"The Ph. D. Process" offers the essential guidance that students in the biological and physical sciences need to get the most out of their years in graduate school. Drawing upon the insights of numerous current and former graduate students, this book presents a rich portrayal of…
"The Ph. D. Process" offers the essential guidance that students in the biological and physical sciences need to get the most out of their years in graduate school. Drawing upon the insights of numerous current and former graduate students, this book presents a rich portrayal of…
With an application spanning the disciplines, this guide provides postgraduate students, contract researchers, teaching fellows or instructors with the basic skills required to enter those first lectures, tutorials, lab-sessions and assessments with confidence.
How students really learn - Designing assessment and feedback to enhance learning - Lectures in the digital age - Making small-group teaching work - Resource-based learning in the digital age - Looking after yourself - Challenges and reflections.
"What's the hardest part of grad school? It's not simply that the workload is heavy and the demands are high. It's that too many students lack efficient methods to let them do their best. Professor Zachary Shore aims to change this. With humorous, lively prose, Professor Shore t…
This revised edition of Study Skills for Master's Level Students uses reflective exercises to help students learn the skills required to make the transition from undergraduate to postgraduate thinking and writing.
The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditional single-earner families. Today, men and women fill the doctoral student ranks in nearly equal numbers and most will experience…
Contains: 4 full-length practice tests; free access to 1 more test online; tips for writing GRE essays; hundreds of practice problems with explanations; complete review of math and verbal skills; strategies to help with every question type; important information for internationa…
With greater numbers of students entering higher education, the challenges of the final year cause most students some measure of stress, and prove unmanageable for a significant number. This text deals with the challenges faced by final year students.
Assessment really does matter in higher education. Internationally, academics - and those who support them - are seeking better ways to assess students, recognizing that diverse methods are available which may solve many of the problems associated with the evaluation of learning…
Forlagets beskrivelse: The movement away from teacher-centered toward student-centered learning and teaching (SCLT) in higher education has intensified in recent decades. Yet in spite of its widespread use in literature and policy documents, SCLT remains somewhat poorly defined,…
Provides the latest information on every section of the test, practice questions and answers, test-taking and skill-building strategies, and six practice exams.
"Ms. Mentor, that uniquely brilliant and irascible intellectual, is your all-knowing guide through the jungle that is academia today. In the last decade Ms. Mentor's mailbox has been filled to overflowing with thousands of plaintive epistles, rants, and gossipy screeds. A mere f…
"Augmented with a new bibliography and streamlined appendices, the Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation, Fifth Edition views the valuable addition of references to university research libraries and advanced information on websites, online searches, electronic literatu…
Thoroughly updated to reflect the most recent trends in thesis/dissertation (T/D) preparation and research, the Fourth Edition examines confidentiality and privacy in Internet communications and considers the accuracy and reliability of Internet-reported research ... furnishes a…
