Improving Student Learning:Theory, Research and Scholarship
The 11th Improving Student Learning Symposium, Hanover International Hotel, Hinckley, Leicestershire, 1st - 3rd September 2003
Papers
Keynote presentations
- Peter Ashworth, Developing pedagogic research skills and using them to improve student learning
- Angela Brew, Theory, research and scholarship in relation to teaching: issues and challenges
- Craig Nelson, How We Defeat Ourselves: Dysfunctional Illusions of Rigor
Research papers
- Gina Wisker, Supporting Postgraduate Student Learning through Supervisory Practices
- Graham Gibbs and Claire Simpson, Measuring the response of students to assessment: the Assessment Experience Questionnaire
- Damian Day, Conceptions of World Music
- Alison Shreeve, Jonathan Baldwin, and Gerald Farraday, Variation in Students Conceptions of Assessment Using Learning Outcomes
- James E Groccia and Judith E Miller, Student-assisted teaching and learning: models, strategies & outcomes
- Sue Ward-Booth and Deirdre Haslam How effective are we as teachers?
- Michael Prosser, Paul Ramsden, Elaine Martin and Keith Trigwell, The Experience of Research and its relationship to the Experience of Teaching
- John TE Richardson and Linda Price, Perceptions of academic quality and approaches to studying in distance education: The role of on-line tuition
- Catherine Montgomery and Liz McDowell, Social networks and learning: a study of the socio-cultural context of the International student
- Torgny Roxå, The Breakthrough project - a large scale development project
- Barrie SC, Ginns P and Prosser M, Early impact and outcomes of an institutionally aligned, student focussed learning perspective on teaching quality assurance
- Barrie SC, Using conceptions of graduate attributes for research-led systematic curriculum reform
- Jo McKenzie Critical aspects and dimensions of variation: extending understandings of ways of experiencing teaching
- Paul Ashwin, Variation in tutor's experiences of small group tutorials
- IM Venter, RJ Blignaut and L Holtman, A multidisciplinary view on small group learning in the sciences
- Keith Trigwell and Paul Ashwin, Understanding the Oxford Learning Environment
- Charlotte Siln, Responsibility and independence in learning - what are the role of the educators and the framework of the educational programme?
- Linda Drew, Approaches to teaching: extending 'theory' in the context of art, design and communication
- Charlotte E Taylor and Helen Drury, Writing in undergraduate science: the influence of student attitudes and previous experiences on their expectations, approaches and subsequent learning
- Janice Orrell, An exploration of congruence and disjunctions between academics' thinking when assessing learning and their beliefs about their assessment practice
- Gwyneth Hughes and Lynda Lewis, Who are successful online learners? How new online pedagogies and technologies (re)produce both positive and negative online learner identities.
- Erik Jan van Rossum and Rebecca Hamer, Learning and teaching: a model of linked continua of conceptions
Research seminars
- Margaret Kiley, What examiners' comments tell us about the postgraduate learning environment
- Michael Prosser and Graham Hendry, Conceptions of and approaches to problem-based learning: the perspectives of students entering a problem-based medical programme
- Kristina Edstrm and Josefin Trnevik (student), Madelaine Engstrm and sa Wiklund, Student involvement in principled change: Understanding the student experience
- Peter Arvidson and Torgny Roxå, Putting ideas into practice. When ATI teaching intentions and strategies don't match
- Sue Morn-Garca, Using Web and Internet-based technology to move towards student-centred teaching and learning
- Carolin Kreber, Do professors self-regulate their learning about teaching
- Barbara Grant, A Pedagogy of Improvisation: Theorising the messy practices of supervision
- Margaret Price, Chris Rust, Berry O'Donovan, Engaging students with feedback
- Sally Bradley, Sue Clegg, Ranald Macdonald, Models of progress files: practices and processes on the ground
- Liz McDowell, The 1,000 page text book versus surfing the Web: lecturers, electronic information and student learning
Conceptual papers
- Lee Sutherland, Implementing a National Qualifications Framework: has anything changed in terms of assessment in Higher Education?
- Linda Price and John TE Richardson, Why is it difficult to improve student learning?
- James Elander, Lin Norton, Pete Reddy, Diane Stevens and Katherine Harrington, Conceptual analysis of the pedagogic status of assessment criteria
- Anna Reid, Sydney, Peter Petocz, The Professional Entity: Researching the relationship between students' conceptions of learning and their future profession
- Marcella Campbell, Postmodernism and Business Management Training
- Sue Clegg, Critical readings: progress files and the production of the autonomous learner