Course syllabi: Components and outcomes assessment
Course syllabi operate as basic structures of nursing curricula. They communicate and shape student and faculty respon- sibilities. Syllabi function to orient new faculty to the cultural norms of nursing programs, specify student learning outcomes, connect course outcomes to the program level, and provide evidence for accreditor organizations of curricular quality and achievement of standards. A committee on assessment and evaluation of a university’s nursing programs reviewed examples of syllabi and identified needed revisions. Members examined literature on syllabus construction and alignment with student learning outcomes along with faculty concerns about syllabi. Consequently, the nursing programs’ activities influenced a university’s review and standardization of syllabi in the context of nursing accreditation self-study and university regional accreditation standards.
This paper presents a method for modeling MOS combinational logic gates. Analyses are given for power consumption, output response delay, output response waveshape, and input capacitance. The models are both computationally efficient and accurate, typically lying within 5% of SPICE estimates. They are pertinent to simulation and optimization applications. A general macromodeling software support package is described. A related paper [1] discusses a circuit optimizer based on these models.