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Whalen, Kate; Paez, Antonio – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2019
Many institutions of higher education increasingly place a focus on various forms of experiential education, including personal reflections. While much work has been done in this and related areas, the resources currently available are not sufficient to effectively guide, assess, and evaluate student learning through reflection. Guiding students…
Descriptors: College Students, Sustainability, Guidelines, Experiential Learning
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Marcotte, Diane; Paré, Marie-Laurence; Lamarre, Cynthia – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: To examine the effects of the indicated level of the prevention program "Zenétudes": making a healthy transition to college on anxious and depressive symptoms. Participants: 65 college students participated in the study, from September 2014 to August 2016. From that initial sample, 53 students (ages 16-34) were included in…
Descriptors: Prevention, Student Adjustment, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety
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Simper, Natalie – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2018
This paper explores a method to support instructors in assessing cognitive skills in their course, designed to enable aggregation of data across an institution. A rubric authoring tool, "BASICS" (Building Assessment Scaffolds for Intellectual Cognitive Skills) was built as part of the Queen's University Learning Outcomes Assessment (LOA)…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, College Outcomes Assessment
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Potter, Tiffany; Englund, Letitia; Charbonneau, James; MacLean, Mark Thompson; Newell, Jonathan; Roll, Ido – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2017
Peer feedback is a useful strategy in teaching and learning, but its effectiveness particularly in introductory courses can be limited by the relative newness of students to both the body of knowledge upon which they are being asked to provide feedback and the skill set involved in providing good feedback. This paper applies a novel approach to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning, English Instruction
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Ravenscroft, Brenda; Luhanga, Ulemu; King, Bev – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Prior research has shown that classroom-based evaluation tools are unable to adequately capture the unique aspects of online courses. To address such challenges, a mid-sized Canadian university with a broad and diverse programme of online offerings adapted a questionnaire designed to assess constructivist-compatible online teaching practices. This…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Pilot Projects, Questionnaires, Constructivism (Learning)
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Foster, Mary K.; West, Bettina; Bell-Angus, Barbara – Marketing Education Review, 2016
This article explores the effect of incorporating the precepts of neuroscience in a social constructivist theory of learning on student performance in an introductory course in marketing. The authors delivered the pilot class in a flipped format because it facilitates including the neuroscience considerations of dual coding, working memory,…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Constructivism (Learning), Introductory Courses, Marketing
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Oliveira, Marileide; Goyos, Celso; Pear, Joseph – Behavior Analyst Today, 2012
Matching-to-sample (MTS) training consists of presenting a stimulus as a sample followed by stimuli called comparisons from which a subject makes a choice. This study presents results of a pilot investigation comparing two packages for teaching university students to conduct MTS training. Two groups--control and experimental--with 2 participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Comparative Analysis, Pilot Projects
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Westhues, Anne; Barsen, Chia; Freymond, Nancy; Train, Patricia – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
In this article, we report the findings from a study exploring the effects of a problem-based learning (PBL) approach to teaching and learning on learning outcomes for master's of social work (MSW) students. Students who participated in a PBL pilot project were compared with students who did not participate in 5 outcome areas: social work…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Masters Programs, Social Work, Teaching Methods
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Shaw, Graham P.; Molnar, David – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2011
Medical education in the United States and Canada continues to evolve. However, many of the changes in pedagogy are being made without appropriate evaluation. Here, we attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of lecture capture technology as a learning tool in Podiatric medical education. In this pilot project, student performance in an inaugural…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Pilot Projects, Podiatry, Biochemistry
Canadian Health Libraries Association. – 1998
Nine Canadian health libraries participated in a pilot test of the Benchmarking Tool Kit between January and April, 1998. Although the Tool Kit was designed specifically for health libraries, the content and approach are useful to other types of libraries as well. Used to its full potential, benchmarking can provide a common measuring stick to…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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Ming, Marilyn; MacDonald, Gary – Canadian Library Journal, 1987
Describes a pilot project in Alberta designed to provide training for the staff of small rural school and public libraries through various distance delivery methods. Reported results include demographics of the rural librarian population; evaluation of courses offered; and comparison of delivery modes by student satisfaction, effectiveness, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development
Rubin, Rhonda; Aquino-Russell, Catherine; Flagg-Williams, Joan – Online Submission, 2007
(Purpose) The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of classroom sound field amplification on communication in kindergarten through grade 3 classrooms. (Methodology) Sixty classrooms were involved in the study; half of the classrooms were provided with sound field amplification. The flow of communication was measured through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Observation, Semi Structured Interviews