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Price, Robin; Becker, Karen; Clark, Lynette; Collins, Sue – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
This article reports on a project to embed information literacy skills development in a first-year undergraduate business course at an Australian university. In accordance with prior research suggesting that first-year students are over-confident about their skills, the project used an optional online quiz to allow students to pre-test their…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Information Literacy
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Partridge, Lee; Sandover, Sally – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2010
This paper introduces a novel focus of undergraduate research of which there have been few similar reports. Examples of staff-student research partnerships in teaching and learning are starting to appear in the literature but pedagogic research conducted entirely by undergraduate students is exceptional. The Undergraduate Learning and Teaching…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Student Research, Educational Change
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Vanags, Thea; Pammer, Kristen; Brinker, Jay – Advances in Physiology Education, 2013
Many chemistry educators have adopted the process-oriented guided instructional learning (POGIL) pedagogy. However, it is not clear which aspects of POGIL are the most important in terms of actual learning. We compared 354 first-year undergraduate psychology students' learning in physiological psychology using four teaching methods: control,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Psychophysiology, Science Instruction
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Lindorff, Margaret; McKeown, Tui – Education & Training, 2013
Purpose: This paper aims to be a response to the "Call for Papers" on challenges for the practice of, and new modes of questioning and delivery in, business education. The authors seek to do this through an investigation of the disadvantages and benefits associated with the move towards using online technologies in an on-campus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Administration, Undergraduate Study
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Yadav, Devinder K. – Industry and Higher Education, 2012
Universities offering aviation degree courses face a dilemma when integrating flying training, which is vocational skills training, into an academic degree programme. Whilst flying training for a pilot's licence is provided by flying schools regulated by a country's Civil Aviation Authority, the HE sector is responsible for the academic standards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aviation Education, Integrated Curriculum, College Curriculum
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Khattak, Hamid; Ku, Harry; Goh, Steven – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2012
Recently, many educational institutions across the globe have implemented engineering leadership programmes either as a part of a formal engineering curriculum or where leadership development is embedded into separate in-house programmes. This shows the clear intent of these educational institutions to prepare their engineering students for…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, World Problems, Schools, Engineering
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Hughes, Karen; Mylonas, Aliisa; Benckendorff, Pierre – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2013
This paper compares four work-integrated learning (WIL) streams embedded in a professional Development course for tourism, hospitality and event management students. Leximancer was used to analyze key themes emerging from reflective portfolios completed by the 137 students in the course. Results highlight that student learning outcomes and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Student Placement, Student Attitudes, School Business Relationship
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Brear, Pamela D.; Dorrian, Jillian – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2010
This Australian national study was undertaken to profile the unsuitable counselling student, and to achieve greater operational specificity to guide counselling educators who must make critical decisions that impact admittance to the counselling profession. Findings suggest that in every 25 students as many as three will have questionable…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Counseling, Foreign Countries, National Surveys
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Zeegers, Margaret; Barron, Deirdre – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
In this paper we examine variations in Honours programs in Australian universities and the consequences that this has for students who wish to undertake higher degrees by research after their undergraduate programs have been successfully completed. Our review of universities' Honours programs across rural, regional, and urban Australia has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Honors Curriculum, Undergraduate Study, Program Administration
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Willcoxson, Lesley; Cotter, Julie; Joy, Sally – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
In the face of difficult economic circumstances, increased competition and student diversity, attrition and retention have become issues of great significance to higher education institutions seeking to survive. A large body of work has explored the relationship between attrition and the first-year experience, but there has been little focus on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Diversity, Student Experience, Dropouts
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Coronado, Gabriela – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2011
In disciplines such as Management, where research capacity is not seen as an obvious workplace skill, it is difficult to get students to engage in research activities. They see them as too difficult and without value. However, research activities in undergraduate Management education are vital as tools for developing key learning attributes such…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Undergraduate Study, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking
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Harris, Lynne; Driscoll, Peter; Lewis, Melinda; Matthews, Lynda; Russell, Cherry; Cumming, Steven – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
This case study presents a longitudinal, evidence-based approach to health science curriculum reform and evaluation. Curriculum in higher education must meet the needs of diverse stakeholders and must respond to dynamic local, national and international contexts, and this creates challenges for evaluation. The long lead time prior to the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, College Curriculum
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Bridge, Courtney; Day, Lorraine; Hurrell, Derek – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2012
As part of one of the undergraduate Bachelor of Education units offered as a specialisation unit in primary mathematics education at The University of Notre Dame Australia, the pre-service teachers were asked to complete an assignment. In this assignment they were given 12 typical algebra text book problems which they were asked to solve and then…
Descriptors: Algebra, Foreign Countries, Reflection, Best Practices
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Aditomo, Anindito; Goodyear, Peter; Bliuc, Ana-Maria; Ellis, Robert A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Learning through inquiry is a widely advocated pedagogical approach. However, there is currently little systematic knowledge about the practice of inquiry-based learning (IBL) in higher education. This study examined descriptions of learning tasks that were put forward as examples of IBL by 224 university teachers from various disciplines in three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Faulkner, Margaret; Mahfuzul Aziz, Syed; Waye, Vicki; Smith, Elizabeth – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
Since the late-1990s, the University of South Australia has embedded seven Graduate Qualities across all programs. Subsequently, the higher education landscape has changed dramatically in terms of national policies and standards, as well as technologies available to support learning and teaching. Most higher education institutions now have their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Portfolios (Background Materials), Higher Education
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