Making the Grade

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Duckworth ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Single Exception ◽  
The University ◽  
Undergraduate Class

Like many schools, the university where I teach has made all classes pass/fail optional. Months ago, before Covid-19 sent my students home for the semester, I was designing a new undergraduate class. Against convention, I requested its designation be mandatory pass-fail. Why? I love to teach but hate to grade. I know that sizing up what students know and can do serves a function, but I hate it all the same. One reason is that grades are assigned to individuals, not groups—inadvertently implying that achievement is a solo sport. Think about it. You're anointed the valedictorian if you outperform everyone in your graduating class. To graduate summa cum laude, you edge out classmates who earned magna cum laude—who in turn beat those who made cum laude, not to mention those who walk across the stage and accept their diploma without any extra frills at all. The psychologist Abraham Maslow once observed that “self-­actualizing people are, without one single exception, involved in a cause outside their own skin, in something outside of themselves.”

Set up and management of a Data Science faculty at Shiga University

Impact ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (10) ◽  
pp. 18-20
Author(s):  
Akimichi Takemura
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Science Faculty ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Global Understanding ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So ◽  
Undergraduate Class

Shiga University opened the first data science faculty in Japan in April 2017. Beginning with an undergraduate class of 100 students, the Department has since established a Master's degree programme with 20 students in each annual intake. This is the first data science faculty in Japan and the University intends to retain this leading position, the Department is well-placed to do so. The faculty closely monitors international trends concerning data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and adapt its education and research accordingly. The genesis of this department marks a change in Japan's attitudes towards dealing with information and reflects a wider, global understanding of the need for further research in this area. Shiga University's Data Science department seeks to produce well-trained data scientists who demonstrate a good balance of knowledge and skills in each of the three key areas of data science.

A Phenomenological Investigation of the Lived Experience of Psychopathology

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Russell M. Harris ◽  
Russell A. Bors
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Subjective Character ◽  
Interpersonal Dynamics ◽  
Diagnostic Labels ◽  
The University ◽  
Undergraduate Class

We collected personal documents from various participants on the topic of "a personal experience in which you observed or experienced psychopathology." The protocols were "topical autobiographical" personal documents, which we analyzed using the procedures set forth by van Kaam, to describe—rather than attempting to explain—lived experiences. Subsequently, 15 protocols obtained from an undergraduate class in psychopathology at the University of Regina were analyzed. We feel that both the methodology used and our findings reveal a new way of viewing psychopathology, showing the inadequacy of reducing psychopathology to diagnostic labels. We found that the fullness of the pathological experience can only be understood through elucidating experienced interpersonal dynamics. Consequently, both an essential and a situational quality is evidenced, revealing the inadequacy of theories in which either the existence of psychopathology or its subjective character are denied.

scholarly journals Uses of the Collections at UNC Greensboro Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project

2010 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Beth Ann Koelsch
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Women Veterans ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Web Presence ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Research Collection ◽  
The University ◽  
Undergraduate Class

The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) was established in 1988 as both a research collection and a project that honors the contributions women have made to U.S. military service.  Housed at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG), the overall collection grows each year with new oral histories, and the addition of letters and scrapbooks, recruiting posters and brochures, uniforms and artifacts.  We locate women veterans to interview from news stories, veterans and their families who stumble upon our website on the internet, and by word of mouth.  The Project acquires materials as gifts from veterans or their survivors and by purchases of collections from vendors found on eBay.  A major focus of the Project is to maintain a strong Web presence to promote and provide access to the collections. On our Web site (http://library.uncg.edu/dp/wv/) there are over two hundred and fifty oral history transcripts, over one thousand photographs, and over two thousand pages of scanned letters, recruiting brochures, and military documents posted. Additionally, we promote the project through undergraduate class presentations, an annual luncheon, and public exhibits.  The goal is to preserve this aspect of history and make it available for all types of research.  

scholarly journals Blogs: A qualitative investigation into an instructor and undergraduate students' experiences

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erkan Tekinarslan
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Teaching And Learning Environment ◽  
The University ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Online Sources ◽  
Undergraduate Class

