METHODS FOR EVALUATING THE USE OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES OF ORGANIZING THE PROCESS OF TEACHING STUDENTS

Control over any process of human activity is carried out by evaluating its result. In the field of education, the goal is, as a rule, to check the effectiveness of one or another pedagogical approach to solving the set task. For this purpose, a pedagogical experiment is planned and carried out. First, the analysis of the problem is carried out and the participants of the experiment are determined, control and experimental groups of approximately equal number and level of preparedness are formed. Further, the researched pedagogical approach is implemented, the results obtained are studied and evaluated, and conclusions are drawn. Research was conducted at the Department of Software Engineering and involved its students, as well as teachers of Riga Technical University and Baltic International Academy.  Authors have studied the impact of introducing extended course content, interdisciplinary communications and feedback in teacher-student interaction. Computer training systems, a semantic network, and statistical analysis were used as assessment methods. Research aim of this article offers an overview of methods of assessing quality of education and their comparison in order to select the best one for conducting a pedagogical experiment, which were used in Riga Technical University.

INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND A CULTURE OF EVIDENCE: ACCOUNTABILITY CORNERSTONES FOR THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

This study explores the complexity of accountability demands that have emerged in the 21st century from a variety of community college stakeholders. As community college leaders attempt to foster a new accountability culture within their institutions to quell these demands, questions regarding how to go about creating effective systems for continuous quality improvement emerge. This research focused on discovery, insights and understanding from the perspectives of community college leaders engaged in this process, reveals proven strategies to address these and other concerns while improving institutional effectiveness. This qualitative inquiry used a case study methodology to disentangle these issues through a thorough exploration of the perceptions of the research participants. Six participants were selected through a process of purposeful sampling based on their exemplary reputation for implementation of continuous quality improvement strategies at Academic Quality Improvement Plan (AQIP) community colleges. In addition, enhancing transferability of the findings, maximum variation criteria was employed regarding the location of the colleges in the North Central Region Midwestern states, and diversity of the institutions representing rural, suburban and urban-centered colleges of various sizes (annual student FTE). The principle instruments for data collection included face-to-face semi-structured interviews, documents, and field notes. Data analysis techniques such as categorizing, coding and theming of information gathered from multiple data sources followed. The findings revealed three elements are required in order to achieve sustainable change within an AQIP community college. These three elements are: (a) a clear vision and a plan shared by the college leaders; (b) an accommodating organizational culture; and (c) a supportive infrastructure for the change (technology, software, process, and procedures). The McKinney Model for Institutional Effectiveness Implementation will assist with the complex endeavor of incorporating these interrelated elements throughout the implementation of institutional effectiveness at community colleges

The Lumberjack, November 18, 1981

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The Lumberjack, November 04, 1981

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/studentnewspaper/2006/thumbnail.jp

Regulation and best practices in public and nonprofit marketing

The volume contains the papers presented during the 9th International Congress of the International Association on Public and Nonprofit Marketing (IAPNM) entitled "Regulation and Best Practices in Public and Nonprofit Marketing". Structured in accordance with the sessions of the mentioned Congress, the volume includes papers and relevant contributions on marketing research development in the public administration, healthcare and social assistance, higher education, local development and, more generally, nonprofit organizations. The social marketing specific issues take an important part of the volume giving the diversity of the approached topics as well as the large number of researchers concerned with this matter. Though of small dimensions, the contents of the sessions dedicated the revival and reinvention of public marketing must be underlined, as well as of the transfer of public marketing best practices to the South-Eastern European states. Publishing this volume represents a term of the interest expressed by over 40 academic and research groups in Europe and other continents with interests in the public and nonprofit marketing field, as well as in other European states’ bodies that develop specific empirical studies

Research on Teaching and Learning In Biology, Chemistry and Physics In ESERA 2013 Conference

This paper provides an overview of the topics in educational research that were published in the ESERA 2013 conference proceedings. The aim of the research was to identify what aspects of the teacher-student-content interaction were investigated frequently and what have been studied rarely. We used the categorization system developed by Kinnunen, Lampiselkä, Malmi and Meisalo (2016) and altogether 184 articles were analyzed. The analysis focused on secondary and tertiary level biology, chemistry, physics, and science education. The results showed that most of the studies focus on either the teacher’s pedagogical actions or on the student - content relationship. All other aspects were studied considerably less. For example, the teachers’ thoughts about the students’ perceptions and attitudes towards the goals and the content, and the teachers’ conceptions of the students’ actions towards achieving the goals were studied only rarely. Discussion about the scope and the coverage of the research in science education in Europe is needed.Peer reviewe

Las Vegas Optic, 01-24-1913

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Management: A continuing literature survey with indexes

This bibliography lists 782 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in 1977. The citations, and abstracts when available, are reproduced exactly as they appeared originally in IAA and STAR, including the original accession numbers from the respective announcement journals. Topics cover the management of research and development contracts, production, logistics, personnel, safety, reliability and quality control citations. Includes references on: program, project and systems management; management policy, philosophy, tools, and techniques; decisionmaking processes for managers; technology assessment; management of urban problems; and information for managers on Federal resources, expenditures, financing, and budgeting