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In 1964, when author J. Kirk Casselman applied to Yale College, more than five thousand other secondary school students also applied for admission to one of the 1,300 places in the Yale Class of 1968. Of those applicants, 1,569 were offered admission, for an acceptance ratio of approximately 30 percent. Today, thirty thousand students apply for admission for the same number of places, for an acceptance ratio of just 7 percent. The drastic change in...
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Este es un libro de autoayuda para estudiantes de colegio y universidad que se enfoca en habilidades psicológicas y de aprendizaje; está respaldado por más de 300 fuentes de información y más de 20 años de experiencia en psicología. [Estudiar Vs aprender: La psicología detrás del éxito estudiantil] Si quieres maximizar tu aprendizaje y éxito en la universidad, necesitas excelentes habilidades de pensamiento, habilidades de aprendizaje y...
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This guidebook uses a combination of pragmatism, humor, and original data to respond to knowledge gaps commonly experienced by students in non-traditional, accelerated, and online degree programs. Basic information useful for creating a thesis proposal and conducting an independent study is provided. Themes include: choosing a topic, data sources, IRB review, asking questions, stating hypotheses, sample size estimation, randomization, statistical...
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Christian higher education needs something richer and deeper. Faith-based institutions yearn for more than business as usual, and Echoes of Insight invites you to listen again to older, forgotten, and perhaps even ignored voices. Designed to stimulate conversation among colleagues, Echoes of Insight offers brief summaries of several thought-provoking writers from the last century and encourages a new, vigorous conversation about Christian higher education....
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A practical and essential survival guide for the aspiring nursing student, the nurse just beginning his or her professional practice, or even the nurse who's seen it all. This book provides simple and refreshing advice to help the newbie nursing student or newly minted registered nurse navigate the complex realities of professional nursing practice in today's complex healthcare setting. An abundance of life and death anecdotal experiences by the author...
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You've been accepted to college, you know what state it's in, and you sorta-kinda-almost know your possible major. But how should you schedule your classes? How do you handle your roommate's hoarder habits? Why are your clothes suddenly getting tighter? Kollege Knowledge to the rescue! This concise collection of advice is a girl's ultimate guide to successfully adapting to the first year of higher ed. From navigating a typical college day and resolving...
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En todos los estudios de opinión, se demuestra que la educación es la prioridad fundamental de nuestra ciudadanía, ya que se considera una palanca fundamental de transformación personal, comunitaria y también, de manera especial, de cohesión social en nuestro país. Este libro, "Ideas en educación III. Evolución de una reforma", se orienta a actualizar los contenidos y la evolución e implementación de las leyes que se han aprobado en los...
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"Las prácticas de enseñanza —en análisis desde una Didáctica reflexiva—" es un propuesta de análisis de las propias prácticas de enseñar desde una perspectiva didáctica con asiento en una mirada socioantropológica. El texto da fundamentos teóricos y metodológicos para que los docentes, especialmente los de la educación superior, ayuden a sus estudiantes de Profesorado a construir hábitos reflexivos y, a la vez, lo hagan consigo mismos...
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This book presents a compilation of the authors techniques used over a 30-year teaching career for mentoring, encouraging, and chastising (when needed) his students to elicit better performance from each student. The techniques often involve a combination of tender loving care, when deserved, and stern hard-nosed approach (when warranted). The book presents the authors famous equation of success, the dreaded recipe for an F, and general guide for...
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Desde hace mucho tiempo se viene hablando de la centralidad del libro de texto en el curriculo y de sus carencias, debilidades y exigencias. Poco, sin mebargo, se ha hecho en el contexto colombiano para abordar estas falencias desde la perspectiva de una teoría de lenguaje. Como respuesta a esta carencia, e colectivo Urdimbre, adscrito al Grupo de Investigación Lenguaje y Educación de la Universidad del Norte, presenta esta obra que busca concientizar...
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The content of the book is based on the lectures on the theory of elasticity, stability, and dynamics of structures. The importance of these disciplines in the preparation of young structural engineers for work in the practice cannot be overemphasized. The university training in such fundamental discipline must seek to build a strong foundation and to illustrate the application of the used methods to practical engineering problems. The solution of...
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A simple, clear introduction to higher education from a Christian perspective for the adult student. More and more adults are seeking to develop themselves and improve their professional opportunities by completing a college degree. Whether business professionals, salespersons, nurses, parents, or persons engaged in any other profession, many working adults recognize the value of furthering their education. And more and more universities are providing...
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How does the Christian faith inform Christian student affairs practice? How should it? Instead of placing Christ outside the realm of education, Christ should serve as the motivating and animating force for all of Christian student affairs. With Christ at the center of education, the Christian story distinctly transforms the nature of the work education professionals do. With research from a national mixed-methods study, Christ-Enlivened Student Affairs...
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¿Se reflexiona verdaderamente sobre cómo contribuir con la formación del ser humano en las propuestas educativas? Esta es una pregunta esencial que inquieta a las ies, que se torna aún más relevante y urgente, en medio del siglo XXI, en una sociedad cambiante, globalizada, que enfrenta desafíos de orden planetario. La decanatura del Medio Universitario de la Universidad del Rosario ha asumido el reto de acompañar por 25 años a las generaciones...
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Competition only gets stiffer. Regardless of university or scholarship application, odds are always stacked against candidates, unless they are sufficiently prepared. To be sufficiently prepared, you need to know what your assessors are looking out for. What makes you stand out from the crowd? On 1 January 2014, more than two million Common Application forms were submitted in total for US university applications. Yes, two million. So there are about...
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From Bottom to Top Tier in a Decade: The Wagner College Turnaround Years is a memoir recounting one of the most remarkable turnaround stories in American higher education, as recalled by the president whole a fourteen-year campaign bringing this financially troubled, under-enrolled, bottom-ranked college from disrepair and impending closure to wide regard as one of the top small, residential private colleges in the east. By the time Norman Smith departed...
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"When Lizet-the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school-secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Leidy-Lizet's older sister, a brand-new single mom-without a steady income and scrambling for a...
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One of the most sustained and vigorous public debates today is about the value and, crucially, the price of college. But an unspoken, outdated assumption underlies all sides of this debate: if a young person works hard enough, they'll be able to get a college degree and be on the path to a good life. That's simply not true anymore, says Sara Goldrick-Rab. Quite simply, college is far too expensive for many people today, and the confusing mix of federal,...
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