• Title/Summary/Keyword: teaching evaluation

Search Result 1,476, Processing Time 0.024 seconds

Evaluation of Occupational Health Teaching Sessions for Final Year Medical Students

  • Yildiz, Ali Naci;Bilir, Nazmi;Camur, Derya;Caman, Ozge Karadag
    • Safety and Health at Work
    • /
    • v.3 no.2
    • /
    • pp.123-129
    • /
    • 2012
  • Objectives: The study was conducted with the aim of evaluating applied occupational health teaching for final-year medical students at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine. Methods: The study included all sixth grade medical students (n=293) during one academic year. Pre- and post-training tests were used to assess the magnitude of change in knowledge and attitude of students on occupational health, whereas the opinion of students on several aspects of the quality of teaching sessions were assessed by using post-training questionnaires. Results: Post-training tests revealed that the level of knowledge on all aspects of occupational health increased among medical students. An evaluation of the teaching sessions showed favorable results for the overall quality of the sessions: 81.3% of the students stated that the sessions were well organized, 81.7% remarked the workplace/factory visit was a valuable experience, and 91.0% stated feeling more competent on occupational health issues. Conclusion: There was a greater increase in students' knowledge on technical precautions than their knowledge on issues related to medical practice in the workplace. Visiting a workplace was found to contribute to the overall aim of knowledge and attitude change on occupational health issues. The scope of undergraduate medical education should be extended by improving occupational health education with respect to educational content, duration, and methods.

Unilateral cleft lip: evaluation and comparison of treatment outcome with two surgical techniques based on qualitative (subject/guardian and professional) assessment

  • Adetayo, Adekunle Moses;Adetayo, Modupe Olushola;Adeyemo, Wasiu Lanre;James, Olutayo O.;Adeyemi, Michael O.
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
    • /
    • v.45 no.3
    • /
    • pp.141-151
    • /
    • 2019
  • Objectives: The outcomes of the treatment of unilateral cleft lip can vary considerably due to variations in repair techniques. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare treatment outcomes of surgical repair of unilateral cleft lip using either the Tennison-Randall or Millard technique based on (qualitative) parent/subject and professional assessments. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective, randomized, controlled study conducted at Lagos University Teaching Hospital between January 2013 and July 2014. A total of 56 subjects with unilateral cleft lip presenting for primary surgery who satisfied the inclusion criteria were recruited for the study. Subjects were randomly allocated to surgical groups A or B through balloting. Group A underwent cleft repair with the Tennison-Randall technique, while group B underwent cleft repair with the Millard rotation advancement technique. Surgical outcome was assessed using qualitative evaluation by the guardian/subject and independent assessors based on a modified form of the criteria described by Christofides and colleagues. Results: Of the 56 subjects enrolled in this study, 32 were male, with a male to female ratio of 1.3:1. Fifteen of the guardians/subjects in the Tennison-Randall group were most bothered about the lower part of the residual lip scar, while 12 guardians/subjects in the in the Millard group were most bothered about the upper part of the scar. More noses were judged to be flattened in the Millard group than in the Tennison-Randall group. Assessors observed a striking disparity in scar transgression of the philtral ridges between the two groups. Conclusion: Essentially, there were no major difference in the overall results between Millard rotation-advancement and Tennison-Randall repairs. Both Millard and Tennison-Randall's techniques require significant improvements to improve the appearance of the scar on the upper part and lower part of the lip, respectively.

Changes in Teaching Practices of Elementary School Teachers in Scientific Modeling Classes: Focused on Modeling Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) (과학 모델링 수업에서 나타난 초등 교사의 수업 실행 변화 -모델링 PCK를 중심으로-)

