The Development of an Instrument for the Evaluation of Some Aspects of the Taught Component of an Advanced Courses Module for Teachers in International Schools     

Jim Harvey  Mary Hayden  Jeff Thompson 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》1994,19(2):75-89

A scheme of professional development for teachers, leading to the award of Advanced Certificate, Advanced Diploma or degree of Master of Education, has been in operation at the University of Bath School of Education for some years. Recently this modular scheme has been extended to become more accessible to teachers in international and overseas schools around the world, with modules taught in a range of locations internationally including a Summer School held annually in July at the University of Bath. The Methods of Educational Enquiry (MEE) module provides an introduction to aspects of educational research and is recommended to participants as an early module for study: between 1992 and 1993 this module has thus been taught on more occasions than any other, in a number of different locations and by a number of different tutors. This paper considers issues arising from the implementation of an instrument for the evaluation of some aspects of the taught component of the MEE module in a wide range of contexts, and describes the development of two related measures of participants' satisfaction with respect to this component. A further paper will consider a wider range of issues across a number of different modules in a range of locations.  相似文献   

Patterns of Participation in Higher Education in England: A Statistical Summary and Commentary     

Gareth Parry 《Higher Education Quarterly》1997,51(1):6-28

The purpose of this paper is to identify features of participation in higher education which are distinctive to the situation in England and which have exercised an important influence on the shift to mass forms of higher education in that country. Statistical comparisons are made with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which indicate considerable variations in the levels, patterns and profiles of participation in each territory. At the same time, some limitations and cautions are voiced about the use of official statistics for this purpose, especially where data collection has been the responsibility of separate departments and different agencies.  相似文献   

Reviews and reports     

Critchley  Macdonald  Thompson  Lloyd J. 《Annals of dyslexia》1970,20(1):125-128

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The library technician programme at Costa Rica's Distance University     

Glenn J. Thompson 《Distance Education》1993,14(1):165-170

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AV INFORMATION MATERIALS IN LIBRARIES     

Anthony Thompson 《Learning, Media and Technology》1977,3(4):117-118

The report describes the gradual adaptation by librarians to audio‐visual methods, and courses of training in their use provided at the College of Librarianship, Wales  相似文献   

How Far Free? International Networks of Constraint upon National Education Policy in the Third World     

A. R. Thompson 《比较教育学》1977,13(3):155-168

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“The Love Boat”: High Art on the High Seas     

Robert J. Thompson 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》1983,6(3):59-65

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Incremental Relevance Feedback in Japanese Text Retrieval     

Gareth Jones  Tetsuya Sakai  Masahiro Kajiura  Kazuo Sumita 《Information Retrieval》2000,2(4):361-384

The application of relevance feedback techniques has been shown to improve retrieval performance for a number of information retrieval tasks. This paper explores incremental relevance feedback for ad hoc Japanese text retrieval; examining, separately and in combination, the utility of term reweighting and query expansion using a probabilistic retrieval model. Retrieval performance is evaluated in terms of standard precision-recall measures, and also using number-to-view graphs. Experimental results, on the standard BMIR-J2 Japanese language retrieval collection, show that both term reweighting and query expansion improve retrieval performance. This is reflected in improvements in both precision and recall, but also a reduction in the average number of documents which must be viewed to find a selected number of relevant items. In particular, using a simple simulation of user searching, incremental application of relevance information is shown to lead to progressively improved retrieval performance and an overall reduction in the number of documents that a user must view to find relevant ones.  相似文献   

A confirmatory factor analysis of the hendrick‐hendrick love attitudes scale: We may not yet have an acceptable model     

Andrea Rotzien  Tammi Vacha‐Haase  Kavita Murthy  Donna Davenport  Bruce Thompson 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(4):360-374

Loving is a fundamental aspect of being human. Freud himself argued that the inability to love leads to illness, and some empirical research appears to support his view. Yet our knowledge of the nature of love remains primitive, because until recently it was not considered scientifically respectable to investigate love phenomena. This study used confirmatory factor analytic methods to test the fit of various models to data provided by 499 subjects on the 1990 version of the Hendrick and Hendrick Love Attitudes Scale. The results suggest that counselors and researchers should not treat the love styles delineated by Lee as discrete or uncorrelated entities. The results also suggest that the traditional model regarding this measure, positing (a) six factors (b) that are uncorrelated, may not provide a very good fit to data from the Love Attitudes Scale.  相似文献   

Structural model of relations among quality,satisfaction, and recommending behavior in lodging decisions     

Kenneth N. Thompson 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(2):146-160

A structural model is developed and tested that relates customers' perceptions of how well lodging properties perform on multiple dimensions to customers' perceptions of lodging quality, their satisfaction with the lodging experience, and their willingness to provide positive word of mouth (WOM). Results suggest that customers' intentions to provide positive WOM primarily are a function of their perceptions of the overall quality of the property, rather than their expressed level of satisfaction with the stay.  相似文献