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Quality and University Didactic: The Students’ Perspectives Cues for Evaluation
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| Serafina Pastore, University of Bari, serafinapastore@vodafone.it
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Following the recent implementation of various laws, Italian universities must operate under a new, more sensitive and sophisticated system of evaluation. Nowadays the framework is complex and confusing (e.g., in the definition of the evaluand). More efforts are directed to identifying ways and models of evaluation of the learning process. However, within the evaluation models the idea of quality seems to exclude the contextual dimension: a crucial element of any educational process.
Evaluation of quality involves an overlap of plans: the subjective elements (the expectations) and objectives one are dropped simultaneously in reality. The consequence is a hint of analysis undoubtedly rich and articulated for the evaluation. The paper will illustrate and problematize the results of a research conducted on judgments of students last year on the curricular program of study.
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Conducting Meta-evaluation for Receiving Valid Information in Student's Assessment of the Base of Competence's
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| Victor Zvonnikov, State University of Management, zvonnikov@mail.ru
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| Marina Chelyshkova, State University of Management, mchelyshkova@mail.ru
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The new State Educational Standards in Russia have all requirements to results of student’s training in the form of competence’s set. So we must estimate numerous competencies during student’s assessment. The difficulties in such evaluation are connected with two factors, which reveal to inherent biases in evaluation results. First, competencies are latent variables. Second, all competencies have delayed character of observing, so we can receive the valid information about student’s competencies only in their professional activity. In connection with this two factors we need in researches of construct and predictive validity.
The purpose of our research consists in development those approaches to carrying out meta-evaluation, which allow to receive high validity during graduate’s certification in context of the competency approach. We suggested the method for increasing construct and predictive validity on the base of especial model of meta-evaluation. We analyzed the applicability of this model in State University of Management.
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Lessons Learned From an Improvement of Student Evaluations of Faculty
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| Yi-Hsing Chung, National Chi Nan University, yhchung@ncnu.edu.tw
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| Yi-Fang Lee, National Chi Nan University, ivanalee@ncnu.edu.tw
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| Shiuh-Sheng Yu, National Chi Nan University, ssyu@ncnu.edu.tw
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Evaluation of university teaching has been widely conducted to review instructors’ performance in the West, but it was less popular in the Asia due to the influence of Confucianism that respects teachers highly in the past. As the demand for accountability increases, evaluating instructors’ teaching via student rating has become a common activity in the Asian countries. The results are not only used as a feedback for faculty teaching, but information for judging their tenure. Therefore, whether the design could provide reliable data is a major concern. A literature review indicated that there was limited empirical study exploring relative issues in the Asian area. The intent of this presentation is to introduce a process to improve student evaluation system of instructors in a university in Taiwan and to discuss the factors that influence student ratings and the ways we used to decrease the measurement error. Lessons learned are drawn from the findings.
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