Assessment Of Learning Environment Research Articles

Assessing Interprofessional Collaboration at Clinical Learning Sites: Methodology on Developing the IP-CLEAR Tool

Interprofessional Clinical Learning Environment Assessment and Reflection (IP-CLEAR) tool was developed by a team of faculty from the schools of nursing, pharmacy, and medicine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), with the support of the North Carolina Area Health Education Consortium (NC AHEC) and the UNC-CH Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice (IPEP). The IP-CLEAR tool is intended for use by clinical sites that have or want to have clinical learners engaged and integrated into an excellent interprofessional CLE. The development of the IP-CLEAR and projections for future work are described here.

Assessment of Learning Environment of Undergraduates in the Faculty of Engineering in Higher Institutions of Learning

The review researched the learning climate of Designing understudies in higher foundation of learning in Nigeria. The motivation behind the review was to decide the accessibility and usefulness of educational assets for showing designing courses in schools. The concentrate likewise explored the impact of these assets on the scholarly execution of understudies as well as their pioneering abilities. The review embraced the unmistakable examination of an overview type. The example for the review comprised 200 college understudies chosen through the multistage testing method from chose higher establishments in SouthWest, Nigeria. Two exploration questions were raised and three speculations were created for the review. Information were investigated utilizing both illustrative and inferential measurements. The outcome from the understudies' reactions showed that educational assets were accessible yet not satisfactory, hence, the usefulness level is low. Nonetheless, the accessibility of educational assets and language of guidance doesn't impact the presentation of understudies or level of appreciation in the class.

"Exploring the Implementation of Curriculum Audit in Colegio De Santa Rita De San Carlos, Inc.: Basis for a Learning Transition Program Towards the Matatag Curriculum"

This study investigated the implementation of curriculum audit at Colegio de Santa Rita de San Carlos, Inc. (CSRC) to develop a learning transition program for the new Matatag Curriculum. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach with qualitative, quantitative, and integration/triangulation phases, the research involved 21 teachers in focus groups and 382 students in a survey. The analysis unearthed key practices, assessed their impact on student learning outcomes, and formulated a comprehensive Learning Transition Program encompassing various aspects like teacher development, curriculum enhancement, student support, stakeholder engagement, curriculum articulation, program evaluation, and sustainability. These findings offer a valuable assessment of CSRC's learning environment and highlight the institution's dedication to continuous improvement. The program aims to foster a dynamic learning environment focused on enhancing student experiences and academic achievement through collaboration between teachers and students.

Pediatric Critical Care Fellow Perception of Learning through Virtual Reality Bronchoscopy.

Virtual reality (VR) simulators have revolutionized training in bronchoscopy, offering unrestricted availability in a low-stakes learning environment and frequent assessments represented by automatic scoring. The VR assessments can be used to monitor and support learners' progression. How trainees perceive these assessments needs to be clarified. The objective of this study was to examine what assessments learners select to document and receive feedback on and what influences their decisions. We used a sequential explanatory mixed methods strategy. All participants were pediatric critical care medicine trainees requiring competency in bronchoscopy skills. During independent simulation practice, we collected the number of learning-focused practice attempts (scores not recorded), assessment-focused practice (scores recorded and reviewed by the instructor for feedback), and the amount of time each attempt lasted. After simulation training, we conducted interviews to explore learners' perceptions of assessment. There was no significant difference in the number of attempts for each practice type. The average time per learning-focused attempt was almost three times longer than the assessment-focused attempt (mean [standard deviation] 16 ± 1 min vs. 6 ± 3 min, respectively; P < 0.05). Learners perceived documentation of their scores as high stakes and only recorded their better scores. Learners felt safer experimenting if their assessments were not recorded. During independent practice, learners took advantage of automatic assessments generated by the VR simulator to monitor their progression. However, the recording of scores from the simulation program to document learners' trajectory to a set goal was perceived as high stakes, discouraging learners from seeking supervisor feedback.

