Download or read book The Influence of Competency Ratings on the Overall Score microform an Examination of the CBFE OT written by Jill Stier and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Competency Based Fieldwork Evaluation for Occupational Therapists (CBFE-OT) is used to evaluate students' performance during clinical placements. Clinical educators supervising the students assign competency ratings, plus an overall pass/fail decision. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into how clinical educators determine the overall score and make the pass/fail decision. The relationships among the competency scores, the overall score, and the pass/fail decision were explored through analyses of CBFE-OT scores and interviews with clinical educators. The competency scores for Clinical Reasoning, Communication, Professional Development, and Facilitating Change were the strongest predictors of the overall score, accounting for more than 90% of the variance in both midterm and final overall scores. In contrast, many of the clinical educators reported giving Clinical Reasoning, Communication, and Practice Knowledge more weight and Professional Development less weight. Factors affecting the competency scores, the overall scores, and the pass/fail decisions are also described.
Download or read book Assessing Competence in Professional Performance across Disciplines and Professions written by Paul F. Wimmers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education. It addresses how complex issues are learned and assessed across and within different disciplines and professions in order to move the process of “performance assessment for learning” to the next level. In order to be better equipped to cope with increasing complexity, change and diversity in professional education and performance assessment, administrators and educators will engage in crucial systems thinking. The main question discussed by the book is how the required competence in the performance of students can be assessed during their professional education at both undergraduate and graduate levels. To answer this question, the book identifies unresolved issues and clarifies conceptual elements for performance assessment. It reviews the development of constructs that cross disciplines and professions such as critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and problem solving. It discusses what it means to instruct and assess students within their own domain of study and across various roles in multiple contexts, but also what it means to instruct and assess students across domains of study in order to judge integration and transfer of learning outcomes. Finally, the book examines what it takes for administrators and educators to develop competence in assessment, such as reliably judging student work in relation to criteria from multiple sources. "... the co-editors of this volume, Marcia Mentkowski and Paul F. Wimmers, are associated with two institutions whose characters are so intimately associated with the insight that assessment must be integrated with curriculum and instructional program if it is to become a powerful influence on the educational process ..." Lee Shulman, Stanford University
Download or read book Competency Assessment Field Guide written by Donna K. Wright and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect complement to The Ultimate Guide to Competency Assessment, this book provides the answers to all of your most perplexing competency assessment questions. Case studies help to illuminate the wide variety of ways that Donna Wright’s Competency Model has helped people and organizations across the world curb their unnecessary expenditures of time, money, and frustration!
Download or read book The Relationship of National Occupational Competency Testing Institute Examination Scores in Computer Technology to Occupational Experience Educational Level and Teaching Experience written by William Boras and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competence Assessment in Education written by Detlev Leutner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings. It presents the scientific projects of the priority program “Competence Models for Assessing Individual Learning Outcomes and Evaluating Educational Processes,” which focused on competence assessment across disciplines in Germany. The six-year program coordinated 30 research projects involving experts from the fields of psychology, educational science, and subject-specific didactics. The main reference point for all projects is the concept of “competencies,” which are defined as “context-specific cognitive dispositions that are acquired and needed to successfully cope with certain situations or tasks in specific domains” (Koeppen et al., 2008, p. 62). The projects investigate different aspects of competence assessment: The primary focus lies on the development of cognitive models of competencies, complemented by the construction of psychometric models based on these theoretical models. In turn, the psychometric models constitute the basis for the construction of instruments for effectively measuring competencies. The assessment of competencies plays a key role in optimizing educational processes and improving the effectiveness of educational systems. This book contributes to this challenging endeavor by meeting the need for more integrative, interdisciplinary research on the structure, levels, and development of competencies.
Download or read book The University and its Disciplines written by Carolin Kreber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University teaching and learning take place within ever more specialized disciplinary settings, each characterized by its unique traditions, concepts, practices and procedures. It is now widely recognized that support for teaching and learning needs to take this discipline-specificity into account. However, in a world characterized by rapid change, complexity and uncertainty, problems do not present themselves as distinct subjects but increasingly within trans-disciplinary contexts calling for graduate outcomes that go beyond specialized knowledge and skills. This ground-breaking book highlights the important interplay between context-specific and context-transcendent aspects of teaching, learning and assessment. It explores critical questions, such as: What are the ‘ways of thinking and practicing’ characteristic of particular disciplines? How can students be supported in becoming participants of particular disciplinary discourse communities? Can the diversity in teaching, learning and assessment practices that we observe across departments be attributed exclusively to disciplinary structure? To what extent do the disciplines prepare students for the complexities and uncertainties that characterize their later professional, civic and personal lives? Written for university teachers, educational developers as well as new and experienced researchers of Higher Education, this highly-anticipated first edition offers innovative perspectives from leading Canadian, US and UK scholars on how academic learning within particular disciplines can help students acquire the skills, abilities and dispositions they need to succeed academically and also post graduation. Carolin Kreber is Professor of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and the Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment at the University of Edinburgh
Download or read book Learner Centered Teaching written by Terry Doyle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the research-based case that Learner Centered Teaching (LCT) offers the best means to optimize student learning in college, and offers examples and ideas for putting it into practice, as well the underlying rationale. It also starts from the premise that many faculty are much closer to being learner centered teachers than they think, but don’t have the full conceptual understanding of the process to achieve its full impact. There is sometimes a gap between what we would like to achieve in our teaching and the knowledge and strategies needed to make it happen.LCT keeps all of the good features of a teacher-centered approach and applies them in ways that are in better harmony with how our brains learn. It, for instance, embraces the teacher as expert as well as the appropriate use of lecture, while also offering new, effective ways to replace practices that don’t optimizing student learning. Neuroscience, biology and cognitive science research have made it clear that it is the one who does the work who does the learning. Many faculty do too much of the work for their students, which results in diminished student learning. To enable faculty to navigate this shift, Terry Doyle presents an LCT-based approach to course design that draws on current brain research on cognition and learning; on addressing the affective concerns of students; on proven approaches to improve student’s comprehension and recall; on transitioning from “teller of knowledge” to a “facilitator of learning”; on the design of authentic assessment strategies – such as engaging students in learning experiences that model the real world work they will be asked to do when they graduate; and on successful communication techniques.The presentation is informed by the questions and concerns raised by faculty from over sixty colleges with whom Terry Doyle has worked; and on the response from an equal number of regional, national and international conferences at which he has presented on topics related to LCT.
