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The purposes of this study were to: (a) determine, for General Education Program (GEP) courses, what individual items on the student form are predictive of the overall instructor rating value; (b) investigate the relationship of instructional mode, class size, GEP foundational area, and GEP theme with the overall instructor rating value; (c) examine what teacher/course qualities are related to a high (Excellent) overall evaluation or a low (Poor) overall evaluation value. The data set used for analysis contained sixteen student response scores (Q1-Q16), response number, class size, term, foundational area (communication, cultural/historical, mathematics, social, or science), GEP theme (yes/no), instructional mode (face-to-face or other), and percent responding (calculated value). All identifying information such as department, course, section, and instructor was removed from the analysis file. The final data set contained 23 variables, 8,065 course sections, and 294,692 student responses. All individual items on the student evaluation form were related to the overall evaluation item score, measured using Spearman's correlation coefficients. None of the examined course variables were selected as significant when the individual form items were included in the modeling process. This indicated students employed a consistent approach to the evaluation process regardless of large or small classes, face-to-face or other instructional modes, foundational area, or percent responding differences. Data mining modeling techniques were used to understand the relationship of individual item responses and additional course information variables to the overall score. Items one to fifteen (Q1 to Q15), class size, instructional mode, foundational area, and GEP theme were the independent variables used to find splits to create homogenous groups in relation to the overall evaluation score. The model results are presented in terms of if-then rules for 'Excellent' or 'Poor' overall evaluation scores. The top three rules for 'Excellent' or 'Poor' based their classifications on some combination of the following items: communication of ideas and information; facilitation of learning; respect and concern for students; instructor's overall organization of the course; instructor's interest in your learning; instructor's assessment of your progress in the course; and stimulation of interest in the course. Proportion of student responses conforming to the top three rules for 'Excellent' or 'Poor' overall evaluation ranged from 0.89 to .60. These findings suggest that students reward, with higher evaluation scores, instructors who they perceive as organized and strive to clearly communicate course content. These characteristics can be improved through mentoring or professional development workshops for instructors. Additionally, instructors of GEP courses need to be informed that students connect respect and concern and having an interest in student learning with the overall score they give the instructor.

The purpose of this study was to examine some of the interrelationships between innovation in nursing education, professional attitudes and wastage from nursing. Five groups of students who participated in innovative nurse education courses in A.C.T. hospitals in the 1970's were surveyed by a self administered questionnaire which gathered biographical data as well as attitudinal information. Their responses were compared with those of students who had undertaken a traditional nursing course at an A.C.T. hospital in the same period. The findings of this study suggested that the instrument used may provide a better measure of satisfaction with nursing than of professional attitudes. One of the unexpected findings from the survey which suggested the need for further study was that many of those who had undertaken further nursing study indicating apparent commitment to continuing education in a chosen career would not encourage others to enter nursing. Another was that those who indicated greater career choice commitment may in fact be those who felt unable to obtain alternative employment. It was found that innovation in hospital based nurse education courses attracted different people and produced graduates with different attitudes to professional issues,who followed different career pathways compared to graduates of traditional nurse education courses. Innovative courses appear to have attracted older and better qualified entrants and to have increased the likelihood of graduates being promoted. Respondents from the innovative courses showed increased interest in continuing education and Professional Association activity than their control group colleagues. They were more frustated with the traditional role of the nurse as the selfless, dedicated worker and were less commited to their career choice, overall these findings perhaps indicated a level of dissatisfaction with nursing higher in the innovative course graduates than in the control group. These findings may support Brief's contention (1976) that expectations raised during the educational process, if not fulfilled, will lead to wastage. wastage from nursing was intimately linked with dissatisfaction with work conditions in nursing. Those who had permanently left nursing had more frequently left for work related reasons and undertaken non-nursing study than those who had left and returned or who had never left. Those who left for work related reasons were less likley to return and less likely to choose nursing again if given the chance than those who left for other reasons. Findings about the institutionalisation of innovation in nursing education were difficult to identify with certainty, since time lapse alone could explain many of the findings. Attitudes to the Professional Association were more favourabe in respondents from the later intakes into the innovative courses than from the earlier. Given the recent increases in industrial activity in nursing, this finding is consistent with time lapse. Later intakes also demonstrated greater commitment to continuing education than earlier. This too can probably be explained by the greater availability of such facilities in more recent times. In a period of shortages of nurses prepared to work in the health care facilities of Australia, and of changes in the educational preparation of nurses, the findings of this study relating to attitudes and wastage should be used as the basis for future workforce planning.

