Participants performed considerably better on the informatics knowledge test after the course, and overall acceptance of the course was ranked as very good to excellent, while the usefulness of the course was rated as very good [ 5].
Within minutes of Creed's acceptance speech, of course, Shane Meadows was at the podium, picking up Best Screenplay for 24 Hour Arty People, his satire of the YBAs, followed by Tilda Swinton, who richly deserved her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her turn as Charles Saatchi.
The communication course was evaluated with regard to the acceptance of the course concept, learning goals, expectations, and gained competences by 182 medical students in the years 2012 and 2013 winterr semester).
To ensure adequacy and broad acceptance of our course, curriculum clinicians, who were responsible for teaching the subject in the routine course, reviewed and corrected the tutorial guidelines when necessary.
Last but not least, we presented students' progress throughout the course using pre-mid-post assessment, and examined their attitudes regarding easiness, usability, usefulness, and acceptance of the course as well as the two positive and one negative emotions.
In 2000, the overall acceptance of the course was very good to excellent with a rating of 4.2 (scale 1 5), and the usefulness of the course was rated as very good.
In addition, 182 students were assessed with regard to their acceptance of the course concept and their gained competences.
There are many claims in the literature that the way feedback is given is very important for students' acceptance of the course and their learning process [ 32].
To our knowledge, the present study is the first to investigate the acceptance of a preparatory course within the framework of PAL with regard to course evaluation from both the tutees' and tutors' perspective and to evaluate focused tutor training.
This time, the darkening plunge from D major to D minor in the final section was less violent, a wistful acceptance of the inevitable course of things.
