Investigating Postsecondary Staff Knowledge of Students with Disabilities Using a Web-based Survey

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Sheppard-Jones ◽  
Kristina M. Krampe ◽  
Fred Danner ◽  
William H. Berdine
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Land Grant University ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Rehabilitation Professionals ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The University

Students with physical and learning disabilities are choosing to continue their education beyond high school in ever increasing numbers. The quality of education received by these students can be impacted by the knowledge and responsiveness of their postsecondary institution to disability issues. A Web-based survey was conducted at one southeastern land grant university to ascertain: current knowledge levels of eight general disability topics relevant to higher education; ability to obtain services when needed; and day-to-day experiences staff have with people with disabilities. A total of 2130 staff (11 .4% of the total staff employed by the university) representing administrators, instructional employees, and auxiliary services participated in the survey. Results indicate staff have some basic knowledge but may lack access to specific resources when needed. Limitations of this survey methodology are discussed, as well as implications for rehabilitation professionals and researchers interested in Web-base surveying techniques that will build upon this study.

scholarly journals Towards Developing a Framework to Analyze the Qualities of the University Websites

Computers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Maliha Rashida ◽  
Kawsarul Islam ◽  
A. S. M. Kayes ◽  
Mohammad Hammoudeh ◽  
Mohammad Shamsul Arefin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Ranking ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
Notice Board ◽  
Academic Websites ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
The University ◽  
University Ranking Systems ◽  
Ranked List

The website of a university is considered to be a virtual gateway to provide primary resources to its stakeholders. It can play an indispensable role in disseminating information about a university to a variety of audience at a time. Thus, the quality of an academic website requires special attention to fulfil the users’ need. This paper presents a multi-method approach of quality assessment of the academic websites, in the context of universities of Bangladesh. We developed an automated web-based tool that can evaluate any academic website based on three criteria, which are as follows: content of information, loading time and overall performance. Content of information contains many sub criteria, such as university vision and mission, faculty information, notice board and so on. This tool can also perform comparative analysis among several academic websites and generate a ranked list of these. To the best of our knowledge, this is the very first initiative to develop an automated tool for accessing academic website quality in context of Bangladesh. Beside this, we have conducted a questionnaire-based statistical evaluation among several universities to obtain the respective users’ feedback about their academic websites. Then, a ranked list is generated based on the survey result that is almost similar to the ranked list got from the University ranking systems. This validates the effectiveness of our developed tool in accessing academic website.

scholarly journals Pursuing Opportunities Available to Support Your Own Learning: A Case Study: University of Guyana Library

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Debra Lowe ◽  
Simmone La Rose ◽  
Nalisa Bhagwandin
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
The University ◽  
Continual Learning

This article provides an assessment of the pathways Librarians at the University of Guyana Library (UGL) explored to achieve continual learning for professional growth and self-development.The writers adopted a survey method to capture data from sixteen senior professionals from the University of Guyana Library. The findings revealed that while the University of Guyana Administration provided some avenues for professional growth and development for all professionals, there were some areas that required a more structured and equitable approach.  The findings indicated that much more can be done to facilitate growth and development for senior Library professionals, particularly in the field of Librarianship. From the discussions, the researchers concluded that in spite of the limited access to available resources, Library senior professionals actively pursued alternative avenues to enhance and advance learning. This was intended to acquire current knowledge and practice so that they may provide a higher quality of service to their clientele; further, their experience (in the process) will assist in enhancing their professional development and personal growth.

A Web-Based Interactive Questionnaire for PV Application

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Zheng Dai ◽  
Kasper Paasch
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Design ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Industrial Buildings ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
The University ◽  
Quality Of Research ◽  
Product Concepts

Questionnaire is a fundamental method for investigation and research, but participants get tired about it, because of the impression of being long and boring, which causes low quality of research. The authors developed an interactive questionnaire as an effective method to involve responder actively. The development of this tool is dynamic process, which goes with a research project called Sunrise-PV. The project is led by the University of Southern Denmark and is collaboration between local organizations to popularize PV system in both residential and the industrial buildings. For such an innovative research, the authors adopt participatory design as research method to develop the research tool in several iterations. Moreover, the authors get a balanced perspective between user needs, market viability, and technical feasibility, which guide their research focus on the artistic and usability aspects, and also raise product concepts and the concern of technical issues.

