Using Rubrics To Create And Evaluate Student Projects In A Marketing Course

Ac 2007-2366: Capstone Design Projects with Industry: Using Rubrics to Assess Student Design Reports

The benefits of company sponsored capstone design projects, both to academia and to industry, have been well established. Specific benefits to students include the broadening of their engineering skills, the required interaction with practicing engineers, the strengthening of teaming skills by working in design groups, the development of communication skills with required oral and written repor...

Student projects using ARToolKit

In this paper we would like to describe three student projects developed at the University of Applied Science at Hagenberg (Media Technology and Design) using ARToolKit. All projects were implemented by students during their semester projects or during their master thesis. MusicAR is the first application presented in this paper. It describes the master thesis of B. Hauser and shows a nice musi...

Using Student Performance to Evaluate Teachers

O ver the past 15 years, a growing body of research has demonstrated that teachers are the most important school-based determinant of student achievement. Taking advantage of improved educational data systems that link students to their teachers, this research has used a class of statistical techniques called value-added models to estimate teachers’ impact on their students’ standardized test p...

Using Student Achievement Data to Evaluate Teachers

The purpose of evaluating teaching effectiveness is to increase student learning. A common metric of student learning is achievement data (i.e., test scores). Thus, it is logical to use student achievement data to evaluate teaching effectiveness. The U.S. has had a short history of using achievement data to evaluate a school or district; the new movement is to use it to evaluate individual teac...

Using Course and Student Profiles to Improve Student Success