Developing a generic review framework to assure capstone quality     

Sara Hammer  Lindy Abawi  Peter Gibbings  Hazel Jones  Petrea Redmond  Syed Shams 《高等教育研究与发展》2018,37(4):730-743

Within the higher education context, capstone units can be viewed as a significant means of assuring intended learning outcomes for programmes. They provide students with the opportunity to consolidate and apply prior and new disciplinary learning, as well as employability skills and graduate attributes. This paper describes the first stage of an initiative in a regional, Australian university to develop a capstone quality review framework that can be applied across disciplines. A deductive, thematic analysis of relevant literature, guides and institutional strategic documents using a constant comparison method was used to develop a collectively agreed upon set of capstone quality domains and related criteria. These would enable reviewers to assess whether capstone curricula were fit-for-purpose. Capstone domains and criteria were validated and revised using a multi-stage, moderated review of 10 capstone units. This validation process affirmed that to avoid issues with reviewer inter-rater reliability, future use of our framework should emphasise calibrating reviewer interpretation to ensure greater levels of shared understanding of underlying concepts. It further suggested the desirability of incorporating aspects of teacher self-assessment, teacher feedback and student results. Provided these findings are accounted for, we conclude that the proposed capstone review domains and criteria could be used for quality review and enhancement, or capstone benchmarking processes, regardless of discipline area.  相似文献   

Programme Quality Assessment by the Implication of Variable Entry Qualifications on Students' Performance     

Rahidzab Talib  Razidah Ismail  Roziah Mohd. Janor  Azni Zain Ahmed  Syed Abdul Kader Aljunid 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》1999,24(2):205-213

Since its inception 30 years ago, the then Department of Engineering Science, Institut Teknologi MARA (ITM) was given the responsibility of preparing all the students in the first year engineering programmes by giving enough knowledge in basic science and mathematics. The nation's vision to become a fully‐industrialised economy by the year 2020 required all institutes of higher learning (IHLs) in Malaysia to increase their intake of students in the science and technology courses, especially in engineering. However, at the upper secondary education level, students have the freedom to choose between the science‐based or non‐science combination of subjects. This has led to a dearth of science‐based students enrolling in IHLs. Because ITM believes that it is possible to educate individuals from various backgrounds, the engineering courses are open to students with a variety of academic qualifications. Special bridging courses were designed and created for such students since late 1996. The success or failure of the new courses can be assessed after the students have gone through the proper first year engineering courses which consist of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. This paper reports on a pilot study on the pioneer groups of students with variable entry qualifications to assess the effectiveness of the courses. The study involved the analysis of the students’ examination results as a performance indicator, and it was found that the bridging programme for non‐science students needed to be redesigned. It is also proposed that to improve the quality of the programme, and hence students’ performance, a regular review be conducted, student support activities be continued and to expand the use of self‐study materials.  相似文献   

Perceptions of Arabic language teachers toward their use of technology at the Omani basic education schools     

Ali Al Musawi  Abdullah Al Hashmi  Ali Mahdi Kazem  Fatima Al Busaidi  Salim Al Khaifi 《Education and Information Technologies》2016,21(1):5-18

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Opening Up Alternatives to Dominant Ideological Constructions of English Language Teaching in Malaysia     

Mohd Muzhafar Idrus  Habibah Ismail  Hazlina Abdullah  Hazleena Baharun  Noor Saazai Mat Saad  Ramiaida Darmi 《Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching》2019,26(3):306-320

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This paper investigates the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) on the way English language teaching (ELT) is currently understood and practised in Malaysia. It presents a critical discourse analysis of newspaper texts in order to show how CEFR represents a form of Western-imposed globalisation that conflicts with local cultures and values. We argue that the newspapers construct a dominant discourse that promotes a vision of society that accords with CEFR–ELT implementation. Our aim is to contribute to the development of a counter-discourse that challenges the broader world-view underpinning ELT.  相似文献   

Voting for Change: an International Study of Students’ Willingness to Support Measures to Ameliorate Climate Change     

Skamp  Keith  Boyes  Eddie  Stanisstreet  Martin  Rodriguez  Manuel  Malandrakis  George  Fortner  Rosanne  Kilinc  Ahmet  Taylor  Neil  Choker  Kiran  Shweta  Dua  Ambusaidi  Abdullah  Cheong  Irene  Kim  Mijung  Yoon  Hye-Gyoung 《Research in Science Education》2021,51(3):861-887

Research in Science Education - Voting for various pro-environmental governmental policies is an indirect, but potentially effective, action that citizens can take to reduce global warming (GW) and...  相似文献   

巴基斯坦高等学校设置制度:缘起、程序及标准     

陈恒敏  古尔扎·阿里·沙阿布哈里 《比较教育研究》2017,39(7)