scholarly journals ALUMNI TRACER STUDY SYSTEM DESIGN USING WEB-BASED GPS (CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITAS ADVENT INDONESIA)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1801-1817
Author(s):  
Gastan Gaoudio Thomas ◽  
Elmor Wagiu
Keyword(s):  
System Development ◽  
Tracer Study ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Special Service ◽  
Global Positioning ◽  
New Graduate ◽  
The University ◽  
Web Based System

Introduction: Graduate is one of the important support in the development of a university. Graduate have a role to assist universities in developing the university into the community through collaboration in academic terms. Since the establishment of the Adventist University of Indonesia (UNAI) to date has resulted in 12 608 qualified graduates, but the problems that exist today data on students graduated from UNAI difficult to find because UNAI not have a special service for containing information about the data the continuation of a career each of graduate that will be created as the relationships that can support the advancement of the quality of the Graduate at Adventist University of Indonesia. Methods: With the difficulty of knowing the whereabouts of graduate, an graduate tracer study system was created using Web-based GPS that aims to make it easier for universities to find out the alumni position and is expected to be able to overcome the problems above. The graduate tracer study system was designed using a website-based system. .The system of Graduate tracer study was designed using a web-based system. The system is easy to use by any user because it is built using the waterfall method as a method of system development, laravel framework for building websites and using the Global Positioning System (GPS) locator that serves Graduate. Results: The end result of this research is to facilitate UNAI system to track and determine the position of the Graduate as well as get information takes on new Graduate pass or long pass which spread to various area Discussion: It is expected that the future can be developed to add features that are useful scholarship to help students who are still studying, and add graphs about graduate information in getting a job.

scholarly journals PENYUSUNAN FEATURE MODEL DENGAN PENDEKATAN FODA. STUDI KASUS APLIKASI ELEARNING UNIVERSITAS MERCUBUANA

Petir ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-71
Author(s):  
Redaksi Tim Jurnal
Keyword(s):  
Feature Model ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
Management Application ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Application Requirements ◽  
The University

One of the roles in information and communication technology to improve the quality of learning and teachingin educational organizations is to conduct a web-based learning facility that e-learning. In  general, there are two types of software that is generic and bespoke (customized), in this study we found that the university mercubuana customized using generic applications. Featured model is a way to define the functionality of the application based on the features required by user features, the features of these features can be grouped based on necessity (mandatory) and supplementary (optional). Preparation of requirements-based features proposed in this study is intended as the reference management application requirements e-learning mapped clearly and well. So it can be helpful to the development of future applications.

scholarly journals A formative evaluation of a web-based tutorial

Curationis ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
SM Meyer
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Nursing Science ◽  
National Qualifications Framework ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The University ◽  
New Education ◽  
And Training

Lecturers of the Department of Nursing Science of the University of Pretoria (UP) were requested to participate in an informal evaluation of a software program. The software evaluated were developed as a tutorial by the author of this article. The content of the tutorial concerns the current issues of the new education and training dispensation in South Africa, and specifically how to compile unit standards to meet the requirements of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the quality of the software. Participants were provided with a questionnaire, as well as criteria for the evaluation of software as presented in literature and information on the Web. The feedback has been useful and suggestions made by the participants have been used to improve and add to the product.

scholarly journals Slider Bars in Multi-Device Web Surveys

2019 ◽  
pp. 089443931987913
Author(s):  
Angelica M. Maineri ◽  
Ivano Bison ◽  
Ruud Luijkx
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Initial Position ◽  
Web Survey ◽  
Web Surveys ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The University

This study explores some features of slider bars in the context of a multi-device web survey. Using data collected among the students of the University of Trento in 2015 and 2016 by means of two web surveys ( N = 6,343 and 4,124) including two experiments, we investigated the effect of the initial position of the handle and the presence of numeric labels on answers provided using slider bars. It emerged that the initial position of the handle affected answers and that the number of rounded scores increased with numeric feedback. Smartphone respondents appeared more sensitive to the initial position of the handle but also less affected by the presence of numeric labels resulting in a lower tendency to rounding. Yet, outcomes on anchoring were inconclusive. Overall, no relevant differences have been detected between tablet and PC respondents. Understanding to what extent interactive and engaging tools such as slider bars can be successfully employed in multi-device surveys without affecting data quality is a key challenge for those who want to exploit the potential of web-based and multi-device data collection without undermining the quality of measurement.

