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Journal articles on the topic "University extension Evaluation"
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Maynard, Donald N. "Enhancing the Scope of Vegetable Cultivar Evaluation in Florida." HortTechnology 12, no. 4 (January 2002): 560–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.12.4.560.
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Vegetable cultivar evaluations are conducted seasonally by research and extension faculty at several locations throughout the state of Florida. Results are summarized and published in a Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Circular, Vegetable Variety Evaluation in Florida and used as a basis for extension recommendations published in Vegetable Production Guide for Florida, an industry-sponsored publication. The selection of vegetables to be evaluated depends on local needs and the evaluator's interest. Until recently, this has provided fairly good coverage of the principle vegetables grown in the state. However, the future of this program as currently structured may be in doubt because of changes in assignments of current faculty, new faculty with assignments and interests that differ from their predecessors, and reduced administrative recognition for cultivar evaluation. It is likely that county extension faculty and professional staff will have a greater role in cultivar evaluation as university faculty input is reduced. Increasing the scope of vegetable cultivar evaluation by university faculty to include adaptation of new crops and specialty vegetables adds a new dimension to traditional trials. Some of these vegetables have not benefitted from selection or breeding so there is opportunity for crop improvement as a further extension of vegetable cultivar evaluation.
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Sánchez, Elsa S., Thomas M. Butzler, Timothy E. Elkner, Robert Pollock, and Francesco Di Gioia. "Pennsylvania State University Statewide Cultivar Evaluation Program Model." Horticulturae 7, no. 10 (October 6, 2021): 370. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae7100370.
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Cultivar selection is an important managerial task for commercial farmers. Numerous available options provide marketing opportunities for farmers; however, they can also make cultivar selection time-consuming. For the past 13 years, a team of Penn State Extension educators and university faculty has implemented a new model to evaluate cultivars for key vegetable crops to assist farmers. Our approach started by building relationships within the vegetable industry with farmers, seed company representatives, and farmer-driven organizations who support our program with funding and gift-in-kind donations. We also added rigor to cultivar evaluations by conducting trials of key vegetable crops over 2 years at three locations. The results were used to develop cultivar recommendations, which were disseminated through various face-to-face and distance Extension avenues. The results were also published in refereed journals. The combination of funding, Extension products, and refereed articles led to university support. A drawback to our approach was the difficulty implementing uniform production methods at three experimental sites. The input of a statistical consultant assisted with overcoming this drawback. This model also required the use of strategies common to successful teams. Our methods are described here for those who desire to build a similar program.
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Murray, Mike, Mike Cahn, Janet Caprile, Don May, Gene Miyao, Bob Mullen, Jesus Valencia, and Bill Weir. "University of California Cooperative Extension Processing Tomato Cultivar Evaluation Program." HortTechnology 9, no. 1 (January 1999): 36–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.9.1.36.
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University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisors have conducted applied research to quantify processing tomato [Lycopersicum esculentum (L.) Mill] varietal performance, as a coordinated activity, since 1973. Early and midseason maturity varieties are annually evaluated at four to six locations throughout the state. The test varieties are selected in collaboration with seed companies, processors and growers. The growers and seed companies provide financial support for the tests. Most tests are conducted in production tomato fields and are harvested using commercial harvesters. The results are widely disseminated through an annual report to the funding sources, farm advisor research reports, newsletters, production meetings, the California Tomato Grower magazine, and popular media. The information obtained for fruit yield potential, fruit quality and plant horticultural characteristics is used by processors, growers, and seed companies to make variety selection decisions. This regional extension program has proven to be an effective way to generate well-designed replicated information for making intelligent processing tomato cultivar decisions and has been well accepted by the California industry.
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Denny, Marina D'Abreau, and Alisha Marie Hardman. "Mississippi State University extension undergraduate apprenticeship program." Advancements in Agricultural Development 1, no. 1 (January 28, 2020): 86–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.37433/aad.v1i1.13.
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The Mississippi State University Extension Undergraduate Apprenticeship Program was implemented in 2017 to give undergraduate juniors and seniors the opportunity to work one-on-one with an Extension mentor and explore careers in agriculture, natural resources, family and consumer sciences, community resource development, or youth development, while participating in research and outreach activities that directly benefit Extension programs and community stakeholders. The program is rooted in the principles of mentoring adult learners in an organizational context. Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model and the DEAL Model for Critical Reflection serve as the conceptual framework, whereby students engage in critical reflection to enhance their integrated research-and-outreach learning experience. An evaluation of the first two student cohorts (n=19) revealed a significant production of scholarship, an increase in discipline-specific knowledge, enhanced critical thinking and problem solving skills, a greater understanding and appreciation for Extension, and a desire to pursue related graduate studies.
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Orangzab, Muhammad Sajjad, Muhammad Umair Zulfiqar, Muhammad Irfan Chani, Bilal Tariq, and Rai Imtiaz Hussain. "Influential factors of brand extension among university students: case for Pakistan." Marketing and Management of Innovations 5, no. 2 (2021): 278–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/mmi.2021.2-23.
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Brand extension is considered to be a highly plausible and essential factor for the success of new products. It is an elusive concept that adds value to the offered products and gives a competitive advantage for strategical positioning of new products in the consumers' minds. This study carefully considers the influential factors for the evaluation of brand extension for products targeting young customers. This study analyzed the three important characteristics of consumers by employing a new and proposed nomological network to assess the brand extension and its strategies. First, the brand extension was directly regressed with the need for uniqueness and with innovativeness. After observing the significance of the regressed model, the model was finally analyzed with the intervening variable of need for variety. Six hypotheses were developed, and the proposed theoretical model was assessed through structural equation modeling (SEM) with the help of SmartPLS. Data was collected from 331 university students of southern Punjab, Pakistan. It was found that all three personal characteristics of young consumers (need for uniqueness, innovativeness, and need for variety) are highly significant with the evaluation of brand evaluation. The proposed model explained more than 30% variation in the observed phenomenon. It was observed that the need for variety partially mediates the relationship between the need for uniqueness, innovativeness, and brand extension. As per the results of this study, it was found that the variety of products matters a lot for young customers so, marketers must consider the variation in the products while extending their product line. Theoretically, this study contributed and enhanced the nomological network of brand extension for young consumers. Practically, the study would help the decision-makers understand the preferences of the young generation to devise the new strategies of brand extension.
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Safrankova, Jana Marie, and Jana Marie Safrankova. "The evaluation of quality teaching methods in research at Czech Republic." International Journal of Teaching and Education 9, no. 1 (April 20, 2021): 75–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.52950/te.2021.9.1.006.
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The evaluation of the quality of teaching and the evaluation of education at universities, methods of evaluating teaching and assessment are one of the key criteria for university evaluation. At present, a project of the ESF project of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen was realized and one of its activities is focused on "Improving Educational Activities and Modern Educational Trends" and on the subsequent implementation and reflection of student education with new teaching methods. The questionary survey was conducted in 2019 with 616 respondents from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, who is the only one public higher education institution in the Pilsen Region. The results analyze in detail the views of the students - taking into account the extension of pedagogical competencies within the framework of the career order. The aim of the project is a comprehensive system of interconnection of the education of academic staff in the area of increasing pedagogical competencies with introduction of new teaching methods into practice and taking into account the extension of pedagogical competencies within the framework of the career order. The results of a survey focused on evaluating the quality of teaching methods confirmed a number of mostly known means of activating teaching, interactive teaching, communication, discussion, the role of the personality of the lecturer and the instructor. These activation approaches need to be continued.
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Rangarajan, Anusuya. "Vigor or Rigor? The Competing Goals of Variety Trials." HortTechnology 12, no. 4 (January 2002): 562–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.12.4.562.
