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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"course evaluation"”.
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Examining the Meaning of Course Evaluation
<p>Teaching evaluations significantly influence faculty members’ annual evaluations and progress toward tenure and promotion within academic programs in higher education. Those with consistently strong, positive, teaching evaluations have been deemed effective instructors and often validated with …
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A decade of fundamentals of emergency care (FEC) course evaluation: Update from the last two years
… Fundamental of Emergency Care (FEC) is a short course designed to give key skills and approaches to emergency care for non-specialist healthcare providers. This course has been running since 2012 primarily from the Western Cape of South Africa, open to all medical professionals for a fee. The …
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A Metaevaluation of An Evaluation of A Second Language Course
This project is a metaevaluation or critique of an evaluation of an intermediate course in a second language curriculum. In this report, the intermediate course evaluation is described to provide a basis for understanding the metaevaluation. Then the metaevaluation is presented. The evaluation was …
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A comparison of the simultaneous communication evaluation with the sign communication proficiency interview
… spoken English). The Simultaneous Communication Evaluation and the Sign Communication Proficiency Interview were examined to compare and to determine the reliability and validity for the latter. The Illinois Course Evaluation Questionnaire was used as an independent variable. …
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University Course Evaluations: A Study of the Influence of Faculty, Student, and Course Variables
<p>Course evaluations impact faculty’ annual evaluations and have become somewhat controversial, yet course evaluations in faculty evaluations persist as a common practice across universities. While many scholars find this success-based tool effective in assessing teaching effectiveness, others …
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An Appreciative Inquiry into the Preparation of Undergraduate Education Studies Students to Value and Embrace Diversity
… suggests how AI can be used as a model of course evaluation. Findings arise directly from the observations made by study participants and centre on the need for greater opportunities for students to experience diversity while on the programme,learn in more practical ways, engage with those …
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Comparison of three instructional delivery systems for providing basic math skills training to non-degree industrial and technical teachers
… of student ratings of selected items on the course evaluation instrument. Eighty-four non-degree industrial and technical teachers teaching in West Virginia were given a pretest on basic math skills. This pretest was followed by a seven-week period of basic math review and remediation using …
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The development, delivery and evaluation of a harassment awareness training package for a corporate workplace
… crew and cabin crew performance. Formative evaluation of the training package was conducted where qualitative data was collected from subject matter and facilitation experts. Two small-group reviews of the modified package were conducted with members of the target audiences. Their knowledge …
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Farm-to-table food safety for Colorado produce crops: a web-based approach for promoting good agricultural and handling practices
… knowledge outcomes along with overall course evaluation items. As a result of participating in the webinar series, producers, buyers, and Extension professionals indicated they planned to utilize the information and resources. Specific topics related to GAPs such as irrigation water …
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Fire safety and interior textiles
… a need for an educational program such as this course and that they would attend a five hour CEU course developed on this subject. Responses to questions on textile fibers, standard tests, and new products on the market supported the perceived need for continuing education on the subject of fire …
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Encouraging female students in business computing
… women in an undergraduate Business Computing course. It explores the experiences of the students and the issues which impact on their success. Using a case study approach, qualitative and quantitative data is gathered on attrition rates and reasons for the attrition of female students in the …
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The Effect of Faculty Development on Active Learning in the College Classroom
… study were collected from surveys and faculty course evaluations. The study lasted one semester. Faculty volunteers from one institution served as the experimental group and faculty volunteers from the second institution were the comparison group. The experimental group attended approximately …
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Course/instructor evaluation : perspectives of part-time graduate students
… 6 part-time graduate students' perspectives on course/instructor evaluation. The purpose was to explore whether a link exists between the evaluation for course and instructors as contained in the Faculty of Education courselinstructor evaluation form and the needs of part-time students enrolled …
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Evaluation of Health 200 - Wellness Lifestyles: Can a University General Education Course in Wellness Lifestyles Enhance Students' Behaviors, Attitudes and Knowledge Regarding Their Health?
… was to determine whether a required wellness course affected a change in the behaviors of college students. A post-course evaluation, which examined the relation between attitude, knowledge, and behavior, was conducted six months following the completion of the course. A secondary purpose of …
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The composition of anonymity: Toward a theory, history, and pedagogy
… through language. The founding philosophical discourses of identity, authority, and community reveal an "anonymous function"---a transgressive discourse of impersonation, authenticity, and immunity---which this dissertation traces in phenomenology, discourse theory, poetics, rhetoric, and …
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Capabilities Engineering:Promoting Change-Reduction and Constructing Change-Tolerant Systems
… constraints. Results from an empirical evaluation of a real-world Course Evaluation System indicate, with statistical significance, that a Capabilities-based design is more change-tolerant than a requirements-based design. In addition, we observe that the use of the CE process inherently …
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The Relationship Between Faculty Gender, Student Understanding of Biblical Gender Roles, and Perceived Quality of Learning Experience in Southern Baptist Affiliated Seminaries
… of the survey. In addition to this instrument, a course evaluation survey was used to determine students' perceived quality of learning experience. The goal of the combined data was to test for a relationship between students understanding of biblical gender roles and their perception of the …
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Students' Criteria for Course Selection: Towards a Metadata Standard for Distributed Higher Education
… are expected to enroll in distributed learning courses. Higher education institutions need to attract students searching the Internet for courses and need to provide students with enough information to select courses. Internet resource discovery tools are readily available, however, users have …
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The effectiveness of educating community nurses by distance learning.
… students who had undertaken a diploma-level course (n=169). A response rate of 69% was achieved. It aimed to determine whether the learning and educational support needs were similar between these two groups. The findings suggested that the learning and educational needs were alike and …
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Emergent Dynamics in AI-Enhanced Entrepreneurship Education: A System of Systems Study of the Orbit Tool
… AI tool—within MIT’s 15.390 entrepreneurship course, which follows the structured Disciplined Entrepreneurship framework, is examined through a System-of-Systems perspective. This approach reveals how the tool functions not as an isolated feature but as an integrated element within a …
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