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Philip Vickerman 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2009,34(2):221-230
Peer assessment is a common form of shared learning in which students provide feedback on each others work. Peer assessment takes many forms; and involves students and tutors taking various roles at different stages of the process. This study explores the views and opinions of undergraduate students in relation to their perceptions and experiences of formative peer assessment introduced as a learning development opportunity for the first time. The study found that on the whole formative peer assessment was a positive experience in enhancing students learning and development. However, consideration needs to be taken to address individual learning styles, as a limited number of students found the process to be less useful. Consequently, when tutors are constructing peer assessment strategies they should be cognisant at the planning stage of the variety of learning styles that are evident in order to maximise the development opportunities this can bring to students. 相似文献
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《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2012,36(3):423-438
This paper reports on the adjustment of East Asian Master’s level students who came to study at a campus-based university in the UK during 2004–05. International students face challenges in respect to language proficiency, academic expectations and social participation. In this longitudinal study the experiences of a group of students from East Asian countries were surveyed, with a sample of eight students from five countries tracked through regular interviews. The paper describes the level of satisfaction that students experienced and the challenges they faced. It was found that students largely enjoyed their sojourn and achieved satisfactory levels of academic success. They encountered ‘culture bumps’ rather than culture shock. Adjustment was facilitated by adequate preparation, appropriate academic attainment and satisfying levels of social participation with other international students. It is suggested that these students were experiencing an ‘international postgraduate student culture’ rather than integration into local culture. 相似文献
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浅谈班主任在资源勘查工程国际化人才培养中的作用 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
班主任在国际化石油复合型人才的培养过程中扮演了重要角色,起到了润物细无声的作用。这主要体现在引导学生由＂中学＂到＂大学＂的思想转型,培养学生由＂自我＂向＂集体＂的团队协同意识,增强学生由＂了解＂到＂热爱＂的专业认知,提高学生由＂国内＂到＂国外＂的国际化视野。实践证明,班主任制度不仅使教师贴近学生生活,成为学生的知己,引导学生树立正确的大学观,也使学生增强团队协作意识,及时认知专业并培养专业兴趣,更能使学生提高国际化人文与业务视野,这些均为国际化石油人才的知识结构、能力结构和素质结构培养打下了坚实的基础。 相似文献
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在我校六位一体的导学群体系中,各级导学教师尤其是三级导学教师有着非常重要的作用。导学教师应当对学生的人生目标、学习目标起引导作用,提高学生的整体素质;应当在学习方法上引导学生,调动学生学习的内驱力;还应当引导学生潜能的发挥,促使学生超越自我,拓展发展空间。 相似文献
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Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini Narges Badri 《Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching》2018,25(3):286-299
While English is embraced worldwide as a global means of communication, its teaching and learning is a contested arena of contacts between the so-called English native-speaker culture and local learner cultures. In this study, we investigate Iranian university students’ viewpoints on the necessity and justifications for learning English and their awareness of international policies of promoting this language. A group of 855 male and female students of different fields of study at six major universities of Tehran responded to a researcher-made questionnaire and 28 participants were interviewed for more in-depth explanations about their standpoints. The findings indicate that the participants are in absolute favour of learning the English language as an undeniable necessity as a multifaceted communicative instrument. Moreover, they seem to have limited sensitivity to the potential sociopolitical functioning of English and the policies and plans for promoting the teaching and learning of this language around the world. 相似文献
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Pharmacy students undertake experiential learning to prepare them for practice. With the move to more patient-facing roles, there is a need to assess if the experiential learning prepares students for practice. A mixed-methods study was undertaken to obtain the feedback of graduates currently in pre-registration training on their experiential learning experience. There were 63 (response rate 55.8%) responses to the online survey. One focus group consisting of four graduates, and ten one-on-one interviews were conducted. Placement experience was dependent on tutors and placement sites. There was displeasure with community placements as they were relegated to dispensing duties, but satisfaction with their hospital experience despite only being allowed to shadow tutors. The limited duration of placements was highlighted, especially in hospital settings. Tutor training is key to ensuring students have an optimum experience. Sites should be made to see the value of having students, so that they are allowed patient contact. 相似文献
