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Natzler, Michael, Ed. – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2021
This collection explores a variety of perspectives on the student voice in UK higher education. Featuring reflections from a vice-chancellor, student representatives and interviews with the Office for Students' Student Panel, as well as sections considering disabled students, international students and mature students, the thirteen essays each…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Students with Disabilities, Foreign Students
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Feldman, Paul – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This contribution addresses the challenges brought on by the pandemic and argues that a forced acceleration in online teaching and assessment practices can become a sustainable model for the post-COVID-19 world. Technology is a great asset that provides learning opportunities for the whole community and the education sector should seek to adopt an…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Pandemics, COVID-19, Distance Education
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John Casey; Diane Gardner – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
This paper recounts the authors' journey of changing practice from teaching adult literacy to helping other teachers by creating digital and printed learning resources and tutor training materials to support a foundational literacy program designed to help those who teach English speaking adults to read and write.
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Practices, Multiple Literacies, Educational Change
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McCluskey, Gillean – Improving Schools, 2017
While mainstream schools have seen an increasing focus on performance and attainment in recent years, this focus has often been resisted by special and alternative educational provision in the United Kingdom. However, concern is now growing about the low levels of achievement for children and young people educated outside mainstream schools. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Academic Achievement, Special Schools
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Salin, Sandra, Ed.; Hall, Damien, Ed.; Hampton, Cathy, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This volume draws together a selection of papers from YAC2018, the first meeting in the annual Year Abroad Conference series, which took place at Newcastle University in September 2018. The contributions collected here examine some of the opportunities, gains, and challenges the Year Abroad brings for both students and staff. They are presented…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Mental Health, Student Attitudes, Employment Potential
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Richards, Colin – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2016
Since September 2015 the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) has introduced major changes to its inspection procedures and expectations. These are embodied in its handbook for school inspection. Ofsted claims more than it can deliver; in particular it makes impossible demands on its inspectors--in terms of applying both evaluation criteria…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Change, Guides, Inspection
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Annetts, Sue; Day, Richard – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019
Pre-entry information and transitional support are identified as key factors promoting student success and retention, encouraging a pro-active approach to entry into Higher Education. Furthermore the Equality Act, in terms of anticipatory duty, emphasises this. However, some student groups studying for professional degrees, such as physiotherapy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Physical Therapy, Honors Curriculum
Frances Wilson; Stuart Shaw; Neil Wade; Sarah Hughes; Sarah Mattey – Research Matters, 2019
Practical work may be assessed using many different forms of assessment, including coursework projects, practical exams and written questions in exams. In this article, the authors focus on the evaluation of one method for the assessment of practical science: written exam questions. Although individual syllabuses and curricula state the skills and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Skill Development, Concept Formation, Evaluation Methods
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Palomino, Patricia – International Journal of English Studies, 2018
The emergence of new technologies has changed the way people communicate. Social media have allowed businesses to connect with customers and to market their products more efficiently. However, these platforms also allow customers to share information and opinions with the company and fellow customers, diverting from previous online service…
Descriptors: Social Media, Telecommunications, Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Fazeli, Soude; Drachsler, Hendrik; Bitter-Rijpkema, Marlies; Brouns, Francis; Brouns, Wim van der Vegt; Sloep, Peter B. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2018
Recommender systems provide users with content they might be interested in. Conventionally, recommender systems are evaluated mostly by using prediction accuracy metrics only. But, the ultimate goal of a recommender system is to increase user satisfaction. Therefore, evaluations that measure user satisfaction should also be performed before…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Socialization, Accuracy, Prediction
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Faherty, Anna – Education & Training, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of using summative peer assessment to develop enterprise skills within higher education. Design/methodology/approach: An empirical investigation analysing students own perceptions of the peer assessment process to evaluate its impact. Findings: Participating students indicate that…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Peer Evaluation, College Students, Evaluation Methods
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Baker, Sally – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
The lament that "students can't write" remains loud and defiant, even after years of research pointing to the myriad factors that make students' writing challenging, particularly when they move into university. This paper reports on a longitudinal, ethnographic study which explored students' writing "in transition," from…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Ethnography, Literacy, Writing Achievement
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Evans, Carl – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
This article highlights an opportunity for teaching staff in universities to utilise students' part-time work experience to enhance learning, teaching and assessment activities. Increasing numbers of university students are working part-time while studying and, as a consequence, there have been several academic studies highlighting the adverse…
Descriptors: Part Time Employment, Student Employment, Work Experience, Experiential Learning
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Winstone, Naomi E.; Hepper, Erica G.; Nash, Robert A. – Educational Psychology, 2021
Feedback can rarely enhance learning unless it is used; however, few studies have examined individual differences in students' engagement with feedback. The present study explored: (1) the extent to which personality variables and achievement goal orientation are associated with students' self-reported use of feedback; and (2) whether beliefs…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Evaluation Methods, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
Rubio-Alcalá, Fernando D., Ed.; Coyle, Do, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2021
This book provides an overview and evaluation of the quality of bilingual education found in internationalised higher education institutions. Its authors focus on the multifaceted roles that language(s) play in these growing multilingual spaces and analyse and identify the many factors that account for quality multilingual degree programmes. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Bilingual Education, Educational Quality, International Education
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