Student-sponsored course evaluation

Service Composition Algorithm: Student Assessment & Course Evaluation

Service composition is a widely addressed subject that has enforced itself on businesses due to the interchanged and mixed interests among companies and institutions. Each business is in need of collaborating with other businesses, this requires the need for using multiple services and applications from different providers. From that the need for service composition has become necessary. Educat...

A trend study of student' consistent responses to course evaluation.

PURPOSE Most students choose the same option to questions in course evaluation surveys. Identical answers to each question render the results unreliable. The purpose of this study was to analyze the trend of medical student' consistent responses to course evaluations. METHODS The data of this study were the results of a course evaluation over 3 years (from 2006 to 2008) at the School of Medic...

Student evaluation of clickers in a dental pathology course

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the degree of satisfaction of students and teachers, and to determine whether the students notice improvements in learning and in the learning environment as a result of the use of clicker. MATERIAL AND METHODS Descriptive study. Fifty-one students and 8 teachers participated in the use of clicker technology in 8 preclinical seminars in den...

Student Ratings of Teaching Effectiveness: Student Engagement and Course Characteristics

Characteristics of university courses and student engagement were examined in relation to student ratings of instruction. The Universal Student Ratings of Instruction instrument was administered to students at the end of every course at a major Canadian university over a threeyear period. Using a two-step analytic procedure, a latent variable path model was created. The model showed a moderate ...

Using Course and Student Profiles to Improve Student Success