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Both growers and vegetable seed companies have had long-term historic relationships with public agriculture extension educators and faculty to conduct unbiased evaluation of vegetable varieties. Reductions in both the number of vegetable seed companies as well as university human resources has led to questions about the viability and appropriateness of publicly-funded variety evaluation programs. Field based extension educators and regional staff have taken more leadership to evaluate varieties, but this often results in fragmented or repetitive trials with limited long term integration of data. Statewide vegetable extension specialists must provide the leadership in coordinating these trials to enhance the rigor of data collection and analysis. Fundamental to enhancing rigor is improving regional coordination and collaboration. The calculation of stability estimates for new and older varieties is most efficiently and quickly achieved through regional collaborations. Initial efforts should improve uniformity of trials by creating common evaluation methods for yield and qualitative evaluations (e.g., color, appearance), including two standard varieties (one local and one regional, long-term standard), standardizing field establishment practices, and selecting experimental designs and plot sizes to improve labor efficiency. These regionally coordinated trials will improve the ability to publish this type of applied research and demonstrate new levels of efficiency for university administrations. In the long term, carefully designed comparisons of genotypic performance among different environments could suggest new directions for university breeding programs as well as cropping systems research.
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Williams, J. David, Charles H. Gilliam, Gary J. Keever, and John T. Owen. "The Auburn University Shade Tree Evaluation: Its Roots and Fruit." HortTechnology 11, no. 3 (January 2001): 358–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.11.3.358.
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The Auburn University Shade Tree Evaluation is an ongoing trial of a moderately diverse range of species, and varieties of larger-growing trees. The study was initiated in 1980 with the planting of 250 selections in three replications of three trees each, located at the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Piedmont Substation in east-central Alabama. Among the fruit of the investigation have been an evaluation of 10 red maple (Acer rubrum) selections with respect to growth and fall color characteristics; a comparison of growth rate and aesthetic characteristics of 14 oak (Quercus) selections; a comparison of the growth and fireblight (Erwinia amylovora) susceptibility of 10 callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) selections; and a 12-year evaluation of the overall best performing trees. The Shade Tree Evaluation has served as a precedent for six additional landscape tree evaluations in Alabama. It has provided a living laboratory for a wide range of educational audiences including landscape and nursery professionals, county extension agents, urban foresters, Master Gardeners, garden club members, and horticulture students. Knowledge gained from the Shade Tree Evaluation has been shared through presentations at meetings and conferences.
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Halpin, Mary Ann, Susan M. Farner, Stephen J. Notaro, Sheri Seibold, Pat McGlaughlin, Natalie Bosecker, and Barbara Farner. "An Evaluation of the University of Illinois Extension Get Up & Move! Program." Journal of Youth Development 4, no. 1 (March 1, 2009): 126–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2009.280.
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Get Up & Move! is a program created by University of Illinois Extension to address childhood obesity. It provides ready-to-use materials for youth leaders to promote healthy lifestyles through physical fitness and healthy eating. The impact of the program on participants’ physical activity was evaluated to see whether involvement produces an increase in physical activity to the USDA recommended 60 minutes per day. It was found that a significant increase in minutes of physical activity occurred in participants from an average of 51.88 minutes per day to an average of 58.84 minutes per day.
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Wilkin, Margaret, Rebecca Hofer, Brenda Wolford, Diane Woloshin, Ana Claudia Zubieta, Elizabeth Hustead, Brian Butler, and Alisha Ferguson. "P105 Outcome Evaluation of Ohio State University Extension SNAP-Ed Social Marketing Campaign." Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 51, no. 7 (July 2019): S80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2019.05.481.
Full textDissertations / Theses on the topic "University extension Evaluation"
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Mohamed, Ahmed Ramadan Ahmed. "County agents' assessment of The Ohio State University extension support and performance evaluation system /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487953567769553.
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Feitosa, Antonio IndalÃcio. "IdentificaÃÃo de indicadores e definiÃÃo de Ambiente estratÃgico para avaliaÃÃo de desempenho da extensÃo universitÃria." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2009. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3693.
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nÃo hÃA presente dissertaÃÃo compreende dois estÃgios distintos, no que diz respeito à investigaÃÃo cientÃfica. A princÃpio, identificam-se indicadores de desempenho e define-se ambiente estratÃgico, tendo como instrumento metodolÃgico o balanced scorecard â BSC, com embasamento teÃrico em Kaplan e Norton (1997) e, em particular, no criador do mÃtodo adaptado, Figueiredo (2002). No tocante Ãs adaptaÃÃes destacam-se a implementaÃÃo de novas perspectivas: Organizacional â polÃtica e gestÃo estratÃgica; PedagÃgica â articulaÃÃo ensino, pesquisa e extensÃo; de Responsabilidade Social â relaÃÃo universidade e sociedade e de ProduÃÃo CientÃfica â publicaÃÃo cientÃfica e tecnolÃgica e a definiÃÃo do ambiente estratÃgico de planejamento no contexto da autoavaliaÃÃo institucional da interface ensino, pesquisa e extensÃo, por meio de pesquisa de campo e documental. No segundo estÃgio, avalia-se as atividades de extensÃo universitÃria enquanto finalidade da educaÃÃo superior, destacando-se sua relevÃncia acadÃmica, polÃtica e social. A pesquisa foi aplicada por amostragem, docentes e alunos da educaÃÃo superior das diversas Ãreas de formaÃÃo profisional, por ocasiÃo da primeira avaliaÃÃo institucional no ano letivo de 2006, com base nas diretrizes do SINAES â Sistema Nacional de AvaliaÃÃo da EducaÃÃo Superior no Centro Federal de EducaÃÃo TecnolÃgica do CearÃ. A aplicaÃÃo de questionÃrios a professores e a estudantes (estagiÃrios, bolsistas, voluntÃrios), entrevistas semiestruturadas, consulta a banco de dados sobre as aÃÃes extensionistas no perÃodo de setembro de 2008 a fevereiro de 2009, entre outros, foram os instrumentos utilizados para a realizaÃÃo deste trabalho, tendo como base, principalmente, o planejamento estratÃgico para a extensÃo definido no plano de desenvolvimento institucional para o perÃodo 2005/2009. Considrando-se as quatro perspectivas definidas no processo de identificaÃÃo de indicadores estratÃgicos, como objetivo geral deste trabalho, os rsultados evidenciam que a classe docente e discente tem claro desconhecimento do planejamento polÃtico-pedagÃgico para a interface ensino, pesquuisa e extensÃo, apesar dos esforÃos da alta administraÃÃo da instituiÃÃo pesquisada; nÃo obstante, destaca-se o impacto positivo na formaÃo do aluno e a efetiva contribuiÃÃo para a inclusÃo social da clientela atendida, por meio das atividades de extensÃo; outrossim, percebe-se o grande envolvimento docente em publicaÃÃo cientÃfica e tecnolÃgica, enquanto que, o grupo discente pouco tem participaÃÃo em atividades de inciaÃÃo cientÃfica. No contexto geral, conclui-se que, estes atores sociais - professores e estudantes, tem participaÃÃo insignificante na elaboraÃÃo de polÃticas e no planejamento estratÃgico para a extensÃo universitÃria, apesar de, adequadamente afirmados no plano de desenvolvimento institucional, conforme demonstrado nos resultados da pesquisa aplicada.
This dissertation presents two distinct parts regarding scientific research. At the beginning performance indicators are identified and strategic environment is set up, using the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a methodological tool, with a theoretical foundation in Kaplan and Norton (1997) and, in particular, Figueiredo (2002). Among the new adaptations it is highlighted the implementation of new perspectives: Organizational â strategic politics and management; Pedagogical â teaching, research and extension linking; Social Responsibility â university and society relationship and Scientific Production â scientific and technological publication and the definition of the strategic planning environment in the context of institutional self-assessment within the teaching, research and extension interface, through documental and camping research. In the second part, the university extension activities are assessed as an aim of third degree education, expressing your academic, political and social importance. The research was applied by sampling; teachers and students of third degree education from several professional areas, when the first institutional assessment happened in the school year of 2006, based on the guidelines of SINAES â Third Degree Education Assessment National System at Centro Federal de EducaÃÃo TecnolÃgica do CearÃ. The application of questionnaires to teachers and students (trainees, college program workers, volunteers), semi-structured interviews, research to the database on the extension actions between September of 2008 and February of 2009, among others, were the instruments used for this work, and mainly as a base, the analysis of strategic planning for the extension established in the institutional development plan for the period 2005/2009. Considered the four perspectives defined in the process of identification of strategically pointers, as objective generality of this work, the resulted ones evidence that the teaching and learning classroom clearly has unfamiliarity of the politician-pedagogical planning for the interface education, research and extension, although the efforts of the high administration of the searched institution; not obstante, the positive impact in the translation of the pupil and the effective is distinguished contribution for the social inclusion of the taken care of clientele, by means of the activities of extension; also, perceives the great teaching development in scientific publication and technological, whereas, the learning group little has participation in activities of scientific initiation. In the general context, one concludes that, these social actors - professors and students, have insignificant participation in the elaboration of politics and the strategically planning for the university extension, although, adequately affirmed in the plan of institutional development, as demonstrated in the results of the applied research.
