scholarly journals Course Evaluation for Low Pass Rate Improvement in Engineering Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Khmaies Ouahada
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Course Evaluation ◽  
Pass Rate ◽  
The Core ◽  
Low Pass ◽  
Rate Improvement ◽  
Course Material ◽  
Students Satisfaction

A course evaluation is a process that includes evaluations of lecturers’ teaching performances and their course material moderations. These two procedures are usually implemented, whether officially by the faculty of engineering or by lecturers’ own initiatives, to help identify lecturers’ strengths and weaknesses and the ways forward to improve their performances and their qualities of teaching. This paper presents different ways of implementing these two criteria from students’ and professionals’ perspectives. Official questionnaires from the faculty of engineering, personal questionnaires using Google surveys, Moodle and special designed forms have been used for moderation and evaluations. The process of evaluation is the core of a feedback procedure followed by universities in order for them to monitor the teaching quality of their staff. Satisfactory results show that such a process can improve the lecturers’ teaching performances, courses material quality, students’ satisfaction and performances, and finally the pass rate of the class.

scholarly journals Kaizen in university teaching: continuous course improvement

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 975-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Kregel
Keyword(s):  
Participation Rate ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Course Evaluation ◽  
Course Evaluations ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Course Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Quality Feedback ◽  
Course Material

PurposeThe current evaluation standards in German higher education institutions (HEIs) do not often lead to measurable quality improvement. The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate whether Kaizen can improve the quality of teaching. The presented concept illustrates the evaluation of each course unit to continuously encourage quality feedback from the learners and intensify the exchange with lecturers.Design/methodology/approachAction research is used to combine the continuous improvement philosophy of Kaizen with student course evaluations. A pilot study of the concept provides data from four course cycles to analyze learnings and setbacks.FindingsLearners in the pilot courses welcomed the intense participation and allowed improvements to elements such as course concept, course material, presentation style and content or detail selection. The participation rate declined during each term and was highly influenced by triggers like exam and grade relevance. Kaizen could successfully improve course quality, especially in the first two years of newly developed courses.Research limitations/implicationsThe presented results have been collected from one course over four years in one institution. The next stage of research would be the application of the approach in other institutions to validate results and make potential adjustments to the concept, for example, toward continuous learning.Originality/valueAlthough course evaluation has become standard in German HEIs, most institutions only implement it once per term or year. This paper discusses a new approach to expedite the evaluation of teaching quality at the point of action (Gemba) to facilitate the short-term reactions of lecturers.

Teaching Reform of Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing Course in Higher Vocational Colleges Based on OBE Education Concept from the Perspective of Big Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanshan Huang ◽  
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Huifang Chen ◽  
Hua Cao ◽  
Lulu Yan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Curriculum Evaluation ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Obstetrics And Gynecology ◽  
The Core ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Vocational Colleges

The application of big data puts forward new requirements for the talent training mode and curriculum reform of big data in higher vocational colleges. Through statistical data, the classroom quality can be measured, evaluated and traced. Under the framework of “Internet plus big data”, taking the cultivation of innovative ability as the core, realizing the multidimensional integration of technology and science, general knowledge and specialty, teaching and research, and teachers and students has become a new concept and Practice for improving the quality of big data talents training in higher vocational colleges. Obstetrics and gynecology nursing is one of the core courses of nursing specialty in higher vocational colleges, which is of great significance to the cultivation of professional talents. The purpose of nursing specialty in higher vocational colleges is to cultivate skilled and technical applied talents to meet the needs of medical and health posts, which requires the combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills, so as to cultivate students’ clinical thinking and ability. There are some problems in the course design of Obstetrics and gynecology nursing in higher vocational colleges, such as the derailment of theoretical teaching and practical teaching, teaching materials lagging behind the update of clinical skills, students’ low learning initiative, single teaching mode and so on. Based on the OBE teaching concept from the perspective of big data, this paper carries out curriculum design, curriculum implementation and Curriculum Evaluation Guided by students’ learning achievements, and through the reverse design of achievements, highlights the student-centered, quantifies teaching output, and cultivates students’ learning ability and creativity. By reasonably mobilizing students’ learning initiative, students can achieve “self-education, self-management, self-service, and common improvement”, so as to improve the teaching quality of this course, improve students’ clinical skills, promote the self-development of teachers and students, and realize the “winwin” of education.