Darbe nagrinėjamos Lietuvos aukštojo mokslo institucijose naudojamos nuotolinio mokymo(si) (NM) kursų kūrimo sistemos ir jų technologiniai aspektai, galimos perspektyvos bei naujų technologinių idėjų, siekiant efektyvesnio kursų kūrimo sistemų panaudojimo įgyvendinant specifinius besimokančiųjų poreikius, realizacijos galimybės. Darbe supažindinama kas tai yra NM kursų rengimo sistema, kuri leidžia sukurti ir studijuoti mokymosi medžiagą, tokiu laiku ir tokia sparta, kurie besimokančiajam yra patogūs ir atitinka jo galimybes ir poreikius. Aptariama, kokios atsiveria naujos edukacinės galimybės, įvaldžius tam tikros kursų kūrimo sistemos įrankius. Reikia pažymėti, kad NM šiuo metu yra viena iš prioritetinių kiekvienos šalies švietimo sistemos plėtros krypčių. Darbe išsamiai apžvelgiamos priemonės, naudojamos NM kursų kūrime. / This work will present the analysis of Distance Education (DE) course development systems used in Lithuania and their technological aspects, as well as possible perspectives of realization of new ideas. The first chapter includes definition of DE course development system, which comprises the system that allows development of learning material, participation in learning process and study the material within the preferred time, pace and place that suite the needs of individual learners‘ needs and expectations. New possibilities that are opened with the help of course development systems are also discussed. It is worth noticing that DE is the prioritable development area in Education system in every country. Four main tools will be presented in this work, which are the key tools for DE course development. The second chapter deals with the course development system technological aspects, shortcomings and possibilities. Two types of criteria – educational and technological – are emphasized, and course development systems are analyzed and compared on the basis of these criteria groups.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:56:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marly Kruger de Pesce.pdf: 514897 bytes, checksum: aa0d572551ce9513d2129e67929feed8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-29 / This thesis deals with the education of a teacher as researcher in undergraduate teacher education courses (licensure) with the aim of understanding how the teacher educator considers the education of a teacher as researcher. The principles of Vygotsky s Sociohistorical Theory (2009) guided this study for understanding that the human being has been constituted through interactions with others in a dialogical constitution, having the language as a tool of knowledge mediation. The concept of teacher as researcher was based on André (2001,2006), Concham-Smth e Lytle (1999), Lüdke (2000, 2001) among other authors. The participants were four teacher educators who oriented the supervised pre-service teacher training of the undergraduate courses of teaching education in Mathematics, Geography, Letters and History of a community university. Two students of the last two years of each of these courses also participated of this research. The data were gotten by applying interviews. Institutional documents were also analyzed such as the Institutional Educational Project, the Projects of the Undergraduate Courses and the Teaching Learning Programs of supervised pre-service teacher training. The Critical Analysis of Discourse proposed by Fairclough (1999) guided the reading and the interpretation of the corpus. The data analysis indicated that the teacher educators have different conceptions of what teacher research is. The discursive formation that comes from the specific subject is the way these teachers understand the formation of the teacher as researcher. There is no a clear concept of teacher research in the institutional documents, but some of them describe the didactic procedures that have to be followed to help the student to become a teacher as researcher. The students have still understood research as a way of updating in terms of subject content and pedagogical issues. In common, teacher educators and students recognize the importance of the research in the teaching activity as a possibility to develop autonomy concerning to subject matters and classroom situations. The teacher educators reported some strategies they considered essential to help the education of teacher as researcher, which were also mentioned by the students. The most mentioned strategies