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Silva, Anuska Andréia de Sousa. "O Programa UFBA em Campo – ACC: sua contribuição na formação do estudante." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFBA, 2007. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/10261.
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Esta dissertação objetivou avaliar o Programa UFBA em Campo – ACC através da perspectiva dos egressos dos cursos de graduação da UFBA. Para orientar a pesquisa, foram definidos seis objetivos. O primeiro objetivo foi entender que concepção de extensão e de intervenção social a UFBA possui. O segundo foi verificar se há articulação entre as atividades de ACC e as de ensino e pesquisa e como isso se processa. O terceiro foi examinar a existência de articulação das temáticas de ACC com os problemas sociais. O quarto concerniu em descrever as políticas existentes na UFBA para o desenvolvimento da ACC e se existem incentivos institucionais e/ou de outras fontes. O quinto procurou entender como é a participação dos estudantes nas ACC’s. Por último, buscou-se examinar qual a contribuição da ACC na formação do estudante. A pesquisa realizada através da pesquisa bibliográfica, da metodologia do Survey e da pesquisa documental verificou que a UFBA utiliza o mesmo conceito elaborado pelo Plano Nacional de Extensão Universitária, com a ACC em sua essência articulando as funções essenciais da Universidade, em consonância com os problemas sociais. A pesquisa apontou ainda que a Universidade possui políticas institucionais para o desenvolvimento da ACC (política de parceria, política de avaliação e a flexibilização curricular) e que o programa desempenha um papel importante no trajeto curricular do estudante, contribuindo para formação ética, profissional, cidadã e humanitária. Em função dos resultados obtidos, recomendou-se a utilização dos dados desta pesquisa para que a gestão do programa implante um sistema permanente de acompanhamento e avaliação com representação da comunidade, do corpo discente e docente. Aconselhou-se também que a ACC seja utilizada para reconceptualização do currículo, auxiliando o projeto da Universidade Nova no âmbito da UFBA.
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Domingues, Eron da Silva. "EXTENSÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA NA UFSM: PROPOSTAS PARA ELABORAÇÃO DE UM INSTRUMENTO DE AVALIAÇÃO." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2016. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9628.
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This study examined the extent to Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), seeking to answer how to configure the evaluation process of these actions. The study spoke about the university and its role in society, made a brief historical review of the extension in Brazilian universities, in the form of documentary research. He characterized the extension actions as institutional data and according to expert opinion, as well as analyzed the assessment of the extent of the dimensions of UFSM Extension Policy. The approach used in the construction of the study was qualitative-quantitative and data collection was done through documental research and semi-structured interviews applied to experts of the university extension of the Federal University of Santa Maria. Content analysis and triangulation were the methods used for preparation and discussion of results. Were used as parameters for discussion, the evaluation system of the Portuguese higher education proposed by the Assessment and Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (A3ES), the National System of Higher Education Assessment (SINAES), the National Policy extension, the Plan Institutional Development (PDI-UFSM) and Extension Policy of the Federal University of Santa Maria. The study reached conclusions about the extent of shares of UFSM. Elucidated the processes of evaluation and proposed relevant subsidies for the early development of an Evaluation Instrument for university extension of UFSM.Este trabalho analisou a extensão na Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), buscando responder como se configuram os processos de avaliação dessas ações. O estudo dissertou sobre a universidade e seu papel na sociedade, fez um breve resgate histórico da extensão nas universidades brasileiras, sob a forma de pesquisa documental. Ele caracterizou as ações de extensão conforme dados institucionais e conforme a opinião de especialistas, assim como, analisou a avaliação da extensão nas dimensões da Política de Extensão da UFSM. A abordagem utilizada na construção do estudo foi a qualiquantitativa e a coleta de dados foi feita através da pesquisa documental e de entrevistas semiestruturadas aplicadas a especialistas da área de extensão universitária da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. A análise de conteúdo e a triangulação foram os métodos utilizados para elaboração e discussão dos resultados. Foram utilizados como parâmetro para discussão, o sistema de avaliação do ensino superior português, proposto pela Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior (A3ES), o Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Superior (SINAES), a Política Nacional de Extensão, o Plano de Desenvolvimento Institucional (PDI-UFSM) e a Política de Extensão da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. O estudo chegou a conclusões a respeito das ações de extensão da UFSM. Elucidou os processos de avaliação e propôs subsídios relevantes para o início da elaboração de um Instrumento de Avaliação para a extensão universitária da UFSM.
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Arroyo, Daniela Munerato Piccolo. "A meta-avalia??o e a extens?o universit?ria: um estudo de caso." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, 2010. http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/655.
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Previous issue date: 2010-02-26From the interest in understanding the formation of the student, focusing on the future as professionals who must be able to act differently in different situations in your professional and personal with a high social commitment, we understand that the university extension programs can fulfill important role in this regard. The extension programs aimed at, among its objectives, the training for university students taking social commitments and work towards a less unequal society. We choose then as a field of research, an outreach program at a Catholic university (here called the Center), who works for social inclusion of people with disabilities from an interdisciplinary perspective, taking his team teachers and students in different areas of their undergraduate courses. From a brief history of higher education in Brazil, the implementation of continuing education in institutions of higher education and in this context, the debate on the responsibilities of the State and the University for the development of society, emphasize the importance of assessment procedures university extension programs. From our point of view, these processes are essential to advance these programs and play an important role in the formation of student extension. We argue that the evaluation of extension programs is necessary to address the inseparability of the axes of teaching and research-extension, interdisciplinarity, and to the peculiarities of the specific study, the inclusion of people with disabilities. We develop a meta-evaluation of goals: (1) determine what are the strengths of the evaluation process conducted by the extension program put into the study, (2) ascertaining the weaknesses of this process, and (3) to reflect about which aspects of this assessment contributes to the formation of students participating in the program. This is a case study, and the methodological procedures used were document analysis of the program, literature review, and conducting semi-structured interview with the Coordinator of the program. The empirical analysis was constructed qualitatively and quantitatively. The results showed that operating a process to assess the extent is a complex and that gaps and contradictions must be analyzed carefully, may limit the contributions that the extension activities have potential for the training of students who took part.
