In Their Own Words: Student Key Learning Experiences in an Introductory Evaluation Course

Student reflections on their key learning experiences in evaluation courses can be useful data for educators seeking to understand which aspects of their teaching practice are most impactful. This practice note describes how we analyze students’ reflections on their key learning experiences using 1) grounded theory, 2) Fink’s taxonomy of significant learning (2013), and 3) the American Evaluation Association’s Competencies framework (2018), and how we use the frameworks and data to understand our teaching of evaluation practice.

Styles & Approaches of the city image in students' paintings of Fine Arts Academy

one can say that the social and urban environment could influence the general culture and establish a vision for individuals on the place and on its symbols and realistic imaginary image too. In light of this, the paintings' outputs will be one of the means of expression about the places, and how to recall and reuse them, and then, they form the styles through which the identity of the artistic work can be achieved or what it can be called as an originality or individuality. This research analyses the phenomenon of drawing the city by the students of Fine Arts College as well as follows up its educational and evaluation courses which are based upon the awareness and the metaphorical ability of the students and its development.

Pemanfaatan Penerapan Media Berbasis Software Anates pada Mata Kuliah Evaluasi Pembelajaran di Universitas Batanghari Jambi

This study aims to determine the use of Anates software based media in learning evaluation courses at Batanghari University, Jambi. The design of this study uses descriptive qualitative. Meanwhile, the technique in this study uses a purposive technique that is the determination of informants not based on guidelines or based on population representation, but based on the depth of information needed related to the research problem. The results showed that there was an influence between the application of the use of Anates software-based applications in the learning evaluation course with the item analysis material at Batanghari University, Jambi. Thus, the use of media in lectures is very helpful for students to be able to understand new knowledge and insights that are not only limited to theory, but rather to practice to support the theories they learn.

Instruction of Evaluation Competencies in Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-Accredited Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree Programs

Although research on evaluation instruction has increased in the past decade, little is known about evaluation education in Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)–accredited schools of public health and master of public health (MPH) programs. In this study, instruction of competencies for program evaluators as enumerated by Stevahn, King, Ghere, and Minnema and pedagogies used by instructors to cover the competencies in the MPH degree within CEPH-accredited schools and programs are investigated. To understand these questions, a two-phase sequential mixed method design was used where the first was a review of 156 schools and programs and their 652 evaluation course offerings and the second consisted of administration of a survey to the 580 instructors who taught evaluation courses coded as either partially or fully focused on evaluation, of which 128 responded (22.07%). Results suggest evaluation courses in CEPH-accredited schools and programs cover many evaluator competencies, albeit to various degrees, predominately through lectures and reading materials.