Learning enhancement through deploying personal learning environment, network and problem-based learning assessment

Intended to foster students’ self-directed learning and research ability at the postgraduate level, this educational research evaluated the implications of personal learning environment &amp; network (PLE&amp;N) and problem-based learning (PBL) assessment as student-centric and student-driven pedagogic approaches. Compared to conventional instructional paradigms, the PLE&amp;N platform presents an agile and interactive platform that empowers students to partake in collaborative discourse while orchestrating their learning journey through the judicious utilization of communal resources. The vitality of the PLE&amp;N model is substantiated by the enduring engagement of peers, teachers, professionals, and external experts in the field, fostering a milieu of enriched knowledge exchange, synergistic collaboration, and personalized curation of learning approaches. In contrast, the PBL assessment was designed by incorporating intricate scenarios similar to the real world, thereby affording an avenue for cultivating students’ cogitation and adroit problem-solving skills within a guided learning environment. By integrating constructivist and connectivist pedagogies, the PBL assessment facilitated teamwork while engaging students in independent research and empowered their knowledge construction on selected topics. Students’ self-evaluation through the survey indicated their enhancement in self-directed learning behavior and competence building for complex problem-solving tasks. Moreover, peer feedback and suggestions received through both PLE&amp;N and PBL were highly beneficial for students to analyze information and learning resources from diverse perspectives, which further helped to expand their learning horizon. This study underscored the significance and advantages of modern student-centric approaches such as PLE&amp;N and PBL. These pedagogical paradigms stand as seminal strategies for nurturing nascent post-graduate students, thereby endowing them with indispensable proficiencies in self-directed learning and robust competencies in scholarly inquiry. Keywords: PLE&amp;N, PBL, Constructivism, Connectivism, Pedagogy, Self-directed learning.

Long-term Human Participation Assessment In Collaborative Learning Environments Using Dynamic Scene Analysis

Long-term Human Participation Assessment In Collaborative Learning Environments Using Dynamic Scene Analysis

Mapping Measurement Scales for the Assessment of Learning Environments

This article aims to map the scales validated in the international literature for the assessment of learning environments. A systematic literature review was carried out in articles from the web of Science database in the period from 1970 to 2020. After completing the three stages proposed by Tranfield, Denyer, and Smart (2003), 94 articles were selected to compose the final sample. Most of the articles analyzed were published from 2011 to 2020 (54.2%). Barry J. Fraser is the author who published most of the articles from the analyzed sample (10), which confirms his representativeness in studies involving the subject. Most articles involve the area of Education and Educational Research (78.7%). Twenty scales used to assess the learning environment were identified. The What Is Happening In This Class? Instrument is the most cited and most used in the articles analyzed. We also identified that the six dimensions of this instrument appear in four or five different scales, which reveals its contribution to the construction of assessment scales. The study results can assist in the development of a multidimensional scale of learning environments.

Higher-order thinking skills assessment in 3D virtual learning environments using motifs and expert data

The research reported in this paper addresses the problem of assessing higher-order thinking skills, such as reflective and creative thinking, within the context of virtual learning environments. Assessment of these skills requires process-based observations and evaluation, as the output-based methods have been found to be insufficient. Virtual learning environments offer a wealth of data on the process, which makes them good candidates for process-based evaluation, but the existing assessment methods in these environments have shortcomings, such as reliance on large data sets, inability to offer specific feedback on actions, and the lack of consideration for how actions are integrated into bigger tasks. Demonstrating and confirming the ability of three-dimensional virtual learning environments to work with process metrics for assessment, we propose and evaluate the use of motifs as an assessment tool. Motifs are short and meaningful combination of metrics. Combining time-ordered motifs with a similarity analysis between expert and learner data, our proposed approach can potentially offer feedback on specific actions that the learner takes, as opposed to single output-based feedback. It can do so without the use of large training datasets due to reliance on expert data and similarity analysis. Through a user study, we found out that such a motif-based approach can be effective in the assessment of higher-order thinking skills while addressing the identified shortcomings of previous work. We also address the limited research on similarity-based analysis methods, compare their effectiveness, and show that utilizing different similarity measures for different tasks may be a more effective approach. Our proposed method facilitates and encourages the involvement of instructors and course designers through the definition of motifs and expert problem-solving paths.

