Student-based teaching evaluations are one critical component of instructor and course evaluation in most universities. The purpose of this study is to critically examine several factors that drive student-based ratings of instructors and courses in an undergraduate mechanical engineering program. The findings are based on a statistical study of student ratings in 181 mechanical engineering cou...

Past research indicates several factors influencing teaching evaluation ratings instructors receive. We analyzed teaching evaluations from psychology courses during fall and spring semesters of 2003– 2004 to determine if class size, class level, instructor gender, number of publications (faculty instructors), average grade given by the instructor, and instructor rank predicted teaching evaluati...

Introduction: Although nursing students spend a large partof their learning period in the clinical environment, clinicallearning has not been perceived by its nature yet. To develop aninstrument to measure effective factors on clinical learning innursing students.Methods: This is a mixed methods study performed in 2 steps.First, the researchers defined “clinical learning” in nursingstudents thr...

the effect of chair position on respiratory parameters in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation     fallahinia ghh [1] ,baghcheghi n [2] ,oshvandi kh [3] *,taher a [4] , soltanian ar [5]     received: 7 feb, 2013 accepted: 15 may, 2013    abstract  background & aims : there are many barriers to the movement of patients requiring mechanical ventilation and these patients are at risk for com...

The necessity to help baccalaureate nursing students transition to clinical practice in a health care environment governed by change has compelled nurse educators to investigate alternative clinical instruction models that nurture academic-practice partnerships and facilitate student clinical learning. This article describes an academic-practice partnership in a community hospital using the Cli...