...Psych 100 Term Paper Psychological factors can be related to many different problems, one problem that had personally affected me was the grades I got my freshman year of college. I started my college career struggling a little bit and often wondered how I could raise my grades and improve my GPA until I was satisfied with the grades I would get. Coming to college I was finally on my own with no one to wake me up, make me do homework, or go to class. These all led to my GPA not being exactly where I wanted it to be along with a number of psychological factors that have all been introduced throughout lecture and the readings. The four different chapters I can relate this problem most too would have to be those on stress, personality, motivation and social psychology. Stress is one of the main leaders for college students and low GPA’s and I believe it had a lot to do with my original GPA from my freshman year. Living here on campus is extremely overwhelming at first for a freshman here at UMass Amherst. There are so many events that you can attend, RSOs that you can join, and other things in town and campus. It is also the first time moving away from home and that can lead to stress because no one is around to remind you about things that you may forget to do. The classes here at UMass were also extremely different from any classes I took at my high school. I was used to smaller classes of about 20-25 students that were all mostly my friends, now I was being thrown into a...
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...milieu that is Canada, a country made up of many different cultural groups of immigrants as well as the many distinct cultures that are Canada’s Aboriginal people. As well, this course operates as an introduction to the techniques and forms of both poetry and prose, and introduces the process of literary research and the writing of academic prose. You will be required to submit many writing assignments as well as play an active part in class discussions. This course is writing intensive and you will see a marked improvement in your ability to express yourself clearly and concisely. This course emphasizes persuasive or argumentative writing, and therefore, critical reading, writing and thinking. This course intends to extend your understanding of effective argumentation beyond mere grammatical correctness into how to interpret what is written, how to research a topic, organize an argument, and articulate it concisely and coherently in an academic paper. Assignments: The student will be responsible for a short, one-page essay on an assigned topic to be completed in class, four one-page response journal entries, six one-page summaries, a twopart portfolio, as well as the final research essay and a mid-term and final exam. The response journal entries are made up of the student’s personal responses...
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...Demystifying the American Graduate Admissions Process Karthik Raghunathan Graduate Class of 2010 Stanford Computer Science kr@cs.stanford.edu Abstract This paper attempts to discuss at length the various factors (along with their respective weightage) that the admissions committee at a top graduate school in the US takes into account while reviewing a Master of Science (MS) application. Disclaimer This paper is a mixture of facts, inferences and extrapolations, based on my personal experience as an admissions committee member at Stanford. All views expressed here are solely mine and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Stanford University. 1. Introduction In this paper, I outline the various parameters involved in the complex decision making process of a Masters admissions committee in a top graduate school in the US. To clarify this further, (i) This report is mainly targeted at MS applicants, but a lot of it can be extended to PhD applications as well. In most cases, the requirements for a PhD admit will just be a stricter version of those mentioned here. (ii) I do not have a specific list of universities in mind when I say "a top graduate school". Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley and CMU are certainly up there, but I am not particularly referring to any specific list of graduate school rankings. In a more general sense, I am talking about schools where the default attitude of the admissions committee is "rejected, unless strongly proved otherwise" rather...
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...Running Head: RESEARCH REPORT: OBSTACLES OF UT TYLER STUDENTS. Research Report: Obstacles of UT Tyler Students Lisa Womack University of Texas—Tyler In partial fulfillment of the requirements for (CRIJ 4322) Dr. Barbara Hart November 15, 2010 Research Report: Obstacles of UT Tyler Students Introduction Throughout a student’s education, progression is measured by representative grade point average (GPA). Furthermore, one may question whether economic status affects a first time student’s success, and one may speculate if age directly relates to GPA. First time generation college students may struggle with the decision to attend college due to family pressures, which relates to the required necessity of needing a job due to their limited finances. Likewise, the non-traditional student may have greater responsibility; such as, child care expenses and other financial responsibilities; whereas, the traditional student may have minimal expenses with the exception of childcare, which relates to effecting his or hers GPA based on priorities. My personal interests in choosing the following two hypotheses derive from my perception and background. Growing up, I felt college was something I could never achieve because no one else in my family had ever attained a college degree; nevertheless, I was not aware of how a college degree could benefit me or what procedures to take to see if acceptance into a college was possible with only a General Education Degree. As well,...
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...Address: 21 School Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111 OBJECTIVE To obtain a summer internship in the field of civil engineering that will utilize my problem solving and leadership skills. EDUCATION Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, May 2013 Overall GPA: 3.20/4.0 Best High School Philadelphia, PA High School Diploma, June 2009 GPA 3.82/4.0 PROJECTS Cardboard Structure, Fall 2009 • Designed and constructed a cardboard bridge meant to support the average adult male. • Prepared scale models for analysis of alternatives, prior to final test. Brick Wall Scheduling, Fall 2009 • Developed a bid proposal for building a brick wall. • Conducted time studies and generated Gantt charts to investigate most economical method of using resources. Traffic Light Timing, Fall 2009 • Conducted studies on the flow of traffic through three intersections on Forbes Avenue. • Designed more efficient traffic light cycles based on collected data. WORK Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences Pittsburgh, PA EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, Summer 2010 • Graded papers, fielded questions and held review sessions for Organic Chemistry. • Led a group of students in the area of Spectroscopic Analysis...