Simulation of caliper and micrometer for teaching and assessment in virtual learning environments

Este trabalho consiste na proposta de uma Tecnologia de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) para apoiar o ensino presencial ou a distância de instrumentação básica – paquímetro e micrômetro – nas disciplinas introdutórias de Física Experimental. A TIC consiste em dois simuladores desenvolvidos nas linguagens HTML/Javascript com possibilidades para uso em qualquer sistema de gestão de aprendizagem, sendo que tornamos públicos os códigos e procedimentos para implementação almejando a plataforma Moodle utilizada pelo Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar). Os simuladores podem ser usados tanto durante o processo de ensino quanto no processo de avaliação dos estudantes. De forma a avaliar a efetividade da proposta, incluímos o relato de experiência do uso desta TIC em quatro ofertas de disciplina para os cursos de Licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas, Licenciatura em Física e Licenciatura em Química do câmpus de Araras da UFSCar. Utilizamos os Três Momentos Pedagógicos de Delizoicov como metodologia de ensino. Por fim, argumentamos que a TIC aqui apresentada pode auxiliar no ensino de instrumentação básica em Física para cursos nas modalidades a distância, presencial ou híbrida.

Assessment of Learning Environment of Early Childhood Education Centers in Nassarawa Local Government Area, Kano State

Assessment of Learning Environment of Early Childhood Education Centers in Nassarawa Local Government Area, Kano State

Teachers’ Ontology-based Reasoning for Assessment in Student-centered Learning Environments

ABSTRACT We present an exploratory study on the use of ontologies for student assessment during a focus group with teachers in student-centred learning environments. The work is framed by a theoretical argument about coherence between instructional values and assessment systems, and how this may be achieved through a “community of judgment” with teachers at the centre. The purpose of the study was to understand the process and perceived usefulness of collaborative ontology development, at a narrative and conceptual level without grades or detailed probabilistic relationships. Findings of two kinds are discussed. First, we identified a set of framework-building moves used by teachers during ontology-based reasoning. Second, we present evidence that participants perceived the ontology development process to be useful and empowering in sharpening their ability to communicate nuanced assessment arguments.

Lived Experiences of the Graduate School Professors in Albay amidst Covid-19 Pandemic

Everyone affects by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic would have a vastly different impact on each professor. This study aimed to analyze the lived experiences of graduate school professors in private higher education institutions in the second district of Albay and the challenges experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Primarily, this research investigated the experiences brought by the shift to different modes of delivery of education from the traditional face-to-face. This study used qualitative and quantitative research designs interview guide, and a survey questionnaire to obtain necessary data and information. The study found that the majority of professors encountered the same challenges encountered power interruption and low internet connection. The study concludes that the respondents can effectively manage their time and pace because of a new way of instruction on the use of the internet. In regards to and in line with the findings, the professors experienced more negative reactions about internet connectivity and technical difficulties, thus hindering them from fully benefiting from the new learning. Professors should be reflective and adaptable in terms of Instructional delivery, learning environment, time management, and student assessment. They may have had to learn how to use different technological tools through the internet and ensure that it can be delivered effectively online.

Improving the Clinical Learning Environment as Medical Students Through the Learning Environment Assessment and Feedback Committee.

Improving the Clinical Learning Environment as Medical Students Through the Learning Environment Assessment and Feedback Committee.