在巴基斯坦现行高等教育行政管理机构及组织体系下,巴基斯坦高等学校设置制度的构建缘起、设置程序及标准具有一定的特色.研究发现,巴基斯坦高等学校设置程序围绕申请、审核、考察、赋权等四个环节进行,具备系统的设置标准,涵盖师资队伍建设、设备场地规范、经费使用、管理若干方面.巴基斯坦高等学校设置制度较为完备,符合本国国情,利益主体均衡,标准刚柔相济,但也存在重硬件、轻科研,未能为高等教育国际化纵深发展预留对接平台,以及“一刀切”色彩过重等问题.  相似文献   

English Language Teaching in Brunei Darussalam: Continuity and Change     

Peter Martin  Kamsiah Abdullah 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2002,22(2):23-34

In this paper, the authors trace the development of education and the issue of language in education in Brunei Darussalam from 1906 to the present. They look at some of the planned and unplanned language programmes and initiatives, and discuss the problems encountered in implementing some of these initiatives.  相似文献   

Optimizing search results for human learning goals     

Rohail Syed  Kevyn Collins-Thompson 《Information Retrieval》2017,20(5):506-523

While past research has shown that learning outcomes can be influenced by the amount of effort students invest during the learning process, there has been little research into this question for scenarios where people use search engines to learn. In fact, learning-related tasks represent a significant fraction of the time users spend using Web search, so methods for evaluating and optimizing search engines to maximize learning are likely to have broad impact. Thus, we introduce and evaluate a retrieval algorithm designed to maximize educational utility for a vocabulary learning task, in which users learn a set of important keywords for a given topic by reading representative documents on diverse aspects of the topic. Using a crowdsourced pilot study, we compare the learning outcomes of users across four conditions corresponding to rankings that optimize for different levels of keyword density. We find that adding keyword density to the retrieval objective gave significant learning gains on some topics, with higher levels of keyword density generally corresponding to more time spent reading per word, and stronger learning gains per word read. We conclude that our approach to optimizing search ranking for educational utility leads to retrieved document sets that ultimately may result in more efficient learning of important concepts.  相似文献   

Early career researchers and their publishing and authorship practices          下载免费PDF全文

David Nicholas  Blanca Rodríguez‐Bravo  Anthony Watkinson  Cherifa Boukacem‐Zeghmouri  Eti Herman  Jie Xu  Abdullah Abrizah  Marzena Świgoń 《Learned Publishing》2017,30(3):205-217

This study presents findings from the first year of the Harbingers research project, a 3‐year longitudinal study of early career researchers (ECRs), which sought to ascertain current and changing habits in scholarly communication. The study recruited 116 science and social science ECRs from seven countries who were subject to in‐depth interviews, and this paper reports on findings regarding publishing and authorship practices and attitudes. A major objective was to determine whether ECRs are taking the myriad opportunities proffered by new digital innovations, developing within the context of open science, open access, and social media, to publish their research. The main finding is that these opportunities are generally not taken because ECRs are constrained by convention and the precarious employment environment they inhabit and know what is best for them, which is to publish (in high impact factor journals) or perish.  相似文献   

Endophytes from medicinal plants and their potential for producing indole acetic acid,improving seed germination and mitigating oxidative stress     

Abdul Latif Khan  Syed Abdullah Gilani  Muhammad Waqas  Khadija Al-Hosni  Salima Al-Khiziri  Yoon-Ha Kim  Liaqat Ali  Sang-Mo Kang  Sajjad Asaf  Raheem Shahzad  Javid Hussain  In-Jung Lee  Ahmed Al-Harrasi 《Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B》2017,18(2):125-137

Medicinal plants have been used by marginal communities to treat various ailments. However, the potential of endophytes within these bio-prospective medicinal plants remains unknown. The present study elucidates the endophytic diversity of medicinal plants (Caralluma acutangula, Rhazya stricta, and Moringa peregrina) and the endophyte role in seed growth and oxidative stress. Various organs of medicinal plants yielded ten endophytes, which were identified as Phoma sp. (6 isolates), Alternaria sp. (2), Bipolaris sp. (1), and Cladosporium sp. (1) based on 18S rDNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis. The culture filtrates (CFs; 25%, 50%, and 100% concentrations) from these endophytes were tested against the growth of normal and dwarf mutant rice lines. Endophytic CF exhibited dose-dependent growth stimulation and suppression effects. CF (100%) of Phoma sp. significantly increased rice seed germination and growth compared to controls and other endophytes. This growth-promoting effect was due to the presence of indole acetic acid in endophytic CF. The gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) analysis showed the highest indole acetic acid content ((54.31±0.21) μmol/L) in Bipolaris sp. In addition, the isolate of Bipolaris sp. exhibited significantly higher radical scavenging and anti-lipid peroxidation activity than the other isolates. Bipolaris sp. and Phoma sp. also exhibited significantly higher flavonoid and phenolic contents. The medicinal plants exhibited the presence of bio-prospective endophytic strains, which could be used for the improvement of crop growth and the mitigation of oxidative stresses.  相似文献