The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) regularly prepares reports rating teacher preparation programs (TPPs) across the United States on a set of input and process-based standards. The purpose of the research described in this brief is to use data drawn from North Carolina to examine the associations between the NCTQ ratings of TPPs and two measures of teacher performance—teacher value-...

Introduction. In educational centers, evaluation of educational activities of teachers is done in different ways. One of the most common ways » nearly in all important universities « is student Evaluation of teaching (SET), which is done by questionnaires. Scientific evidences have showed that in spite of frequent usage of this kind of evaluation, opinions of students about teacher’s performa...

the motive behind this study was to evaluate the iranian state university efl entrance examination test (ueeet) based on bachman and palmer’s (1996) ‘usefulness six-faceted model ‘accommodating relia- bility, validity, impact, interactiveness, authenticity, and practicality. to do so, thirty professors and one-hundred efl freshmen were selected randomly from five universities. a questionnaire c...

This policy brief examines the distribution, effectiveness, and persistence of individuals entering the teaching profession with different forms of preparation. In comparison to teachers prepared by the University of North Carolina system, we find that: (1) North Carolina Independent College and University prepared teachers are less effective in middle grades mathematics and 5th and 8th grade s...

Object-oriented modeling plays an important role in computer science, particularly in the context of software development projects. It is for this reason that the UML (Unified Modeling Language), and therefore the design of UML diagrams, is necessarily present in the majority of computer science's courses in university. As the number of university students enrolled in such courses is growi...

Several instruments have been developed to monitor nursing students' subjective evaluation of clinical placement. The Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher (CLES+T) evaluation scale measures five dimensions. The purpose of this study was to translate and test the construct validity and internal consistency of the evaluation scale within a Norwegian context. The questionna...

This policy brief examines the distribution, effectiveness, and persistence of individuals entering the teaching profession with different forms of preparation. In comparison to teachers prepared by the University of North Carolina system, we find that: (1) North Carolina Independent College and University prepared teachers are less effective in middle grades mathematics and 5th and 8th grade s...

In recent years, designing useful learning diagnosis systems has become a hot research topic. In order to help teachers and designers to create useful e-learning environment we tried to find an evaluation method that would evaluate an applications’ usefulness and also its pedagogical abilities. Because one evaluator (typically a teacher, designer or planer) can hardly be an expert on all fields...

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