The quality of student reflective responses has been shown to positively correlate with student learning gains. However, providing feedback on reflection quality to students is typically expensive and delayed. In this work, we automatically predict the quality of student reflective responses using natural language processing. With the long-term goal of producing informative feedback for student...

Staff CRNAs often find themselves functioning in the capacity of clinical instructors for nurse anesthesia students. In order to utilize the clinical environment as an educational forum and maximize the quality of the student's learning experiences, evaluations are a vital tool. Instructor evaluation of student performance is the subject of much highly publicized material. However, the purpose ...

This paper describes a student model which is open to learner inspection, and whose contents may be jointly negotiated by the student and system. Both the learner and the system have the opportunity to defend their own, and argue against the other's beliefs about the student. This discussion between the learner and system is designed on the one hand to result in a more accurate student model, a...

Introduction: The importance of optimal clinical nursingeducation in professional skills development is undeniable.In clinical education, nursing students are often faced withproblems. Recognizing nursing students’ perception on clinicaleducation is the first step to remove the barriers of this challenge.Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conductedto determine the nursing stude...

With the inception of a new competency-based nursing curriculum, faculty in a baccalaureate nursing program developed a comprehensive laboratory and clinical evaluation program aimed at progressive, criterion-based evaluation across four semesters of the nursing program. This article provides background for the development of the program, the resources needed, and specific evaluation activities...

We have created a student model which dynamically collects information about a student,s problem solving ability, acquisition of new topics and retention of earlier topics. This information is provided to the tutor and used to generate new problems at the appropriate level of difficulty and to provide customized hints and help. Formative evaluation of the tutor with 20 students provides evidenc...

Electronic portfolios are a student-centered outcomes-based assessment regime involving learners in the gathering, selection, and organization of artifacts synthesized into a compilation purposed to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and/or achievements supported by reflections that articulate the relevance, credibility, and meaning of the artifacts being presented. Electronic portfolios have been ...

BACKGROUND Student ratings are a popular source of course evaluations in undergraduate medical education. Data on the reliability and validity of such ratings have mostly been derived from studies unrelated to medical education. Since medical education differs considerably from other higher education settings, an analysis of factors influencing overall student ratings with a specific focus on m...