Training Courses Evaluation for English Curriculum

Training courses are one of the most important ways for the improvement of teaching criteria and continuing professional development especially for the new and less experienced teachers in English language teaching. This requires many studies for continuing professional development, skills development and teaching methods through training courses to get reliable information about the current levels and educational proficiency for teachers. All this calls for checking the influence of training programmes and evaluating them to elevate progress levels and its tangible impact on learning and teaching.

Information and communication technologies in teaching foreign languages

The introduction of information and communication technologies in the modern educational process at all levels is widespread in the world. The algorithm of successful e-learning, peculiarities of using online formats as one of the ways of educational resource of foreign language teaching, criteria of platforms, and applications selection constitute the study’s relevance and its main goal. The author proposes a methodology of teaching a foreign language based on the use of technical means of information and communication technologies, its methodologically secured system of electronic ways of monitoring, control, evaluation, and the classification of online tools aimed at building the educational process. The described analysis of the foreign language teaching process based on the application of information and communication technologies is of scientific and pedagogical interest from educational information transmission in a non-linear format. The results obtained in the study can be useful for teachers in the implementation of the general management of cognitive activity of students, in communicative and advisory activities, holding mono-courses or collective projects developed by educational organizations.

Higher Education Students’ Assessments towards Gamification and Sustainability: A Case Study

Some academics are pushing for teaching staff to implement didactical practices to obtain sustainable behavior. Moreover, a fundamental element of gamification in all educational stages is the noteworthy effect it has on student motivation. In our study, we examined higher education students’ assessments in the University of Malaga on the design of educational gamification and the teaching criteria that relate to gamification, and its effect on student’s motivation, the applications of gamification, and the attitude towards sustainability. A questionnaire was administered to students studying for degrees in education from the University of Malaga. A total of 187 valid surveys were obtained. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was computed for these data based on an exploratory–confirmatory model and using SmartPLS version 3.3.2. A positive relationship between assessment of students’ motivation and sustainability attitude was found. We found that the opinions of the students about the role of their training and teaching design material in education would affect students’ motivation and the sustainability behavior, although the power of this last construct is moderate.

Complejidad textual con fines académicos en el ámbito de la traducción. Variables para su clasificación.

La actividad traductora es de por sí un proceso complejo en cuanto al conocimiento. Para lograr llevar el mensaje de una lengua a otra, existen convenciones lingüísticas y culturales que deben ser consideradas. La complejidad en el ámbito terminológico (Cabré, 2003), es una variable que puede incidir directamente en el aprendizaje tanto del proceso traductor como del aprendizaje de una lengua, si no existen criterios pedagógicos claros sobre la selección de material académico para el educando. El objetivo de esta investigación fue crear un insumo para la categorización y clasificación de niveles de complejidad de textos considerando los criterios baja, media y alta complejidad, y así intentar estandarizar el proceso de selección de material para aplicar metodologías a programas universitarios de la carrera de traducción. Con lo anterior, se busca definir criterios elementales, en formato de material instruccional, para que en cada programa de estudio donde se vea reflejada la competencia del saber-hacer ligada a la traducción, la selección de textos de la lengua meta no sea sesgada al juicio experto sino a características fundamentales de selección académica para poder cumplir con las competencias y aprendizajes esperados de los programas de estudio de la carrera de traducción en INACAP Chile y su respectivo perfil de egreso. Translation activity is by nature a complex process in terms of knowledge. There are linguistic rules and cultural guidelines in order to communicate one’s message to another language. Terminology complexity (Cabré, 2003) is an important variable that can directly affect translation learning and second language acquisition, when not considering teaching criteria in selecting academic texts for the students. The final objective of this project was to create an instrument that allows teachers to select and classify the complexity levels stated in each translation class program for low, intermediate and high complexity texts. This is to standardize the text selection process to which the students are exposed to when learning translation at INACAP University. The project aims to define the fundamental criteria in an instructional portfolio, so as each program can develop a competence-based approach related to the translation, the selection of source texts to translate is not up to each teacher’s expert opinion, but to the fundamental features of the academic text selection. All this is in order to accomplish the objective of each class program and achieve the exit profile.

