This article describes a complex study designed to assess the efficacy of two faculty development programs, one extended three-year program and one intensive five-day summer workshop, which were intended to help faculty members learn about, design, and implement active, student-centered teaching techniques. The authors note that faculty development programs are typically evaluated through parti...

Certification is the process by which individual practitioners of a profession are deemed competent, by a peer review process, to practice that profession. Criminalistics is a rather young profession, and until the recent publicity occasioned by a myriad of television dramas and documentaries, a rather obscure one. There has been little oversight of the profession and little call for such overs...

Writing and managing programs for parallel systems is a difficult task. It is a great challenge for designers of visual programming languages to provide tools that will help in the process. This paper describes a new graph based tool called Visper that provides a multidimensional environment for program composition. Our approach combines different levels of abstraction at which parallel program...

We describe the modular development of correct parallel software with the Meander system from high-level speciications down to a concrete implementation, based on a communicating algebra formalism. We focus on the external behavior of the components and keep the behavioral properties through reenement and abstraction. A combination of a exible set of syntactical metarules and nite model checkin...

Teachers’ professional development is a life-long and continuous process in which teachers are expected to upgrade their knowledge, master new skills, change practices, since advancement teaching career has an impact on students’ achievement education reform. This study determines the teachers’ assessment of programs at Public Authority for Applied Education Traini...

We developed "co-op practice(work integrated learning)”in 2005. In this practicum, teams made up of a mix of graduates and undergraduates are given projects developed by various companies. The teams have to solve the problem in six month and its long-term programs. The practicum enables the graduates to take a leadership role in project management and contributes to their area of specialization...

The use of the DEEP development environment to analyze parallel program performance is described. The full integrated environment contains tools for the creation, analysis and debugging of parallel programs. All information is related back to the original parallel source code. This paper describes the program analysis portion of DEEP, with examples of its use on data parallel programs (HPF and ...

The complexity of services and products has driven organizations to utilize programs to manage different kinds of development tasks that are far too complicated to be organized through single projects. In the multi-project organizing frame, coordination between the participating actors is one of the key factors that distinguish successful programs from unsuccessful ones. This dissertation focus...