A partir do interesse em compreender a forma??o do estudante universit?rio, focalizandoo como futuro profissional que deve ser capaz de atuar de forma diferenciada nas diversas situa??es de sua trajet?ria profissional e pessoal e com elevado compromisso social, entendemos que os programas de extens?o universit?ria podem cumprir importante papel neste sentido. Os programas de extens?o visam, dentre seus objetivos, a capacita??o para os estudantes universit?rios assumirem compromissos sociais e trabalharem por uma sociedade menos desigual. Elegemos, ent?o, como campo da pesquisa, um programa de extens?o de uma universidade cat?lica (aqui chamado de Centro), que trabalha pela inclus?o social de pessoas com defici?ncia, numa perspectiva interdisciplinar, tendo em sua equipe professores e estudantes de diferentes ?reas dos seus cursos de gradua??o. A partir um breve hist?rico sobre a educa??o superior no Brasil, a implanta??o da extens?o universit?ria nas institui??es de ensino superior e, neste contexto, do debate sobre as responsabilidades do Estado e da universidade pelo desenvolvimento da sociedade, destacamos a import?ncia dos processos de avalia??o dos programas de extens?o universit?ria. De nosso ponto de vista, estes processos s?o imprescind?veis para fazer avan?ar estes programas e t?m importante papel na forma??o dos alunos-extensionistas. Argumentamos que na avalia??o de programas de extens?o ? necess?rio abordar a indissociabilidade dos eixos ensino-pesquisa-extens?o, a interdisciplinaridade e, em fun??o das peculiaridades do programa espec?fico estudado, a inclus?o social das pessoas com defici?ncia. Desenvolvemos um trabalho de metaavalia??o, com objetivos de: (1) verificar quais s?o os pontos fortes do processo de avalia??o realizado pelo programa de extens?o colocado em estudo; (2) averiguar quais s?o as fragilidades deste processo; e (3) refletir sobre quais aspectos esta avalia??o contribui para a forma??o dos estudantes que participam do programa. Trata-se de um estudo de caso, e os procedimentos metodol?gicos utilizados foram an?lise documental do programa, revis?o bibliogr?fica, e realiza??o de entrevista semi-estruturada com a Coordenadora do programa. O material emp?rico constru?do foi analisado qualitativa e quantitativamente. Os resultados mostraram que colocar em funcionamento um processo de avalia??o da extens?o ? um trabalho complexo e que lacunas e contradi??es precisam ser analisadas com cuidado, porque podem limitar as contribui??es que as atividades extensionistas tem em potencial para a forma??o dos estudantes que delas participam.
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Bartnik, Fabiana Marques Pereira. "A??o extensionista em Universidades Cat?licas e Comunit?rias e sua avalia??o." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, 2009. http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/629.
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Previous issue date: 2009-02-19The objective of the present work is to understand and analyze how the Catholic and Communitarian University expresses and characterize its identity in the extensionist actions that develop and its concern to obtain the data from this work through specific evaluation. To achieve this proposition, five interviews were realized with Extension or Communitarian Action directors, from Catholic and Communitarian Universities located in the Province and in the Coastal region of S?o Paulo with tradition in extensionist actions. The investigation of this subject leads us to understand that the evaluation of the social commitment of the Extensionist Action represent an advance when provides the increase of value and the institutionalization of the Extension process through the research and education. The results obtained showed that in majority, the extensionist action assessment is performed in an informal manner and not conceived as a pedagogical instrument that should evaluate the concrete outcomes and effects of these actions that extend to the society. Although, it s noticed an Extension action becoming an academic practice connected to the research and education, meant of specific aspects of identity while Catholic and Communitarian.
A presente disserta??o tem por objetivo compreender e analisar como a Universidade Cat?lica e Comunit?ria expressa e caracteriza sua identidade nas a??es extensionistas que desenvolve, bem como se preocupa em obter dados acerca deste trabalho por meio de avalia??o espec?fica. Para este prop?sito, realizamos entrevistas com cinco Pr?- Reitores de Extens?o ou A??o Comunit?ria, de Universidades Cat?licas e Comunit?rias localizadas no interior e litoral de S?o Paulo, com tradi??o em a??es extensionistas. A investiga??o deste tema leva-nos a entender que a avalia??o do compromisso social da A??o Extensionista constitui um avan?o na medida em que propicia a valoriza??o e institucionaliza??o da Extens?o por meio do ensino e da pesquisa. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que em sua maioria, a avalia??o da a??o extensionista ? realizada de maneira informal e n?o concebida como um instrumento pedag?gico que deveria avaliar os efeitos e resultados concretos dessas a??es que se estendem a sociedade. Apesar disso, observa-se uma Extens?o transformando-se em pr?tica acad?mica interligada ao ensino e ? pesquisa, significadas de aspectos espec?ficos de identidade enquanto Cat?lica e Comunit?ria.
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Sousa, Sayonara Brito de. "Avaliação dos projetos de extensão do Colégio Pedro II: indicadores de desempenho sociais e institucionais." Universidade Federal Fluminense, 2017. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/4499.
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O estudo tem como foco a avaliação dos projetos de extensão do Colégio Pedro II, e tem como objetivo geral propor indicadores sociais e institucionais para avaliação dos projetos de extensão do Colégio Pedro II. Para atingir o objetivo desse estudo, foi utilizado como método de pesquisa o estudo de caso, com a finalidade de realizar um estudo aprofundado a respeito da questão central da pesquisa. Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória com abordagem qualitativa, com utilização de entrevista semiestruturada contendo um roteiro de perguntas abertas e fechadas, como técnica de coleta de dados, a observação direta, a pesquisa documental e a pesquisa bibliográfica. Os instrumentos de pesquisa (roteiro de perguntas) foram categorizados por classe de respondentes, sendo o primeiro grupo composto pela Pró-Reitora de Pós-Graduação, Pesquisa, Extensão e Cultura e a Diretora de Extensão, o segundo grupo, um servidor lotado em funções administrativas na Diretoria de Extensão, o terceiro grupo composto por quatro professores extensionistas e, o quarto e último grupo, composto por três alunos envolvidos nas ações de extensão. Para a análise dos dados, foram utilizadas a triangulação e interpretação dos dados entre as respostas dos respondentes, a revisão de literatura e a análise da autora do trabalho. Quanto à avaliação dos projetos de extensão com uso de indicadores de desempenho sociais e institucionais, verificou-se a inexistência desses instrumentos na instituição, embora tenha sido constatada a necessidade e o seu impacto positivo tanto no aspecto social como no institucional para a avaliação dos projetos.
The study focuses on the evaluation of extension projects of the Pedro II College, and its general objective is to propose social and institutional indicators for the evaluation of extension projects of the Pedro II College. To reach the objective of this study, the case study was used as a research method, with the purpose of carrying out an in - depth study on the central question of the research. This is an exploratory research with a qualitative approach, using a semi-structured interview containing a script of open and closed questions, such as data collection technique, direct observation, documentary research and bibliographic research. The research tools (question script) were categorized by respondent class, the first group being composed by the Pro-Rector of Postgraduate, Research, Extension and Culture and the Extension Director, the second group, a full-function server The third group comprised of four extension teachers, and the fourth and last group, composed of three students involved in the extension activities. For the data analysis, the triangulation and interpretation of the data between the responses of the respondents, the review of the literature and the analysis of the author of the study were used. With regard to the evaluation of extension projects using social and institutional performance indicators, these instruments were not present at the institution, although the need for and their positive impact on both the social and institutional aspects of project evaluation.
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Silva, Chrystiane Campelo da. "O programa de reestruturaÃÃo e expansÃo das Universidades Federais e o seu reflexo na PolÃtica de ExtensÃo da Universidade Federal do MaranhÃo: o caso do Campus Pinheiro." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2017. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=20262.
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nÃo hÃEssa dissertaÃÃo, atravÃs da metodologia de avaliaÃÃo em profundidade, tem o objetivo de analisar o Programa de Apoio a Planos de ReestruturaÃÃo e ExpansÃo das Universidades Federais (REUNI) na Universidade Federal do MaranhÃo no Campus de Pinheiro. O programa, iniciado no ano de 2007 e encerrado no ano de 2012, torna-se um tema bastante discutido e avaliado por muitos pesquisadores, isso porque seu objetivo geral de elevar as matrÃculas promoveu alteraÃÃes acadÃmicas e estruturais. Visando aprofundar essas alteraÃÃes, a bibliogrÃfica escolhida, os documentos institucionais e questionÃrios fundamentaram e promoveram resultados alÃm do esperado. Para complementar a pesquisa, tambÃm foi feito levantamento histÃrico, social e econÃmico da cidade de Pinheiro. O estudo permitiu verificar que à atravÃs da adesÃo ao REUNI que o Campus de Pinheiro retoma as atividades acadÃmicas atravÃs do oferecimento de cursos regulares, assim como, promove um intercÃmbio de culturas, devido à quantidade de servidores e discentes oriundos de outras regiÃes. Estes passam a residir no municÃpio de Pinheiro a partir de sua aprovaÃÃo em concurso pÃblico ou no caso dos estudantes, pelo Exame Nacional do Ensino MÃdio. Essa caracterÃstica do pluriculturalismo favorece as aÃÃes sociais e educativas coordenadas a partir de Projetos de ExtensÃo para o atendimento de deficiÃncias locais. A pesquisa buscou compreender de que forma os projetos de extensÃo estÃo sendo planejados e executados. Por fim, pode-se identificar diferenÃas nas propostas extensionistas desenvolvidas antes do REUNI e pÃs REUNI.
