Deferent types of assessment are used to measure the achievements of the Student Learning Outcomes (SOs) and the Course LearningOutcomes (COs) like direct, indirect, quantitative and qualitative. It is powerful to have a good approach to report the data and automated system for evaluatingthe performance indicators used in the outcomesmeasurement.Since the Student Outcomes are unmeasurable, grou...

Based on the survey data of 364 peasant households in Yibin, Sichuan, this paper analyzes the farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage loans. The result indicates a high willingness up to 74.2%, i.e. the farmers are willing to invest forest tenure mortgage loans into forestry and agricultural production. The influential factors on farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage...

Students are usually only marginally involved in the preparation of exams. They are passive peers who write an exam predefined by the lecturer. Studies in educational theory indicate, however, that active involvement instead of (passive) consumption should be adopted in learning since active learning proved to be superior to passive learning. One concept of active learning is student peer evalu...

College athletes routinely make the news for their athletic achievements, and a few of them, unfortunately, make the news for misconduct. Since the mid 1990s, there have been hundreds of allegations of sexual assault by college athletes against fellow students or younger individuals. [1] Student-victims of these alleged assaults by fellow students have previously been unsuccessful in holding co...

Title of Dissertation: EXAMINING THE RELATION BETWEEN STUDENT EXPECTANCY-VALUE MOTIVATION, ACHIEVEMENT IN MIDDLE-SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION, AND AFTER-SCHOOL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION Xihe Zhu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed by: Professor Ang Chen Department of Kinesiology School of Public Health The expectancy-value theory (Eccles et al., 1983) explains that student motivation is pri...

We read the publication by Liu (2016) on authorship misconduct with a great interest. In fact, the authorship misconduct is no uncommon and has to be managed. Liu (2016) noted that “Proper authorship embodies honesty, integrity, fairness and transparency, which surely are the very essence of any scientific pursuit.” Due to the present requirement on academic publication to support academic rank...

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