USING THE INDONESIAN MANCHESTER CLINICAL PLACEMENT INDEX (I-MCPI) TO ASSESS THE QUALITY OF HOSPITAL-BASED AND COMMUNITY-BASED CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Background: Clinical placement is crucial to develop the fundamental competencies in providing patient care. Therefore, clinical learning environment (CLE) assessment is necessary to ensure its quality. The Indonesian Manchester Clinical Placement Index (I-MCPI) is an instrument for assessing the quality of the learning environment and the quality of training in both hospital and community placements. This study aimed to (1) measure the CLE quality of a school of medicine in Jakarta using I-MCPI and (2) explore the qualitative data resulted from the I-MCPI to draw a comprehensive conclusion about CLE.Methods: 155 respondents filled the online I-MCPI, and ten respondents participated in the in-depth interviews. The quantitative data were analyzed using the guideline provided by the original MCPI. The qualitative data analysis was performed using content analysis method.Results: Quantitative data resulted in ranks of the 18 clinical placements, including primary teaching hospital and its network clinical placements. Trends in Primary Health Care (PHC) placement showed lower rank on the CLE and the training quality. The primary teaching hospital was in the sixth position. The qualitative results identified issues of the supervisor’s role, students’ involvement, and learning facilities were identified as significant factors that influenced CLE.Conclusion: Most respondents were satisfied with the quality of learning in clinical rotation at the school. However, respondents suggested more support for students to be actively involved in clinical services, perform clinical skills, and encourage learning facilities to optimize the CLE.

Knowledge development, technology and quality of experience in collaborative learning: a perspective from Saudi Arabia universities

Technology has recently gained relevance within collaborative learning environments to provide robustness, agility and flexibility. Several recent studies have investigated the role of technology, as well as researchers have defined different metrics to assess learning outcomes and experience along the collaborative knowledge development process. More recently, technology has played a key role to face the new challenges related to COVID-19, which forced to move on remote or hybrid learning. This research focuses on the quality of learning experience in terms of academic performance and perceived satisfaction. From a methodological point of view, a conceptual framework has been proposed and a quantitative study has been conducted among undergraduate and postgraduate students that are undertaking programs related to System Design in Saudi Arabia universities. 152 responses have been collected through an online survey and analysed using SPSS and SmartPLS. Results show a positive impact of technology along the collaborative knowledge development process and a strong correlation among the different quality of learning experience parameters considered. Indeed, despite some challenges, an integrated use of technology seems to properly support the most pressing needs in terms of quality experience, while the well-known social/educational issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic are not object of this study. Those findings are expected to contribute to the Saudi Arabia’s vision 2030 and, more holistically, to the assessment of collaborative learning environments that extensively rely on technology.

Comprehensive Assessment of Clinical Learning Environments to Drive Improvement: Lessons Learned from a Pilot Program

Problem : Recognition of the importance of clinical learning environments (CLEs) in health professions education has led to calls to evaluate and improve the quality of such learning environments. As CLEs sit at the crossroads of education and healthcare delivery, leadership from both entities should share the responsibility and accountability for this work. Current data collection about the experience and outcomes for learners, faculty, staff, and patients tends to occur in fragmented and siloed ways, and available tools to assess clinical learning environments are limited in scope. In addition, from an organizational perspective oversight of education and patient care is often done by separate entities, and not infrequently is there a sense of competing interests. Intervention : We aimed to design and pilot a holistic approach to assessment and review of CLEs and establish whether such a formative assessment process could be used to engage stakeholders from education, departmental, and health systems leadership in improvement of CLEs. Utilizing concepts of implementation science, we planned and executed a holistic assessment process for CLEs, monitored the impact of the assessment, and reflected on the process. We focused the assessment on four pillars characterizing exemplary learning environments: 1) Environment is inclusive, promotes diversity and collaboration; 2) Focus on continuous quality improvement; 3) Alignment between work and learning; and 4) Integration of education and healthcare mission. Context : At our institution, medical trainees rotate through several different health systems, but clinical and educational leadership converge at the departmental level. We therefore focused this proof-of-concept project on two large clinical departments at our institution, centering on medical learners from undergraduate and graduate medical education. For each department, a small team of champions helped create an assessment grid based on the four pillars and identified existing quantitative evaluation data sources. Champions subsequently collected qualitative data through observations, focus groups, and interviews to fill any gaps in available quantitative data. Impact : The project teams shared reports summarizing findings and recommendations with departmental, clinical, and educational leadership. Subsequent meetings with these stakeholders led to actionable plans for improvement as well as sustained structures for collaborative work between the different stakeholder groups. Lessons Learned : This project demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of collating, analyzing, and sharing data from various sources in engaging different stakeholder groups to initiate actionable improvement plans. Collating quantitative data from existing resources was a powerful way to demonstrate common issues in CLEs, and qualitative data provided further detail to inform improvement initiatives. Other institutions can adapt this approach to guide assessment and quality improvement of CLEs. As a next step, we are creating a comprehensive learning environment scorecard to allow for comparison of clinical learning environment quality across institutions and over time.