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...between a student’s grade point average (GPA) – the standard measure academic performance in high schools and universities in the US – and the number of hours the students is employed, there seems little agreement on what that relationship is. Several studies (Sneider, 1982; Wallace, 1988; Johnson and Payne, 1989) suggest that students who work after school do better in their school work than students who do not have a job. Peel and Maas (1990), meanwhile, suggest that students with part-time job generally do worse than their classmates who do not work at all. Still other research claims the amount of hours worked outside school hours is of very minor importance; much more important in influencing a student’s performance in school are the student’s habits and home life (Alvares, 1987). Of seven major studies on high school students in employment received by Bjarnes and Doi (1990), four studies specifically investigated the relationship between scholastic achievement and part-time work. Of these, two concluded that students who work beyond a certain amount of hours per week tent to have generally lower GPAs (Walson and Yin, 1990; Corbelli, 1989). These two studies noted the positive correlation between the number of the hours worked and improved academic achievement when work hours are no more than about 12 per week. However, when employment took up 20 hours or more of a student’s week, a negative correlation became evident: GPAs decreased as job hours grew. ...
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...your instructor is participating in grade inflation? Hopefully by the end of this paper you will have a better understanding of this growing phenomenon. Merriam-Websters dictionary (Merriam-Webster, 2015) defines grade inflation as a rise in the assignment of a grade that previously would have received a lower one. There have been some studies in the past few years regarding grade inflation in American universities and colleges and the affects it might be having on a student’s grade point average (GPA) and on the institutions grading system itself (Abbott, 2008) (Jewell & McPherson, 2012) (Miller, 2014). Some studies have shown that the trend of grade inflation started in the 1960’s (Jewell & McPherson, 2012). A popular theory is that the Vietnam War, which was highly unpopular at the time, played a major role in grade inflation (Miller, 2014). It is believed that sympathetic college professors gave their students higher grades to keep them from being drafted into the military. By having the students keep a higher GPA the students were then able to keep their draft deferments, thus allowing them to avoid the draft and prevent them from being deployed to Vietnam (Miller, 2014). After the Vietnam War the average GPA seemed to stabilize itself for a few years. However the trend of rising GPA’s started to climb again in the 1980’s and the trend has not gone down since then. The average GPA has risen steadily every decade an average of 0.15% (Jewell & McPherson, 2012)...
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...first time I accepted that this place will be my home for the next two years and I was going to make the best of it. With not having too many friends and out of school for a year I quickly decided to make my friends and family in my very congested new home. Like anyone would say starting college was not easy and my experience was no different. After getting accepted to BCC in mid-August by doing a late direct admission, it was the beginning of a long and tumultuous road. There was an initial hassle with financial aid and me waiting in a 3-hour line, then back to admissions. It was a long day. When I got into Bronx Community College (BCC), I had to do the placement test, just like any other student and...
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...Graduate Program Research paper Graduate program My plan for my master is to the engineering and technology management (ETM) program of WKU. Before coming applying to WKU my plan was to study either project management or construction management which were more familiar to me due my background. My counselor offer me engineering management and by few online search’s I found that, this program is almost the same as the the two other programs which I mentioned before. Requirements Requirements for applying for ETM program directly was GRE test scores, a proof of English efficiency such as IELTS or TOFEl and of course a bachelor degree. They translate your GPA to American scale ( 0 to 4). If the the sum of your GPA in American scale and your GRE score is above 550 you get to the program directly, otherwise, well you have to find another way. Interesting facts and job perspective This program offer the chance to pursue careers in different areas for different people such as managers, engineers, entrepreneurs, educators. It gives them ability to increase their potential for promotion, development skills for higher achievements, and manage technical and engineering professionals. Master of Science in Engineering Technology Management prepare new leaders for entering fast paced world wide industry. Graduates of the program are equipped to manage organization resources, lead technological change, and strategically integrate higherlevel knowledge within their companies...
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...Joel Barker's pithy saying, "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!" distinguishes an entrepreneur from others. An entrepreneur acts to bring visions to reality. I have longed to be one and have learnt from my reading that modern entrepreneurs have all worked to use technology for the betterment of our lives. Therefore, I decided long ago to study engineering and did not miss any opportunities to learn how the machines in our everyday life worked. In my school days, I used to listen to audio cassettes on a tape recorder. When I learnt the difference between mono and stereo recording, I thought of converting two mono recorded audio cassettes into a single stereo cassette, recorded in mono mode using the cassette's LEFT and RIGHT channels as a separate channels, to be heard in sequence, not together. To my delight, the idea worked and resulted in compacting two cassettes into a single mono cassette. With good scores in the science subjects, I could choose the engineering stream to take up for Bachelors. I chose Electronics & Telecommunication, because of its wide, interdisciplinary span and the ever increasing use of electronics in every branch of modern science, from Astrophysics to Medicine. It is a field rich with opportunities for an entrepreneur. The curriculum of University of Pune introduced me to the basics of several subjects, such as Digital Signal Processing, Integrated Circuit...
