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Teamwork increases student learning and career success
11-02-2007 · EurekAlert!A two-year study of college students at The Pennsylvania State University proves that students learn better and develop higher-level skills by participating in cooperative (team) activities, compared to traditional classroom teaching methods.
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- Teamwork improves learning and career success
11-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
A two-year study of college students at the Pennsylvania State University proves that students learn better and develop higher-level skills by participating in cooperative activities, compared to traditional classroom teaching methods.
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- Medical student study to address workforce crisis
10-16-2006 · EurekAlert!
A new national study of medical students, their personalities, values and career aspirations will help inform future health workforce planning and assist in correcting doctor shortages in many communities.
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- Homework -- Keeping children, parents and teachers together
04-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new interactive learning system which helps parents keep in touch with what their children are doing at school is proving to be a great success with children, parents and teachers, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
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- Gender roles and not gender bias hold back women scientists
11-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
Traditional roles of women in the home and a negative bias in workplace support result in less career success for women versus men at the same stage of their research careers, determined researchers at the European Molecular Biology Organization in a study appearing in the November 2007 issue of EMBO reports.
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- Learning how to learn for exam success
08-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
It may be the height of the holiday season, but about a million people are about to get life-altering news. On Thursday, 300,000 school and college students will receive their A level results. A week later, another 700,000 will find out how they did in their GCSEs.
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- European bronze for TeamBath judo player
11-28-2006 · University of Bath
TeamBath judo player Tom Reed is celebrating the biggest success of his career to date – a bronze medal at the European Under-23 Championships.
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- Success rates for prostate cancer depend on experience of surgeon
07-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
Surgeons performing operations to remove patients' prostate glands -- the primary treatment for prostate cancer -- go through a steep learning curve, according to a study published online July 24 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. As the surgeons gain more experience performing the operation, called a radical prostatectomy, the chance that patients' prostate cancer will reoccur goes down.
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- Grace under pressure: FSU researchers analyze the effects of stress on decision-making ability
11-01-2006 · EurekAlert!
A nursing student assigned to check a heart patient's vital statistics enters the patient's room. Suddenly, the patient stops breathing and exhibits an erratic heartbeat. Fortunately, the emergency was merely a simulation at the Human Performance Laboratory at Florida State University's Learning Systems Institute in Tallahassee, Florida.
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- Research links childhood social skills and learning abilities
06-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
While federal programs such as No Child Left Behind emphasize the importance of academic skills to school success and achievement, there is growing interest in how social skills develop and how they contribute to learning.Research presented at the 2007 meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development by a team of Michigan State University researchers indicate that a child's social skills at age three could predict future social and academic performance.
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- Student winner to fly experiment in space
03-19-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA's SUCCESS student contest drew to a close last week with an award ceremony at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC), in Cologne, Germany. With the first prize of a one-year ESA internship up for grabs, the authors of the proposals to reach the final round eagerly awaited the climax of the day – the announcement of the winners.
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