This dissertation, through the in-depth evaluation methodology, has the objective of analyzing the Support Program for Restructuring and Expansion Plans of the Federal Universities (REUNI) at the Federal University of MaranhÃo at Campus Pinheiro. The program, which began in 2007 and ends in the year 2012, becomes a topic that is much discussed and evaluated by many researchers, because its general objective of increasing enrollments has promoted academic and structural changes. In order to deepen these changes, the bibliography chosen, the institutional documents and questionnaires based and promoted results beyond what was expected. To complement the research, was also made historical, social and economic survey of the city of Pinheiro. The study showed that it is through the adhesion to REUNI that the Pinheiro Campus resumes academic activities through the provision of regular courses, as well as, it promotes an exchange of cultures due to the number of servers and students coming from other regions. These students now reside in the municipality of Pinheiro, following their approval in public competition or in the case of students, by the National High School Examination. This characteristic of pluriculturalism favors coordinated social and educational actions based on Extension Projects to address local handicaps. The research sought to understand how extension projects are being planned and executed. Finally, it is possible to identify differences in the extensionist proposals developed before REUNI and after REUNI.
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Hilgenberg, Cheryl S. Kennedy Larry DeWitt. "Distance education perceptions of satisfaction and critical thinking opportunities among graduate students /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9803724.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1997.Title from title page screen, viewed June 2, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Larry Kennedy (chair), John Goeldi, Barbara Nourie, William Tolone. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-90) and abstract. Also available in print.
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PEREIRA, Francinete Paula Alves. "Análise do Núcleo de Prática Jurídica da Faculdade de Direito do Recife: uma avaliação apreciativa de seu funcionamento." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2015. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/17671.
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A dissertação tem como objetivo desenvolver um processo de avaliação apreciativa do Núcleo de Prática Jurídica da Faculdade de Direito do Recife (NPJ/FDR), de modo a evidenciar "o que funciona bem”, o que faz com que isso aconteça e as implicações dos resultados alcançados ao longo de sua atuação institucional como parte integrante da formação profissional dos discentes de graduação em Direito da UFPE. Foram abordados temas como: a administração pública brasileira e a universidade pública federal, voltadas para uma forma de gestão capaz de garantir o alcance da indissociabilidade do ensino, da pesquisa e da extensão, à luz de atividades práticas inerentes à formação dos alunos dos cursos jurídicos. A abordagem e metodologia da Investigação Apreciativa (IA) deu suporte à aplicação da avaliação apreciativa do desenho institucional do NPJ/FDR, no qual estão instalados uma Defensoria Pública, um Posto Avançado da Justiça Federal e uma Câmara de Conciliação, Mediação e Arbitragem. Na metodologia foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa exploratória, descritiva, explicativa e intervencionista, valendo-se de dados documentais, bibliográficos e da estratégia do estudo de caso. A avaliação apreciativa prevê que os dados sejam objeto de coleta e análise integradas ao modelo de 5-D: Definition (Definição), Discovery (Descoberta), Dream (Sonho), Design (Planejamento) e Destiny (Destino), posto em prática mediante pesquisa colaborativa, realizada em conjunto com docentes (incluindo coordenador e ex-coordenadores do NPJ), discentes do Curso de Direito, técnicos-administrativos, além dos membros da Defensoria Pública e da Justiça Federal. Para tanto, foram efetuadas entrevistas apreciativas, reuniões e oficinas com os participantes da pesquisa. O trabalho envolveu análise de conteúdo dos dados obtidos, que passaram por triangulação teórica, dos dados e validação pela equipe colaborativa. Como resultado, foi acordado com os participantes que será elaborado um Plano de Ação para o NPJ, com o intuito de implantar as melhorias e inovações por eles sugeridas, junto com a solicitação de apoio e compromisso da Direção do Centro ao qual o NPJ está vinculado. A avaliação apreciativa também estabeleceu uma compreensão mais clara do que funciona bem no NPJ/FDR, ao se delinear o que houve no passado e repensar os fatos relevantes em sua atuação recente. Foram identificadas áreas que necessitam de ajustes, inovações e melhorias, para que se possa ter uma satisfatória formação profissional dos discentes de graduação em Direito da FDR/UFPE, a partir da proposição provocativa elaborada pela equipe colaborativa: o NPJ deve promover, na formação prática dos discentes, a indissociabilidade entre o ensino, pesquisa e extensão, motivando o desenvolvimento das competências e habilidades na aplicação do saber jurídico. Por fim, conclui-se que a perspectiva de avaliação adotada demonstra como chegar até à consecução de uma abordagem participativa apropriada calcada na capacidade das pessoas de se posicionar em uma estratégia de análise, que também significou uma experiência de aprendizagem e um ponto de referência de autoconhecimento do que faz a instituição. Espera-se desenvolver estudos complementares e futuros tendo como objeto outros setores da FDR, de modo a promover uma revolução positiva mais ampla de possibilidades a serem adotadas no seu âmbito organizacional.
The aim of this dissertation is to develop of a appreciative evaluation process of the Center of Juridical Practices of Faculdade de Direito do Recife (NPJ/FDR), so that to bring to the lights “what works well”, so how this occur and the implications of the results achieved during institutional performance on as integrant part of professional formation of the law graduation students of UFPE. It was studied themes such as: Brazilian public administration and the federal public university focused on management form able to provide teaching, research and extension in an inseparability way, with background of inherent practices to the law student formation. The approach e methodology of appreciative inquiry (AI) gave support to application of appreciative evaluation of institutional design of NPJ/FDR, formed by public defense institution, a federal police outpost and a conciliation, mediation and arbitrage chamber. The methodology was developed based on an exploratory, descriptive, explanatory and interventionist research, launching documentary, bibliographic data and case study strategy. The appreciative evaluation intent the data be object of collecting and analysis integrated to the 5-D model: Definition, Discovery, Dream, Design and Destiny, practice according to collaborative research performed by teachers (including coordinators and formers coordinators of NPJ), students of law graduation, administrative technicians and the public defense institution and federal justice members as well. Therefore, it was constructed appreciative interviews, meetings and workshops with the research members. The present work was performed through data analysis collected, data theoretical triangulation and validation by collaborative team. As result, was established among collaborative team an action plan for the NPJ, whose objective is to implant improvements and innovations suggested, as well as to plead support and compromise of center direction whose NPJ is subjected. Appreciative evaluation lead to clear comprehension about what works well in the NPJ/FDR department, by establishment of a train of thought about what occur in the past, realize the relevant facts in its former actions, identifying areas subjected to fit, innovations and improvements, for let may could be have a satisfactory professional formation of the law graduate students of FDR/UFPE, from a provocative proposition performed by NPJ team: NPJ should be promote, in the practical students formation the inseparability among teaching, researching and extension, motivating the development of skills and competencies to apply law acknowledgment. Lastly, the conclusion is the perspective about adopted evaluation, brings to the light how to achieve the consecution of an appropriate participative approach based on people capacity to stand up in a strategy of analysis, which had been meant an learning experience and reference point to self knowledge about what the institution should deliver. To the future is expected the development complementary studies having as a focus other departments of FDR, aiming to promote a kind of positive revolution, large in possibilities to be adopted in organizational of FDR departments.
Books on the topic "University extension Evaluation"
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Andrews, Mary P. An evaluation of the Michigan State University International Extension Training Program. East Lansing: Cooperative Extension Service, Michigan State University, 1987.
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Sugano, Dean. University of Hawaii system outreach efforts on the neighbor islands. Honolulu, Hawaii (State Capitol, Honolulu 96813): Legislative Reference Bureau, 1993.