  • Uhm, Janghee;Kim, Heui-Baik
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
    • /
    • v.40 no.5
    • /
    • pp.543-563
    • /
    • 2020
  • This study explores how the teaching practices of two teachers changed during scientific modeling classes. It also aims to understand these changes in terms of the teachers' modeling pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) development. The study participants were two elementary school teachers and their fifth-grade students. The teachers taught eight lessons of scientific modeling classes about the human body. The data analysis was conducted for lessons 1-2 and 7-8, which best showed the change in teaching practice. The two teachers' teaching practices were analyzed in terms of feedback frequency, feedback content, and the time allocated for each stage of model generation, evaluation, and modification. Teacher A led the evaluation and modification stages in a teacher-driven way throughout the classes. In terms of feedback, teacher A mainly used answer evaluation feedback in lesson 1-2; however, in lesson 7-8, the feedback content changed to thought-provoking feedback. Meanwhile, teacher B mostly led a teacher-driven model evaluation and modification in lesson 1-2; however, in lesson 7-8, she let her students lead the model evaluation and modification stages and helped them develop models through various feedbacks. The analysis shows that these teaching changes were related to the development of modeling PCK components. Furthermore, the two teachers' modeling PCK differed in teaching orientation, in understanding the modeling stages, and in recognizing the value of modeling, suggesting the importance of these in modeling teaching practice. This study can help improve the understanding of modeling classes by revealing the relationship between teaching practices and modeling PCK.

The Teaching Efficiency of the Ordered Clinical Nursing Education by Preceptors (실습지도자(preceptor)를 활용한 주문식 실습교육의 교수효율성(teaching efficiency))

  • Kang, Ik-Wha
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
    • /
    • v.10 no.1
    • /
    • pp.11-23
    • /
    • 2004
  • Purpose: The objective of this study was to collect the basic data for improving the quality of nursing education by identifying the teaching efficiency of the ordered clinical nursing education by preceptor which was accepted by Gachongil College since 2001. Method: The data was collected from 30 Sept to 20 Oct 2002. The subjects of this study were 240 nursing students, junior 2nd term trained by the preceptors and 137 preceptors of 12 hospitals located in Inchon, Gyong Ki-do, and Seoul. The scale for measuring the teaching effectiveness, developed by Kim Miae et al.(1998), was employed as a tool for me study. The data was analysed by SPSS using mean value(SD), and ANOVA. Results: Mean value of teaching efficiency of preceptors evaluated by me nursing students scored 3.68(maximum 5). For 5 causal factors classified en the teaching efficiency, the factor of "teaching method and evaluation" showed the highest score, but "available as resource person" get the lowest. Items showing high score en teaching efficiency were "overall effectiveness of teacher", "was able to work with staff in cooperative manner", but the item of was unclear in instructions given to me showed the lowest. The psychiatric ward get the highest score, but cardiac catheterization room showed the lowest. The hospital 10 showed the highest score, but the hospital 8 get the lowest. Conclusion: As the findings from this study, the ordered clinical nursing education by preceptor showed higher teaching efficiency than the conventional education. Thus, cooperative relationship between nursing colleges and hospitals shall be suggested for improving the quality of clinical nursing education, and ordered clinical nursing education system.

  • PDF

Commonality Analysis of Context Variables for Math Teachers' Confidence (중등 수학 교사의 수업자신감 영향 변인 간 공통성 분석)

  • Park, Ji Hyun;Lee, Yujin
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
    • /
    • v.26 no.4
    • /
    • pp.755-768
    • /
    • 2016
  • According to TIMSS, secondary math teachers in Korea has lower confidence compare to other countries, despite the fact that teachers' confidence of teaching is an important variable. This not only influences the student's improvement but, also the quality improvement of teachers' career. Therefore, this study explores the effect of secondary math teachers' confidence according to the context variables such as teaching years, teaching preparation, collaboration with other teachers, and teaching limitation. Additionally, these context variables' $R^2$ toward the change of teaching confidence is also included. Results indicate that teaching preparation, collaboration with other teachers, and teaching limitation contribute in the confidence of teaching. $R^2$ of the change of teaching confidence shows large contribution to teaching preparation which does not accomplish with other variables.

A Social Motivation-aware Mobility Model for Mobile Opportunistic Networks

  • Liu, Sen;Wang, Xiaoming;Zhang, Lichen;Li, Peng;Lin, Yaguang;Yang, Yunhui
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
    • /
    • v.10 no.8
    • /
    • pp.3568-3584
    • /
    • 2016
  • In mobile opportunistic networks (MONs), human-carried mobile devices such as PDAs and smartphones, with the capability of short range wireless communications, could form various intermittent contacts due to the mobility of humans, and then could use the contact opportunity to communicate with each other. The dynamic changes of the network topology are closely related to the human mobility patterns. In this paper, we propose a social motivation-aware mobility model for MONs, which explains the basic laws of human mobility from the psychological point of view. We analyze and model social motivations of human mobility mainly in terms of expectancy value theory and affiliation motivation. Furthermore, we introduce a new concept of geographic functional cells, which not only incorporates the influence of geographical constraints on human mobility but also simplifies the complicated configuration of simulation areas. Lastly, we validate our model by simulating three real scenarios and comparing it with reality traces and other synthetic traces. The simulation results show that our model has a better match in the performance evaluation when applying social-based forwarding protocols like BUBBULE.

