Understanding student evaluations of teaching in online learning

In this paper, we have developed a classification model for online learning environments that relates the Instructors Overall Performance (IOP) rating (according to students’ perceptions) with the course characteristics, students’ demographics and the effectiveness of the instructor in his/her teaching roles. To that end, a comprehensive Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) instrument is proposed, which includes not only conventional teaching elements, but also items that encourage twenty-first century skills. The goal of the study is twofold: (i) to quantify the extent to which the selected variables explain the IOP rating, and (ii) determine which teaching and non-teaching variables most affect the IOP rating. The best performing classifier achieved a competitive accuracy, highlighting that the selected variables mainly determine the IOP values. Other important findings include: (i) the IOP value is mainly influenced by the effectiveness of the instructor in his/her teaching roles; (ii) teaching strategies that involve the cooperation between the technical and pedagogical roles should be promoted; (iii) the pedagogical role has the highest impact on the final IOP value; and (iv) the most influential demographic variable is the student’s status (working commitments and family responsibilities).     

《网站设计》课程学生作业自动化管理的实现

使用一个ASP文件设计的自动化管理系统解决《网站设计》课程学生作业提交和批改中遇到的困难.     

Benchmarks and quality assurance for online course development in higher education

As online education has entered the main stream of the U.S. higher education, quality assurance in online course development has become a critical topic in distance education. This short article summarizes the major benchmarks related to online course development, listing and comparing the benchmarks of the National Education Association （NEA）, the benchmarks of the American Distance Education Consortium （ADEC）, the benchmarks of the American Federation of Teachers, and the benchmarks of the Quality Matters project. In doing so the author hopes to promote awareness of and commitment to quality assurance in online education.     

The influence of student experiences on post-graduation surveys

This study attempts to establish the extent to which in-class teaching quality instruments can be used to predict post-graduation survey results. It examines the responses for the Good Teaching Scale of the Course Experience Questionnaire administered to 10,433 students who completed their studies at a major Australian tertiary institution from 2003 to 2005 using a unique data-set that matched student records and measures of class characteristics to the individual survey responses. The findings indicate that the overall degree experiences of particular students can be predicted by measures of class differences as measured by teaching quality instruments and the grade distributions of the classes they completed. These factors are in addition to the effects of students’ own performance as measured by their grades, their field of study and their post-graduation experience. It was found that in-class administered teaching quality instruments have an asymmetric influence on post-graduation survey results. Higher than expected scores appear to have little impact, and lower than expected results were found to have a significant negative impact on post-graduation recollections. The grade distribution in classes taken was also found to be an important factor in explaining variation in degree satisfaction.     

Towards the improvement of the student experience of assessment and feedback in construction management education

It is widely accepted across Higher Education that assessment practices have a link with learning and a key factor in this link is formative assessment. Formative assessment is generally defined as taking place during a module/programme with the express purpose of improving and enhancing student learning. It is important to understand how lecturers in construction engineering education perceive their own roles and the roles of their students in using effective assessment strategies. An investigation into lecturers’ perceptions of their roles and their conceptions related to the assessment process of students in those programmes is reported. An on-line survey was conducted with over 30 Irish academics involved in the area of construction management. Discussion is focused on a critical evaluation of the findings of the study and how it relates to the current literature on the roles of academics in the formative assessment process. Recommendations are made on how lecturers/teachers might better formulate appropriate assessment strategies that will encourage deep and effective learning.     

Development and validation of a theoretically based,multidimensional questionnaire of student evaluation of university teaching

The authors describe the development and validation of a multidimensional instrument of students’ evaluation of university teaching (the Pedagogical Questionnaire of the University of Porto). The goal was to develop an instrument based on a sound psychometric analysis and simultaneously supported by the learning theory. Based on the data from 4875 questionnaires, the present study examined the fit of the proposed multidimensional model of university teaching to the whole sample and to various specific university programmes of study using confirmatory factor analysis (AMOS 5.0). Results clearly supported the applicability of the proposed model for the whole university and across programmes of study, demonstrating the validity and reliability of the instrument in evaluating several distinct dimensions of the quality of university teaching.     

应用项目管理理论和方法管理大学生团队的探讨

本文对高校学生团队管理的现状和特点作了描述,简单介绍项目管理理论和方法,并对如何运用项目管理理论和方法提高大学生团队的管理水平提出了一些创新思路。     

浅析国内外高校学生管理工作经验与实践分析

美国作为全世界教育体制最发达的国家之一,其在高校学生管理工作方面的思想、理念以及具体的管理工作上都有很多值得我们学习和借鉴的地方,本文基于我国高校学生管理的具体情况,比较美国高校学生管理的方方面面,从而直观的了解阐述我国高校学生管理工作的发展方向。     

高职学生顶岗实习过程管理研究——基于质量管理过程方法视角

目前,高职学生顶岗实习存在着学生对实习认识不足、学校管理体系不够完善、企业视学生为负担等原因,使高职学生顶岗实习过程管理存在一定的困难。质量管理过程方法可以为高职学生顶岗实习过程管理提供有效思路。以学校为主体,构建以过程为基础的学生顶岗实习管理体系,制定相应文件,落实管理机构与职责,发挥学生主观能动性,构建多元考核、分析与评价管理体系,利用信息化手段对实习过程中的各个环节认真计划、组织、控制、改进,使PDCA循环持续改进,顶岗实习过程管理质量得到不断提升。     

