Educating Geographers with GIS Skills for the Real World: Some Feedback from Geography Graduates at Southwest Texas State University

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Benjamin Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
State University ◽  
The Real

Building a Better Prelims

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 366-369
Author(s):  
Anne Collins McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Real World ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
State University ◽  
The Real ◽  
North Carolina State University ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Pedagogical Goals

During the fall of 2015, the Human Factors and Applied Cognition Area at North Carolina State University entirely revised the preliminary exam for Ph.D. candidacy to match human factors pedagogical goals and the real-world needs of the students. Emphasis in the new preliminary exam is on transparency, objectivity, and productivity, particularly the re-use of materials. The new exam assesses depth and breadth of knowledge, requires demonstration of research and teaching skills, and is preparation for work in either academia or industry. The following paper details the process and products relating to the new “portfolio” preliminary exam.

scholarly journals Use Of Outcome Measures To Modernize Curricula

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Patrick McLaughlin ◽  
Jason White
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Real World ◽  
Outcomes Assessment ◽  
State University ◽  
The Real ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Outcome Measurements ◽  
Major Player

In the current environment in higher education of trying to substantiate and justify that you are doing a great job as a department educating your students to be prepared for the “real world”, outcomes assessment is a major player.  But as many departments have found, “once you have received the feedback, now what do you do with it?”  Our paper will discuss how some of the outcome measurements that we use at Northwest Missouri State University in the Finance discipline become our decision drivers in course content and curricular reformation.

Current Issues: Evidence-Based Practice for the Real World: Thoughts on Clinical Education in Communication Disorders

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne K. Bothe
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Real ◽  
Language Pathology

This article presents some streamlined and intentionally oversimplified ideas about educating future communication disorders professionals to use some of the most basic principles of evidence-based practice. Working from a popular five-step approach, modifications are suggested that may make the ideas more accessible, and therefore more useful, for university faculty, other supervisors, and future professionals in speech-language pathology, audiology, and related fields.

The Real-World Fellowship

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
LEE SAVIO BEERS
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Real

Contracts in the Real World

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence A. Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Real
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