Sitting in a large room, working furiously at their laptops “”mdash; aided by an unlimited supply of caffeine and sugar “”mdash; about 80 students spent their weekend analyzing data as part of a annual competition put on by the UCLA Department of Statistics.
With a growing number of transfer students at American universities, the federal government is beginning to change how it measures students’ success at four-year institutions.
Almost every student can agree that at some point in their academic career, they’ve been told not to cite a Wikipedia article. For Cody Kommers, a first-year physics student, this moment came during the first day of his English composition class.
Scholars have begun to turn to social media as a source of data as sites such as Facebook and Twitter play an increasingly pivotal role in historical events like the Arab Spring.
For UCLA premedical students, months of studying and the five-and-a-half-hour-long exam could determine whether or not they can pursue careers as medical doctors.
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