were: individual counseling, encouraging, questioning and group discussion. This research demonstrated that the way teacher educators understand and teach how to do research is affected by both personal experiences with research as the institutional culture. In the same way, the students, who are immersed in multiple interactions, constitute themselves discursively by the area of their licensure course / A presente tese aborda a formação do professor pesquisador em cursos de licenciatura com o objetivo de compreender como o professor formador considera formar o professor pesquisador. Os princípios da teoria socio-histórica de Vigotski (2009) orientaram esta pesquisa que compreende que o sujeito se constitui nas relações que estabelece dialogicamente com o outro tendo a linguagem como instrumento de mediação do conhecimento. A concepção de professor pesquisador teve como referencia André (2001,2006), Concham-Smth e Lytle (1999), Lüdke (2000, 2001) entre outros autores. Participaram da pesquisa quatro professores orientadores do Estagio Curricular Supervisionado nos cursos de licenciatura de matemática, geografia, letras e história de uma universidade comunitária. Também participaram dois alunos do último ano de cada um dos referidos cursos. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevista e pela análise de documentos institucionais como, por exemplo, o Projeto Pedagógico Institucional, os Projetos dos Cursos de licenciatura, os Programas de Ensino Aprendizagem de Estágio Curricular Supervisionado. A Análise Critica do Discurso de Fairclough (1999) orientou a leitura e a interpretação do corpus da pesquisa. A análise dos dados apontou que as professoras formadoras têm diferentes concepções do que é pesquisa. A formação discursiva advinda das especificidades da disciplina constitui a forma como essas professoras entendem a formação do professor pesquisador. Os documentos institucionais não indicam claramente o que é a pesquisa do professor, embora alguns deles descrevam os procedimentos didáticos que devem ser seguidos para ajudar o acadêmico a desenvolver-se como professor pesquisador. Os acadêmicos ainda compreendem a pesquisa como uma forma de o professor manter-se atualizado, tanto no que se refere ao conteúdo da disciplina quanto às questões pedagógicas. Em comum, professores formadores e alunos reconhecem a importância da pesquisa na atividade docente como possibilidade de desenvolver a autonomia referente aos conteúdos da disciplina e às situações da sala de aula. As professoras relataram algumas estratégias que consideram fundamentais para ajudar a formação do professor pesquisador, as quais também são mencionadas pelos alunos. As mais mencionadas foram: orientação individual, incentivo, questionamento e discussão coletiva. Esta pesquisa demonstrou que a forma como as professoras formadoras entendem e ensinam a fazer pesquisa são afetadas tanto pelas experiências pessoais com a pesquisa como pela cultura institucional. Da mesma forma, os acadêmicos imersos nas múltiplas interações, vão se constituindo discursivamente pela área do seu curso de licenciatura.

本論文共一冊約十萬字，內分五章十三節，茲摘要如下： 第一章 緒論 第一節 研究目的與動機 本論文旨在瞭解美國企管碩士教育課程設計之發展趨勢與需求者對課之期望情況，以 為中華民國企管碩士教育之未來發展方向提出建議。 第二節 研究架構 以最近數年中美所發表之有關企管碩士計劃之期刊、論文歸納出七個主要論題：分析 比較中、美企管研究所在上述論題所做之努力之差異。 以問卷調查之方式來確定國內需求者對上述論題之重視程度。 第二章 研究方法 第一節 內容分析法 應用於文獻探討以瞭解企管碩士教育之發展趨勢；應用於各所之課程目錄分析中，以 瞭解中、美各所之發展重點。 第二節 因素分析法 應用於問卷資料分析上，以瞭解各類需求者對各個論題之重視程度。 第三章 中美企管研究所課程設計之比較 本章共分五節：一、中美基本必修課之相似程度與涵蓋範圍之比較。二、選修課程之 涵蓋廣度與專精深度之比較；三、中美企管所採行專門化或廣泛性企管碩士計劃之比 率比較；四、中美學生平均年齡與工作經驗比較；五、師資、畢業要求修件之比較。 第四章 課程需求情況之研究 本章共分兩節：一、美國的需求情況，根據最近幾年已發表之文獻探討之；二、台灣 地區之需求情況；以７１年畢業之企管碩士為對象，瞭解其對課程安排之看法。 第五章 結論與建議 對前述研究做簡單結論，並對中華民國企管碩士教育未來發展方向提出建議。

This study was concerned with the enrollment patterns in required general education courses by technicaloccupational students in an urban community college. The purposes of this study were to (1) examine the general education course enrollment patterns of technical occupational students in specific programs; (2) determine if completion of an English course yields a higher GPA; (3) profile the characteristics of the students who do and do not enroll in general education courses; (4) determine if students enrolled in certain technical-occupational programs are more likely to enroll in general education than students enrolled in similar programs; and (5) determine if completion of general education courses has a positive effect on overall GPA of students.

