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King, Jim; Aono, Atsuko – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2017
This paper discusses the issue of tolerance of silence within university tutorials from a cross-cultural, comparative perspective. A mixed methods, quasi-experimental approach was employed to measure the length of silence which individual students from samples in Japan and the UK tolerated during a one-to-one staged encounter with their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutorial Programs, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Education
Stoesz, Brenda M.; Yudintseva, Anastassiya – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2018
The prevalence of plagiarism, cheating, and other acts of academic dishonesty may be as high as 80% in populations of high school and post-secondary students. Various educational interventions have been developed and implemented in an effort to educate students about academic integrity and to prevent academic misconduct. We reviewed the…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Instructional Effectiveness, Integrity, Plagiarism
Hendry, Gillian; Wiggins, Sally; Anderson, Tony – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
Research has shown that educators may be reluctant to implement group work in their teaching due to concerns about students partaking in off-task behaviours. However, such off-task interactions have been shown to promote motivation, trust, and rapport-building. This paper details a study in which student groups were video recorded as they engaged…
Descriptors: Group Unity, Problem Based Learning, Tutorial Programs, Teaching Methods
Peelo, Moira – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2013
This paper explores one practitioner's learning development work with PhD students in a changing university context in which managerialism and financial stringency have combined. It questions how learning development practitioners can maintain their professional goals while negotiating issues arising from managerialism, financial stringency,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Teaching Methods, College Administration, Governance
Jackson, T. A.; Evans, D. J. R. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2012
The General Medical Council states that United Kingdom graduates must function effectively as educators. There is a growing body of evidence showing that medical students can be included as teachers within a medical curriculum. Our aim was to design and implement a near-peer-led teaching program in an undergraduate medical curriculum and assess…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Smith, Julian; Groves, Mark; Bowd, Belinda; Barber, Alison – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
This study examined the effectiveness of a Blended Learning (BL) environment designed to facilitate the learning of study skills with a large (over 200) and diverse undergraduate student cohort in a Higher Education (HE) institution in the UK. A BL environment was designed using the model provided by Kerres & De Witt (2003), and was also…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Blended Learning, Skill Development, Learning Strategies
Gujjar, Aijaz Ahmed; Choudhry, Bushra Naoreen; Choudhry, Amtul Hafeez – Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
This paper attempts to compare the availability, quality, similarities and differences of students' support services in United Kingdom Open University (UKOU) and Sri Lanka Open University (SLOU) and also to identify and enlist the deficiencies that SLOU students are facing in the student support services. To get the desired end four hundred…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Student Personnel Services, Open Universities, Foreign Countries

Barrett, L. R. – Higher Education Review, 1991
Critics of student writing in British lecture courses as "mere rehash of lecture notes" are reminded that (1) by its nature, the lecture course focuses on and is limited to information conveyed in lectures, and (2) professors refuse to use materials such as U.S. textbooks that could supplement the information conveyed in class. (MSE)
Descriptors: Assignments, Comparative Analysis, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries
Forster, Fred, Ed.; Hounsell, Dai, Ed.; Thompson, Sheila, Ed. – 1995
This handbook, primarily for new part-time teaching staff at colleges and universities in the United Kingdom, focuses on tutoring and demonstrating teaching skills. Following an introductory chapter, six additional chapters provide an orientation to tutoring and demonstrating. Chapter 2 presents an overview of the roles and responsibilities of new…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, Demonstrations (Educational)

Wade, Barrie – British Journal of Special Education, 1992
This article describes Marie Clay's Reading Recovery program which provides one-half hour daily of individual instruction in reading to a school's lowest achievers. Data demonstrating the program's effectiveness and student skill maintenance are summarized. The approach is seen to be especially suitable for mainstreamed children with special…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Individual Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness

Hobsbaum, Angela; And Others – Oxford Review of Education, 1996
Explores the applicability of "scaffolding" (adults providing support for children in tasks they cannot learn on their own) in the Reading Recovery program. Reading Recovery is an intervention program consisting of daily half-hour lessons taught by a teacher trained to diagnose and respond to reading disabilities. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries

Wood, David; Wood, Heather – Oxford Review of Education, 1996
Maintains that a common set of principles governs all tutoring, no matter what the age range, and extending to a variety of formats (including computers). Compares Lev Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development with "scaffolding," both concepts relating to the process of effective educational cooperation between adults and children. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Computer Uses in Education, Cross Age Teaching, Developmental Stages
Davies, Peter – 2002
The key features of student achievement were examined at twelve sixth form colleges (SFCs) in the United Kingdom with an emphasis on strategies to maintain and improve performance. It was found that students at SFCs have on average higher prior attainment and suffer less deprivation than their counterparts in General Further Education and Tertiary…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Persistence