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N. S. Edward 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2001,26(4):429-440
Increasing class sizes and increasingly complex technology have brought pressure on university staff. Less widely recognized is their effect on freshers, many of whom find the university a bewildering and remote environment. This paper describes an innovative approach to induction in an engineering school. A constructivist approach was used to involve the students, working in small groups with a staff facilitator in the investigation of a technical issue. In so doing they learned the university systems by using them contextually and also immediately got to know staff and peers. Their perceptions of the experience were determined by questionnaire and interview and their learning styles were gauged by a learning style inventory. The aim had been to provide a flexible, supportive experience for all learners. Although it was disappointing to find no significant correlations between learning styles and perceptions, it is perhaps a measure of our success in achieving this aim. 相似文献
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This paper describes research which investigated how a group of 23 postgraduate student teachers from a wide variety of international backgrounds with a broad range of previous experience perceived the significance of their own and others’ prior experience in accomplishing directed collaborative tasks, related to their coursework, in pre-determined groupings. The students were asked to comment on how they valued their own and others’ prior experiences and how they considered prior experience informed the completion of the tasks. They were also asked to comment on the dynamic of groups in which they worked and how they felt others’ prior experiences affected the management and achievement of the task. The students rated some experiences more highly than others and almost all appreciated the predetermined nature of the groupings as benefitting them socially as well as educationally. However, they raised practical, attitudinal and personality issues, suggesting that more structured guidance from tutors at the outset would be beneficial. 相似文献
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Tomoyo Okuda 《高等教育研究与发展》2020,39(4):778-791
ABSTRACTOne of the institutional challenges of taking in large numbers of international graduate students is supporting their academic literacy skills. To accommodate a large population of international students, Japanese universities offer various services to support their academic studies and life-related issues, such as hiring international student advisors, offering Japanese language courses, and implementing peer-support programs. As a type of academic support for writing for international students, writing centers have caught the attention of universities in the last decade. To examine the institutional role of the writing center at a Japanese university, this study employs a language management lens to compare the beliefs and interests among administrators, tutors, and international students in improving international students’ Japanese writing. Interviews with the three groups of participants displayed incongruences between the administrators’ interests aligned with institutional goals, the educational philosophy of the writing center, and international students’ language learning needs. The findings point to the tutors' crucial role as language specialists who inform organized language management, and the necessity for collaboration between academic support units and faculty members in providing sufficient academic socialization environments for international students. 相似文献
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Faculty members at a research extensive university who had been recognized as outstanding teachers stated that they enjoyed teaching and expressed a strong preference for actively engaging students in the learning process and placing a high degree of importance on receiving student feedback. They stressed the importance of setting clear expectations and goals, providing timely feedback, and using a variety of presentation and instructional approaches and emphasized that their teaching and research were interconnected and synergistic. 相似文献
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《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2012,36(3):257-269
This article reports on a longitudinal study of the relationship between teaching and learning styles and retention and achievement on an A-level programme in a college of further education. Honey and Mumford's (1986) learning styles questionnaire was completed by A-level students at the beginning of their programme of study and their scores as activists, pragmatists, reflectors and theorists were recorded. The A-level tutors completed a teaching styles questionnaire and their scores were also recorded. The majority of A-level students and tutors were reflectors. Students who withdrew within their first year and between the first and second years of study were interviewed about their reasons for withdrawal. The findings were that a larger number of activists withdrew in the early stages of their study than would be expected by their representation in the overall cohort. The students' final results, in terms of high raw scores and results above what would be expected based on GCSE performance, were compared with their learning styles. In this cohort of students it was found that having a high theorist tendency is beneficial to this type of academic study. 相似文献
