Improving Student Learning For What?

The proceedings of the 15th Improving Student Learning symposium, held in 2007 in Dublin.

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Keynotes

  1. Willing to Learn: Being a Student in an Age of Uncertainty, Ron Barnett
  2. Love, Life and Learning: Responsible Assessment for the 21st Century, Patricia Broadfoot
  3. Asking for trouble: speed, slow time and troublesome knowledge in the 21 st century academy perspective, Ray Land

Chapter 2: Better practitioners

  1. Changing teaching to improve student learning: variation in teachers' intentions, Jo McKenzie

Chapter 3: Better understanding of the discipline

  1. Becoming a web designer: Using intertextuality to understand student literacy practices in a web design discipline, Lynn Coleman
  2. Thresholds, interdisciplinarity and enculturation across the engineering and science disciplines, Michael T. Flanagan and Jan H. F. Meyer

Painting by numbers: understanding assessment feedback Jill Millar

  1. Helping students to GRASP (Grammar: Researching Activities for Student Progress) the rules of grammar, Marina Orsini-Jones and Christine Sinclair
  2. Measuring the creative baseline in transport design education, Jane Osmond and Andrew Turner
  3. Exploring structure and meaning in students' descriptions of meiosis; using the two-learning cycle per mode version of the SOLO model ,Frances Quinn

Chapter 4: Employability

  1. Working to learn - valuing placements, Dr Sue Moron-Garcia and Abigail Powell
  2. Longitudinal development in conceptions of learning in higher education: the implications of equivocal research findings, Jenny Morris

Chapter 5: Learning for learning's sake

  1. Quick-fix learning: challenging the concept of learning for learning's sake, Maggie Hutchings
  2. Completing a doctorate: For what?, Dr Margaret Kiley

Chapter 6: Skills development

  1. Perspectives on teaching generic skills: what academics say and do, Andrew Cornrie, Kate Farley and Guy Hannan
  2. Using an online formative assessment framework to enhance student engagement: a learning outcomes approach, Arlene G. Hunter
  3. Learning to work with others: Lessons from the field, Dr Mary McCulloch
  4. Higher education - for what - when students are linguistically outside their `zone of proximal development'? Ursula McGowan
  5. The enquiring mind knows no boundaries: does teaching across the disciplines have to be so different? Ivan Moore, Norman Powell and Karen ORourke
  6. Feedback, assessment and skills development, Mirabelle Walker
  7. Improving postgraduate student learning for sustainable social development, research capacity building and personal growth, Gina Wisker

Chapter 7: Widening participation

  1. Improving the Danish university education system: A comparison of policy borrowing from an outcome-based framework in 1973 and 2003 ,Bettina Dalhl

Chapter 8: ISL 2006: Improving Student Learning Through Teaching

  1. Life beyond first degree: examining the impact of academic community placements on students' careers and community involvement, Iris Turner and Susan Buckingham