Factors affecting transition to second year of an engineering degree

Much research has focused on students’ transition from secondary school to university. Less is known about the transition from first to second year of a university degree programme. Given the difficulties that many students face at this stage of their education, research into the relevant factors is required. Through questionnaires and focus groups, views of second- and third-year aerospace and mechanical engineering students in our university have been gathered. A large majority believed that both the volume and difficulty of work increased in second year. Many stated that first year was slightly too trivial and could have been made more challenging to prepare them better for second year. Different teaching and assessment styles in second year were considered to affect attendance and performance. The survey revealed that students were generally very well settled into university life by the end of first year and were happy with their choice of course and only 23% reported that financial responsibilities have had a negative effect on their academic performance. Differences were observed between male and female students. Male students believed that transition was helped by having regular assessments and by worked examples in lectures. Females found the teaching staff were the most helpful factor for a successful transition. The results indicate that males require more structure and guidance whereas females are more independent and settle in better.

The Pilot Maths Centre at the North West Regional College

This paper discusses the establishment in 2015 of the first Maths Centre in any Further and Higher Education College in Northern Ireland. In particular, it considers the rationale for its development, how it was set up and how it runs. It also presents initial figures and feedback, and plans for future developments.

Tarnation, un film sur, avec et par Jonathan Caouette

Document intégré à la collection Archives en mouvement. Cette collection vise à explorer la diffusion par l'utilisation de documents d'archives. Ce document fut préalablement réalisé dans le cadre du cours SCI6113 Description et diffusion des archives, donné à l’EBSI au trimestre d’automne 2009 par François Cartier dans le cadre du programme de maîtrise en sciences de l'infomation.

Ezechiel Landau's Gesuch an Maria Theresia gegen Jonathan Eibeschütz

Heinrich Graetz

V. Harvard College Papers, 1st series, Volume 5, 1805-1809

The fifth volume of College Papers contains original documents dating from 1805 to 1809, spanning the tenures of president Samuel Webber and treasurers Ebenezer Storer and Jonathan Jackson.

V. Harvard College Papers, 1st series, Volume 5, 1805-1809

The fifth volume of College Papers contains original documents dating from 1805 to 1809, spanning the tenures of president Samuel Webber and treasurers Ebenezer Storer and Jonathan Jackson.

Propositions medico-chirurgicales, sur les anévrysmes et les hémorragies, et quelques aphorismes d'Hippocrate, qui ont rapport au même sujet. Présentées et soutenues à l'École de médecine de Paris, le 3 ventose an XIII,

Mode of access: Internet.

Les graveurs de portraits en France; catalogue raisonné de la collection des portraits de l'école française appartenant à Ambroise Firmin-Didot.

Reprint of the 1875-1877 ed. published by Firmin-Didot, Paris.

Annales du musée et de l'école moderne des beaux-arts. Recueil de gravures au trait, contenant la collection complète des peintures et sculptures du Musées Napoléon; et de celui de Versailles; les objets les plus curieux du Musée des monumens français; les principlaes productions des artistes vivans, enpeinture, sculpture et architecture, édifices publics, etc.; avec des notices historiques et critiques.

Subtitle varies.

The origin of the Land grant act of 1862 (the so-called Morrill act) and some account of its author, Jonathan B. Turner,

Appendix A, Letter from Senator Morrill.--Appendix B, Extract from Forquer's letter.--Appendix C, The Turner pamphlet.

Correspondence between Schiller and Goethe, from 1794 to 1805 /

Includes index.