Library Instruction and the Underprepared College Student

A Study of Underprepared Students at One Community College : Assessing the Impact of Student and Institutional Input , Environmental , and Output

This study identified input, environmental, and output variables accounting for differences between successful and unsuccessful groups of underprepared students at Johnson County Community College (Kansas). The study applied an adaptation of Alexander Astin's input-environment-output model of assessing student and institutional effectiveness. "Underprepared" students (n=313) were defined as ear...

Effectiveness of Student Feedback in Modifying College Instruction

An experimental study was conducted at five colleges to investigate the extent to which college teachers modify their instructional practices after receiving student feedback. Variables included teaching experience, sex, and self-ratings of the instructor, as well as course subject area. On the basis of equilibrium theory, a major hypothesis of this study was that student ratings would produce ...

Assessment of library instruction to develop student information literacy skills.

Student Ratings of Instruction: True or False

Introduction. Students' evaluation of teaching is a major concern in higher education. In this regard, during the past 30 years hundreds of papers have been published which because of various grounds from valid, reliable to useless, such papers cannot be easily summarized. The present study investigated for two purposes, first was to out line opinions of two groups of advocates and opposites a...

Investigating Differences in Personality Traits and Academic Needs Among Prepared and Underprepared First-Year College Students