The purpose of the study was to determine if there is a lack of congruity between selected public secondary school was carried out using selected questions developed by Dr. Donn L. Dieter and a sample of administrators and teachers in fifty-six Ohio public secondary schools classified into three different sizes of schools.ConclusionsThe following conclusions were drawn from the study:1. There were significant differences between large groups of teachers and administrators regarding the importance of twenty factors of effective teaching.2. There were significant differences between employees (teachers and administrators) of different class schools regarding the importance of two factors of effective teaching.3. There were differences between teachers of different class schools, administrators of different class schools and teachers and administrators of similar and different class schools regarding the importance of seventeen factors of effective teaching.4. There were differences between teachers and administrators in this study and respondents in the study by Donn L. Dieter regarding the importance of three factors of effective teaching.5. Class A administrators showed the most agreement with Class A teachers of all administrator teacher pairs regarding the importance of the sixty-seven factors of effective teaching presented in the questionnaire.6. When significant differences occurred between administrators and teachers, administrators always rated the item in question as more important to effective teaching than did teachers.7. The twenty significant differences between teachers and administrators constituted thirty percent of the entire questionnaire.8. There were items of significant difference between teachers and administrators for which previous research showed little evidence of the importance or lack of importance of the item to effective teaching.

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The cleanness of toilets in parks is an important aspect of the quality of public leisure and health. It is also closely related to the image of the community where the park is located. However, many parks are still regarded as dirty by the public. This study is aimed to find out what are the factors affecting the cleanness of men¡¦s toilets in parks, with Kaohsiung City as the area of study. Both interviews and ratings were used to look for the factors. The interviews were given to samples from five populations: (1) government officers who are in charge of park toilets, (2) cleaning companies that are commissioned to keep the toilets clean, (3) janitors who are responsible for the cleaning, (4) scholars who have studied the cleaning problems of public toilets, and (5) users of public toilets. Based on results from the interviews, photos were taken for eight factors (e.g., outside appearance, floor) of 38 toilets. A sample of ten users then rated these photos in terms of the cleanness they represented. The ratings given to the photos for each toilet were then summed to give a rating for the overall cleanness of each toilet. The interrater reliability of these ratings, as measured by Cronbach¡¦s alpha, was .98. Results showed that compared with other six factors, the outside appearance and walls of a toilet were the most important factors for discriminating clean toilets from dirty ones¡Xfrom the users¡¦ perspective. Within all eight factors, conditions ¡§whether the plumbing is hidden¡¨, ¡§size of wall tiles¡¨ and ¡§wetness of floor¡¨ affected the users¡¦ rating most. The users¡¦ ratings were, however, unrelated to the government¡¦s past ratings for the toilets (r = .02, p = .92). Based on the interview findings and ratings, I proposed that the city government might try to improve the conditions of park toilets by taking several measures. For example, the procedures for recruiting janitors and evaluating their performance should be revised, and prompts (such as signs urging users¡¦ to keep clean) should be changed more often.

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Thesis (doctoral)--Universität St. Gallen, 2002.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1982.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität St. Gallen, 2003.

Reaching a true consensus on a definition or an evaluation of effective teaching has remained a challenge for researchers, administrators, faculty developers, and instructors in higher education, and as a result, the use of student ratings has also been debated. The purpose of this study was to compare student ratings of global items gathered during the semester with those gathered at the end of the semester, as well as the end of semester student ratings of students who had provided their mid-semester feedback twice with those who had not in order to measure the consistency with which students rated teaching effectiveness in their class under different conditions. Participants for this study included 394 undergraduate students enrolled in a total of seven sections of five courses. Within each of the seven classes, participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: one that was primed by completing an online survey twice during the semester, and one that completed an alternate activity at the same time points. Both groups then completed the university’s Students’ Evaluation of Teaching survey with the rest of the class at the end of the semester. After the last day of classes, participants were also invited to attend a focus group session to discuss their experiences in this study. The analyses from the quantitative survey data indicated that for all of the classes, responses to individual items during the semester did not differ significantly from those at the end of the semester. For each of six classes, results did not identify any significant differences between primed and non-primed students on the final survey; however, one class revealed that non-primed students actually responded more consistently than primed students. Additionally, although six classes did not significantly differ for the primed group on the first two mid-semester surveys, one class showed that the ratings of these primed students became less consistent by the second mid-semester survey. Qualitative data from survey comments and focus group sessions were also examined for any patterns. The explanations of the findings as well as the implications of this study and directions for future research are discussed. / text

The purpose of this thesis is to create the foundation for a rating system that provides a consistent standard of measurement for sustainable set design, encompassing the entire process from concept, construction, and use, to deconstruction and waste management. / text

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