Design of Teaching·Learning Model for Programming Language Education (프로그래밍 언어 교육을 위한 교수·학습 모델 설계)

  • Kang, Hwan Soo
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
    • /
    • v.13 no.4
    • /
    • pp.517-524
    • /
    • 2012
  • This paper deals with the design of teaching learning model for programming language education. Various courses related to programming language education have opened at the university having many academic majors. In the meantime, a variety of programming languages have been developed, many integrated development environments of programming language have also been developed for users to make a program easily. But it is difficult for many novice learners to learn programming language still, likewise it is difficult for many teachers to teach the introduction course of programming language. In this paper, we have designed a teaching learning model based on scholastic achievements and blended learning for programming language education. The teaching learning model designed in this study was applied to a course opened in the second semester of 2011. According to the course evaluation result, the teaching learning model for programming language has shown to be an effective for novice learner.

Implications for Developing Environmental Education Teaching Materials: Based on the Focus Group Discussion (학교 환경교육 교재 개발을 위한 시사점: 환경교사 포커스 그룰 토론 결과를 토대로)

  • Son Yeon-A;Shin Dong-Hee;Ko Hee-Ryung;Lee Dong-Yeob;Lee Kee-Young
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
    • /
    • v.19 no.2 s.30
    • /
    • pp.133-146
    • /
    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to examine how environmental education teachers think about environmental teaching materials of their use in primary and secondary schools. For this purpose, six primary and secondary school teachers were selected for focus group discussion on October 17th, 2005. The discussion of focus group was recorded both on video and audio tapes. Teachers' discussion could be analyzed in the perspectives of two big ideas, 'content selection' and 'content organization and presentation'. The big ideas were categorized into several areas: 1) The idea of 'content selection' was classified into 4 areas such as integration, difficulty level, locality, and timeliness, 2) The idea of 'content organization and presentation' was classified into 4 areas such as learning motivation, teaching and teaming strategy, evaluation method, application of teaching materials. This study provided meaningful ideas, which can be used in developing environmental education materials as well as effective teaching and teaming strategies for school environmental educators.

  • PDF

A Study on the Development of Teacher Librarians' Teaching Practice Program in Korea (예비사서교사의 교육실습 프로그램 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Jun
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
    • /
    • v.42 no.2
    • /
    • pp.193-213
    • /
    • 2011
  • Teacher librarians' teaching practice is a major training course to strengthen their expertise. The purpose of this study is to propose more systematic program for effective teaching practice of teacher librarian in Korea. For this, the course contents of teaching practice were derived from the teacher librarians' expertise standards published by Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation. And the survey was carried out to decide which contents are regarded as more important or less. According to four selection criteria and the result of survey, 13 contents were selected. After all, this study proposed teacher librarians' teaching practice program consisted of practice objective, method of guidance, practice material and attentive point.

The development and application of SMART Teaching-Learning Program about the unit of 'Earth and Moon' in the 5th grade of elementary school (초등학교 5학년 '지구와 달' 단원의 스마트 교수 학습 프로그램 개발 및 적용)

  • Han, Shin;Jeong, Jinwoo;Jeong, Sophia
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
    • /
    • v.8 no.1
    • /
    • pp.76-86
    • /
    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to take advantage of the smart teaching - learning programs about the unit of 'Earth and Moon' and find out how to apply the effect appears. Teaching-Learning program was conducted over eight lessons. And we analyzed the effect of the program at any time through the evaluation and interview. The results are as follows. First, this study proposed a method to assist in the teaching and learning of spatial ability for students' movement of the Earth and the Moon. The program takes advantage of N-Screen Applications were configured to allow both Earth observation insider perspective and the external multilateral perspective. This improves students' understanding qualitatively. Second, we applied the teaching and learning programs utilizing smart smart devices, and the result was a lot of low rank students' average score rises. In addition, we were able to see that many students' understanding and interest, self-confidence are improved.