A Description of the Characteristics and Behaviors of Master Teachers in Nursing

Master teachers are associated with achieving excellence in teaching; however, there are no research studies that describe master teachers in nursing. Based on an analysis of interview responses from eleven, experienced, full-time, undergraduate nurse educators, this qualitative study offers an empirically based description of characteristics and behaviors of master teachers in nursing. This description of master teachers provides nurse educators with characteristics and behaviors that may be needed to develop a master teacher practice. Increasing the number of master teachers in nursing could have implications for creating teaching criteria to evaluate teaching practice and develop professional development activities.

Multiple Dimensions of Effective Assessment in Graded College English Teaching Classroom

Teaching assessment refers to the process of assessing the teaching effect and implementation of the teaching goal, it aims to make corresponding value judgment through systematic detection and assessment of teaching activities according to certain teaching criteria. An effective teaching assessment not only brings teachers feedback and improves the teaching administration, but also provides students with an effective means to optimize the learning strategies to achieve better learning efficiency and desired effects. So a comprehensive and accurate assessment is of vital significance to propel the course goals into accomplishment. In college English graded teaching practice, it is prerequisite to adhere to the assessment principle of development and diversification of assessment dimensions in order to arrive at an effective classroom evaluation.

Excellent Teaching: criteria and requirements

Higher education is facing many challenges. The world is becoming a global community due to the fast development of technology. A present-day citizen of the world must quickly and efficiently communicate thoughts and ideas, think critically, adapt to changing circumstances. In the world with almost unlimited access to information, the ability and skills to differentiate accurate and inaccurate information are becoming imperative. The higher education society is becoming more and more multicultural and this demographic change has created the necessity to review approaches and attitudes to teaching. The burden to adapt to the requirements of the multicultural education is on higher education teachers. What are the criteria for excellent teaching? What makes excellent teachers, and what qualities and skills do they possess?

Elaboração e Análise de Textos Científcos: Proposição de Protocolo

Alguns critérios têm sido defnidos como essenciais para garantir a qualidade dos trabalhos publicados, em todas as áreas do conhecimento. A Fonoaudiologia, apesar de ser uma ciência com cerca de 70 anos, tem apresentado uma taxa de crescimento razoável, no Brasil, quando comparada a outras ciências. Este estudo teve como objetivo explorar os elementos, citados pelos autores, como essenciais para garantir a qualidade dos trabalhos publicados, visando a elaboração de um protocolo para análise de textos de pesquisa na área da fonoaudiologia. Para responder ao objetivo proposto, em um primeiro momento foram elaborados dois protocolos pilotos: um para o delineamento de pesquisas qualitativas e um para o delineamento de pesquisas quantitativas, a partir do resultado da elaboração e aplicação dos mesmos, foram estabelecidos novos critérios defnidos com maior objetividade, para serem usados na elaboração de um protocolo, que visasse explorar as pesquisas de abordagem quantitativa na área da saúde. Para isso foram compiladas as defnições e propostas de diversos autores presentes no referencial teórico do estudo. A pesquisa realizada resultou em um protocolo composto por 12 itens e 60 subitens. Acredita-se que o protocolo sugerido possa ser utilizado para elaborar e avaliar trabalhos científcos de abordagem quantitativa a serem utilizados por docentes, discentes e profssionais da área como forma de garantir a qualidade da produção científca publicada em fonoaudiologia e em outras áreas.Palavras-chave: Ciência. Ensino. Critérios. Pesquisa. FonoaudiologiaAbstractSome criteria have been defned as essential to guarantee the quality of published works in all areas of knowledge. Speech therapy, despite being a science about 70 years old, has presented a reasonable growth rate in Brazil when compared to other sciences. This study aimed to explore the elements cited by the authors as essential to guarantee the quality of the published works, aiming at the elaboration of a protocol for the analysis of research texts in the feld of speech and hearing pathology. In order to respond to the proposed objective, two pilot protocols were frst developed: one for the delineation of qualitative researches and one for the design of quantitative researches, from the result of the elaboration and application of the same, new criteria defned with greater objectivity were established to be used in the elaboration of a protocol that aims to explore the researches of quantitative approach in the health area. For this, the defnitions and proposals of several authors present in the theoretical framework of the study were compiled. The research resulted in a protocol composed of 12 items and 60 subitems. It is believed that the suggested protocol can be used to elaborate and evaluate scientifc works of quantitative approach to be used by teachers, students and professionals of the area as a way of guaranteeing the quality of the scientifc production ublished in speech therapy and in other areas.Keywords: Science. Teaching. Criteria. Search. Speech therapy.