Encouraging Sustainable Environment Using Bicycle Sharing System in University Campus, Bangkok

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
JinHai Yan
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Transportation Modes ◽  
Bike Sharing ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The University ◽  
Bicycle Sharing System

Chulalongkorn University (CU) is the oldest university in Thailand. In the campus, it provides various environmentally friendly transportation modes such as shuttle buses, EV sharing vehicles, bicycles, and cover way for walking. Students today need convenient and fast commuting in the campus. As a new emerging way for students using, bike-sharing system (BSS) has been provided in the campus since 2014. However, the BSS in CU is still not so efficient and unpopular. This research aims to find out how to encourage the use of on-campus BSS in CU by using various research methods including interview, questionnaires and observation plans, and the researcher own experiences on using BSS in the campus. The survey results indicate that only 2% used bicycle for traveling from accommodation to the university; the most popular transportation mode was MRT/BTS, followed by public bus for graduate students, and by walking for undergraduate students. This implies that most of the respondents preferred public transportation rather than using their own cars or motorcycles. Upon questions about the preferring on-campus transportation modes, it was found that nearly half preferred using shuttle bus, followed by walking, while only 2.4% prefer using BSS. The university should raise awareness of the students to realize advantages of the BSS and providing more opportunities for students to know the bike-sharing system. Then, the university should improve the quality of the sharing bikes and motivate more students to use the system.Keywords: Bike-sharing system; University campus; Encouraging using

An Evaluation of WebCT Course Content Management System at the University of Botswana

2012 ◽  
pp. 205-232
Author(s):  
Adeyinka Tella ◽  
S. M. Mutula ◽  
Athulang Mutshewa ◽  
Angelina Totolo
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Access Network ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
University Of Botswana ◽  
The University ◽  
Network Server

This study evaluated a WebCT course content management (CCMS) system at the University of Botswana. Survey methodology was used and questionnaires were distributed to 503 students selected from six faculties, and an in-depth interview were conducted involving (20) twenty lecturers who teach via the WebCT platform. Findings reveal that, generally, WebCT CCMS is doing well at the University of Botswana and that the system has been a success. The results also confirm the quality of course materials uploaded on the system, that is, service quality and the quality of the teaching and learning via the system. Furthermore, by learning through WebCT, students are able to self regulate their learning and, given the opportunity, they are ready to use and continue learning using the WebCT platform. Results also indicate that generally students are satisfied with the performance of WebCT and that there are many benefits associated with the system in context to teaching and learning at the university. Problems associated with WebCT CCMS that are experienced by staff and students of the University include access, network /server failure, lack of link between ITS and WebCT, lack of teaching expertise using WebCT, and failure to remove completed courses from the system.

scholarly journals Inclusive methodologies from the teaching perspective for improving performance in university students with disabilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Alejandro Lorenzo-Lledó ◽  
Gonzalo Lorenzo ◽  
Asunción Lledó ◽  
Elena Pérez-Vázquez
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
University Students ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
University Education ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
The University

One of the challenges proposed by the European framework for higher education has been to develop a quality and accessible university education in order to reduce situations of exclusion of disabled students. In this sense, it is essential to reduce the existing gap in the academic performance of this group with respect to other students. The general objective of this study has been to analyze the application of inclusive methodologies in university students with disabilities from a teaching perspective. The adopted methodology was non-experimental quantitative with a sample of 313 teachers from the University of Alicante who have taught students with disabilities and who responded to a questionnaire designed ad hoc of 51 items. The results obtained show that teachers frequently use visual aids and use the same materials both in theory and in practice. Concerning perceptions, teachers consider that students with disabilities should acquire the same skills as the rest of their classmates and it was not difficult for them to teach them. Furthermore, the results showed significant differences in perceptions according to the professional category and the branch of knowledge of the teachers. From the aforementioned, it can be concluded that, although positive changes are perceived in teaching methodologies, it is necessary to continue making progress in improving teaching practice and the quality of education that facilitates the conditions for the academic performance of people with disabilities in Spanish universities.

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