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Grieder, Timothy M. Demographic profile of students enrolled in the Colorado Statewide Extended Studies Program. Denver, Colo. (1300 Broadway, Denver 80203): Colorado Commission on Higher Education, 1991.
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Quality in continuing education: Principles, practices, and standards for colleges and universities. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.
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Weir, John Angus. Rural reconstruction in Prince Edward Island: An evaluation. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms, 1991.
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Fórum Nacional de Pró-Reitores de Extensão das Universidades Públicas Brasileiras., ed. Avaliação nacional da extensão universitária. [Brazil]: Fórum de Pró-Reitores de Extensão das Universidades Públicas Brasileiras, 2001.
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Evans, Jessica, Sally Jordan, and Freda Wolfenden. Assessment in Open Distance and E-Learning. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
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Evans, Jessica, Sally Jordan, and Freda Wolfenden. Assessment in Open, Distance, and E-Learning: Lessons from Practice. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Evans, Jessica, Sally Jordan, and Freda Wolfenden. Assessment in Open, Distance, and E-Learning: Lessons from Practice. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Evans, Jessica, Sally Jordan, and Freda Wolfenden. Assessment in Open, Distance, and E-Learning: Lessons from Practice. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Santiago-Nalo, Penelope. "An Evaluation of Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Reproductive Health Among Biology Non-majors at the University of the Philippines Diliman Extension Program in Pampanga." In Biology Education and Research in a Changing Planet, 3–10. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-524-2_1.
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Arboretti, Rosa, Riccardo Ceccato, and Luigi Salmaso. "Nonparametric methods for stratified C-sample designs: a case study." In Proceedings e report, 17–22. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-304-8.05.
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Several parametric and nonparametric methods have been proposed to deal with stratified C-sample problems where the main interest lies in evaluating the presence of a certain treatment effect, but the strata effects cannot be overlooked. Stratified scenarios can be found in several different fields. In this paper we focus on a particular case study from the field of education, addressing a typical stochastic ordering problem in the presence of stratification. We are interested in assessing how the performance of students from different degree programs at the University of Padova change, in terms of university credits and grades, when compared with their entry test results. To address this problem, we propose an extension of the Non-Parametric Combination (NPC) methodology, a permutation-based technique (see Pesarin and Salmaso, 2010), as a valuable tool to improve the data analytics for monitoring University students’ careers at the School of Engineering of the University of Padova. This new procedure indeed allows us to assess the efficacy of the University of Padova’s entry tests in evaluating and selecting future students.
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Gibbs, Paul. "The Marketingisation of Higher Education." In Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices, 221–33. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7598-3_13.
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AbstractThis chapter does not stress the marketisation of higher education rather focuses upon the way in which this is done; the marketingisation of higher education. I do not deny that widening access to skills that can fuel growth is a logical extension of a consumerist ideology. What follows acknowledges these structural changes and then focuses on how marketing is a consequence and reinforce of such structural change. Indeed there is a substantial literature which addresses it (e.g. Molesworth et al. Having, being and higher education: The marketization of the university and the transformation of the student into consumer. Teaching in Higher Education, 14(3), 277–287, 2009; Brown R, Carasso H, Everything for sale? The marketisation of UK higher education. Routledge, London, 2013). Nor does it support that marketingation has brought no or only limited contributions to higher education. The expansion of the privileges of higher education to the many from the few, the greater governance and transparency of the process and practices of higher education institutions in their compact with society and a clearer ways to evaluate these activities have, to varying degrees, enhanced higher education. These interventions have opened the market for world class universities (WCUs) allowing them global as well as local reach. Yet it is strange that these improvements are consequences of market interventions by Governments, by publishers in terms of league tables, and by employers in terms of preferred (mythical?) skill sets and not for educative purposes. The emergent practices encouraged by these interventions increase the influence of marketing and facilitate a metamorphosis of institutions from educational entities to market responsive service providers whose intent focuses on impact and enhanced return on capital. This leads WCUs into the endless and Sisyphusan striving, often devoid of any ultimate worthy end but ends which are an inevitable consequence of managing rapidly increasing competition and shifting demands effectively rather than educative priorities. The chapter describes and discusses the consequences.
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Silva, Wégina Jordana da, Ewelin Maria Lemos Fernandes, Telma Dias dos Santos, and Maria Fabiana Bonfim de Lima-Silva. "PHONETIC VARIATION OF THE REGIONAL ACCENT IN TELEJORNAL PRESENTERS: AN EVALUATION THROUGH VOCAL PROFILE ANALYSIS SCHEME." In Professional voice: Integrated practices of teaching, research and university extension, 107–17. Atena Editora, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.61922300513.
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Passerini, Katia. "Evaluating Learning Management Systems." In Multimedia Technologies, 57–76. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-953-3.ch007.
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This paper maintains that the use of multimedia content in Web-based instruction - facilitated by the proliferation and standardization of learning management systems (LMS) - calls for the extension of traditional multimedia design and evaluation guidelines to the Web. The compliance with these guidelines needs to be thoroughly evaluated by any institution using (or planning to use) Web-based learning management systems. In addition to providing criteria and examples for the evaluation of these systems, the paper discusses survey questions that can be used for university-wide assessments of the design effectiveness of technologies that support learning. As an example, the proposed evaluation instrument is applied to a learning management system developed at a large university in the United States. While the assessment refers to one system, the model, the instructional and design evaluation criteria, and the questionnaire are built for use in any organization conducting a formative and summative evaluation or a selection of learning technologies.
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Moore, Kathleen, Joshua T. Barnett, Annette Christy, Marie McPherson, and Melissa Carlson. "University–Public Behavioral Health Collaboration." In University and Public Behavioral Health Organization Collaboration in Justice Contexts, 143–66. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190052850.003.0009.
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This chapter describes a partnership between faculty at the Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, and various public agencies. It is a broad and wide-ranging collaboration, including areas such as civil commitment (providing a reporting center), Medicaid drug therapy management for behavioral health, and problem-solving courts. Advantages to these multiple partnerships have included the more extensive provision of research and evaluation services and the partnership with public agencies as part of application for extramural funding in the form of grants and contracts. These partnerships illustrate the scope of the projects that can be developed through successful collaboration.
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Phaholthep, Charanya, Thirawut Bunyasakseri, and Paweena Phaholthep. "The Investigation of Physical Design, Executives’ Attitude and Policy Towards Service Efficiency Based on Universal Design Principles; A Case Study of Naresuan University Hospital." In Universal Design 2021: From Special to Mainstream Solutions. IOS Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/shti210404.
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Public hospitals should be designed to clover as wider inclusivity levels as possible forproviding access for all. Unfortunately, and for a variety of reasons, a quality service is not always provided. When evaluation of the service quality in healthcare organizations is carried out, it is mostly conducted in terms of medical service quality, whilst the physical layout, functionality and facilitating devices are not given as much scrutiny. Post Occupation Evaluation (POE) is notably an efficient process for checking the satisfaction of users after the building has been in-used for a certain period of times. However, hospital is generally a type of building and service that need to support users with a variety of physical capabilities thus, a conventional POE may not cover all requirements of users, so this research has employed the UD concepts as a basis to combined with POE for evaluating service performance of a hospital of the case study, Naresuan University hospital, THAILAND. Even though the POE delivered a good design suggestion that is beneficial to users with a wide range of physical ability but that may not guarantee the new design will be agreed by all stakeholders and implemented through success. As a matter of fact, to success an implementing of a good design does not depend solely on a designer, specifically for this case study, a universal design to a hospital. This research found that to make UD perfectly effects in a hospital (in Thailand context) may require more supportive factors beyond just pointing out problems related to physical conditions of the design and suggest a design solution. As in the context of Thailand, this research identified 4 factors contributing to the success of UD which the designer should be accountable for (1) public understanding of the basic concepts of UD (2) all the related background such as culture, tradition and economic etc. that contributed the attitudes of all stakeholders (of the hospital) towards people with physical impairments (3) the rights, laws, regulations and policies for people with disabilities in the context of the country and (4) the participation of all types of users. And in doing so, this research added an extensive evaluation to the general POE to cover as more factors as possible to those involved with the design implementation. Therefore, an extensive evaluation process so called “Comprehensive Post-Occupancy Evaluation C-POE” has been created and employed in this study for offering more comprehensive solution that cover all possibilities cause of problems, the evaluation processes are as follows; (1) evaluating physical features and users’ behavior (the experimental access audit), (2) examining administrative policy, HA and UD principles and (3) interviewing attitude of executives about UD.