Download or read book Learning Communities written by Barbara Leigh Smith and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2004-09-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how learning communities can be a flexible and effective approach to enhancing student learning, promoting curricular coherence, and revitalizing faculty. Provides the historical, conceptual, and philosophical context for learning communities and demonstrates that they can be a key element in institutional transformation. From publisher description.
Download or read book Correspondent Central Banking Model CCBM written by European Central Bank and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultural Globalization and Language Education written by B. Kumaravadivelu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world that is marked by the twin processes of economic and cultural globalization. In this thought provoking book, Kumaravadivelu explores the impact of cultural globalization on second and foreign language education.
Download or read book Revisiting Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education written by Peter Hernon and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2006-01-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education compliments rather than updates Hernon and Dugan's 2004 Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education. As with its predecessor, it offers a cross-campus diversity of voices: contributors hail from various segments of higher organizations, an academic vice president, academic deans, a higher education consultant, faculty members, and librarians. Individually, they shed light on how their corner of the higher education universe views, facilitates, and substantiates outcomes assessment. Together, they document what is known about outcomes assessment in the middle of the first decade of the new century, as institutions and their programs take ever-firmer steps from anecdotal evidence to more rigorous diagnosis and reporting.
Download or read book Co Teaching in Higher Education written by Daniel Jarvis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1"Dialogue and Team Teaching -- 2"Complex Collaborations: Co-Creating Deep Interdisciplinarity for Undergraduates -- 3"Undisciplined Debate: Coursing through Dialogue -- 4"Forming ICE in Pre-Service Teacher Education -- 5"From Shafts to Drifts: Collaborating to Strengthen Integrated Teaching and Learning -- 6"Visual Art and Mathematics Integration: An Interdisciplinary Co-Teaching Experience -- 7"Co-Teaching in Undergraduate Education: Capacity Building for Multiple Stakeholders -- 8"Co-Teaching and Co-Assessment in a Geometry Course for In-Service Teachers -- 9"Co-Teaching in Graduate Education -- 10"Coda: From Theory to Co-Practice in Higher Education -- Index
Download or read book The Oral literate Connection written by Diane Dewhurst Belcher and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 2008 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oral-Literate Connection: Perspectives on L2 Speaking, Writing, and Other Media Interactionspresents the most current insights from research and theory on the numerous ways in which L2 speaking and writing support and enhance each other. Contributors to this collection not only report on recent research and theoretical developments but also on state-of-the-art pedagogical practices linking oral skills and literacy. Although research and theory are informed by practice throughout the text's four parts, the thematic organization proceeds from more theoretical and research-oriented issues to more classroom-based perspectives: § Theory and research on the interaction between speaking and writing § How speaking scaffolds writing § How writing scaffolds speaking § How technology bridges speaking and writing This volume offers readers both a compelling rationale for connecting speaking and writing in the L2 classroom and an informed means of making these connections. A wide array of theoretical and classroom-oriented topics is offered, ranging from sociocultural and second-language acquisition theory to classroom concordancing and blogging. The book has a foreword by John M. Swales and an Afterword by Paul Kei Matsuda.
Download or read book Teacher Education and the Cultural Imagination written by Susan Florio-Ruane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book. It is a rich account of the author's investigation of teacher book club discussions of ethnic literature, specifically ethnic autobiography--as a genre from which teachers might learn about culture, literacy, and education in their own and others' lives, and as a form of conversation and literature-based work that might be sustainable and foster teachers' comprehension and critical thinking. Dr. Florio-Ruane's role in the book clubs merged participation and inquiry. For this reason, she blends personal narrative with analysis and description of ways she and the book club participants explored culture in the stories they told one another and in their responses to published autobiographies. She posits that autobiography and conversation may be useful for teachers not only in constructing their own learning about culture, but also, by doing so, in participating in the transformation of learning within the teaching profession.
Download or read book Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment written by Catherine Wehlburg and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2008-07-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment plays a key role in institutions of higher education. However, many colleges and universities simply add their assessment plans onto other teaching, learning, service, and research activities in order to prepare for an impending accreditation visit. In this important resource, Catherine M. Wehlburg outlines an integrated and ongoing system for assessment that both prepares for an accreditation visit and truly enhances student learning. This innovative approach can be adapted for use in a wide variety of situations to transform a department or an entire institution.
