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Publication date: 1 June 2004

Dr rer. nat.

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Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, vol. 51 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0003-5599

Article
Publication date: 13 March 2024

Wessam Mohamed

This study evaluated the impact of a faculty training program on student assessment using the Kirkpatrick model.

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Purpose

This study evaluated the impact of a faculty training program on student assessment using the Kirkpatrick model.

Design/methodology/approach

A self-reported survey assessed 111 Saudi and non-Saudi participants' satisfaction. Subjective and objective measures (self-reported measures, assessment literacy inventory and performance-based assessment tasks) gauged participants' learning level. Pre- and post-training data were collected from 2020 to 2022.

Findings

A highly significant effect on satisfaction (>80%) and learning levels was observed, as manifested by workplace practices of student assessment (>70%, the cut-off score). Pre- and post-training comparisons of participants' satisfaction and assessment literacy scores showed significant improvements following training. Multiple regression analyses showed no significant effects for gender and educational attainment but a substantial impact of academic cluster on participants' student assessment skills.

Research limitations/implications

Long-term effects of training faculty on assessment practices and student achievement will be studied at the institutional level in future research.

Practical implications

The current study contributes to human capital investment via faculty training on student assessment, helping them comply with assessment best practices. This assures the quality, fairness and consistency of assessment processes across disciplines in higher education institutions, enhances assessment validity and trust in educational services and may support institutional accreditation.

Social implications

This study provides opportunities for sharing best practices and helps establish a community of practice. It enhances learning outcomes achievement and empowers higher education graduates with attributes necessary to succeed in the labor market. The human capital investment may have a long-term impact on overall higher education quality.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the scarce literature investigating the impact of training faculty from different clusters on student assessment using subjective and objective measures. It provides developing and evaluating a long-term student assessment program following the Kirkpatrick model.

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Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2050-7003

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Article
Publication date: 9 January 2019

Hendri Murfi, Furida Lusi Siagian and Yudi Satria

The purpose of this paper is to analyze topics as alternative features for sentiment analysis in Indonesian tweets.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to analyze topics as alternative features for sentiment analysis in Indonesian tweets.

Design/methodology/approach

Given Indonesian tweets, the processes of sentiment analysis start by extracting features from the tweets. The features are words or topics. The authors use non-negative matrix factorization to extract the topics and apply a support vector machine to classify the tweets into its sentiment class.

Findings

The authors analyze the accuracy using the two-class and three-class sentiment analysis data sets. Both data sets are about sentiments of candidates for Indonesian presidential election. The experiments show that the standard word features give better accuracies than the topics features for the two-class sentiment analysis. Moreover, the topic features can slightly improve the accuracy of the standard word features. The topic features can also improve the accuracy of the standard word features for the three-class sentiment analysis.

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The standard textual data representation for sentiment analysis using machine learning is bag of word and its extensions mainly created by natural language processing. This paper applies topics as novel features for the machine learning-based sentiment analysis in Indonesian tweets.

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International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, vol. 12 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1756-378X

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Publication date: 1 August 1974

On July 3, 1974, Dr Herbert Grunewald succeeded Professor Dr Kurt Hansen as chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer AG, Leverkusen. Professor Hansen was appointed chairman of…

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On July 3, 1974, Dr Herbert Grunewald succeeded Professor Dr Kurt Hansen as chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer AG, Leverkusen. Professor Hansen was appointed chairman of the Supervisory Board in succession to Professor Dr Otto Bayer, now honorary chairman of this Board.

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Pigment & Resin Technology, vol. 3 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0369-9420

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Publication date: 1 February 1991

W. Tauchert, J. Hospodarsky, J. Krause, C. Schneider and C. Womser‐Hacker

This paper reports the results of the information retrieval project PADOK‐II. This project, which began in November 1987, is being carried out by the Linguistic Information…

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This paper reports the results of the information retrieval project PADOK‐II. This project, which began in November 1987, is being carried out by the Linguistic Information Science Group of the University of Regensburg (LIR) in cooperation with the German Patent Office (GPO) and is sponsored by the German Ministry for Research and Technology. The long‐term aim is to integrate artificial intelligence into information retrieval research without neglecting traditional information retrieval methodology. In PADOK‐II an information retrieval system is considered which indexes documents rather shallowly using free‐text or morphological components. A large‐scale retrieval test has been carried out, based on the German Patent Information System. Answers have been obtained to some 400 queries made by 10 users in simulated real‐life situations. These results have been used to attempt to answer the question: ‘How do the linguistically‐based functions of an indexing system contribute to its performance?’ As a spinoff of this test, the influence of document size and structure was studied with a view to identifying the most reasonable basic content for a German Patent Information System.

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Online Review, vol. 15 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-314X

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Publication date: 6 June 2006

Céleste M. Brotheridge is a professor of organizational behaviour with the Départment d'organisation et ressources humaines in the École des sciences de la gestion at the…

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Céleste M. Brotheridge is a professor of organizational behaviour with the Départment d'organisation et ressources humaines in the École des sciences de la gestion at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She completed her PhD in organizational behavior and research methods at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Brotheridge publishes and conducts research primarily in the areas of burnout, emotions, and bullying in the workplace. She is the chair of the Organizational Behaviour Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada and a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Stress Management and the Journal of Managerial Psychology.

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Individual and Organizational Perspectives on Emotion Management and Display
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-84950-411-9

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Publication date: 23 January 2009

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 81 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 24 November 2010

Samirah Al-Saleh <sameeraalsaleh@hotmail.com> is a lecturer in geography and tourism at King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She is also a doctoral candidate in the…

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Samirah Al-Saleh <sameeraalsaleh@hotmail.com> is a lecturer in geography and tourism at King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She is also a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Sunderland, United Kingdom. She has participated in numerous tourism conferences in Saudi Arabia and abroad. She has contributed to the journal, Al Aqiq, in a recent special edition on the topic of domestic tourism in Saudi Arabia.

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Tourism in the Muslim World
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-84950-920-6

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Publication date: 1 November 2006

Stephan Lukosch and Till Schümmer

During oral exams at the German distance learning university, we noticed that students fear that they will be faced with questions that they have not anticipated. In our opinion…

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During oral exams at the German distance learning university, we noticed that students fear that they will be faced with questions that they have not anticipated. In our opinion, this is mainly because students have no chance to train and thereby gather positive experiences with exam situations as they are distributed all over Germany and thus it is difficult for them to meet each other. In this paper, we present a design space of 23 learning gadgets, i.e. tools that support collaborative learning, to allow collaborative exam preparation in peer‐based distributed student groups. We discuss this design space according to eight dimensions of the concept of FLOW (Csikszentmihalyi, 1991) that constitutes enjoyable situations. Two of the learning gadgets were implemented and integrated in the CURE environment, a web‐based collaborative learning platform that was developed to support different collaborative learning scenarios, e.g. collaborative exercises or virtual seminars. We discuss these learning gadgets in more detail and show how they promise an enjoyable collaborative exam preparation.

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Interactive Technology and Smart Education, vol. 3 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1741-5659

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Publication date: 1 September 1982

K. Fässler and H. Spähn

4 Heat exchanger experiments To study the performance of the ferritic 18 Cr‐2 Mo steel under actual heat exchanger conditions, large scale model heat exchangers were fabricated…

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4 Heat exchanger experiments To study the performance of the ferritic 18 Cr‐2 Mo steel under actual heat exchanger conditions, large scale model heat exchangers were fabricated. After experiments to fabricate heat exchanger plates under standard stretch‐forming conditions, our investigations were confined to heat exchangers of the tubular type.

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Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, vol. 29 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0003-5599

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