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...

Increasingly, higher education institutions are exploring the potential of learning analytics to predict student retention, understand learning behaviors, and improve student learning through providing personalized feedback and support. The technical development of learning analytics has outpaced consideration of ethical issues surrounding their use. Of particular concern is the absence of the ...

We examine whether stringent formal sector borrowing requirements in developing countries restrict credit access and the potential of asset-collateralized loans. When a Kenyan dairy cooperative exogenously replaced high down payments with loans collateralized by the asset itself a large water tank loan take-up increased from 2.4% to 41.9%. In contrast, substituting joint liability requirements ...

METHODS The authors designed a survey instrument to examine the effect of involvement in a student-run free clinic project (SRFCP) on medical student self-reported attitudes toward the underserved and interest in primary care. From 2001-2010, first-and second-year medical students in an introductory service-learning elective course rated each of 15 statements on a seven-point Likert scale pre/p...

statement of the problem: a major objective of investigators is to clarify the role of metabolites in achievement of maximum tooth movement with minimal root damage during orthodontic tooth movement (otm). purpose: the aim of this study was to determine the effect of administration of thyroid hormone, prostaglandin e2, and calcium on orthodontic tooth movement and root resorption in rats. mater...

The effect of regime type on emergence, development and outcome social movements has remained the central theme political process approach/political opportunity structure. structural paradigm focused relative openness or closure system, availability elite alliances, stability instability, repression capacities in a given Almedia gave concept “Social Movement Partyism” which coalition opposition...

background: the main purpose of medical education system is that the students achieve the highest levels of learning and professional competency. training of skilled physicians is based on three domains including educational planning, environment, and psychological situation. methods: our study is a descriptive-analysis, conducted on 119 students including medical, nursing and midwifery groups ...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight students’ misconceptions of the kinematics of rolling movement and to show mechanisms that can help the student to overcome them. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between the angular and linear acceleration of a rigid body that moves without slipping. Frequently, physics books show particular examples of rolling movement instead of treating...

Awareness of playing movements can help a piano student to improve technique. We are developing a piano pedagogy application that uses sensor data of hand and arm movement and generates feedback to increase movement awareness. This paper reports on a method for analysis of piano playing movements. The method allows to judge whether an active movement in a joint has occurred during a given time ...