scholarly journals Dynamic clustering to evaluate satisfaction with teaching at university

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1070-1081
Author(s):  
Francesca Bassi
Keyword(s):  
Latent Class ◽  
Markov Models ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
University Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The University ◽  
Students Satisfaction ◽  
Class Models ◽  
Over Time

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to measure students’ satisfaction with the didactics in a large Italian university, that of Padua, giving special attention to its evolution over time in consecutive academic years. The overall level of the quality of the didactics is examined and its change over time is modeled. Moreover, the effect of courses’ and teachers’ variables on it is estimated.Design/methodology/approachLatent cluster class models and mixture latent class Markov models are estimated in order to identify groups of courses that are homogeneous for the level of the quality of the didactics. Evolution over the three academic years of satisfaction is monitored. The effect on the clustering and its dynamics of potential covariates is also examined.FindingsResults of model estimation reveal some interesting evidences that are important indications for the university management to define targeted strategies to elevate teaching quality.Originality/valueThe paper gives its original contribution both on the side of methods applied to analyze data collected with students evaluation of teaching and on the evidences obtained for a large university.

Cloud Hierarchical Analysis for Educational Resources of Engineering Education Accreditation in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 2577-2580
Author(s):  
Niu Xiao ◽  
Kai Hu Hou ◽  
Wei Zhen Liao
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Geometric Mean ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Hierarchical Analysis ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Core ◽  
Calculation Results

The core of engineering education Accreditation is to estimate engineering education qualification of each institute and make a direction for institutes development. The purpose of Accreditation is to improve universities ability to educate high quality engineers and to enhance Chinese engineering education and to make pace with international engineering education. Educational resources that affect the engineering education accreditation is one of important factors, Therefore, the model of educational resource for engineering education Accreditation becomes very important to insure the quality of Accreditation. This paper use Cloud Hierarchical Analysis (CHA) to deal with the fuzziness and uncertainty in the engineering education Accreditation. The Cloud Hierarchical Analysis can efficiently describe the fuzziness and randomness of judgment graphically by cloud figure and provide a picture for decision maker. Using cloud operator and geometric mean method to calculate the Cloud weights for each positive reciprocal Cloud matrix, and these weights are combined to determine the final Cloud scores for the alternatives. Finally, the calculation results show that Cloud Hierarchical Analysis model is suitable for educational resources of engineering education Accreditation.

An artificial intelligence based model for evaluation of college students’ ability and characteristics through teaching evaluation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Bin Li ◽  
Yanying Fei ◽  
Hui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Developmental Potential ◽  
The Core ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Quality Evaluation System

The teaching quality is the core of sustainable development in colleges and universities. The constructing scientific and reasonable teaching quality evaluation system is the key of teaching quality evaluation. This paper takes the quality of graduates as the core content, establishes a results-oriented teaching quality evaluation system in colleges and universities, and finds that the academic level of graduates and the level of competition in career selection are two quantitative dimensions reflecting the quality of graduates. Based on this, this paper establishes the evaluation model of the developmental potential index and gives the reference of the norm of teaching effect evaluation for self-evaluation. Finally, this paper discusses the components of graduate quality and the way to construct the evaluation system.

scholarly journals Improving the quality of clinical training in the workplace: implementing formative assessment visits

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Mash ◽  
Zelra Malan ◽  
Julia Blitz ◽  
Jill Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Family Physicians ◽  
Pass Rate ◽  
District Health ◽  
Low Pass ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The University

Family physicians have a key role to play in strengthening district health services in South Africa. There are a number of barriers to the supply of these specialists in family medicine, one of which is the quality of workplace-based training and low pass rate in the national exit examination. The South African Academy of Family Physicians in collaboration with the Royal College of General Practitioners has adopted a short course to train clinical trainers and a process of formative assessment visits (FAVs) for clinical trainers in the workplace. Training programmes have struggled to implement the FAVs and this article reports on the experience at Stellenbosch University and the issues identified. Clinical trainers who participated in FAVs mostly set developmental goals for themselves that focused on improving the learning environment and consolidating personal skills in training and assessment. The FAVs were beneficial for the family physician trainers, their managers and the academic family physicians at the university. The tools and process for conducting the FAVs may be of value to other programmes.