<span>This study reports on the experiences of an instructor and an undergraduate class who used blogs in their teaching and learning environment at Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey. Qualitative data were collected from observation of students' activities when working on blogs in the classroom, analyses of students' blog documents on the web, and interviews with 42 students. Most students reflected that blogs are user friendly and convenient tools for publishing and sharing studies. Moreover, blog implementations contributed positively to students' information searching and writing skills, despite the limited opportunities that many students had for Internet access outside the university. However, students' ignorance regarding copyright issues and their tendency to copy information from online sources and paste it into their blogs was a common problem.</span>

RECORDS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF CRANE-FLIES FROM ALBERTA (TIPULIDAE, DIPTERA). I

1927 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 214-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles P. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Present Report ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Crane Flies ◽  
Single Exception ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
The University

In the present report, I have begun the consideration of the very extensive collections of crane-flies from Alberta that have been received from the Canadian National Collection, through Mr. Curran ; tlie very extensive series collected by Mr. Owen Bryant; a series from Banff, collected by Mr. Garrett; and the collections of the University of Alberta, sent through the kindness of Professor Strickland. I wish to express my sincere thanks to all of the above mentioned gentlemen for this kind co-operation in making known the Tipulid fauna of Alberta, a list that will certainly exceed in numbers that of any other of the Canadian Provinces with the single exception of British Columbia.

The heroic age of Celtic Philology

2004 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
D. Ellis Evans
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
University College ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So ◽  
Undergraduate Class

This article is based on a lecture I was originally invited to deliver at Aberystwyth in the University of Wales in honour of the late Sir Thomas Parry-Williams (one of my earliest University teachers) and to do so on a topic which, I feel sure, would have met with his approval. He had himself studied with several of the most renowned and gifted scholars of the early part of this century, Edward Anwyl at Aberystwyth, John Rhys at Oxford, Rudolf Thurneysen at Freiburg im Breisgau, and Joseph Loth and Joseph Vendryes at the Sorbonne in Paris. He was one of the great scholarly and cultural heroes of my boyhood days and of my youth, a truly renowned scholar, literary figure and critic. His teaching days in the Department of Welsh at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth spanned five decades, from 1914 to 1952 (he held the Chair of Welsh there with great distinction from 1920 to 1952). I treasure the memory of having been a member of a large post-war first year undergraduate class in his Department as long ago as 1947.

scholarly journals Teaching an Undergraduate Statistics Class in Digital Era

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 371-373
Author(s):  
Siti Rohayati ◽  
Asrifatun Agustini ◽  
Ahmad Anis Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Learning ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The University ◽  
Undergraduate Statistics ◽  
Undergraduate Class

Nowadays technological developments are increasingly creative and tend to move towards digital. Technological developments have a major impact on the process of statistical learning at the University. In addition, many students lack understanding of statistical concepts and do not like statistical learning. In this paper, it is given a way of involving technology in the undergraduate class statistics teaching and what statistical concepts are needed in this digital age. Thus, it is hoped that the teaching of the undergraduate statistics class becomes something interesting and fun.

Proceedings of The Modern Language Association of America

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1343-1343
Keyword(s):  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Local Committee ◽  
Tuesday Morning ◽  
University Of Cincinnati ◽  
The University ◽  
Plaza Hotel

The fifty-second meeting of the Modern Language Associationof America was held, on the invitation of the University of Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, December 30 and 31, 1935, and January 1, 1936. The Association headquarters were in the Netherland Plaza Hotel, where all meetings were held except those of Tuesday morning and afternoon. These took place at the University of Cincinnati. Registration cards at headquarters were signed by about 900, though a considerably larger number of members were in attendance. The Local Committee estimated the attendance at not less than 1400. This Committee consisted of Professor Frank W. Chandler, Chairman; Professor Edwin H. Zeydel; Professor Phillip Ogden; Mr. John J. Rowe (for the Directors); and Mr. Joseph S. Graydon (for the Alumni).

Spectrophotometric reductions with an IBM 1620

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 116-117
Author(s):  
P.-I. Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Astronomical Data ◽  
Spectrophotometric Data ◽  
Electronic Computers ◽  
The University ◽  
Near Future

Nowadays more and more of the reductions of astronomical data are made with electronic computers. As we in Uppsala have an IBM 1620 at the University, we have taken it to our help with reductions of spectrophotometric data. Here I will briefly explain how we use it now and how we want to use it in the near future.

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