Online Teaching in K-12 Education in the United States: A Systematic Review

The transition to fully or partially online instruction for K–12 students necessitated by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the current lack of understanding of practices that support K–12 student learning in online settings in emergency situations but also, more troublingly, in K–12 online teaching and learning more generally. A systematic review of literature regarding K–12 online teaching and learning in the United States was therefore conducted to begin to fill this gap and to inform the work of policy makers, researchers, teacher educators, teachers, and administrators as they negotiate the changing role of online instruction in our nation’s educational systems. The review revealed a set of contextual conditions that are foundational to student learning in K–12 online settings (prepared educators, technology access and autonomy, students’ developmental needs and abilities, and students’ self-regulated learning skills). The literature also pointed to seven pillars of instructional practice that support student learning in these settings (evidence-based course organization and design, connected learners, accessibility, supportive learning environment, individualization, active learning, and real-time assessment).

The influence of indoor environmental factors on learning: An experiment combining physiological and psychological measurements

Poor learning environments can easily lead to ineffective learning. Hence, previous studies attempted to measure learning environments upon the psychological perceptions of the subjects; however, such method lacked any objective scientific validation. In order to test the influences of indoor classroom setting on learning, this study identified four environmental factors, including lighting, sound, temperature, and smell, as independent variables to conduct the experiment. A portable brainwave instrument and State Anxiety Inventory were respectively used to capture brainwave signals using electroencephalography on 68 subjects in different scenarios. The results show that changes in lighting, sound, and temperature have significant effects on the subjects' concentration level, while changes in lighting and sound are also more likely to affect the subjects' anxiety level. Among the four environmental factors, temperature has the greatest impact on concentration, while the sound is most likely to cause anxiety on the subjects. However, there is no significant relationship between learners’ anxiety and concentration during the learning process. The findings of this study can provide references to the planning and evaluation of future learning spaces. It is recommended that other environmental factors can be tested in the future to establish a more complete learning environment assessment.

Assessment in Sustainable Remote Teaching and Learning Environments During Emergency Situations

This paper explores how quality assessment is maintained in the COVID-19 protocols mandatory remote teaching and learning higher education environments. The argument being pursued is that, despite the pandemic, the e-assessment ensures the sustainability of quality thereof even in remote teaching and learning environments. We compare e-assessments in these environments to how conventional assessments happen in in-person contexts. In this comparison, we unearth several challenges afflicting the conventional in-person assessments. These range from ill-prepared lecturers sometimes, who do not take time to formulate meaningful assessment tasks, to students who demand special treatment just because they are physically present and are able to 'bully' lecturers. In the COVID-19 mandatory remote e-assessments teaching and learning environments, despite the attended challenges of costs to install the Learning Management System and train academics, there seem to be many more positive outcomes. These include lecturers' ability to ensure that all students enrolled in the module read the materials provided, spend enough time doing so, and engage meaningfully with the learning subject content. That feedback is provided almost immediately to ensure quality in remote teaching and learning environments. Design research principles that serve as the overarching theoretical framework for this paper are used to identify the challenges to e-assessments, the responses to these challenges, the contextual factors that make the responses effective, those that pose threats thereto and how they are resolved and circumvented.

Evaluate potential and emerging learning environments beyond the objectives

This article aims to reflect on the evaluation of potential and emergent learning environments. Learning environments are considered as potential sources of development where learners, as integral members of these contexts, act in a constructivist perspective. It is concluded that the assessment of learning environments should seek to overcome the limitation associated with the excessive focus on the efficiency of teaching, which can be achieved through the effective inclusion of the student in the context. The importance of agency in learning environments is also recognised and it is suggested that potential or emerging learning environments should seek to integrate a holistic and inclusive conception of participants. Reflecting on the potential that contexts bring to learning and knowledge construction, can trigger new ways of perceiving the dynamics of social relationships, learning and education.