... courses. Other predictors of academic success in Web-based courses included older age, female gender, graduate student status and part-time academic load. An interaction between age and gender on grade indicated the difference in performance between men and women diminished among older compared to younger...

... is to investigate the relevance of the law school admission test to predicting the competencies. Design/methodology/approach – The assessment is based on administrative records of 815 students admitted at Makerere University’s law school on the basis of their performance in the test. Grades obtained...

... undertaken by enrollees in their third and/or fourth year of law school. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Education Performance Higher education Communication: Writing in English, critical proficiency in oral and graphic communication as well as ability...

... for Economic Co-operation and Development that examined the quality of university teaching generally in higher education, stated the following: The previous section of this paper indicates the enormous potential of classroom transformational leadership to impact student outcomes and performance...

... levels of performance in particular universities (HEFCE, 2002; QAA, 2002). From a preliminary search of the literature, there appeared to be very little empirical research into student perceptions of quality in higher education. Therefore it was not possible to draw upon previous work to guide...

..., the timing could be another relevant reason for these results. From the point of view of this analysis, the data were very clear (see Table III). © MCB UP Limited 2003 Teachers Quality Universities Students Performance Improvement The primary aim of this study, from...

... ability to foster the creation of learning and to serve as a tool for improving instruction. In fact, it often serves as a disincentive to introducing rigour. This paper performs a qualitative (e.g. case studies) and quantitative (e.g. empirical research) literature review of student evaluations...

...Timothy Rodgers; Deb Ghosh A large number of correlation analysis studies of UK data have suggested that there is a weak relationship between student input quality (for example, “A” level performance) and degree performance. This paper re‐examines this relationship using a different statistical...

... 1997 Assessment Development Higher education Performance Teachers The training for reporting assessors is, like that for specialist assessors, very thorough indeed, and they are all trained to be the reporting “face” of HEFCE. I expected them to be of uniform size, shape and thought...

... and inhibiting factors affecting individual academic performance. Evidence suggests that there are a number of interrelating influences which affect success or failure and quality issues related to courses of this type must take a wider view than just the initial academic profile of the individual...

...Kenneth McCulloch; Lyn Tett Examines the role of performance indicators (PIs) as a means of quality assurance. Uses, as a case study, the national scheme of performance indicators for Community Education Services in Scotland, and shows how the process of development led to a particular approach...