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Wagner, Laura, Leslie C. Moore, and Kathryn Campbell-Kibler. "Training Students to Conduct Outreach in an Informal Science Learning Environment." In Enhancing Learning Opportunities Through Student, Scientist, and Teacher Partnerships, 179–97. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4966-7.ch010.
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This chapter reviews a science outreach training course designed for the Language Sciences Research Lab, a working research facility embedded inside of the Center of Science and Industry (COSI). The course integrates training in informal science education theory, background in a specific science area (language science) and extensive hands-on work at COSI where students engage museum visitors in interactive language-focused activities. Key components of the course are described and a formal evaluation of the course outcomes is reported. The authors discuss how the course enhances an existing partnership between COSI and Ohio State University, as well as ways in which its core elements have been adapted to other fields.
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Rios, Ambyr, Radhika Viruru, and Burhan Ozfidan. "Don't Be a Ghost Who Drops Grades in Blackboard." In Advances in Library and Information Science, 154–82. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7065-3.ch008.
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This chapter presents the results of a program evaluation conducted to assess the effectiveness of an online doctoral program in educational leadership at a Research One University from the perspective of its students. Feedback was sought from over 80 currently enrolled students. The study focused on three aspects of the program, namely faculty social and cognitive presence. Recent changes to the program that address these areas include the creation of a thematic group model that clusters students based on academic interests over the last 2 years of the program, extensive revisions to coursework, the adoption of a problem-based dissertation model, and the use of social media and an online community portal to promote student engagement. The results indicate that although students had encountered positive experiences in all three areas, online doctoral students continue to need focused individual mentoring in order to experience success.
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Rios, Ambyr, Radhika Viruru, and Burhan Ozfidan. "Don't Be a Ghost Who Drops Grades in Blackboard." In Research Anthology on Developing Effective Online Learning Courses, 2049–71. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8047-9.ch102.
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This chapter presents the results of a program evaluation conducted to assess the effectiveness of an online doctoral program in educational leadership at a Research One University from the perspective of its students. Feedback was sought from over 80 currently enrolled students. The study focused on three aspects of the program, namely faculty social and cognitive presence. Recent changes to the program that address these areas include the creation of a thematic group model that clusters students based on academic interests over the last 2 years of the program, extensive revisions to coursework, the adoption of a problem-based dissertation model, and the use of social media and an online community portal to promote student engagement. The results indicate that although students had encountered positive experiences in all three areas, online doctoral students continue to need focused individual mentoring in order to experience success.
Conference papers on the topic "University extension Evaluation"
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Xiao-pu, Wang, Zhang Li-min, and Song Qiu-ying. "Research on University Philosophy Social Science Innovation Ability Evaluation Based on the Improved Matter Element Extension." In 2015 Conference on Informatization in Education, Management and Business (IEMB-15). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iemb-15.2015.221.
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Saleh, Iman, and Mohammed Abu-Dieyeh. "Novel Prosopis Juliflora Leaf Ethanolic extract as natural Antifungal agent against Botrytis Cinerea: Application on Strawberries’ shelf-life extension." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2021.0044.
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Spoilage from fresh produces is a worldwide concern that accompanies the global increase in food demand. Adverse human health and environmental effects of commercial pesticides is a major public concern. Botrytis cinerea is one of the top ten pathogens that affect fresh produce including strawberries’ shelf-life around the world. Botrytis cinerea can progress easily from infected fruits to healthy ones even at low storage temperatures, which can lead to spoilage of entire lots in few weeks. Strawberries are widely consumed raw berries, which are famous in their processed forms such as jam and juices. The delicate fruit has a very short postharvest life. It is susceptible to mechanical injuries, fast dehydration and fungal infection. Prosopis juliflora is an invasive tree in many countries including Qatar. In this report, the Prosopis juliflora water soluble leaves ethanolic (PJ-WS-LE) novel extraction method will be described with an evaluation of its effectiveness as antifungal agent and possible coating material for shelf-life extension. PJ-WS-LE extract showed total inhibition of Botrytis cinerea growth with a minimum inhibitory concentration of 1mg/ml. Exposure to the extract affected badly the structure of the hyphal fungi. The extract extended also strawberries’ shelf-life by 2.32X. PJ-WS-LE extract will be chemically described and its effectiveness in the extension of other fresh produces’ shelf-life will be evaluated.
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Astuti, Nuraini Budi, Sri Wahyuni, and Yenny Oktavia. "Evaluation of Learning Process in the Agricultural Extension Study Program Andalas University During the Covid 19 Pandemic." In 4th International Conference on Educational Development and Quality Assurance (ICED-QA 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220303.016.
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Rosén, Per, Paul von Heiroth, and Torbjörn Lindquist. "Running a Small Gas Turbine With and Without a Recuperator: Comparisons of Efficiency at Various Loads." In ASME 1998 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece1998-0678.
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Abstract An advanced integrated humidification gas turbine process based on an Evaporative Gas Turbine cycle (EvGT), is being built at Lund University in Sweden. The pilot plant is based upon a new 600 kW gas turbine engine. The building of the complete cycle is done in steps, the first step is to run and record measurements from the simple open gas turbine cycle. The next step is to add a compact heat exchanger, a recuperator, to the process and repeat the measurements. This enables an evaluation of the performance of the recuperator in the gas turbine cycle. The result of this comparison is that the efficiency increase is lower than predicted in an earlier stage due to large heat losses of the inner cone extension of the combustion chamber and also because a large amount of compressed air is being used as dilution air just before the expansion take place in the expander.
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Abdurahiman, Nihal, Ahmad Qadeib alban, abdullatif shikfa, and Qutaibah Malluhi. "Private Function Evaluation Using Intel’s SGX." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2020.0246.
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Private Function Evaluation (PFE) is the problem of evaluating one party’s private data using a private function owned by another party. Several techniques were presented to tackle PFE by running universal circuits in secure multi-party computation and more recently by hiding the circuit’s topology and the gate’s functionalities. These solutions however, are not efficient enough for practical use; hence there remains a need for more efficient techniques. This work looks at utilizing the Intel Software Guard Extensions platform (SGX) to provide a more practical solution for PFE while the privacy of the data and the function are both kept protected. Our solution carefully avoids the pitfalls of side channel attacks on SGX. We present solutions for two different scenarios: the first is with the function’s owner having SGX enabled and the other is with a third party (other than data owner and function owner) having SGX. Our results show a clear expected advantage in term of time consumption for the first case over the second. Investigating the slowdown in the second case lead to the garbling time, which constitutes more than 60% of the consumed time. Both solutions clearly outperform Fairplay PF in our tests.
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Aminu Sanda, Mohammed. "The Psyche of “Self” in Students’ Systemic and Structural Interaction with Online Teaching-Learning Platforms." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001813.
