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Wilks, Judith; Fleeton, Ellen Radnidge; Wilson, Katie – Australian Universities' Review, 2017
The Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme-Tertiary Tuition (ITAS-TT) has provided Australian government funding for one-to-one and group tutorial study support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students attending Australian universities since 1989. It has been a central plank supporting Indigenous university students in their studies.…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Tutorial Programs, Transitional Programs, Tutors
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Lee, Young-Mee; Mann, Karen V.; Frank, Blye W. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2010
Evidence supporting Problem-based learning (PBL) fostering students' self-directed learning (SDL) in hybrid PBL curricula is inconsistent. To explore the influence of PBL in a hybrid curriculum on students' SDL, the authors investigated the following: (1) students' self-assessed SDL ability, (2) students' perceptions of the influence of curricular…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Problem Based Learning, Interviews
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Cousins, Nicola J.; Barker, Martin; Dennis, Catherine; Dalrymple, Sarah; McPherson, Lindsay R. – Bioscience Education, 2012
In order to increase engagement and to consolidate skills, a tutorial-based skills course (module) was introduced as a compulsory component of first-year in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen. We evaluated whether students had attained certain "graduate attributes" during the course, comprising: transferable and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Personality Traits, Student Attitudes, Biological Sciences