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Lesley Mickel – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This article considers how the performing arts integrate with research, learning and teaching. In doing so, it addresses the relation between research and performance practice, and the connections between research/practice with learning and teaching. Reference to A/R/Tography is made as a constructivist praxis facilitating integration of these…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Integrated Activities, Creative Activities, Learning
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Karen Gravett – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This article troubles a pervasive concept within higher education studies: authentic assessment. Authentic assessment is well-established within higher education, and yet its common usage leaves it limited in possibility. Often understood as a practice focused on tasks, where assessments represent a 'reality' beyond universities, authentic…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Competency Based Education, Student Evaluation, Higher Education
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Jack Walton; Jodie L. Martin – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Holistic assessment is an evaluative approach in which assessors work backwards from an overall appraisal of work to determine the criteria relevant to individual student responses. One of the strongest proponents of this approach in higher education is Royce Sadler, whose theoretical contributions over recent decades provide a strong conceptual…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Evaluation Criteria, Theory Practice Relationship, Higher Education
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Loads, Daphne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
University lecturers need to help their students to develop ways of being that will allow them to flourish amidst uncertainty. Professional development workshops involving artwork and reflection provide a space where lecturers themselves can hold, examine and develop tolerance for uncertainty. Artwork and exploration of metaphors enable them to…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Teachers, Professional Development, Workshops
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Romsdahl, Rebecca J.; Hill, Michael J. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
In graduate education, there is often a great divide between classroom learning and research endeavors. Using learning community (LC) values and strategies, our goal is to build stronger and more meaningful ties between these two aspects of graduate education so that students see them as complimentary learning rather than separate components. This…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Theory Practice Relationship, Models, Learning Activities
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Forrest, Kelly A.; Judd, Kathy R.; Davison, Jodi R. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
This article is an autoenthnographic account of the yearlong journey of two undergraduates and their instructor when the traditional classroom structures associated with the banking concept of education were altered in an upper division class and follow-on research experiences. These changes focused on foregrounding students' experiences of the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Course Content, Attachment Behavior, Learner Engagement
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Firth, Ann; Martens, Erika – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
Preparation for research supervision has assumed greater importance in academic departments of universities with the increase in the number and diversity of both research candidates and supervisors and the financial incentives for on-time completions. Over the past decade a body of literature by both academics and academic developers has emerged…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Supervisors, Research, Transformative Learning
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Watts, Jacqueline H. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
The supervision of part-time doctoral students is a long-term academic enterprise requiring stamina both on the part of the supervisor and the student. Because of the fractured student identity of the part-time doctoral candidate, who is usually balancing a range of work, study, and family commitments, strategies to support their progress have to…
Descriptors: Supervisors, Role, Doctoral Programs, Part Time Students
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Peterson, Tessa Hicks – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
Significant shifts are occurring in higher education pedagogy, research methodology, and community development, ones that value civic engagement and experiential learning as bridges to holistic education and sustainable social change. Engaged scholarship through university-community partnerships can result in providing a well-rounded education for…
Descriptors: Community Development, Research Methodology, School Community Relationship, Social Change