Part-Time Faculty and Community College Student Success

With the Completion Agenda taking such political prominence, community colleges are experiencing even more pressure to find ways to promote and improve student success. One way that has been suggested is to limit the reliance on part-time faculty under the premise that the employment status of faculty has a direct influence on student success. The tacit assumption is that full-time faculty are more engaged with their home institution, and this engagement translates into the engagement of the students taught. The present study examined employment status of faculty on the success of students enrolled in four, two-course sequences. Using Pearson chi-square and binary logistic regression analyses, it was concluded that employment status of the faculty has no statistical influence on student success as has been previously claimed. These results suggest that community colleges should not assume that hiring more full-time faculty will improve student success and, instead, should possibly consider utilizing funds otherwise allocated to hiring new full-time faculty on the development and compensation of part-time faculty.     

略论高校教师理解学生评教

文章分析了高校开展学生评教的外部原因和内部动因,认为学生评教要充分发挥其功能,需要教育工作者的理解、配合和支持。     

Community College Faculty Development Program and Student Achievement

Community college administrators look for strategies to help students. GRASP (Gaining Retention and Achievement for Students Program) is a semester-long faculty development program that coaches community college instructors about simple, effective teaching strategies that promote student academic achievement. GRASP is founded on the belief that academic achievement is based on good teaching, which begins with faculty development. The major assumption for GRASP is that faculty are the single most important factor for student success. GRASP was offered at Doña Ana Community College (DACC). Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, just 40 miles from the border of Mexico, DACC has a student population that is 70% minority. Results for GRASP indicate that overall student success improved by 7.9%, and that overall student retention improved by 4.0% for students participating in GRASP.     

高校学生评教有效性的实证研究

采用实证研究的方法,对高校本科生评教的客观因素：教师性别、教师职称、课程类型、学生人数进行相关分析,研究结果表明：这些因素均对高校学生评教结果无显著影响,高校学生评教是客观可信的。     

对高校体操教学中学生成绩评价的探讨

体操是我国高等学校体育教学专业学生的必修课程,是各级各类学校体育教育的主要内容.对高等学校体育教学专业学生而言,体操教学成绩评价是体操教学过程的重要环节,它对教学效果的正确评价和学生学习积极性产生直接影响.本文根据自己多年从事体操学习和实践经验,走访了其它体育学院的体操教师,运用文献研究法,以体操动作教学特点为切入点,找出当前体操教学评价中存在的问题,并提出了合理的评价建议,以供同行借鉴,共同提高体操教学质量.     

高职院校学生评教探析

学生评教是高职教育教学质量监控体系的重要组成部分,是促进教学质量提高的有效手段,对监控教学质量起到了很好的效果。结合江苏经贸职业技术学院学生网上评教现状,探讨了学生评教在促进教师改进教学方法、提高教学质量方面的积极作用及改进措施。     

Mentoring Faculty to Improve Teaching and Student Learning

For teaching to improve, three factors must be in place. First, the college must use a valid and reliable student evaluation instrument in combination with other feedback mechanisms. Second, there must be an accompanying norming report that provides comparative and diagnostic information to departmental chairs and teachers. Raw data from even a valid and reliable instrument may not be informative. Third, the college must have a mentoring process in place. This article discusses briefly each of the three elements to initiate and sustain a successful mentoring program to improve teaching and student learning. Of course, if the school does not reward improved or effective teaching it is not likely to occur.     

Faculty do Matter: The Role of College Faculty in Student Learning and Engagement

This study uses two national data sets to explore the relationship between faculty practices and student engagement. Our findings suggest that students report higher levels of engagement and learning at institutions where faculty members use active and collaborative learning techniques, engage students in experiences, emphasize higher-order cognitive activities in the classroom, interact with students, challenge students academically, and value enriching educational experiences.     

Student/Faculty Connections in the Development of Teaching

This project directly involved students in two different models of instructional development. The first model was a Student Consultant program in which faculty selected from a menu of instructional services carried out by students. Typical services included attending class as impartial observers, soliciting feedback from other students on their learning experiences, videotaping class sessions, and evaluating course Web sites. The second model of instructional development was a program of student‐assisted teaching seminars for college faculty. Student Associates helped serve as panelists and facilitators. Assessments of attitudes toward teaching indicated that faculty members viewed both professors and students as collaborators in the classroom as a result of the seminar series.     