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In the current higher education context, offering online programmes is seen as an effective means to recruit more international students. However, supporting online international students studying at a distance is not a simple task for both universities and tutors. The problem mainly stems from a lack of theoretical understanding of online international students and their learning experiences. The present article, therefore, aims to address the gap, by systematically, yet critically reviewing relevant academic narratives about online international students. Our review reveals four types of narratives presented in the literature, describing online international students in particular ways: unspecified others with a rapid increase in their numbers, specific others with deficits, specific others as pedagogical resources and active participants in international learning communities. We discuss the merits and the drawbacks of each type of narratives for online educators seeking pedagogical suggestions about supporting online international students. 相似文献
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The paper is an exploration of how a group of tutors involved in a major e‐learning project reacted to developing and teaching in this environment for this first time. All were experienced face‐to‐face teachers but had different levels of experience in using technology. Our aim was to capture their individual views on working in an online environment. The import of this cannot be under‐estimated, as different views on learning influence the role and potential of technology in an e‐learning environment. As the research is an exploration in understanding the impact that e‐learning can have on the role of the teacher, it seemed appropriate to frame the work in a grounded theory approach and to deal with themes as they emerged. The data for the paper are the product of focus groups, questionnaires and observation. The sample for data collection was the total population of tutors in seven institutions involved in the delivery of the course. The questionnaire captured tutors’ profiles (experience of information technology, e‐moderating, e‐learning, gender, college, module taught), their personal online tutoring style, their opinions on pedagogy and the student learning experience, training and development issues and general reflections on being an online tutor. The initial findings reveal varied reasons for becoming involved with online learning and a wide variety of styles for interacting online with students. All respondents were keen to keep an element of face‐to‐face teaching in their modules and felt it was difficult to gauge depth of learning without ‘normal face‐to‐face interactions at some point’. A number of staff felt that e‐delivery is much more difficult than they envisaged and challenged them in ways that face‐to‐face teaching did not. Materials and approaches that work well in a classroom environment are not always effective online. Tutors faced challenges in both design and delivery. 相似文献
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Research on the socially-situated nature of learning shows how practices and identities are affected by participation in communities, but very little is known about how mature-age students experience the relational dynamics of university. Based on data from a qualitative study of first-year students, we consider written accounts by older learners to examine how they negotiate the culture of higher education. We found that mature-age students encounter a university culture dominated by younger students, who draw separating boundaries between the social and the academic and stigmatise older students because of their academic practices. Drawing on Lave and Wenger’s learning theory, we examine the way mature-age students negotiate the process of becoming legitimate members of the learning community, and the resistance they face in doing so. Knowing how mature-age students learn, and how to support them, depends on examining their negotiation of university culture, as well as their differing aspirations and needs. 相似文献
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Bronwyn Ellis Janet Sawyer Rod Gill John Medlin Digby Wilson 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2005,32(2):65-85
Staff and students at small regional campuses often consider them to be a learning environment with many advantages. Students
can benefit from the opportunities for enhanced access to staff provided by factors such as small classes and a compact campus.
