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Disrupting the Power Relations of Grading in Higher Education through Summative Self-Assessment
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Nieminen, Juuso Henrik – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Student self-assessment has been framed as a way to address the issues of power in assessment in higher education. However, rarely has self-assessment been used to challenge the broader political issues of grading. In this study, I introduce the concept of summative self-assessment, drawing on self-grading as a practice that seeks to disrupt the…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Grading, Power Structure, Student Evaluation
The Analytical Lens: Developing Undergraduate Students' Critical Dispositions in Undergraduate EAP Writing Courses
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Brooke, Mark; Monbec, Laetitia; Tilakaratna, Namala – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
This paper comprises findings from three parallel case studies within the broad framework of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). These provide results from classroom-based action research conducted over two years working with Semantics, Specialisation and axiological cosmologies from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). Each author shares how one or…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Teacher Change: Ideas Emerging from a Project for the Teaching of University Mathematics
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Trigueros, Maria; Lozano, Maria-Dolores – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
This paper reports the changes that occurred in the didactic approaches of three professors who participated in a project intended to develop new ways of teaching mathematics to second year university students. An enactivist perspective is used to address the process of change that emerged as a result from interactions during project meetings. We…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, College Instruction, Teaching Methods
Beginning a Pre-Service Teacher's Mathematical Identity Work through Narrative Rehabilitation and Bibliotherapy
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Lutovac, Sonja; Kaasila, Raimo – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
In our study, we face two challenges. First, a negative view of mathematics is a widespread phenomenon among pre-service elementary teachers. Therefore, teacher education programs should find a way to handle this phenomenon. Second, we see that identity work in the domain of mathematics education needs to be conceptualized more. Here, we apply an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Bibliotherapy, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Transforming Pre-service Teachers' Understandings of Mathematics: Dialogue, Bakhtin and Open-Mindedness.
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Taylor, Ann R. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2003
Used transcripts from an undergraduate elementary mathematics methods class (n=12) to show the struggles and transformation of students. Analysis of the change in student thinking using M. Bakhtin's concept of "appropriation" reveals the teacher's initial judgment of student resistance and lack of open-mindedness. (SLD)
Descriptors: Change, College Students, Higher Education, Mathematics Instruction
Integrating Case Studies in Engineering Mathematics: A Response to SARTOR 3.
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Townend, M. Stewart – Teaching in Higher Education, 2001
Describes an approach to engineering mathematics instruction that uses case studies, not as illustrations of applications after a mathematical topic has been discussed, but in a fully integrated, central role as vehicles for whole group discussion from which students discover the necessary mathematics, which is subsequently taught. Discusses…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, College Instruction, College Mathematics