ABSTRACT
The traditional first day of class includes the instructor reading from the syllabus, sharing personal details, and performing icebreakers. This approach to “syllabus day” often gives ...students a negative first impression of the course, which may limit full understanding of course policies, hinder student motivation, and decrease instructor evaluations. This paper proposes a novel approach to “syllabus day,” which includes completing an information search quiz, building a final course grade “estimator” in Excel, and drafting a professional memo. These engaging activities are designed to increase students' understanding of course policies by examining the syllabus for an accounting course and to develop workplace readiness skills vital to an accounting career. Student feedback indicates that our approach to the first class gives students a better understanding of information included in the syllabus compared to other classes, is more interesting than typical initial class meetings, and is recommended for use in other courses.
Colleges and universities offer classes that meet for different lengths of time and different numbers of days per week, such as classes that meet 2 days and those that meet 3 days. Traditionally ...triweekly classes that met for a shorter duration were more common than classes that met biweekly for a longer duration. Biweekly classes are becoming more popular with time. However, there is some concern that classes that meet more often are better suited for student learning than others. This paper, using data from a small liberal arts college, finds that after controlling for the starting time of the class meeting and course fixed effects as well as faculty and student fixed effects, student learning across 2 and 3 days classes is essentially the same.
A study based on review of methodological normative documents, books, magazines and websites is performed related to the organizational forms of teaching, motivated by the transformations in Medical ...Education in modern times. In this context the class meeting is resized to meet the demands of training new graduate of the MIC, with the qualities that society demand of them. This paper aims to expose the methodological elements necessary for organizing and structuring this type of didactic teaching encounter and emphasize that this form of organization of teaching should be based on improving the quality of the educational process. The results of the work in the didactic structure is exposed with different times consisting of 3 parts each, yielding conclusions as perfecting the class meeting achieves superior quantitative and qualitative results.
Se realiza un estudio basado en la revisión de documentos normativos metodológicos, libros, revistas y páginas web relacionados con las formas de organización de la enseñanza, motivados por las transformaciones que sufre la Educación Médica en los tiempos actuales. En este contexto la clase encuentro se redimensiona para dar respuesta a las exigencias de la formación del nuevo egresado del MIC, con las cualidades que la sociedad demanda de ellos. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo exponer los elementos metodológicos necesarios para organizar y estructurar didácticamente esta modalidad del encuentro docente y enfatizar que esta forma de organización de la enseñanza debe estar en función de elevar la calidad del proceso docente educativo. En los resultados del trabajo se expone la estructura didáctica con sus distintos momentos que constan de 3 partes cada uno, obteniéndose como conclusiones que el perfeccionamiento de la clase encuentro permite lograr resultados cuantitativos y cualitativos superiores.
About the Course Spector, Barbara S.
Constructing Meaning in a Science Methods Course for Prospective Elementary Teachers
Book Chapter
This course was required in the preservice program for certification to teach in an elementary school. It was housed in an elementary education department. My faculty appointment was in a secondary ...education department. This latter department serviced the elementary program by providing methods courses in specialized disciplines such as science, mathematics, and social studies.
Findings about Course Participants Spector, Barbara S.
Constructing Meaning in a Science Methods Course for Prospective Elementary Teachers
Book Chapter
In addition to typical demographics, this chapter suggests characteristics of students participating in this course that affected their willingness to change paradigms and describes the episodes from ...which they were derived. The demographics in this class were comparable to that of sections of this course my research group and I taught in previous years. The past classes ranged from four to twenty-seven students.
Course evaluation: When? Carrier, Neil A; Howard, George S; Miller, William G
Journal of educational psychology,
08/1974, Letnik:
66, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Data from 385 undergraduates support 2 hypotheses that students attending the last regular meeting of a college course in introductory psychology give more favorable instructor and course evaluations ...than those attending the final examination only. Data pertinent to a 3rd hypothesis suggest that, relative to the last-meeting evaluations, the final examination context has little or no effect on ratings.
sisällön kuvaus: Helsingin suomalaisen normaalilyseon ylioppilaat vuodelta 1933. Koulun entiset oppilaat ovat kokoontuneet luokkakokoukseen 30-vuotta lakkiaisista 1963.
mustavalkoinen
black and white
