The theme of delivery technique includes student responses that seemed to reflect the characteristics of the instructors as teachers, specifically how they deliver the course material to students and how confident the instructor appears in the classroom.
In other words, we cluster students by instructor to control for potential additional unmeasured characteristics of the instructor that are related to student perception of OTL.
Practical teaching strategies inspired by research findings may appear only tangentially related to one another, and many strategies are dependent on intangibles related to individual characteristics of an instructor and an institution.
This study also emphasizes the popular view that a broad contextual framework improves a student's ability to recall specific details and that the individual characteristics of an instructor play a significant role in utilizing pedagogy to influence students' performance.
The questionnaire consisted of two parts including demographic specifications plus questions concerning the effective factors on clinical education process which were classified into 5 groups including: characteristics of the clinical instructors, educational programming, conditions and facilities of the clinical education, learners' conditions and characteristics, evaluating system.
Data were collected using the Nursing Clinical Effectiveness Inventory, which includes 48 characteristics of effective clinical instructors arranged in five subscales.
Secondly, the investigators examined the student end-of-course ratings of blended learning and other modalities by attempting to develop robust if-then decision rules about what characteristics of classes and instructors lead students to assign an "excellent" value to their educational experience.
Teaching practices are affected by the characteristics of both the individual instructor (i.e., beliefs, experience, desires, etc).
However, strict can also be characteristic of a respected instructor because the instructor enforces polite behavior in a large classroom or applies the same rules to all students.
Characteristics of classes were provided by instructors and in the analysis, we refer to them as group measures (Table 2), including whether transport was provided, participants charged, the venue was open to the public or referral only, and class type (mostly seated or mostly standing, see Hawley et al., 2012).
