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Analyzing the Moderating Effect of Knowledge Innovation of Tourism and Hospitality Department Teachers on Student Creative Self-Efficacy and Innovation Behaviors by Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Chang, Yuan-Cheng – Cogent Education, 2018
This study aims to explore how the tourism and hospitality department promotes the influence of teachers' knowledge innovation on students' creativity self-efficacy and innovation behaviors. Taking teachers and students in tourism and hospitality departments of 30 universities and colleges in Taiwan as subjects and analyzed by hierarchical linear…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Tourism, Hospitality Occupations, Self Efficacy
Investigating the Perceptions of Intellectual Diversity among Socially Conservative Christian Seniors at Elite U.S. Colleges
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Brow, Mark V. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2016
This study investigated the perceptions of intellectual diversity at elite U.S. universities through the lens of the socially conservative Christian senior. Closely aligned with the principle of academic freedom, intellectual diversity is a foundational value putatively espoused by most if not all colleges and universities in the US. Although…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Selective Admission, Christianity
Whose Feedback? A Multilevel Analysis of Student Completion of End-of-Term Teaching Evaluations
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Macfadyen, Leah P.; Dawson, Shane; Prest, Stewart; Gaševic, Dragan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Student evaluation of teaching (SET) is now common practice across higher education, with the results used for both course improvement and quality assurance purposes. While much research has examined the validity of SETs for measuring teaching quality, few studies have investigated the factors that influence student participation in the SET…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Course Evaluation
Faculty Scholarship Has a Profound Positive Association with Student Evaluations of Teaching--Except When It Doesn't
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Carter, Robert E. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2016
Conventional wisdom holds that research-productive faculty are also the finest instructors. But, is this commonly held belief correct? In the current study, the notion that faculty scholarship exhibits a positive association with teaching evaluations is investigated. Reflecting the data structure of faculty nested within university, the current…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Scholarship, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Correlation
Multilevel Higher-Order Item Response Theory Models
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Huang, Hung-Yu; Wang, Wen-Chung – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
In the social sciences, latent traits often have a hierarchical structure, and data can be sampled from multiple levels. Both hierarchical latent traits and multilevel data can occur simultaneously. In this study, we developed a general class of item response theory models to accommodate both hierarchical latent traits and multilevel data. The…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Computation, Test Reliability
Learning Science Online: What Matters for Science Teachers?
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Rowe, Elizabeth; Asbell-Clarke, Jodi – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2008
Online education is a rapidly growing phenomenon for science teachers. Using a sample of 40 online science courses for teachers offered during the 2004-2005 academic year, the Learning Science Online (LSO) study explores what characteristics of online science courses are most strongly associated with positive learning outcomes among science…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Science Instruction, Educational Technology, Hierarchical Linear Modeling