A collaborative assessment of students’ placement learning     

Susan Cooper 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2017,42(1):61-76

The research informing this paper set out to investigate the qualitative experiences of students, supervisors and tutors involved in a summative collaborative assessment of placement learning on an undergraduate professional qualifying programme in the UK. Analysis of data gathered through semi-structured interviews provides valuable insights into its use. In particular, engagement in a collaborative assessment brings a degree of exposure for all concerned. Participants need to feel ‘able’ to participate, and ability to participate is linked to notions of agency and autonomy. Collaborative assessment design needs to acknowledge power relations and include strategies to reduce imbalances. The importance of recognising and working with the complexities of assessment should not be underestimated. Criterion referencing offers a guide to support consistency but can also falsely present assessment as mechanistic and instrumental. The research shows that it is in the ‘doing’ of assessment that a ‘shared language’ is developed. It demonstrates the value of active student engagement in assessment in relation to the construction and use of theory, developing reflective practice and assessment literacy. The collaborative assessment provides students with the opportunity to experience a ‘performance of understanding’ in a community of practice that, whilst pressured, reflects ‘real’ professional life.  相似文献   

Enhancing civic consciousness through student pro bono in legal education     

Alperhan Babacan  Hurriyet Babacan 《Teaching in Higher Education》2017,22(6):672-689

A key aim of encouraging law students to participate in student pro bono, a form of experiential learning in legal education, is to develop their commitment to volunteer lawyering after graduation. This paper examines student pro bono in legal education in Australia and the United States. A critical review of the current approaches to student pro bono in both jurisdictions demonstrates that although student pro bono exposes students to lawyering skills, the absence of structured follow-up as part of student pro bono, results in limited changes to students’ attitudes to commit to volunteer lawyering. The benefits of adopting reflective activities as part of student pro bono are discussed. It is argued that transformative pedagogies can encourage critical consciousness and social transformation necessary for active involvement in volunteer lawyering after graduation. Teaching and learning strategies are suggested to simultaneously enhance social and personal transformation and to develop lawyering skills through student pro bono.  相似文献   

Chinese business students’ changes in beliefs and strategy use in a constructively aligned PBL course     

Ke Zhao  Jie Zhang  Xiangyun Du 《Teaching in Higher Education》2017,22(7):785-804

This study adopted a longitudinal retrospective case study approach to investigate Chinese business students’ transitional learning experience in a problem-based learning (PBL) course with innovative assessment practices. The study focused on students’ beliefs and strategy use in a constructively aligned PBL course for business communication. Eight students who had made notable progress were chosen for retrospective analysis. The data included 48 journal entries, interviews, and writing samples collected at different stages of the course. This study identified taxonomies of participants’ beliefs about learning and writing, their perceptions of assessment, and their strategy use for learning. It also examined changes in beliefs, perceptions, and strategy use to determine the nature of the students’ learning experience in this PBL course. Findings suggest a recognised need to design PBL courses that align social constructivist learning principles with students’ beliefs and strategies. The results also highlight the importance of developing appropriate assessment rubrics to enhance student engagement with PBL learning for improved outcomes.  相似文献   

The student experience of learning using networked technologies: an emergent progression of expanding awareness     

Maria Cutajar 《Technology, Pedagogy and Education》2017,26(4):485-499

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Beyond ‘export education’: aspiring to put students at the heart of a university’s internationalisation strategy     

Nigel M Healey 《Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education》2017,21(4):119-128

For many universities around the world, internationalisation means the recruitment of fee-paying international students (so-called export education) for primarily commercial reasons. For UK universities, international (non-European Union) students account for approximately 13% of their annual revenues, making them highly dependent on international student recruitment. This paper discusses the attempt by one UK university to change direction and develop a new approach to internationalisation which puts an international learning experience for all students at the heart of its new strategic plan. It discusses the obstacles to changing direction in this way and shares some of the lessons learned about how to roll out an alternative university-wide internationalisation strategy.  相似文献   

Career plans of final-year South African student teachers: migration to ‘greener pastures’?     

J. J. R. de Villiers 《Africa Education Review》2017,14(3-4):212-229

Teacher loss due to migration is a global phenomenon that impacts both developed and developing nations the world over. The aim of this study was to find out about the career plans of final-year South African student teachers. A group of final-year Bachelor of Education student teachers from a South African university responded to a questionnaire on intra- and intercontinental migration. The responses were analysed quantitatively and/or qualitatively. The findings showed that 79% of the students indicated that they would be teaching in South Africa, 8% were planning to teach in another country, while 8% were undecided. More than a third of the students (38%) said that they would like to teach in another country in five years’ time. Just more than a quarter of the students (27%) preferred Australia as a destination country. The student teachers’ most important motive to teach in a foreign country was the opportunity to travel, followed by earning a higher salary, and professional development. The student teachers indicated that their most important migration needs before leaving South Africa were information about health care, accommodation, and banking assistance.  相似文献   

弘扬中国传统文化 守护中华民族精神家园——对大学生中国传统文化教育的路径探究     

黄春燕 《教育教学论坛》2019,(27):63-64

中国传统文化教育关系到中国传统文化的传承。在新时代的背景下,高校传统文化教育对于继承和弘扬传统文化,引导大学生树立正确的人生观、价值观,建立起中华民族伟大复兴中国梦的理想信念有着重大意义。  相似文献   

高级水平留学生语调偏误及教学对策     

农海慧 《云南电大学报》2007,9(4):47-49

语调偏误是高级水平留学生存在的最明显的语音缺陷,是他们亟需解决的语音问题。通过对高级水平留学生在朗读口语教材时所出现的语调偏误进行类型归类和原因分析,可以看到,对汉语语调规律的模糊了解及教学方法的处理不当是偏误出现的主要原因,教学中应采取相应的对策,以提高对外汉语中语调教学的针对性。  相似文献   

浅谈如何改进中专教学方式     

杨少华 《中国教育发展研究杂志》2007,4(8):93-94

教与学是师生的双边活动，要提高教学质量必须使学生参与教学。笔者认为要吸引中专学生参与就要把握中专学生的心理特征，提高学习的乐趣，课堂中投学生所好，多种教法结合现代教育手段灵活运用。  相似文献   

基于半监督学习与CRF的应急预案命名实体识别     

刘彤  魏静  倪维健  陈思源 《教育技术导刊》2020,19(3):35-38

传统基于统计的命名实体识别方法存在需要大量人工标注的缺陷,导致识别准确率较低。为了提升识别效果,提出一种基于条件随机场的半监督学习方法（S-CRF）对命名实体进行识别。该方法将实体识别看作序列标注问题,对少量数据进行人工标注并构建实体集,通过K-means聚类算法选取有代表性的未标注数据文本进行自动标注,采用条件随机场对语料进行训练测试。选取中文应急预案文档进行实验,该方法在各个标签上的识别效果分别达到93.52%、93.04%、95.81%。实验结果表明,该方法优于传统规则方法,能有效提高应急预案命名实体的识别效果。  相似文献