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Download full textWebster, Simon; Green, Simon – TESL-EJ, 2021
Where academic literacies are understood as situated social practices, effective academic literacy support needs to reflect the disciplinary and institutional specificity of the practices. However, the institutional separation of academic literacy teaching from disciplinary subject teaching, typical of UK universities, creates significant…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hepplestone, Stuart; Glover, Ian; Irwin, Brian; Parkin, Helen J. – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2016
Despite assessment and feedback being important elements of the student experience, it is not clear how students connect these two elements together to improve their learning. What are students doing with the assignment feedback that they receive from tutors, and how do they make use of this feedback in their future assessments? A research study…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Tutors
Direct linkPinchbeck, Jessica; Heaney, Caroline – Open Learning, 2017
Student retention and success are key performance indicators within higher education. One of the key opportunities to address both of these lies with the support offered to students who fail a module but are entitled to resubmit. This study investigates the value of implementing a resubmission intervention to improve the quantity and quality of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Intervention, Assignments, Program Implementation
Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; van Mourik, Carien – Open Learning, 2016
We report on a case study of high Japanese student failure rates in an online MBA programme. Drawing on interviews, and reviews of exam and assignment scripts we frame the problems faced by these students in terms of a "language as social practice" approach and highlight the students' failure to understand the specific language games…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Business Administration Education, Distance Education, Case Studies
Nagori, Roopa; Cooper, Matthew – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2014
The paper reports the findings of a project that assessed the benefits of peer feedback as a formative assessment intervention for postgraduate international learners in the United Kingdom. The aim was to improve participants' understanding of quality in academic writing, and hence improve the summative assessment scores, by improving the quantity…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Learner Engagement, Student Motivation
Trebell, Donna – Design and Technology Education, 2009
This paper explores ways in which data collected during designerly activity in a Secondary Design and Technology Classroom in the UK, can be analysed with a view to ascertaining the features of the classroom interactions which facilitate the development of designerly activity in "fledgling designers" (Trebell, 2007). The paper builds…
Descriptors: Interaction, Educational Technology, Design, Design Crafts
Plater, Mark – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2007
This paper presents the results of a small scale action research project in which a group of seven Year 2 undergraduate initial teacher education (ITE) students experienced three interventions which were concerned with feedback on essay assignments--provision of traditional written tutor feedback; completion of a tutor feedback analysis worksheet;…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Action Research, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers
