News tagged with college entrance exams

Virtual tutoring program uses videos to aid students of math, science

Leo Shmuylovich knows a lot about how tutoring can take a student from confused to confident. The Washington University graduate student has worked as a tutor for several test preparatory companies over the years, helping ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

UGA research explores little-known chapter in college desegregation

Many of the battles to desegregate Southern colleges and universities were fought in public, but efforts to desegregate the standardized testing that is often a prerequisite to admission have, until now, received little attention. ...

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created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Class in session: Upper middle class preschoolers silence less fortunate peers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Preschool upper middle class children tend to ask for help and argue their points effectively -- sometimes to the detriment of their classmates from working class families.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Japan police seek Yahoo! help in exam cheat probe

Police asked Yahoo! Japan on Tuesday to assist them in their hunt for tech-savvy cheats who used the Internet giant to help in gruelling entrance exams for elite universities.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UC Berkeley psychologists bring science of happiness to China

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ranks of China's millionaires continue to grow, but the increased wealth has done little to boost the country’s gross domestic happiness, according to psychologists at the University of ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 16, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Medical students may soon be tested on evolution

What does evolution - a field that often deals with changes over many generations - have to do with preventing and treating disease in our lifetime? A lot, some scientists say. If recent recommendations are ...

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created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Immigrant Blacks More Likely to Attend Elite Colleges

A larger proportion of immigrant black high school graduates attend selective colleges and universities than both native black and white students in America, according to a study by sociologists at Johns Hopkins University ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

SKorean moves to turn science fiction into fact

A computer screen that folds up like a pocket handkerchief, a harbour that goes out to a ship and a road which recharges electric vehicles -- it sounds like the stuff of science fiction.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 9

Psyched out by stereotypes: Research suggests thinking about the positive

In a new study, cognitive scientists have shown that when aware of both a negative and positive stereotype related to performance, women will identify more closely with the positive stereotype, avoiding the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers investigate mass bat deaths

First it was bees that were mysteriously dying. Now it's bats.

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created Feb 21, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0


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