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Harvey, Hugh; Keen, James; Robinson, Chester; Roff, James; Gross, Thilo – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
Group work, where students work on projects to overcome challenges together, has numerous advantages, including learning of important transferable skills, better learning experience and increased motivation. However, in many academic systems the advantages of group projects clash with the need to assign individualised marks to students. A number…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Grading, Cooperative Learning, Student Projects
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Venkatesh, Anil; Piercey, Victor – PRIMUS, 2021
Quantitative Reasoning for Professionals is a two-semester general education sequence that teaches basic and intermediate algebra through the lens of quantitative reasoning. In this course sequence, we emphasize communication and inference-making while teaching practical algebra skills for students in programs such as business, nursing, and social…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Inquiry, Grading
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Ruder, Phil – Journal of Economic Education, 2021
The author of this article describes individual pre-class and group in-class assignments based on current news articles. Guided student pre-class readings of periodical articles can form the basis for engaging in-class group assignments. Many economics instructors seek to develop student skills at applying the concepts under study to analyze…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Group Activities, Current Events, News Media
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Nurmikko-Fuller, Terhi; Hart, Ian E. – Educational Media International, 2020
This paper describes the process of constructive alignment of the content and assessment of a first year university course on Digital Culture. Previous iterations of the course assessed the students using only written assignments, which proved to be problematic. In 2019 the course team decided to revise the assessment tasks in order to align them…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Alignment (Education), Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation
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Onyia, Okey Peter – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2014
This paper is a sequel to an earlier one that examines "the efficacy of two innovative peer-assessment templates ("PET" and "PACT") introduced to enable students provide evidence of their fairness in evaluating peer contributions to group project work" (Onyia, O. P. and Allen, S., 2012). In the present paper, three…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Peer Evaluation, Group Activities
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Marti, Enric; Gil, Debora; Gurguí, Antoni; Hernández-Sabaté, Aura; Rocarías, Jaume; Poveda, Ferran – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2015
This report presents the organisation of PBL (Project Based Learning) for a subject included in the IT engineering degree course. It is the result of 10 years of experience of the implantation and continuous improvement of the PBL class structure. The latest innovations include the experience of part-time monitoring with PBL groups using the Open…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Group Activities, Engineering Education
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Logan, Jennifer L.; Quin~ones, Rosalynn; Sunderland, Deborah P. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
An assignment incorporating posters into a second-year analytical chemistry lab is described. Students work in groups and are assigned one of the application-themed weekly laboratories as a topic. Course data acquired for these weekly laboratories are compiled into spreadsheets that the poster group then analyzes to present in an on-campus poster…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Assignments, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
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Zschocke, Karen; Wosnitza, Marold; Bürger, Kathrin – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2016
Small group work is common practice in higher education. However, empirical research on students' emotions related to group work is still relatively scarce. Particularly, little is known about students' appraisals of a group task as antecedents of emotions arising in the context of group work. This paper provides a first attempt to systematically…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Preservice Teachers, College Students, Small Group Instruction
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Pelletier, Kathie L. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2017
This study extends the empirical findings of the use of continuous, lecture-embedded assessments to increase engagement and enhance learning. Outcome data (exam performance and attendance rates) from college students in three upper-division business course sections who took quizzes and wrote two-minute papers (test group) were compared to outcome…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Learner Engagement, Learning Motivation, Self Efficacy
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Alghamdi, Amani K. Hamdan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
Teacher-candidate course assessment is one topic that has not been adequately explored in teacher education literature where pre-service teachers' voices are rarely heard. This mixed-methods study explored a group of female pre-service teachers (n = 83) enrolled in a Diploma of Education program to identify their preferred method of assessment for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Females
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Murray-Harvey, Rosalind; Pourshafie, Tahereh; Reyes, Wilma Santos – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Group work, an essential component of learning and teaching in problem-based learning (PBL), is compromised if students' experiences of PBL are colored by dissatisfaction with the process or outcomes. For the potential benefits of PBL to be realized PBL group work must be genuinely collaborative to address students' personal and professional…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Preservice Teachers, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
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Watson, Etáin – Research-publishing.net, 2014
In this fast-changing information age, teachers and students can feast at a banquet of material on the Internet. This is a very good thing in these tight economic times, when education systems are strapped for cash and many arts and music courses are being cut in favor of classes to develop so-called marketable skills, such as business, biology or…
Descriptors: Internet, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
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Wicks, David; Craft, Baine B.; Lee, Donghun; Lumpe, Andrew; Henrikson, Robin; Baliram, Nalline; Bian, Xu; Mehlberg, Stacy; Wicks, Katy – Online Learning, 2015
Researchers in a recent study found that online students' ability to self-regulate led to more focused attention and time on task, and in turn, these skills could lead to better learning. Given the need for more theoretical work in this area, as well as the potential practical benefits from the use of these pedagogical strategies, we sought to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning, Learning Strategies, Self Management
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Lai, Karyn – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Many tertiary-level courses assess students' participation in tutorial or online discussions. However, in educational and pedagogical research literature, criteria for assessing students' skills in engaging with peers remain unclear. This article describes an online assignment with a set of participation criteria and a method for assessing the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Student Participation, Evaluation Criteria, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Bain, Lisa Z. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2012
There are many different delivery methods used by institutions of higher education. These include traditional, hybrid, and online course offerings. The comparisons of these typically use final grade as the measure of student performance. This research study looks behind the final grade and compares student performance by assessment type, core…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Blended Learning, Conventional Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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