Esta tese estuda as concepções de avaliação da aprendizagem em cursos a distância, pois tendo em vista a crescente oferta de cursos nesta modalidade de ensino, a partir do desenvolvimento das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, acreditamos ser o tema relevante para que cursos a distância possam, de fato, contribuir, para que superemos, enquanto nação, a desigualdade de acesso à educação. Consideramos como aporte teórico os princípios da avaliação formativa, uma vez que um de seus principais objetivos é oferecer informações para que professor e aluno possam repensar e fazer os ajustes necessários nos processos de ensino e aprendizagem. O estudo feito sobre a História da Educação a Distância e os meios de comunicação utilizados nesta modalidade de ensino objetivou compreender o status que ocupa nos dias de hoje, para então entender as prováveis concepções que norteiam a legislação vigente sobre o tema. Também analisamos três documentos de instituições de ensino superior que oferecem cursos a distância, buscando identificar a concepção de avaliação da aprendizagem. Como contribuição, podemos destacar dois pontos: a análise de instrumentos de avaliação da aprendizagem que podem ser utilizados em cursos a distância e um conjunto de princípios que podem gerar inúmeras práticas pedagógicas que favoreçam a construção do conhecimento e a aprendizagem. As críticas apontadas à legislação vigente objetivam criar espaços para debates produtivos que possam contribuir para a elaboração de um projeto nacional de educação. / This thesis studies conceptions of the learning valuation whenever long distance education courses are applied, since we have noticed the growing offering and supply of distance learning for education and training courses lately. Taking into account the development of information and communication technologies, we firmly believe that this subject is relevant in order that distance education courses may, as a matter of fact, contribute to overcome, as Nation, the great disparity of access to education we undergo. We have considered, as theoretical support, the principles of formative valuation, once one of its chief objectives is to offer reliable information so that the teacher and student are capable of rethinking and adjust whatever and wherever necessary the teaching and knowledge processes. The research and study done about the History of Distance Education as well as the means of communication employed by this path of teaching has aimed to understand the status in which it is placed presently, so that we may know and comprehend the probable conceptions which guide and direct the legislation in force about this theme. We have, also, analysed three dossier and records of college education institutions which offer long distance education and learning courses, attempting to identify the conception of learning gain valuation. As contibution, we were able to put in relief two aspects: the analysis of which instruments and tools of valuation may be used in long distance education courses, as well as a set of principles that might generate uncountable pedagogic practices which may enhance and benefit the knowledge and learning process construction. The review and criticism pointed to the legislation in force aim to create spaces and make room to productive debates which may contribute to the elaboration of a national education project.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T20:32:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Isabelcristina.pdf: 1309863 bytes, checksum: b9fa056e38aae9491af3d3d8f57332d3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-25 / This research aims to the avaliation conceptions and practices related to formators of professors in education courses. The focuses are: a) identifying, describing and analysing avaliative conceptions and practives of professors's formators; b) focusing on formative critical avaliation as a possible tool at superior teaching; c) putting discussions about avaliative practices up used in teaching courses and their outcomes of formation for future teachers. Uneasiness justify this research since there is a great number of notpassed and school-quitted students in basic education, whereby they come with social problems, as a loss of budged reserved for education. Lacking of coherence from what is said to practices in teaching courses and traditional avaliative practices are held as natural rituals. This work makes up for history of education, avaliation and teachers' work; analysing traditional avaliation along with critical one under discrete interests from capitalist context which drags pedagogical actions. Also, it seeks understanding the process of formation of teacher in education courses at space. Enhancing the formative critical avaliation, it is appraised for reflexive and approached to social reconstruction. The methodological standpoint is qualitative, stressing into magistery courses at the universe, due to the lowest and highest approval in 2004. Database procedures were done by non-directive and semi-directive advice in questionaires, along with collective interview, and answered by last-year students and mentors, to identify avaliative conceptions and practice from those courses. Analitical results generate the following cathegories: dominance of avaliative tools assented to traditional; professors' preference for tools the less time or easy to avaliate, even habitual; avaliation as the learnig process end, and not part of; lack of fews avaliative practices to the development of student's authonomy in his construtive learning process; avaliation of mentor's work through the avaliation of students; avaliation as mere record or students's outcomes certified document. The results of this research point to the need of continuously formation work of formators, which quiries their avaliative and learning representation, and being conscious of mentors practice and propounding alternatives of changes about avaliative learning