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The effects of curricular revision in animal nutrition laboratories (Animal Science 318) at Texas A&M University on student satisfaction
| dc.creator | Krueger, Nathan A | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T23:05:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T23:05:56Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2001 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2001-THESIS-K82 | |
| dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item. | en |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-47). | en |
| dc.description | Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of curricular revision in an animal science nutrition course (Animal Science 318) at Texas A&M University on student satisfaction of laboratory sessions. Two semesters of the animal science course were used in this study. The students enrolled in the spring 2000 semester were used as the control group and received the same laboratory sessions that had been done in earlier semesters. At the end of the semester, the students were given a survey to measure their perceptions of the overall course, the teaching assistants, and each individual lab session. As a result of the survey and based on the students' perceptions, three laboratory sessions were chosen for revision. The revisions were implemented during the summer of 2000, and the students enrolled in the fall 2000 semester were used as the experimental treatment group. These students attended the same lab sessions as the spring semester students with the exception of the three labs that were revised. At the end of the semester, the students were given the same survey to see if their perceptions of the lab sessions differed from those of the control group. Student evaluations were done of each individual lab session, of their laboratory teaching assistants, and of the overall course. The evaluations of their teaching assistant (TAVALUE) and of the course overall (CRSVALUE) were entered into the General Linear Model as covariates to remove their effects of the students' evaluations of the lab sessions, which served as the primary dependant variable. Based on the results of the study, the students' mean evaluations of the lab sessions did not differ for spring versus fall semesters. The effect of primary importance in the experiment (the changed lab sessions) was not shown to be statistically significant. However, the level of significance approached statistical significance (p= .11). That is, while students rated the unchanged labs somewhat lower in the fall than in the spring, the changed lab ratings improved slightly. | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.subject | agricultural education. | en |
| dc.subject | Major agricultural education. | en |
| dc.title | The effects of curricular revision in animal nutrition laboratories (Animal Science 318) at Texas A&M University on student satisfaction | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | agricultural education | en |
| thesis.degree.name | M.S. | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
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