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Direct linkBeran, Tanya; Violato, Claudio – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 2005
Several student and course characteristics were examined in relation to student ratings of instruction. Students at a major Canadian university completed the Universal Student Ratings of Instruction instrument at the end of every course over a three-year period, providing 371,131 student ratings. Analyses of between-group differences indicate that…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Evaluation, College Faculty, College Students
Ott, E. Stanley; Russell, James D. – Performance and Instruction, 1986
Addresses the problem of improving transfer of training from the seminar setting to participants' work setting and proposes use of a post-seminar lay-consultant program offering encouragement and technical counselling to participants. The training of 16 lay people as consultants and implementation of a consultant program for seminar participants…
Descriptors: Consultants, Consultation Programs, Counselor Role, Counselor Training
Peer reviewedPhillips, Gerald M.; And Others – American Journal of Distance Education, 1988
Describes the development of a computer-assisted college course in group performance skills (GPS) which was designed to expand the instructor's ability to monitor development of individual performance skills and assess their influence on the group output. Computer-mediated communication is explained, and its implications for distance education are…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Content, Decision Making Skills, Distance Education
Peer reviewedPerry, Michelle – Elementary School Journal, 1988
Explores relationships among student performance prior to instruction, problems students are assigned and performance after instruction in fourth-grade mathematics. Results indicate that assigning challenging materials may lead to notable gains on test of fourth-grade mathematics. Discusses implication of results for possible modification of…
Descriptors: Course Content, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedBarr, Rebecca – Elementary School Journal, 1988
Presents a theoretical analysis of how class conditions such as textbook organization and content, compositional characteristics of classes, instructional time and teachers' beliefs can influence the mathematics content that teachers introduce. Looks at implications for further study of teacher decision making, textbook content, and organization.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Course Content, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Peer reviewedPorter, Tod S.; Riley, Teresa M. – Journal of Economic Education, 1996
Compares academic performance between two groups of students in a statistics course. One group was given homework generated by computer software that provided feedback concerning incorrect answers. The other relied on the textbook without benefit of the feedback. The group using the software performed better on homework and tests. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Course Content