strategies of superior education. / Este trabalho de pesquisa tem como tema as concepções e práticas de avaliação de formadores de professores dos cursos de licenciatura. Seus objetivos são: a) identificar, descrever e analisar concepções e práticas avaliativas dos formadores de professores; b) enfocar a avaliação crítico-formativa como possibilidade de aplicação no ensino superior; c) contribuir para as discussões sobre as práticas de avaliação utilizadas nos cursos de licenciatura e suas conseqüências na formação dos futuros professores. As inquietações que justificam este trabalho relacionam-se com o elevado percentual de reprovação e abandono da escola entre alunos da educação básica, o que implica em graves problemas sociais, além do desperdício dos recursos destinados à educação. Outra justificativa está na falta de coerência entre o que se diz e o que se faz nos cursos de licenciatura e nas práticas tradicionais de avaliação, cristalizadas através de rituais tidos como naturais. Neste trabalho, resgata-se a história da escola, da avaliação e do trabalho do professor; analisa-se comparativamente a avaliação tradicional e a crítica, sob o contexto capitalista, cujos interesses velados influenciam as ações pedagógicas. Busca-se também entender o processo que envolve a formação do professor nos espaços dos cursos de licenciatura. Enfatiza-se a avaliação crítico-formativa por valorizar a reflexão e aproximar-se da perspectiva da reconstrução social. A abordagem metodológica desta pesquisa é qualitativa, tendo como foco investigativo os cursos de licenciatura em uma universidade, que apresentaram os menores e os maiores índices de aprovação durante o ano de 2004. Nos procedimentos de coleta de informações foram utilizados questionários com questões abertas e fechadas, respondidos por acadêmicos das 4 séries e docentes, para identificar as concepções e práticas avaliativas usadas nesses cursos, bem como o procedimento de entrevistas coletivas. A análise dos resultados gerou as seguintes categorias: Predominância de instrumentos de avaliação considerados tradicionais; preferência dos professores por instrumentos que poupem tempo, fácil correção ou ainda, porque estejam habituados; a avaliação como finalização de um processo de ensino e não como parte do processo de aprendizagem; presença de poucas práticas de avaliação que contribuem para o desenvolvimento da autonomia do aluno na construção do seu processo de aprendizagem; avaliação do trabalho docente através da avaliação da aprendizagem dos alunos; avaliação como mero registro ou documento comprobatório dos resultados obtidos pelos alunos. Os resultados dessa pesquisa apontam para a necessidade de um trabalho contínuo de formação entre os formadores, que questione suas representações de avaliação e de aprendizagem, visando à tomada de consciência de suas práticas e propondo alternativas de mudanças nas estratégias de avaliação da aprendizagem no ensino superior.

Tyrimo tikslas : nustatyti moterų emocinės būklės kitimo ypatumus nėštumo metu ir pogimdyminiame laikotarpyje, atsižvelgiant į asmenybės bruožus ir informuotumą apie gimdymą. Tyrime dalyvavo 142 moterys, lankiusios ir nelankiusios nėščiųjų mokymo kursus Kauno ir Vilniaus miestuose. Tiriamosios buvo apklausiamos du kartus : nėštumo metu ir po gimdymo. Tiriamųjų apklausai buvo naudoti šie klausimynai : lietuviškas H. ir S. Aizenkų (Eysenck) klausimynas (EPQ), Edinburgo pogimdyminės depresijos skalės klausimynas (EPDS), C.D. Spilbergo (Spielberger) nerimo skalė (STAI). Socialiniams, demografiniams bei subjektyvios sveikatos rodikliams nustatyti buvo naudojami bendrosios apklausos klausimai, sudaryti A.Masiukienės. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad nėščiųjų informuotumas gerina emocinę būklę po gimdymo, įskaitant ir pažeidžiamų savybių turinčias moteris. Neurotiško tipo moterų lankiusių nėščiųjų kursus emocinės būklės pokytis pogimdyminiame laikotarpyje geresnis, lyginant su neurotiško tipo moterimis nelankiusiomis nėščiųjų kursų. Asmenybės bruožas gali nulemti nėščiųjų kursų lankomumą, neurotiškos moterys linkusios nelankyti neščiųjų kursų. Asmenybės bruožai, tokie kaip introversija ir neurotiškumas, yra svarbus veiksnys susijęs su prasta emocine būkle po gimdymo, bet tai ne svarbiausias veiksnys. Su prasta emocine būkle pogimdyminiame laikotarpyje turi ryšį ir kiti psichosocialiniai veiksniai, tokie kaip žemas išsimokslinimas, prasta emocinė būklė prieš... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The Purpose of The Study: To analyse the connection between changes in emotional wellbeing during and post pregnancy periods in women whilst observing their personality traits and obtained antenatal education levels. The study was conducted among 142 women, who have or have not attended antenatal courses in the cities of Kaunas and Vilnius. The participants were questioned twice: during pregnancy and after the childbirth. For the Survey were used: The H. and S. Eisenck Questionnaire (EPO), The Edinburgh Questionnaire of The Scale of Postnatal Depression (EPDS), The C.D. Spielberger Scale of Anxiety (STAI). The questionnaire that helped to assess the social, demographic and subjective health aspects in the study was constructed by A.Masiukiene. The study results showed that the level of antenatal education positively effects postnatal emotional wellbeing, including the wellbeing of vulnerable women. The positive change in the emotional wellbeing of the neurotic type is also noticed between those who attended the antenatal courses, compared to women of the neurotic type who did not attend the courses. Personality Traits, such as introversion and neuroticism, is an important factor that can determine a lower level of emotional wellbeing after childbirth, but is not the most important one. Low emotional wellbeing can be caused by other psychosocial conditions, such as poor education, lower emotional wellbeing before pregnancy, social support after childbirth. Antenatal education... [to full text]