The purpose of this study was to determine if classroom laboratory time could be reduced in a basic physical agents course. Fifty-seven junior physical therapy students were randomly assigned to three laboratory sections. All students received identical lectures, demonstrations, course materials, and laboratory manuals. The control group, Section 1, received supervision and assistance during la...

1. Active Status a. Regular. University professor, professor, associate professor, assistant professor, and instructor. Each of the regular, active-status ranks may be tenure-accruing or non-tenure accruing as specified in the original letter of appointment. b. Limited Service. Adjunct professor, adjunct associate professor, adjunct assistant professor, adjunct instructor, clinical professor,...

Instructors create classroom environments that have the potential to impact learning by affecting student motivation, resistance, and self-efficacy. However, despite the critical importance of the learning environment in increasing conceptual understanding, little research has investigated what instructors say and do to create learning environments in college biology classrooms. We systematical...

Undergraduate experiences in lower-division science courses are important factors in student retention in science majors. These courses often include a lecture taught by faculty, supplemented by smaller sections, such as discussions and laboratories, taught by graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). Given that portions of these courses are taught by different instructor types, this study explored ...

A total of 483 hips treated by primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) were investigated to evaluate the surgical skill of the performing surgeon. Surgical trainees operated on 259 hips and instructors on 224 hips. The average age of the patients at the time of THA in the trainee and instructor group was 61.9 and 60.8 years old, respectively. The average follow-up duration was 5.1 years. The opera...

PURPOSE High-fidelity simulation training is effective for learning crisis resource management (CRM) skills, but cost is a major barrier to implementing high-fidelity simulation training into the curriculum. The aim of this study was to examine the cost-effectiveness of self-debriefing and traditional instructor debriefing in CRM training programs and to calculate the minimum willingness-to-pay...

The Interactive Learning Wall is a Windows/PC-based virtual blackboard system that can be controlled remotely by a classroom instructor and/or students. A laser pointer used by the instructor emulates mouse actions on a computer projection screen. An inexpensive video camera sends each projected frame to a video capture card in the computer; our software detects the bright laser spot, moves a s...

We examine the impact of class size on student evaluations of instructor performance using data on all economics classes offered at the University of California, Santa Barbara from Fall 1997 to Spring 2004. A particular strength of this data is the opportunity to control for both instructor and course fixed effects. In contrast to the literature examining class size effects on test-based outcom...

Faculty members are often busy with various research work and thus have little time to prepare lectures. Advances in technology offer a solution to this problem. That is, they can record the lectures and reuse them over semesters. It is common for these lecture videos to include an inset frame of the instructor giving the lecture. However, little research has been done to investigate the effect...

student concept learning in pulmonary physiology. Pathfinder scaling is used to derive concept maps for medical and veterinary students and their physiology instructors at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, respectively. The concept maps are evaluated for coherence (internal consistency), student-instructor similarity, and correlation of similarity with final examination s...