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Orsmond, Paul; Merry, Stephen – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
This article uses situated learning theory to consider current tutor assessment and feedback practices in relation to learning practices employed by students outside the overt curriculum. The case is made that an emphasis on constructive alignment and explicitly articulating assessment requirements within curricula may be misplaced. Outside of the…
Descriptors: Tutors, Higher Education, Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods
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Chanock, Kate; Horton, Craig; Reedman, Mark; Stephenson, Bret – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2012
This article discusses a Design for Learning project in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, where academic and personal support for students was interwoven in their first semester. Staff of the Academic Language and Learning Unit (ALLU) worked with discipline staff to develop their students' capabilities across a range of disciplines,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Feedback (Response), Tutors, Academic Achievement
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Dolmans, Diana H. J. M.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1996
A University of Limburg (Denmark) study investigated the effects of tutor expertise on medical student performance using curricular materials that have high or low levels of structure and that are poorly or well matched to students' levels of prior knowledge. The study found neither expert nor nonexpert tutors compensated for lack of curricular…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competence, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries