunities for improving family relationships. Successfully used for 7 years in the USA and Canada, the Family Profile has now been revised. Using a national sample of over 1,800 college students, the measure was revised to include 12 scales measuring dimensions of family functioning such as kindness, unkindness, communication, and financial management. Regression analyses indicated that these scales significantly predicted family reladonship quality, school performance, substance use, and family conflict. The Family Profile II provides practitioners a measure that is easily scored and interpreted.

Arlen, Michael (1895–1956)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Girling
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Usa ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Short Hand ◽  
Lady Chatterley's Lover ◽  
The University

Michael Arlen, although now largely forgotten, was one of the most successful novelists of the 1920s. Born Dikran Kouyoumdjian in Ruse, Bulgaria, to Armenian parents, Arlen’s family came to Britain in the early 1900s, and he attended Malvern College. He briefly studied at the University of Edinburgh before moving to London in the mid 1910s to embark on a career as a writer, initially working for A. R. Orage’s magazine, The New Age. His first publication was a collection of his pieces from the magazine, published as The London Venture in 1920. It was at this point that he began writing as Michael Arlen. Arlen produced a steady stream of short stories and novels throughout the early 1920s, all offering a similar whimsical, romantic glimpse of young London socialites, culminating in 1924 with the publication of The Green Hat. It was an immediate success (selling 150,000 copies that year alone), and went on to become one of the bestselling novels of the 1920s, enabling Arlen to fund Noel Coward’s play, The Vortex. Arlen and his novel quickly became short hand for a popular conception of the 1920s; both are referred to in a slew of novels from the time (Michaelis, for instance, in D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, is thought to be based on him). Arlen moved to the USA in 1941 and continued to write until his death, experimenting with a range of genres, including science fiction, but he never again wrote anything as successful as The Green Hat.

2. Account of the Life and Labours of Dr William Gregory

1862 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 121-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Science And Literature ◽  
The Family ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Introductory Lecture ◽  
Long Time ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

Dr Gregory, at the time of his death, which took place on the 24th of April last, was Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, and one of the Secretaries of this Society. He was born on the 25th of December 1803. His father was the late Dr Gregory; for a long time professor of the practice of medicine in the University of Edinburgh. His brothers, James Crawford, who took the degree of medicine in 1824, and died in 1832, and Duncan, who, when he died, was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, were both so highly distinguished for their talents and acquirements as to be worthy representatives of a family of no small distinction in the science and literature of the country; but, in Dr Alison's opinion, Dr William Gregory was the member of the family who, in our day, had shown the greatest original talent and devotion to science for its own sake. His love of science manifested itself at an early period. He had been present at an introductory lecture by Dr Hope, which was illustrated by striking experiments. Several of these experiments he contrived to repeat by means of a rude apparatus which he constructed for the purpose.

scholarly journals Education Students as Consumers: Choice of a University Education

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Beverly J. Pain
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Evaluative Criteria ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Source Of Information

This study examined the university student-institutional relationship within a consumer behavior framework, which portrays the student as a consumer of the educational services offered by a university. The research examined some of the characteristics of full-time university students registered in the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, and selected aspects of the decision process employed by these students when they made the decision to attend university for the academic year under study. Students did search for information, with the amount of search declining from first through fourth year. University students were the most used source of information. The most used evaluative criteria were the college program and previous investment in the program. No students felt that someone else had made the decision for them and approximately 68% were satisfied, at the end of the academic year, with their decision to attend.

scholarly journals Simulation of Insolvency Proceedings Year II – Evidence of the Long Term Effect on Cognitive Learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1979-1985
Author(s):  
Martina Krásnická ◽  
Viktor Vojtko ◽  
Zdeněk Strnad ◽  
Rudolf Hrubý
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cognitive Learning ◽  
Long Term Effect ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Insolvency Proceedings ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

The aim of this paper is to draw some conclusions from a long‑term project inspired by the so‑called Mock trials experienced in the USA and applied into the Czech system of law education of students at the Faculty of Economics of the University of South Bohemia. The project involves a simulation of insolvency proceedings in case of a company bankruptcy. The students play roles of the various participants in the insolvency proceedings and learn very relevant but rather complicated process of insolvency. The results of the second academic year involve re‑testing of students included in the SIP 1.0 (Simulation of Insolvency Proceedings 2015/2016) in order to assess if the learning experience has the long‑term impact and comparison with the new group of students that undergone the SIP 2.0 (Simulation of Insolvency Proceedings 2016/2017).

scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Katerina Talianni ◽  
Eleni Ira Panourgia ◽  
Jack Walker ◽  
Roxana Karam
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Research Network ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Hands On ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

The plethora and availability of digital tools and practices have transformed the ways art is created, perceived and disseminated. This had a distinct impact on how research is conducted across the arts and humanities as a whole from practice-led to process-focused and people-centred research. Airea’s first issue “Computational tools and digital methods in creative practices” germinated from a series of research focuses that began in 2016 when the research network (sIREN) was established by PhD students in Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh. sIREN's aim is to create a dialogue between several fields and promote new perceptions of research based on diverse methodological approaches. It seeks to form a platform of communication among arts and other disciplines, technologies and digital media, theory, practice and collaboration. For this, we organised a series seminars-workshops during the academic year 2016-2017 that brought together invited speakers from the University of Edinburgh (across Edinburgh College of Art, School of Education, School of Informatics, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and School of Geosciences), the University of Warwick (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies), the University of Newcastle (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape) and the National Library of Scotland, followed by an international conference in May 2017, which included an interactive format of hands-on workshops, papers and a performance session.

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