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Adopting an Active Learning Approach to Teaching in a Research-Intensive Higher Education Context Transformed Staff Teaching Attitudes and Behaviours
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White, Paul J.; Larson, Ian; Styles, Kim; Yuriev, Elizabeth; Evans, Darrell R.; Rangachari, P. K.; Short, Jennifer L.; Exintaris, Betty; Malone, Daniel T.; Davie, Briana; Eise, Nicole; Mc Namara, Kevin; Naidu, Somaiya – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
The conventional lecture has significant limitations in the higher education context, often leading to a passive learning experience for students. This paper reports a process of transforming teaching and learning with active learning strategies in a research-intensive educational context across a faculty of 45 academic staff and more than 1,000…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Research Universities, Learning Strategies
Implementation of Criteria and Standards-Based Assessment: An Analysis of First-Year Learning Guides
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Thomson, Rosemary – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
Assessment expectations are communicated to students in various ways and at different points in the semester. The provision of written information in learning guides given to students at the start of semester articulates what they are to do and how well they are to perform in assessment tasks. This paper examines how assessment expectations at an…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Feedback (Response), Portfolio Assessment, Teacher Expectations of Students