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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"teaching quality"”.
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Increasing staff comfort in performing conscious sedation during brachytherapy : a teaching quality improvement project
… these new medications. Purpose: The goal of this quality improvement project was to provide a formal instructional experience that increased the department's collective confidence level on providing IV sedation, while answering the question: "Does the implementation of a conscious sedation …
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Engineering faculty views of teaching quality, accreditation, and institutional climate and how they influence teaching practices
<p>There is wide agreement that teaching quality matters in higher education, but faculty have varied ideas about the definition of quality. This dissertation examined data from a survey administered in 1997, 1999, and 2002 at institutions of the Southeastern University and College Coalition for …
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Teachers’ perceptions of teaching quality and its impact on students’ performance in secondary schools in Nepal
… has identified teachers’ perceptions on the quality of teaching and its impact on students’ academic performance in secondary schools in Nepal. The objectives of this study are to examine teachers’ perceptions of teachers’ professionalism, teaching pedagogy, schools’ environment and …
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Quantitative evaluations of teaching quality in universities: the impact of students’ gender-specific expectations on teaching evaluations
… frequently use student evaluations of teaching (SETs) as a tool to evaluate teaching quality. I conducted two online multi-method empirical studies to explore whether the methodological and methodical limitations of standardised rating scales such as SETs may contribute to rather than …
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Investigating whether a value-added teaching effectiveness model designed for traditional classrooms can be used to measure online teaching quality
… study reported here focused on assessing teacher quality in online environments. The purpose of the study was to explore the feasibility of using the same method Tennessee currently uses to gauge teaching quality of traditionally-delivered courses to determine teaching quality in the online …
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Implications of the Improvement of Teaching Quality for Professional Development (PD) of Academics at the Colleges of Applied Sciences (CASs) in the Sultanate of Oman
… designed a higher education institution (HEI) Quality Assurance (QA) framework for Omani public and private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), starting with a quality audit process in 2008. The Colleges of Applied Sciences (CASs), as a public HEI, are required to ensure the quality of all …
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EFFECTIVE COLLEGE TEACHING AND STUDENTS’ RATINGS OF TEACHERS: WHAT STUDENTS THINK, WHAT FACULTY BELIEVE, AND HAT ACTUAL RATINGS SHOW IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE IN TEACHING QUALITY ASSURANCE AND CONTROL IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN OMAN
… and students’ (N=968) perceptions of effective teaching and students’ evaluations of teachers in six colleges of technology in Oman match or mismatch. It also investigates Omani students’ (N=922) ability to identify the teaching dimensions underlying a widely used American instrument used for …
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Exploring levels of quality of teaching based on the dynamic model in Taiwan: Constraints and perspectives
… development is an important element in improving quality of teaching (Borko, 2004). Adjusting trainings sessions to teacher’s authentic needs is considered a crucial part of their professional development. To improve teachers’ teaching practice, the Ministry of Education and local educational …
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Improving Professional Skills for Trainers Working with Unemployed Adult Learners in Austria
… an impact on learning outcomes and to improve teaching quality. The research study aims to assess the perception of learners, trainers and the management on how adult learning is viewed in New Star Vocational College, qualities of a good trainer, teaching quality and how improvements can be …
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Depression Symptoms In Early Childhood Teachers: Do Personality, Social Support, And School Climate Play A Role?
… such as effects teacher depression could have on teaching quality and students' academic and psychosocial competence. Intervention options are also suggested, especially given the amount of pressure and scrutiny currently being placed on teachers in the United States.</p>
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University preference : A conjoint analysis
… academic reputation, job prospects and teaching quality. The results are compared to previous research findings and their implications for the marketing of universities are discussed.
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Hiring the Most Effective Teachers: An Examination of Policy and Practice in Pennsylvania
… (2002), never has more focus been applied to teaching quality. Hiring the best teachers for our children leverages the single largest in-school influence on achievement. James Coleman, in his seminal work, <em>The Coleman Report </em>(1967), notes that a child’s home socio-economic status and …
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The Literary Coach as Instructional Leader: How Three Literacy Coaches in Rural Georgia Improve Teacher Practices
… student achievement in the United States and on teaching quality as well. Compelling evidence confirms that a teacher's mastery of the academic content of what he or she teaches is critical to engaging students and inspiring them to academic excellence (Addey, 2000; Wilkinson, 2002). In order to …
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Metodologías Activas: La Gamificación como estrategia didáctica en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de estudiantes de la carrera de Administración de Empresas, Facultad Multidisciplinaria Paracentral. Periodo 2014-2024
… training, and research play an important role in teaching quality. Teachers must be continually updated regarding the active methodologies they will apply in the classroom. Currently, one of the main challenges for teachers is to teach students not only to access information but to evaluate, …
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Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Early Mathematics: What Teachers Know and How It Associates with Teaching and Learning
… and investigate how PCK-EM relates to the quality of their mathematics teaching quality and students' mathematical learning outcomes. A total of 182 teachers working with high need students from Pre-K through Grade 3 in an urban public school system participated in the study and analyzed a …
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Incentives in the classroom: performance-based compensation implementation and impact in high performing schools in Shanghai, China
… potential of this incentivist policy to improve teaching. Some scholars warn that decades of experimental research have found bonuses yield little or no improvement in various measures of teaching quality and student achievement. Yet, policymakers and performance-pay advocates maintain that …
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Automated Identification and Application of Code Refactoring in Scratch to Promote the Culture Quality from the Ground up
… practice is concerned with improving software quality. While enormous prior efforts have focused on improving the quality of programs, this dissertation instead provides the means to educate the next generation of programmers who care deeply about software quality. If they embrace the culture …
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Student satisfaction and dissatisfaction - a study in the higher education context
… incident technique (CIT). New determinants of quality within higher education were identified as a result, namely motivation, praise/reward, social inclusion, usefulness, value for money and fellow student behaviour. The resultant research papers have made an original contribution to knowledge …
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Cultivating a Culture of Success in Catholic Secondary Schools in Tanzania
… variables" (Darling-Hammond, 2006, p. 19). Quality education as a result of quality teaching has been a subject of discussion in many countries (Karras, & Wolhuter, 2010). According to Nyerere (1967), "the purpose of education is to pass from one generation to the next the accumulated wisdom …
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