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Student Perceptions of the "Best" Feedback Practices: An Evaluation of Student-Led Teaching Award Nominations at a Higher Education Institution
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Lowe, Tom; Shaw, Cassie – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2019
There is great emphasis in contemporary higher education to address the seemingly consistent issue of what students perceive to be good assessment feedback practice. Improving this aspect of the student experience continues to elude higher education institutions, as reflected in the nationally lower than average scores in the United Kingdom's…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Best Practices, Awards
The Rise of Risk Management in the Universities: A New Way to Understand Quality in University Management
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Yokoyama, Keiko – Quality in Higher Education, 2018
This study aims to identify how uncertainty and insecurity in the post-2008 period have reshaped risk management in the university systems. The study scrutinises internal control in the contexts of the English university system and the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It utilises the concept of 'risk' by exploring 'risk society' theses.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Risk Management, Higher Education, Educational Finance
Learning Approach and Its Relationship to Type of Media Use and Frequency of Media-Multitasking
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Law, Anna S.; Stock, Rosemary – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2019
Research has demonstrated that learning is impaired if students multitask with media while encountering new information. However, some have gone further and suggested that media-multitasking (as a general activity) may have a negative impact on cognitive control processes. If this were the case, students who are heavy media-multitaskers generally…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Attention Control, Time Management, Academic Achievement
Kelly's Story: Transformative Identity Work in Primary Mathematics Teacher Education
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Alderton, Julie – Gender and Education, 2020
This article explores one female student teacher's experiences of learning to teach mathematics. Data included weekly emails and an interview through which Kelly expressed her struggle to be recognised as mathematical and to be heard in pedagogical relationships within a subject that is discursively aligned with masculinity. Analysis drew on…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Females
Digital Technologies and Parental Involvement in Education: The Experiences of Mothers of Primary School-Aged Children
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Head, Emma – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
This paper makes a contribution to the developing field of the political economy of educational technology and to an understanding of the significance of digital technologies for home-school relations. The digitalisation of social life is increasing and the impact of digitalisation on home-school relations, parents, and children is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Parent Participation, Family School Relationship, Information Technology
What Makes an Excellent Lecturer? Academics' Perspectives on the Discourse of "Teaching Excellence" in Higher Education
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Wood, Margaret; Su, Feng – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
In the context of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), we examine academics' perspectives on the discourse of "teaching excellence" based on an empirical study with 16 participants from five post-1992 universities. The article reports the findings on academics' views of the term and concept of "teaching excellence",…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Quality