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An Innovative Framework for Higher Education to Evaluate Learning Gain: A Case Study Based upon the Discipline of Marketing
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Polkinghorne, Martyn; O'Sullivan, Helen; Taylor, Julia; Roushan, Gelareh – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
The value for money of UK undergraduate degree courses is under increasingly critical scrutiny. Understanding the level of learning achieved by students on any particular course has therefore become of paramount importance as an indicator of teaching quality. The change to the learning that a student undertaking a course has acquired can be…
Descriptors: Marketing, Higher Education, Achievement Gains, Learning Processes
Learn To Teach Experientially: A Pilgrim's Progress.
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November, Peter – Studies in Higher Education, 1997
Traces influences on a university lecturer's choice of teaching method, drawing evidence from his private journal and the work journals of his students. Concludes that the theory-based use of experiential learning is hypocritical and may be promoting false theory. Proposes an alternative discovery approach in which students and lecturers are…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Discovery Learning
Mature Students in Higher Education: III. Approaches to Studying in Access Students.
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Hayes, Kay; And Others – Studies in Higher Education, 1997
A study of the approaches to learning of adult students in nine United Kingdom colleges of further education found them qualitatively different from those of traditional students as determined by a previous study. Results suggest that adult education courses may inculcate an educational culture inconsistent with the dominant culture in mainstream…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, College Environment, College Students