But without adequate course design, focused faculty attention, and student readiness, there may be little hope for the overall instructional program, or the promise it originally offered.
This program, modeled after the University of Arizona Teaching Team Program (Libarkin and Mencke, 2001), aims to bridge the gap between faculty expectations and student readiness in large classes by creating course-specific learning communities or teaching teams.
Determining the aim and role of each in clinical training and exchanging information between clinical educators and faculty members on student readiness, learning context, and patient information before and during clinical training is important for providing effective clinical practice to nursing students.
Furthermore, the community-building process resulted in faculty not only expressing their readiness to participate in the development and implementation of WTL practices on their campuses but also undertaking planning of multi-university collaborative initiatives.
In the original UR study, students identified these affective areas as an important noncognitive outcome of their research experience, and faculty connected these developments to students' readiness to take on the role of scientist or budding professional.
Thus, not only the scale scores, but also the results at single item level is of interest and important, for example, for the scale "professional competence", which consists of the items "collaboration with other medical faculties", "thoroughness and diligence in examinations" and "readiness to refer the child".
It seems that about ten years ago, a group of faculty members and alumni decided to set up the Scripps College Academy, a free year-round college-readiness program for high-achieving young women in the greater L.A. area, 90% of whom are the first in their families to attend college, to excel in the college or university of their choice.
For now, Stevens mostly radiates readiness to seize the opportunity and, at least among administrators and some faculty, Technogenesis is invoked as a mantra -- sometimes to an odd degree.
Further scrutinizing of the students readiness to use or not use new educational instruments is important in faculty development.
