This paper examines the relationships between patient volume, teaching mission, and process quality in U.S. hospitals. Using a large data set that measures process quality for treatments of heart attacks and heart failures in all major U.S. hospitals, the authors find that the impact of patient volume on process quality varies across hospitals with different teaching intensities. Their results ...

The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a continuing professional development (CPD) intervention in producing changes in physical education (PE) teaching practice and PE teaching quality by generalist primary school teachers when the CPD addressed the use of a game-centered approach. A cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted in seven primary schools in the ...

Background: There is general consensus that the organizational and administrative aspects of academic study programs exert an important influence on teaching and learning. Despite this, no comprehensive framework currently exists to describe the conditions that affect the quality of teaching and learning in medical education. The aim of this paper is to systematically and comprehensively identi...

2 FOREWORD 1. In the context of the sustained growth and diversification of higher education systems, civil society is increasingly concerned about the quality of programmes offered to students. As a result, there is an increase in public assessments and international comparisons of higher education institutions, not only within the higher education sector but in the general media. However, eva...

In the article the expediency of quality assessment of teaching the disciplines in higher education institutions was justified. A method of quality assessment level of teaching the disciplines and respective algorithm were proposed for making informed decisions in the quality management of education. This method is based on using the expert method of paired comparison and identifies two common ...

Because teaching hospitals face increasing pressure to justify their higher charges for clinical care, the quality of care in teaching and nonteaching hospitals is an important policy question. The most rigorous peer-reviewed studies published between 1985 and 2001 that assessed quality of care by hospital-teaching status in the United States provide moderately strong evidence of better quality...

With the increasing popularity and scale of peer teaching, it is imperative to develop methods that ensure the quality of teaching provided by undergraduate students. We used an established faculty development and quality assurance process in a novel context: peer observation of teaching for undergraduate peer tutors. We have developed a form to record observations and aid the facilitation of f...

In this paper, we explore the characteristics of teaching quality evaluation of our university. Based on an effective dataset from teacher evaluation system, we apply data mining (DM) technique to teaching quality evaluation system and give related case analysis. The analyzed results show there exists the hidden relationship between the teacher’s attributes, such as title, degree, age, seniorit...