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This research explores and provides insights on students’ psyche of “self” as characterized by their self-evaluations of their systemic and structural interactions with the online teaching-learning platforms that serves as their virtual classroom since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Having such insights is of significance towards understanding the functional interactivenesses of virtual platforms that serve as online digitized classrooms used for teaching and learning in tertiary academic institutions, and which usage has gained global acceptance since the advent of COVID-19 pandemic. This has resulted in a systemic and structural shift towards virtual education among tertiary institutions, with the requisite restructuring of face-to-face teaching-learning mechanisms into new online delivery systems. Considering the fact that such new online systems, which are digitized educational instruction media, are mostly designed by third parties who are not the direct users, there is a need to provide users, namely teachers and students, the space to share the psyche of their “selves” which could be used to develop a sense of their self-evaluative perspectives of the effectiveness of the current approaches to such instructional design, in terms of the quality and effectiveness of their interactivenesses. As it is posited in the extant literature, self-evaluation is crucial to mental and social well-being due to the influences it exerts on a person’s aspirations, personal goals and interaction with others. Thus, self-evaluation, provides personal insights on the beliefs and evaluations individuals hold about themselves, helping to determine who they are, their capabilities, and future developments. These insights are manifestation of the psyche of “self”, deemed as powerful inner influences that provide individuals internal guiding mechanisms that help steer and nurture them through the dynamics of life, governing their behavior in the process, and defining the character of their individual self-concept and self-esteem, and by extension their self-image and self-perception. With self-concept manifesting individual beliefs and knowledge about personal attributes and qualities, it represents a cognitive schema that organizes abstract and concrete views about the “self”, and controls the processing of self-relevant information. The extraction of such an information, especially from students perspectives, is deemed important to enable the systemic and structural design of quality virtual platforms used as online classrooms and quality interactive teaching-learning activity. In this study, therefore, data was collected from six hundred and eighty-seven graduate students in a Ghanaian university, using a structured questionnaire that enabled the students to process self-relevant information associated with the quality of their systemic and structural interaction with online teaching-learning platform used in teaching them throughout the semester. Guided by Bedny and Karwowski's well-established knowledge that activities of individuals are realized by goal-directed actions, informed either by mental or motor conscious processes, as objects of the cognitive psychology of skills and performances, systemic analysis is conducted and the learning from the students self-evaluation determined. The findings will provide additional insight in the design of virtual platforms serving as online classrooms for teaching-learning.
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Lopes, Pedro Francis, Amilton Santos Junior, Renata Cruz Soares de Azevedo, Paulo Dalgalarrondo, and Andre Ricardo Fioravanti. "Aspects of a learned model to predict the quality of life of university students in Brazil." In Encontro Nacional de Inteligência Artificial e Computacional. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/eniac.2022.227315.
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Quality of life is an essential metric for evaluating the well-being of students. This work investigates the viability of a model to predict a WHOQoL-Bref answer based on other answers and the overall domain and average scores. For that, we use data from an extensive pooling done with undergraduate students in Brazil (UNICAMP), gathered between 2017 and 2018. We also discuss model types and hyperparameter effects on model evaluation metrics. Finally, we conclude that it is possible to create a model to predict the esteem question - which is the most correlated with the average domain score with the data sample available.
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Stanley, Clifford J., and Frances M. Marshall. "Advanced Test Reactor: A National Scientific User Facility." In 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone16-48426.
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This presentation and associated paper provides an overview of the research and irradiation capabilities of the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) located at the U.S. Department of Energy Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The ATR which has been designated by DOE as a National Scientific User Facility (NSUF) is operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC. This paper will describe the ATR and discuss the research opportunities for university (faculty and students) and industry researchers to use this unique facility for nuclear fuels and materials experiments in support of advanced reactor development and life extension issues for currently operating nuclear reactors. The ATR is a pressurized, light-water moderated and cooled, beryllium-reflected nuclear research reactor with a maximum operating power of 250 MWth. The unique serpentine configuration (Fig. 1) of the fuel elements creates five main reactor power lobes (regions) and nine flux traps. In addition to these nine flux traps there are 68 additional irradiation positions in the reactor core reflector tank. There are also 34 low-flux irradiation positions in the irradiation tanks outside the core reflector tank. The ATR is designed to provide a test environment for the evaluation of the effects of intense radiation (neutron and gamma). Due to the unique serpentine core design each of the five lobes can be operated at different powers and controlled independently. Options exist for the individual test trains and assemblies to be either cooled by the ATR coolant (i.e., exposed to ATR coolant flow rates, pressures, temperatures, and neutron flux) or to be installed in their own independent test loops where such parameters as temperature, pressure, flow rate, neutron flux, and chemistry can be controlled per experimenter specifications. The full-power maximum thermal neutron flux is ∼1.0 x1015 n/cm2-sec with a maximum fast flux of ∼5.0 x1014 n/cm2-sec. The Advanced Test Reactor, now a National Scientific User Facility, is a versatile tool in which a variety of nuclear reactor, nuclear physics, reactor fuel, and structural material irradiation experiments can be conducted. The cumulative effects of years of irradiation in a normal power reactor can be duplicated in a few weeks or months in the ATR due to its unique design, power density, and operating flexibility.
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Mukhalalati, Banan AbdulRzaq, Sara ElShami, Ahmed Awaisu, Bridget Javed, Alison Carr, Hiba Bawadi, Randa Almahasneh, et al. "The Design of Preceptor Development Program for Health Cluster in Qatar – “The Practice Educators Academy”." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2020.0140.
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Background: Experiential learning is the backbone of many healthcare professional education programs, and the quality of experiential learning is dependent on the skills, experiences, and proficiency of the clinical preceptors who largely contribute to this experience. Preceptors should ideally possess both clinical practice and teaching skills; however, preceptors often do not possess formal training as educators. This research was conducted at Qatar University with the aims of identifying preceptors’ educational needs and developing the skills by designing an educational professional development program called: “The Practice Educators’ Academy”. Methods: A mixed-methods triangulation study design was applied to identify preceptors’ educational needs quantitatively through a validated survey sent to preceptors (n=325), and qualitatively by conducting 11 focus groups with preceptors (n=20), students (n=42), sand clinical faculty members (n=7). Quantitative and Qualitative data in addition to an extensive literature review were used in designing the academy by an inter-professional healthcare and educational team. Results: Principles of learning theories, planning for experiential learning, teaching strategies, students’ assessment and feedback, and communication skills for effective preceptorship and conflict resolution were the key domains expressed as preceptors’ educational needs. A five-module program syllabus was designed to meet these needs while benchmarking it with international preceptors’ educational development programs. The designed syllabus was critically examined and validated by national and international health professional education scholars. Conclusion: “The Practice Educators’ Academy” is the first intervention nationally and regionally that aims at improving preceptors’ teaching skills required to prepare competent health profession graduates. This will advance healthcare outcomes, meet the healthcare needs of Qatari society, and ultimately contribute to achieving Qatar National Vision 2030. Future studies should focus on evaluating the effectiveness of the program in improving preceptors’ knowledge and skills, and enhancing students’ satisfaction before full implementation at a national level.
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Aotani, Noriko, and Shin’ya Takahashi. "EFFECTS OF INVOLVEMENT LOAD IN EXTENSIVE READING ON LEXICAL RELATIONS AMONG ALREADY KNOWN L2 WORDS." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v1end116.
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"The effects of task-induced involvement load, evaluation and need in particular, in extensive reading on a change of the lexical relations that EFL learners perceive were investigated. Fifty-two Japanese university students were assigned to one of three groups. All groups were given the same reading material (an English passage of 319 words including 12 target words) but with different tasks. MCQ group answered multiple-choice questions about the contents of the passage. MCQ+FB group answered fill-in-the-blank questions in the passage as well as the MCQ. MCQ+Com group did a composition task using the target words as well as the MCQ. In addition, all participants judged the degree of relationship between target words three times, a week before the task, immediately after the task, and a month after the task. The mean of relationship score was calculated for each participant each time, and was used as a dependent variable that indicates the degree of deepening of the lexical network. Participants also answered questions asking about their intrinsic motivation for the task. The results showed, contrary to our hypothesis, that evaluation manipulated by the tasks nor need compared by the degree of participant’s intrinsic motivation did not affect the dependent variable. Next, we analyzed the data by using AMISESCAL (Asymmetric von Mises Scaling), a statistical model that visualizes asymmetric relations among elements on a two-dimensional map, and found that the relations among target words largely depend on the main target word (keyword of the passage). Although the present findings were generally negative in terms of the Involvement Load Hypothesis (Laufer & Hulstijn, 2001), it was suggested that carefully choosing appropriate reading material with target words is important for the future studies."