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WORKSHOP ON READING AND WRITING MOTIVATION Organized by Psychology Research Unit INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata-700 108 20.7.2009 (Monday, 11 AM to 5 PM) Objective : Objectives of workshop are to disseminate knowledge about (a) reading and writing difficulties of disabled and non-disabled students in primary and secondary schools and (b) reading and writing motivation strategies. Who can apply: Senior teachers in primary and secondary schools, school counselors, school psychologists, Project investigators and administrative officers of the Govt. and Non-Govt. organizations, Faculty members of Universities or Research Institutes and Ph.D. scholars in Psychology, Education and Social work. Seats: Very limited to maintain homogeneity. Only experienced persons will be invited. Traveling allowance : No TA will be given for participating into the workshop. Foods & Accommodation: Working lunch will be served along with Tea and Coffee during the workshop. No accommoda

Institutional Clusters to improve Academic activities To: IndianPsychologists @yahoogroups. co.in Date: Tuesday, 7 July, 2009, 7:55 AM This regional inequality can be controlled by formation of psychology cluster. Cluster can be formed in considering expertise on specific field. For example, cognitive psychology cluster will be formed with Allahabad, Benaras, Delhi, Mysore, Bhubaneswar and Calcutta university. Clinical psychology cluster will be formed with departments providing M.Phil in clinical psychology. Departments providing knowledge above the post graduation can be incorporated in this cluster based on their expertise. So, NIMHANS, CIP, IITs, IIMs, ISI., IISC, TISC, XIBM, XISS will get entry in this cluster. The function of cluster will be inter exchange of faculties, PG students and Research fellows for training and development in need based areas. Function of each cluster will be to reduce inequality within the group. This will strengthen their own internal system and regiona

Data organization Data entry by dialog Matrix manipulation Transpose Data sorting Simultaneous analysis in multiple worksheet Data quality Identification of missing values Identification of incorrect values Data dispersion Variable wise data representation Visual data analysis Web: http://people.umass.edu/evagold/excel.html http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/excel/excel.htm