Measuring learners’ perceptions of a team-taught learning environment: development and validation of the Learners’ Team Teaching Perceptions Questionnaire (LTTPQ)     

Simons  Mathea  Coetzee  Stephen  Baeten  Marlies  Schmulian  Astrid 《Learning Environments Research》2020,23(1):45-58

Learning Environments Research - Team teaching is a teaching model in which teachers work collaboratively in the preparation, teaching and evaluation of a course. Literature suggests that team...  相似文献   

Prediction-Based Student Evaluations of Teaching as an Alternative to Traditional Opinion-Based Evaluations     

Tania Tomes  Astrid Schmulian 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2019,44(8):1222-1236

Abstract

The validity of traditional opinion-based student evaluations of teaching (SETs) may be compromised by inattentive responses and low response rates due to evaluation fatigue, and/or by personal response bias. To reduce the impact of evaluation fatigue and personal response bias on SETs, this study explores peer prediction-based SETs as an alternative to opinion-based SETs in a multicultural environment. The results suggest that statistically significant fewer respondents are needed to reach stable average outcomes when peer prediction-based SETs are used than when opinion-based SETs are used. This implies that peer prediction-based SETs could reduce evaluation fatigue, as not all students would need to do each evaluation. The results also report that the peer prediction-based method significantly reduces the bias evident in the opinion-based method, in respect of gender and prior academic performance. However, in respect of the cultural variables, race and home language, bias was identified in the peer prediction-based method, where none was evident in the opinion-based method. These observations, interpreted through the psychology literature on the formulation of perceptions of others, imply that although peer prediction-based SETs may in some instances reduce some personal response bias, it may introduce the perceived bias of others.  相似文献   

The development of Messenger bots for teaching and learning and accounting students’ experience of the use thereof     

Astrid Schmulian  Stephen A. Coetzee 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2019,50(5):2751-2777

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Students’ experience of team assessment with immediate feedback in a large accounting class     

Astrid Schmulian  Stephen A. Coetzee 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2019,44(4):516-532

Team assessment has been suggested as a competency-based collaborative learning technique. Critical to the success of an assessment for learning, in competency-based education, is the use of formative feedback. This study reports on the development of, and the students’ experience of, a Team Assessment with Immediate Feedback (TAIF), in which immediate formative feedback is provided to the students by their peers and the assessment instrument (the IF-AT^® form). Results of the quantitative and qualitative data, collected in a survey, suggest that the majority of the students experienced the TAIF positively. Many students highlighted that they had constructed new knowledge and understanding of the content and practiced numerous skills during the team assessment. The learning benefits of the immediate feedback component of the team assessment were widely acknowledged by the students. The study also provided some initial evidence that team assessment in a culturally diverse student cohort may enhance intercultural collaboration. Team assessment may also contribute towards re-establishing the link between professional accounting education and practice.  相似文献