International students from non-English-speaking backgrounds are one group for whom these factors can be particularly helpful
in their adjustment to a new society as well as in their continuing study program. This belief is tested in the study described
in this paper. Factors identified by international students as influencing their learning at a small campus situated a considerable
distance from the state capital indicate strengths to be built on and celebrated and areas that call for the development of
strategies to improve the quality of that learning environment. Former international student graduates were surveyed concerning
their perceptions of their regional Australian university experience and the professional preparation it provided. Other Australian
higher education institutions, particularly those with regional campuses, can make use of the insights gained through the
study: as well as having implications for the provision of a quality learning experience and environment for all students,
not only international students, they also have a bearing on international marketing strategies. 相似文献
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This paper contrasts the notion of ‘independent learning’ as perceived by two informant groups at a UK institution of higher education: (1) teachers, educators and providers of education and (2) their students or ‘consumers’ of education. Both informant groups are staff and students studying in a culture different to that of their first education. They are identified in their receiving institution as ‘international’, or have identified themselves as such. The experience of transition into a UK University was explored with both informant groups, through interviews and focus groups, over a cycle of two years. ‘Independent learning’ as rhetoric and practice emerged for both groups as an issue in their transition from familiar to unfamiliar learning culture. Three key insights emerged. Firstly, a mismatch is identified between teacher perceptions and student interpretation of ‘independent learning’ expectations and practice. Secondly, it emerges that student experience of the learning culture is in a state of continuous flux, evolving between first arrival and end of programme through cycles of bafflement and empowerment. Finally, both students and teachers identify a number of strategies for dealing with this experience of ‘transitional’ independence. The paper concludes by recommending a notion of ‘phased scaffolding’ that might inform educational practice and by reflecting on the implications for the educator in revisiting received educational discourse from the perspective of participants negotiating a second learning culture. 相似文献
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Metacognitive, cognitive and affective aspects of learning styles and strategies: A phenomenographic analysis 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
J. D. Vermunt 《Higher Education》1996,31(1):25-50
This paper addresses the following questions: how do students perform metacognitive, cognitive and affective learning functions; how is the execution of learning functions regulated by internal and external sources; what learning styles can be discerned from the viewpoint of learning functions and regulation? Subjects were students from an open distance university and a regular university. They were interviewed extensively about their learning strategies, mental models of learning, learning orientations and interpretations and appraisals of instructional measures. The interviews were analyzed in a phenomenographic way. The results indicate that there are large differences among students in the manner in which they carry out learning functions, that these differences are associated with internal and external sources, and that four qualitatively different learning styles can be discerned: an undirected, a reproduction directed, a meaning directed and an application directed learning style. Mental models of learning and learning orientations turn out to be related to the way in which students interpret, appraise and use instructional measures to regulate their learning activities. It is concluded that in many instances instructional measures do not have the intended effects. Suggestions are given regarding the implications of these results for the improvement of teaching practices in higher education. 相似文献
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ELIZABETH BULLEN JANE KENWAY 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2003,24(1):35-49
In Australia's globalising universities many support staff and teaching staff now work with international women postgraduate students. But are they aware of the issues facing these women, and is their understanding of them adequate? Indeed, how do they represent them? In this paper we draw on a small-scale pilot study involving key university personnel. We argue that the ways in which such staff represent this group of students is problematic. Focusing primarily on academic issues and on the literature on learning styles, we analyse these staff members' representations of international women postgraduate students from a postcolonial perspective. We explore the extent to which such representations, and the learning styles literature that reflects and informs them, are what Edward Said calls 'Orientalist'. In so doing, we point to both the constitution of the international woman student as postcolonial female subject and show how this situates her in relation to the prevalent learning styles discourse. Further we argue that such representations of the students differ in crucial ways from the students' self-representations, suggesting that in certain subtle ways such staff members are engaging with 'imagined' rather than 'real' women. 相似文献
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This article is concerned primarily with university‐related work‐based learning in the UK. The authors trace the development of work‐based learning from its early days to the wide variety of styles and scale currently being practised. In the wake of the Dearing Report, they review the experience of work experience and sandwich courses; the move from work experience to work‐based learning; work‐based learning for those in work; and work‐based learning through technological transfer. The authors identify key variables which appear to determine the nature of different styles of work‐based learning including the tension between the twin purposes of international competitiveness and student personal development, and the willingness of the universities to move from their traditional control of the curriculum to allow a greater variety of learning experiences. The authors focus on the emergence of learner‐managed three‐way partnerships between the learner, the university, and the employer based on real‐time, work‐based projects as a way of reconciling economic benefit with personal development as purposes for work‐based learning. The article concludes by identifying some of the key educational issues which such schemes raise and identifies possible future directions in which they might develop. 相似文献