Learning Objective and Assessment Linkage: Its Contribution to Meaningful Student Learning

Concept maps and meaningful learning in medical education

Fostering Meaningful Student Learning Through Constructivist Pedagogy and Technology Integration

While national statistics cite a remarkable improvement in technology tools and access to the Internet in most schools across the nation, many teachers are not integrating these tools into their instruction in ways that support and maximize student learning. Additionally, many teachers entering the workforce are far more likely to use computers for personal purposes rather than in the classroom...

The Library's Contribution to Student Learning: Inspirations and Aspirations

Megan Oakleaf is an Associate Professor in the iSchool at Syracuse University; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2015 Megan Oakleaf, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. George Kuh and Robert Gonyea’s 2003 article entitled “The Role of the Academic Library in Promoting Student Engagement in Learning” appeared in College and Research Libraries in July 20...

Assessment, Accountability, and Student Learning Outcomes

In the last fifteen years two trends have gained prominence throughout higher education: assessment and accountability. For various historical reasons, and the source of considerable confusion, both are erroneously referred to as "assessment." The first, "assessment for excellence," is an information feedback process to guide individual students, faculty members, programs, and schools in improv...

A Machine Learning Approach to No-Reference Objective Video Quality Assessment for High Definition Resources

The video quality assessment must be adapted to the human visual system, which is why researchers have performed subjective viewing experiments in order to obtain the conditions of encoding of video systems to provide the best quality to the user. The objective of this study is to assess the video quality using image features extraction without using reference video. RMSE values and processing ...