OBJECTIVE To improve clinical teaching with emphasis on improving provision of feedback through a faculty development series modeled on clinical rounds. METHOD Seven 1-hour conferences were held for the pediatric faculty during the academic year 1994-1995. Clinical rounds were emulated, with a simulated learner functioning as the patient with a chief complaint of some instructional problem. T...

Over the past century, student ratings have steadily continued to take precedence in faculty evaluation systems in North America and Australia, are increasingly reported in Asia and Europe and are attracting considerable attention in the Far East. Since student ratings are the most, if not the only, influential measure of teaching effectiveness, active participation by and meaningful input from...

In a still relevant AAHE Bulletin article on evaluation and teaching improvement, Weimer (1987) describes summative evaluation of teaching. She writes that summative evaluation is a judgment about teaching that is used to make a decision—a decision about promotion, tenure, or, even, teaching awards. A summative evaluation of teaching attempts to summarize the complex phenomena of teaching. It t...

BACKGROUND Hospitalists are increasingly serving as inpatient attendings at teaching hospitals. The educational impact of this new model is unclear. We evaluated the relationship between type of attending (hospitalist vs traditional) and trainees' ratings of attending teaching and the overall ward rotation. METHODS We analyzed data from a Web-based evaluation system containing all house staff...

The Teaching Assessment and Evaluation Guide provides instructors with starting-points for reflecting on their teaching, and with advice on how to gather feedback on their teaching practices and effectiveness as part of a systematic program of teaching development. As well, the Guide provides guidance on how teaching might be fairly and effectively evaluated, which characteristics of teaching m...

The English teaching quality evaluation model based on the DS-SVM is put forward aimed at the defect of scientific nature and low reliability of the evaluation results of current English teaching quality. First of all, from the perspective of information integration, construct the evaluation index system and adopt SAM to establish the evaluation models of English teaching quality in view of the...

In order to conduct scientific and rational evaluation of teaching effect of dancesport public elective, this study establishes the evaluation index system model including the scientifically property, educational property, technical property and artistic property, 4 classifications and 16 small classes in general, on the basis of literature review and consulting experts. Determine the weight of...

Recent advances in industrial production and manufacturing processes as well as the rapidly increasing global competition are key drivers in a growing demand for improving personnel competences in maintenance management. Most employees in the manufacturing sector are beyond the typical age of standard education, thus traditional teaching methods are not sufficient. Vocational Education and Trai...

This paper presents a linear structural equation model in analyzing the influencing factors on learning interest in the course “Algorithms and Data Structures” in computer science. Our results show that the main factors impacted on learning interest of the students are students’ specialized basis and teachers’ teaching strategies. Another innovation closely related to this teaching reform is a ...