scholarly journals The relation of class standing to college tests.

1917 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagny Sunne
Keyword(s):  
Class Standing ◽  
College Tests

Traveling Transnational Identities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Transnational Identities ◽  
College Age ◽  
Class Standing ◽  
American Media ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
World Class ◽  
The Right

This chapter describes how the transnationally oriented elite and upper-class urban Indian youth are negotiating their everyday experiences with globalization. It shows how the college-age elite youth psychologically imagine themselves as being world-class citizens not just by going abroad but also by reimagining new forms of Indianness through their active participation in specific cultural practices of watching American media, shopping at exclusive malls, and constructing emancipatory narratives of globalization. The transnational urban youth’s narratives are hybrid and are organized around an Indianness that is mobile, multicultural, connected to consumption practices, and crosses borders easily. Being a global Indian means displaying a kind of transnational cultural difference that has the right currency and credibility and that can be transported to other countries, where it is accepted as legitimate, valid, and as having a world-class standing. Selected parts of Indian culture can be adopted in their travels and study-abroad stints.

scholarly journals The validity of world class business criteria across developed and developing countries

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre J. Parker ◽  
Theo H. Veldsman
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
General Assumption ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Class Standing ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
World Class ◽  
Value Add ◽  
Business Challenges ◽  
Developing And Developed Countries

Orientation: World class implies being able to respond effectively to the prevailing business challenges in a manner that surpasses competitors and to compete effectively in the global economy.Research purpose: To assess the validity of the general assumption in the literature that world class criteria are equally applicable worldwide.Motivation for research: The possibility exists that developing countries require an adjusted mix of world class criteria and practices to become globally competitive.Research design, approach and method: A quantitative field survey research approach was adopted. A web-enabled questionnaire was designed, covering 35 world class practices grouped under 7 world class criteria. A cross-section of the senior management from 14 developing and 20 developed country’s organisations partook in the study.Main findings: It was empirically confirmed that the majority of world class practices posited in the literature are used by participating organisations; that world class criteria do not apply equally across developed and developing countries; and that more important than country location, is the deliberate choice by an organisation’s leadership to become world class. An empirically based model of ascending to world class was proposed.Practical/managerial implications: Regardless of country location, the leadership of an organisation can make their organisation world class by applying the proposed world class model.Contribution/value add: A reliable web enabled instrument was designed that can be used to assess an organisation’s world class standing; the assumption that world class criteria are equally valid across developing and developed countries was proven partially incorrect; since becoming or being world class is also a leadership choice regardless of location.

Participants' Perceptions of Ethical Issues in Research with Humans

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Lynch ◽  
Wayne Graves
Keyword(s):  
Normative Data ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Introductory Psychology ◽  
Academic Major ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Class Standing ◽  
Subject Pool ◽  
Typical Subject

The recent concern about ethical issues in research with human subjects has fostered an interest in learning more through empirical methods. The present study provides information from potential participants regarding (1) their perception of the likelihood of physical or emotional harm from various experimental procedures and (2) their willingness to participate in experiments using such procedures. Responses were obtained from 1,586 students in introductory psychology classes and were analyzed on the basis of the respondents' age, sex, class standing, and academic major. Besides providing normative data from a typical subject pool, the present study suggests a method of using a research questionnaire as a way of minimizing the chances of offending individual subjects.

scholarly journals China Calls for Smarter Standards for Its World-Class Universities

2016 ◽  
pp. 10-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Zha
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Higher Education Development ◽  
Class Standing ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities

China recently launched a new stage of world-class university campaign, and emphasized developing the “Chinese characteristics” this time. Arguably, global rankings remain the most powerful illustration of who can claim world-class standing, which in turn renders the “Chinese characteristics” in question. This article argues that China would benefit from a kind of explicit “Chinese standards” to help establish a clearer direction for higher education development in the country.

scholarly journals A Tale of Two Sections: An Experiment to Compare the Effectiveness of a Hybrid versus a Traditional Lecture Format in Introductory Microbiology

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. ar6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison E. M. Adams ◽  
Shelby Randall ◽  
Tinna Traustadóttir
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Lecture ◽  
Lecture Material ◽  
Class Standing ◽  
Online Lectures ◽  
Traditional Format ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Hybrid Section ◽  
Section Analysis ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Traditional Section

Two sections of an introductory microbiology course were taught by one instructor. One was taught through a hybrid format and the other through a traditional format. Students were randomly assigned to the two sections. Both sections were provided with identical lecture materials, in-class worksheets, in-class assessments, and extra credit opportunities; the main difference was in the way the lecture material was delivered—online for the hybrid section and in person for the traditional section. Analysis of final grades revealed that students in the traditional section did significantly better than those in the hybrid section (p < 0.001). There was a significant main effect of class standing (p < 0.01). When performance in the two sections was compared for each class year separately, the differences were only significant for sophomores (p < 0.001); freshmen, juniors, and seniors did not perform differently in the hybrid versus the traditional section. An anonymous midterm survey suggested factors likely contributing to the overall lower success of students in the hybrid section: some students in the hybrid section did not take lecture notes and/or use the audio component of the online lectures, suggesting minimal interaction with the lecture material for these students.

Imperial Pressures, 1800–1812

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Livesay
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Interracial Relationships ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
High Class ◽  
Class Standing ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
The Caribbean

This chapter chronicles the institutional pressures put on mixed-race migrants in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Although families continued to assist relatives of color—which included helping get them into the East India Company to advance their social standing—constricting notions of kinship and political wariness of African-descended people made it challenging for Jamaicans of color to thrive in Britain. Their attempts to assimilate were made more difficult by the growing calls of abolitionists and pro-slavery supporters to curtail interracial relationships in order to create a demographic separation between blacks and whites in the Caribbean. Within this abolitionist debate, Trinidad’s governor Thomas Picton went to court for having tortured a mixed-race girl named Louisa Calderon. Her arrival in Britain prompted a flurry of accusations that she had become pregnant by a Scottish protector, escalating the general public’s concern about mixed-race migrants and their impact on British demography. This chapter contends that by the early nineteenth century, high class standing and genetic connections to prominent Britons were losing their social power for Jamaican migrants of color.

Developmental Implications of Undergraduate Student Attitudes Concerning Juvenile Justice

NASPA Journal ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph L. Murray ◽  
Don C. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Class Standing ◽  
Lower Division ◽  
Service Learning Projects ◽  
Learning Projects

Students' preferences concerning systems of juvenile justice were compared using gender and class standing as independent variables. The preferences of upper and lower division students differed significantly, with most upper division students opposing trial of juveniles in adult courts and most lower division students favoring the practice. The authors discuss the implications of students' general patterns of moral reasoning in relation to their service on campus judicial boards and in service learning projects involving juvenile offenders.

A Freshman Poem by Emerson

PMLA ◽  
1930 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 326-329
Author(s):  
Tremaine McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Harvard College ◽  
High Point ◽  
Class Standing

During 1817-1818, Ralph Waldo Emerson furnished himself with lodgings at Harvard College by serving as the president's Freshman. His activities as messenger to President John Thornton Kirkland and to the faculty reached their high point when Emerson, at the close of the college year, formally distributed to his classmates official notices of their class standing and of their honors.

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