A closer look at integrated writing tasks: Towards a more focussed definition for assessment purposes

The use of integrated tasks is increasingly common in second language assessment in both high stakes and classroom contexts. However, because of the vague definition of what constitutes an integrated task, the types of tasks included in this area and the assessment of the resulting writing is highly varied. In this paper, we argue for a better definition of the term ‘integrated writing task’. We start by reviewing current definitions available in the literature, discuss the construct underlying integrated tasks and then propose a number of features which we feel need to be present in integrated tasks. We then propose a new, narrower definition of the term. We hope that this will result in better task design, improved assessment outcomes for test takers, more detailed test specifications, better replicability of research and a shared research agenda.     

输电线路防雷评价模型及管理系统设计

通过相关影响线路耐雷水平各项因素分析,并借助计算机辅助设计管理系统,建立防雷评价模型,得到综合比较整体评价结果,同时以某一改造工程实例加以验证,从运行情况看,改造后的线路工程达到了预期目标,有效地减少了线路雷击.     

借鉴企业管理提升高职院校管理水平和组织效能

随着时代的变迁及管理概念的兴盛，社会对于高等职业教育的要求日趋严格，借鉴现代企业管理理论和成功经验，运用有效的企业管理技术手段，以获取更高的组织效能及提升教学服务品质，是高等职业院校之必然走向。该文之主旨即通过向企业学习，借鉴和运用企业管理理论和经验，以战略为核心，以质量为重点，以绩效为目标，以服务为导向，从而有效提升高职院校管理水平和组织效能。     

英国《学生评价准则》述评

高校学生评价直接影响高校教育教学质量。全文较详细地比较了英国高等教育质量保证署发表的《高等教育学术质量和标准保证的实践准则》第六部分：学生评价的第一版和第二版,以为我国高校的学生评价的建设提供相应参考。     

A case for routine involvement of threat assessment and management teams with college students at risk for suicide

ABSTRACT

Institutions of higher education and their counseling centers are under intense pressure to prevent student suicide. This article proposes that routinely using threat assessment and management teams in working with suicidal students would add value to existing suicide prevention efforts. The unique features of threat assessment and management provide several advantages over traditional clinical intervention. First and foremost, the majority of students who die of suicide do not seek services from campus counseling centers. These students may, nonetheless, come to the attention of campus constituents in a number of ways and may readily be referred to a threat assessment and management team. For students who are clients of the counseling center, a campus should still activate a threat assessment and management process. In this way, threat assessment and management may be useful for students who refuse to seek help as well as in providing assistance when students are engaged in treatment. Nonetheless, higher education in general and counseling centers in particular have not engaged in a standard practice of involving threat assessment and management teams with students who present at risk for suicide. Limitations to clinical approaches for suicide prevention are reviewed in contrast with the complementary advantages of threat assessment and management as applied to suicidal students. Regularly including threat assessment and management in working with suicidal students in higher education may provide synergy in improving the likelihood of desirable outcomes in preventing suicides.     

高职旅游管理专业行业基本素质课程教学新模式研究

以有十多年高职旅游教育经验的重庆教育学院高职旅游管理专业为例,针对行业基本素质课程的教学模式进行研究．分析了传统模式所具有的四大特点,同时发现了其中存在的与当前旅游行业人才素质培养不相符合的一些问题。为推动高职教学改革,我们构建了新的教学模式,并绘制了新教学模式图,同时分析阐述了新模式的六大主要特点。     

The effectiveness of a course for helping educators cope with the demands of the IQMS

Abstract

In 2004, the South African Education and Labour Relations Council announced that an agreement had been reached to integrate several existing programmes on quality management in education into a new programme entitled Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) for School-based educators. In order to help educators in a particular Province of South Africa to cope with the demands of this programme, an Advanced Certificate in Education was instituted. The first cohort of teacher-students taking this particular ACE was subsequently subjected to an empirical survey intended to determine the effectiveness of the training. It was found that although the ACE was deemed to be generally helpful for meeting the IQMS requirements, it also failed in several respects. The survey also exposed several aspects of outcomes-based education with which school educators seem to be constantly struggling. Certain changes will have to be made to the ACE itself, but also to the current South African outcomes-based curriculum approach.     

Quality assurance and its impact from higher education institutions’ perspectives: methodological approaches,experiences and expectations

This paper reports on methodological approaches, experiences and expectations referring to impact analysis of quality assurance from the perspective of three higher education institutions (students, teaching staff, quality managers) from Germany, Finland and Romania. The presentations of the three sample institutions focus on discussing the core characteristics of quality assurance procedures applied and their expected and observed impacts, and how intended and non-intended undesirable ones are measured. It turns out that all sample institutions have already some instruments and sub-procedures in place for impact analysis of quality assurance and all of them are striving for further improvement by applying internal and external quality assurance procedures and impact analyses. Finally, a closer look at the recently revised Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area shows that the European sample institutions are on their way towards coherent quality assurance policies, while there is also room left for further improvement and investigation (for example, in implementing systematic methodologies of impact evaluation and quality policies in general).