Stability of repeated student evaluations of teaching in the second preclinical year of a medical curriculum

The second preclinical year of the medical curriculum at the Medical Faculty of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland includes nine multidisciplinary organ-system-oriented modules consisting of lectures and problem-based-learning tutorials. This study reports the experience accumulated with the evaluation of lectures during the academic years 1998–1999 and 1999–2000. The ratings of the different modules were highly variable, indicating the ability of students to have a critical view on the teaching and the teachers. There was a close to very close correlation between the ratings obtained during the two study years. The high discriminative capacity of students in evaluating the teaching and the teachers was also supported by their critical point of view expressed in free comments. Our observations stress therefore the reliability of teaching evaluations systematically performed by medical students.     

图书情报学中定性和定量研究方法的科学哲学基础及双重整合原理探析

在由本体论、认识论、价值论构成的哲学内核中,方法论连接本体论和认识论,认识论决定方法论并主导科学技术。在科学哲学的科学发展范式框架下,指出科学应符合逻辑性、可检验和定量化三性原则。图书情报学作为一门经验科学,在哲学上归属认识论主导,其发展特性应符合科学三性原则,研究程式适用2S2R模型。倡导在图书情报学研究中适取定性或定量方法,并提出以广义二重证据法思想实现定性方法和定量方法、实证检验与理论推演的双重整合。图2。表1。参考文献18。     

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THE ART OF RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN WORLD. By George Kennedy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972; pp. xvi+658. $18.50; paper $9.75.     

Considering the Ordo as Pedagogical Context for Religious Education With Christian High School Youth

The Duke Youth Academy for Christian Formation attempts to join Freirean educational theory on contextual pedagogies with ancient Christian practices of the ordo toward the formation and theological education of Protestant Christian high school students. This article describes and reflects on the character and ultimately the success of this odd coupling. While attempting to demonstrate how the ordo as pedagogy may be made inviting to adolescent contexts and to evoke and value the particularities of their experiences, including their experiences of difference, this article also asserts that the ordo provides the additional benefit (sometimes absent from contextual pedagogies utilized by religious educators) of offering ample resources for theological formation, reflection, and construction.     

Teaching Gerontology in Counselor Education

ABSTRACT

Mental health needs of older persons are projected to grow significantly over the course of the next years. Consequently, the need for training counselors to work with the aging population is presented. Addressed are 4 curriculum models, as well as areas of training related to geriatric counseling, that can be incorporated into counselor training programs. Finally, specific suggestions and procedures for counseling the elderly are included.     

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