scholarly journals Assessing the Teaching Quality of Economics Programme: Instructor Course Evaluations

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-567
Author(s):  
Eglantina Hysa ◽  
Naqeeb Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Course Evaluation ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Evaluation Survey

Introduction.In recent years, measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of higher education has become a major issue. Most developed countries are using national surveys to measure teaching and assessment as key determinants of students’ approaches to learning which have direct effect on the quality of their learning outcomes. In less developed countries, there does not exist a national survey. This paper aims to propose an original questionnaire assessing the teaching quality. The specifics of this questionnaire, termed as the Instructor Course Evaluation Survey, is that it addresses three main dimensions, such as: Learning Resources, Teaching Effectiveness, and Student Support. Materials and Methods. The paper opted for an analytic study using 3,776 completed questionnaires. This is a case study applied to the students enrolled in economics program in a private university in Albania. The Instructor Course Evaluation Survey design was supported by the literature review, identifying the three main dimensions included in the questionnaire. The reliability was tested with Cronbach’s alpha and with Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The use of Confirmatory Factor Analysis helps in identifying issues of multi-dimensionality in scales. Results. The paper provides empirical insights into the assessing methodology and brings a new model of it. The finding suggests that Learning Resources, Teaching Effectiveness and Student Support increase the quality of teaching. Because of the chosen research target group, students from economics program, the research results may not be generalizable. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test the proposed statements further. Discussion and Conclussion.The paper includes implications for the development of a simple and useful questionnaire assessing the quality of teaching. Although Instructor Course Evaluation Survey was applied specifically to economics program, the proposed questionnaire can be broadly applied. This paper fulfills an identified need to propose an original and simple questionnaire to be used from different universities and programs to measure the quality of teaching.

scholarly journals Towards Automation in Admission Process as a Tool to Enhance Quality of Engineering Education at Tribhuvan University

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
Babu Ram Dawadi ◽  
Daya Sagar Baral
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Pass Rate ◽  
Admission Process ◽  
Entrance Exam ◽  
Admission System ◽  
Affiliated Colleges

 Institute of Engineering (IOE), Tribhuvan University (TU) is the government owned oldest institution in Nepal providing quality education in the engineering domain since 1972. However in the recent decade, other several universities are established in the country, IOE hasn’t lost its popularity with its major features to have dedication on quality education to fulfill the world class education. As a public institution, it provides equal opportunities for all qualified citizens to enter into the university education. With the increasing number of affiliated colleges and applicants, the entrance exam and admission system are becoming challenging. Accepting the challenges, IOE adapted online applications and admit card generation with computer based entrance exam since 2014. Since recent past years, the student pass rate in the semester exams is not satisfactory. It raised the quality issues and required to find the causes so as to enhance quality. However there are several factors that affect the education quality, we identified that the admission process followed in most of the affiliated colleges is partially in the meritorious basis that affects the semester exam results. From this paper, we analyzed the past admission process and the student’s status in semester exam where we tried to co-relate the quality intake in entrance exam and the semester exam of IOE. We proposed an optimal technical framework to admit merit based applicants through online centralized admission system that helps to overcome the admission challenges and enhance the quality of engineering education of IOE.Journal of the Institute of Engineering, 2017, 13(1): 48-59

QUALITY ISSUES IN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATION

1994 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
VINCENT K. OMACHONU ◽  
NORMAN G. EINSPRUCH
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Schools

The quality of undergraduate engineering education is at the center of the discussion on global competitiveness and innovation. Engineering schools in the United States are being compelled to evaluate the quality of their “products”, and to redesign them to meet or exceed the expectations of their constituents. Any effort aimed at redesigning an engineering curriculum must begin with an understanding of the gap that exists between the present and desired input into the educational process. This gap is manifested in the form of the following key components: i) The Curriculum, ii) Teaching Quality, iii) Faculty Quality, iv) Support Services, v) Advising Quality, vi) Accreditation Standards, and vii) Undergraduate Faculty. The gap between the present and desired input is largely responsible for a second gap between the present and desired output. The concept of Total Quality Management (TQM) can be of great benefit to reform-minded engineering schools. This paper seeks to establish congruency between the needs of engineering schools and the ultimate goals of TQM. If engineering schools are to fulfil their academic and professional objectives, they must pay attention to the needs of their constituents, particularly the students, employers of its graduates, and the faculty.

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