PVGoesGlobal: Reimagining Intercultural Learning & Global Student Mobility at Prairie View A&M University

Student Learning Experience with an Industry Certification Course at University

This is an analysis of the computer generated feedback from an industry certification course, as taught as part of a university unit. A method for extracting useful information from the available course evaluation data is proposed, and the method is shown to be effective and reasonable. Conclusions for the particular unit are drawn. In particular it is shown that the unit was successful in givi...

Quantitative and qualitative measures of student learning at university level

This paper reports the use of quantitative and qualitative measures of university student learning during teaching in psychiatry. Concept mapping, pre-and post test scores and performance in written assignments were used to measure the quality of change in personal understanding and to show the ways that the knowledge-targets of the course were achieved. The data show that: (1) Concept mapping ...

Reimagining Khan Analytics for Student Coaches

Intercultural Learning

Intercultural learning refers to the acquisition of knowledge and skills that support the ability of learners to both understand culture and interact with people from cultures different from their own. It is developmental in the sense that learners advance through stages of progressively more sophisticated stages of understanding. This understanding includes that of different cultures as well a...

Learning patterns of university student retention

Learning predictors for student retention is very difficult. After reviewing the literature, it is evident that there is considerable room for improvement in the current state of the art. As shown in this paper, improvements are possible if we (a) explore a wide range of learning methods; (b) take care when selecting attributes; (c) assess the efficacy of the learned theory not just by its medi...