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Harland, Tony; Wald, Navé – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper we examine the history and development of internal assessment practices at a university in New Zealand. The work re-visits the 'assessment arms race' study and builds upon the key arguments presented so far. It was discovered that student demand in the early 1970s triggered the introduction of internal assessment and workloads…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Student Evaluation, Educational History
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Hatipoglu, Çiler; Gajek, Elzbieta; Delibegovic Džanic, Nihada; Milosevska, Lina – Research-publishing.net, 2022
The abrupt change from face-to-face to Online Learning (OL) in the emergency COVID-19 semester surprised and forced students to alter their study habits. Then came the second online period, and students were expected to be happier and more successful since now they were familiar with OL. Was this the case? Had the ways students learned, their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Keng, Shao-Hsun – Education Finance and Policy, 2016
This paper uses data from a four-year college in Taiwan to examine the effect of adopting a stricter dismissal policy on course selection, student effort, and grading practices. Under the new rule, students are dismissed if they fail 50 percent or more credits in "any" two semesters as opposed to two "consecutive" semesters.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Discipline Policy, Expulsion
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Kaisarevic, Sonja N.; Andric, Silvana A.; Kostic, Tatjana S. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2017
In response to the Bologna Declaration and contemporary trends in Animal Physiology education, the Animal Physiology course at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, has evolved over a 12-year period (2001-2012): from a classical two-semester course toward a one-semester course utilizing computer simulations of animal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Animals, Physiology
Kozak, Stan – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2011
In the 1970s, Ontario secondary schools started to adopt the semester system, four courses over the day where there had been seven. With this change, a creative outdoor educator realized that one teacher could take a group of students for all four credits, eliminating the restrictions of the timetable and addressing opportunities to learn in the…
Descriptors: Semester System, School Restructuring, Learning Strategies, Credits
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Milliken, John; Colohan, Gerry – Higher Education in Europe, 2000
Surveyed a sampling of faculty members at a United Kingdom university about the change to a semester system and modular courses. Found widespread disapproval of the way these changes were imposed. (EV)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Semester System
Lindsay, Roger; Breen, Rosanna; Paton-Saltzberg, Renee – Psychology Teaching Review, 2002
The introduction of modular schemes and a semesterised academic year are amongst the most fundamental changes ever to occur in UK higher education. There is, however, a notable lack of pedagogic research evidence on the effects upon student learning of course frameworks and the temporal structure of large-scale learning units. In the absence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, School Schedules, Semester System