Student participation in the enhanced arm was voluntary because its structure was new to the curriculum, would require additional student commitment beyond the traditional rotation, and its impact had not yet been assessed.
1) To determine factors students perceive as influential in decision to pursue otolaryngology; 2) to determine perception of importance of factors used for resident selection and individual student commitment to the match; and 3) to identify exposure to various subspecialties within otolaryngology.
We wanted the design to (i) include the basic elements of active learning to retain the good learning outcomes; (ii) be based on an assessment that improves student commitment, to promote balanced study load, and to direct students' attention to the study process itself to where it belongs; and (iii) support social and academic integration to reduce student drop-off (Tinto 1975).
It will allow comparison of different funding models (for example, the traditional 3-year Ph.D. with the Trust's more recent, innovative, 4-year programme), says Chisholm, "and we can also map the changing face of student finance, student motivation, student commitment".
He stressed that bioinformatics cannot be learned passively from a book but requires active-learning approaches and student commitment.
It was found that by far the most influential variable was whether students were in a hurry for the next appointment, rather than the nature of students' commitments to religion or the nature of the tasks in which they were engaged at the time, even if the task was preparing a sermon on the Good Samaritan (Darley and Batson, 1973)!
"I applaud the students' commitment to our values," Dr. Roth said.
I hadn't been in a classroom as a teacher for a while and I remembered what a special feeling it is, how the students' commitment excites you.
The framework helps university managers in designing appropriate strategies to influence students' commitment toward the university to, for example, continue their postgraduate studies.
The findings also reveal that these individualized responses were directed by students' commitment to various positions in their self-valued identities and mediated by larger ideological structures associated with the high-stakes testing regimes.