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...I decided to increase my GPA from 2.5 to 3.0 by the end of this fall 2013 semester. I currently take 4 classes, in which I will come up with a plan to achieve my goal to have a 3.0 by the end of the semester. When students earn a below average grade on examinations or a report card, it does not necessarily mean that they did not study hard enough. There are many intelligent children who do not perform well in school, not because they cannot comprehend classroom lessons, but because of external factors that affect their academic success. Many factors have been identified to influence academic performance whether positively or negatively. One of these factors that the researcher’s identified is the living situation of college students. The living situations that a college student experience are varied due to the diversity of housing options and environments available. Some of the aspects of college student living environments may act as stress factors in students’ lives. The stress related to living situations that college students’ experience has several sources including relationships with roommates, the condition of the rooms, apartments, or houses that students inhabit, the neighborhood, area on campus, and general living environment. These sources of stress undoubtedly have an impact on the student’s academic performance. Academic performance is the evidence how well a student meets standards set out by local government and the institution itself. The extent of student’s...
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...Argument Essay Drafts My Topic: Home schooling My Attitude: Benefits of home schooling My Purpose: Define the positive traits of home schooling My Thesis Statement: Home schooling is worth considering due to the many spiritual, social, and learning benefits that studying at home has to offer. My Audience: Young married couple and parents looking for alternative education outside the public, and private school systems 1. How much does my audience know about my subject? The audience would be potentially ex-school teachers that know how to teach, what to teach, and are able to work with children effectively. 2. Age? Gender? Race? Social Status? Location? Religion? The audience would be generally younger couples. Their race can be of any origin with no particular social status. No particular location is required; with a Christian emphasis as the particular religion. 3. Where does my audience stand on the issue; are they Opposed or Neutral? The audience is very interested but is worried that the spiritual, social, and educational aspects may fail their expectations. Outline: 1. Spiritual Benefits A. Control false doctrine B. Emphasis on God as the centre for your life C. Solid foundation 2. Social Benefits A. Family centered mindset B. Public limitations C. Limited exposure to negative influences from friends D. Healthy community activities 3. Learning Benefits A. Student...
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...Since the interest in postsecondary education in Canada is only growing with time, it is important to discuss factors that have affect on our education, and hence, my research proposal questions the relationship between employment and academic performance. Employment is one of the factors that we can take into account that it can affect education, and so my research question is how does working (a full-time or a part-time job) affect University of Toronto St. George campus students' academic performance? I hypothesizes that postsecondary students who work part-time or full-time job are less likely to do well with their academic performances than postsecondary students who are not working a full-time or a part-time job. I believe that this is...
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...Guide to Writing MBA-Level Resumes Table of Contents I. Introduction Purpose of this Guide Purpose of a Resume II. Before You Begin Writing Self-Assessment Accomplishment Statements PAR Formula Tips for Writing Powerful Accomplishment Statements III. The BU Resume Format Technical Specifications Content Guidelines Contact Information Education Guidelines for including GMAT and GPA Experience Additional Resume Sections Information NOT to Include on Your Resume Editing Your Resume Other Resume Formats IV. Common Resume Concerns and How to Address Them Dual Degrees Joint Degrees Multiple Undergraduate Institutions Study Abroad Company Name Change Gaps in Employment Small Company Experience Entrepreneurial Experience Multiple Temporary Jobs Short Term Work Experience Self-Employment V. Electronic Resumes Keywords Submitting Your Resume Electronically Suggested Naming Conventions Appendix A: Self-Assessment Appendix B: BU Resume Template and Sample Resumes Appendix C: Grammar Rules and Resume Action Verbs Rules for Capitalization, Dates, and Numbers Resume Verbs 2 2 3 3-4 4-5 6-7 8-9 9 10 10-11 12 12-15 15 15 15 17 17 17 17 18 18 18 19 19 20 20 21 21 21 23-25 26-31 33 34 I. Introduction Purpose of this Guide The purpose of this guide is to help you develop the best possible resume to market yourself with honest confidence. The Feld Career Center requires 1st year MBA students to prepare your resume in the BU Graduate School of Management resume format in...
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...Grading Systems - SCHOOL, HIGHER EDUCATION Tweet students grades teachers learning ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Search All U.S. Universities Bottom of Form ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form SCHOOL Thomas R. Guskey HIGHER EDUCATION Howard R. Pollio SCHOOL Few issues have created more controversy among educators than those associated with grading and reporting student learning. Despite the many debates and multitudes of studies, however, prescriptions for best practice remain elusive. Although teachers generally try to develop grading policies that are honest and fair, strong evidence shows that their practices vary widely, even among those who teach at the same grade level within the same school. In essence, grading is an exercise in professional judgment on the part of teachers. It involves the collection and evaluation of evidence on students' achievement or performance over a specified period of time, such as nine weeks, an academic semester, or entire school year. Through this process, various types of descriptive information and measures of students' performance are converted into grades or marks that summarize students' accomplishments. Although some educators distinguish between grades and marks, most consider these terms synonymous. Both imply a set of symbols, words, or numbers that are used to designate different levels of achievement or performance. They might be letter grades such as A...
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