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...

This paper introduces a multimodal input system, called “speech pen” that assists digital writing during lectures or presentations with background speech and handwriting recognition. The instructor basically freely speaks to the audience and writes on an electronic whiteboard as usual. The system recognizes those speech and handwriting in the background and provides the instructor with predicti...

Historically, adventure-based research and models have inadequately described the role of the instructor in the process of student learning of transferable outcomes. The purpose of this case study was to investigate the influence of instructors from the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) on learning perceived to be transferable. Qualitative data indicated students perceive instructors to...

Objective: The present study was designed to evaluate the extent which students were benefited from active learning approach of teaching. It intended check usefulness whiteboard as a teaching medium instead more commonly used audio-visual aids like PowerPoint. Method: is cross-sectional descriptive questionnaire-based study. Interactive strategy diagnostic lecture. Instructor only encouraging i...

This study sought to examine instructor immediacy and presence in an online learning environment in relation to student affective learning, cognition, and motivation. It found a statistically significant positive relationship between instructor immediacy and presence. It also found that the linear combination of instructor immediacy and presence is a statistically significant predictor of stude...

On-line collaboration is an instructional method that facilitates collaboration in an on-line learning setting. To promote effective collaboration, it is vital to reveal both the student’s and the instructor’s point of view pertaining to effective on-line collaboration. In this study, the effectiveness of a learning management system in on-line collaboration was first investigated in a graduate...