The Relationship between Faculty Confirmation and Community College Student Self-Efficacy

Nearly half of all college students in the United States begin at community colleges, including higher numbers of students coming from backgrounds which have been historically underrepresented in higher education. Despite record numbers of new students enrolling at community colleges, the number of students who are retained at the institution long enough to be deemed successful, either through transferring or graduating, remains largely unchanged. One theory is that some students enter college with less confidence in their ability to be successful, hastening their departure. Faculty members are in a unique position to impact student self-efficacy, which ultimately may impact student success. This exploratory study quantitatively assessed whether a relationship exists between confirmation behaviors employed by faculty members in the classroom and changes in reported academic self-efficacy of students. The research was conducted through a causal comparative matched pair design with Midwestern community college students during their first semester. The results support a relationship between change in self-efficacy and perceived faculty confirmation (r_s = .212, n = 70, p = .039*), particularly for female students (r_s = .331, n = 35, p = .026*) and for those students where neither parent completed a degree higher than high school (r_s = .316, n = 46, p = .016*).     

依托高校教学名师的教师教学培训探析

教学培训是提升教师教学能力的重要途径,是加强教师队伍建设的重要环节。教学名师是高校教师的杰出代表,如何充分运用高校教学名师的优势开展教学培训是一个值得探讨的问题。文章从高校教师教学名师的教学专项培训开班满意度的调查分析出发,对如何发挥高校教学名师作用、做好教师教学培训提出了一些相应的对策及思路。     

Student Evaluation of Faculty: Effects of Purpose on Pattern

Much of the existing research addressing student ratings of faculty has focused on psychometric properties of the rating process or on physical characteristics of courses and individuals. Less explored is the cognitive processes of students, as evaluators, and the administrative purposes for which outcomes from student evaluations are used. To determine if students used different cognitive sets as a function of the explicit purpose for which ratings are obtained, a field experiment was conducted. Explicit purposes for course evaluations were manipulated to include a control condition, a formative condition (instructional improvement), and a summative condition (salary increase). These conditions served as the classification variable in a discriminant analysis and six different dimensions of classroom performance, as assessed by students, served as the discriminating variables. Results indicate that the purpose of assessment fails to influence the pattern of faculty ratings provided by students. From an administrative perspective, these findings have practical implications both for the collection of student evaluations and for the use of student ratings.     

大学教师发展——“教学学术”的维度

大学教师发展(Faculty Development)有着丰富的内涵,教学工作是其中一个十分重要的方面。论文借鉴欧内斯特.博耶所提出的"教学学术"的相关理论,指出大学教师发展的核心在于"教学专业"的发展,而教学专业发展的关键则在于以重构学术内涵为切入点,牢固确立"教学学术"的观念;认真处理好"教学学术"与专业科研和社会服务之间的关系;自觉加强关于大学教学本身的科学研究。     

转变教师教学观念提高大学课堂教学质量

提高大学课堂教学质量是提高高等教育质量的关键。基于大学课堂教学具有学术性、探究性、学生主体性等基本特点,提高大学课堂教学质量必须从改变教师教学观念入手,建立新的活的知识观、共同参与发现的过程观、卓越的价值观和新型的师生观。     

美国高校学生评教的实践与理论研究述评

美国高校的学生评教开展至今已有80余年。在美国,各高校的学生评教趋向系统化和标准化,其组织实施完善、评价形式与内容多样、结果公布与使用相对合理,在问卷量表的设计、学生评教的效度、影响评教的背景因素等方面进行大量的实证和调查研究。美国学生评教的实践与理论研究可供我国借鉴。     

Communication Between College Counselors and Academic Faculty When Supervising Graduate Student Trainees

College counseling centers play an important role in the training and supervision of counselor trainees. This article addresses the importance of communication between college counselors and academic counseling program faculty when college counselors supervise graduate students from academic counseling programs. As the authors discuss, effective communication contributes to positive and productive training experiences for graduate student trainees. Suggestions are offered for successful communication between counseling center staff and program faculty.