Arbeitspapier
Methods for Evaluating Educational Programs – Does Writing Center Participation Affect Student Achievement?
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the introduction of a Writing Center at a university. The center has the purpose to provide subject-specific courses that aim to improve students' abilities of scientific writing. In order to deal with presumed selfperceptional biases of students in feedback surveys, we use different quantitative evaluation methods and compare the results to corresponding qualitative student surveys. Based on this evaluation, we present and discuss the validity of the approaches to evaluate educational programs. Although almost all students reported the writing courses to be helpful, we fi nd no signifi cant effect of course participation on students' grades. We attribute the difference in the results between quantitative methods and qualitative surveys to the inappropriateness of student course evaluations for assessing the effectiveness of educational measures.
- ISBN
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978-3-86788-320-7
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 275
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Analysis of Education
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
- Thema
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Performance evaluation
educational programs
student evaluation
empirical methods
Performance evaluation
educational programs
student evaluation
empirical methods
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bredtmann, Julia
Crede, Carsten J.
Otten, Sebastian
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
- (wo)
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Essen
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bredtmann, Julia
- Crede, Carsten J.
- Otten, Sebastian
- Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
Entstanden
- 2011
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