Improving Student Learning: Diversity and Inclusivity
The 12th Improving Student Learning Symposium, Jury's Inn Hotel, Birmingham, 6-8 September 2004
Papers
Keynote presentations
- Diversity, inclusivity and
equality: revisiting critical issues for the widening participation
agenda
Louise Archer - Cultural difference in western
universities: Intercultural and internationalised responses
to a changing world
Christine Asmar - Increasing the chances of student
success
Mantz Yorke
Research papers
- Diversity and the practicalities
of assessment
Rajesh Dhimar, Peter Ashworth, - How valid are group marks
as a proxy for the individual learning that comes from group
assignment and project work?
Malcolm Eley, Paul Lajbcygier, Christine Spratt - Associations between
postgraduate research students’ experiences and learning
outcomes
Paul Ginns, Paul Ramsden, Linda Conrad - Perceptions of tuition
in correspondence and on-line contexts in distance education
Linda Price, Anne Jelfs, John TE Richardson - "Strategies for
Success": Integrating Neuro Linguistic Programming into
the Undergraduate Curriculum
Sam Johnson - Contrasting conceptions
of oral assessment,
Gordon Joughin - Complex coherence in
the experience of teaching and research - metaphors of lived
experience,
Elaine Martin, Michael Prosser, Heather Middleton, Gillian Lueckenhausen - Negotiating academic
assignments: the experiences of widening participation and traditional
students
Liz McDowell, Kay Sambell - Closing the gap between
educational research and educational development: a model of
engagement
Jan HF Meyer - The Reflections on Teaching
Inventory: A conceptual domain and initial exploratory item
- scale psychometrics.
Jan HF Meyer, Malcolm Eley and Ursula Lucas - The dynamics of motivation,
life experience and conceptions of knowing of students from
non-standard academic backgrounds
Jenny Morris - Supporting diversity
and inclusivity through writing workshops
Lin Norton, Katherine Harrington, James Elander, Sandra Sinfield, Peter Reddy and Edd Pitt - Rewarding excellent
teaching - in theory and practice. Characterising the gap,
Lotta Antman , Thomas Olsson, Pernille Hammar Andersson, Shirley Booth - Aligning teaching-learning
environments with students: a new perspective on constructive
alignment in the light of student diversity
Nicola Reimann - The attainment
and experiences of students with disabilities and students from
ethnic minorities in distance education
John TE Richardson - The limitations of
difference. Exploring variation in student conceptions of the
link between assessment and learning outcomes
Alison Shreeve , Jonathon Baldwin, Gerald Farraday - Diverse student needs:
the challenge of teaching international. A Business School Case
Study
Joanne Smailes - Chinese students in
a UK Business School: hearing the student voice in reflective
teaching and learning practice
Yvonne Turner - Information literacy
in the curriculum: selected findings from a phenomenographic
study of UK academics' conceptions of, and pedagogy for, information
literacy in four disciplines
Sheila Webber
Research seminars
- Influencing Inclusive
Practice: The role of VLEs
Victoria Boyd, Barbara Newland, Juliette Pavey - Student involvement
in professional education in Norway
Anton Havnes - Note-making as Active
Learning
Charlotte Mbali - Diversity in High
Places: Variation in highly achieving students' experiences
of course work assignments
Nicola Parker - Attempting to put a
social constructivist assessment model into practice
Margaret Price, Berry O’Donovan and Chris Rust - Improving student
learning through emotional literacy development,
Helen E Whiteley
Conceptual papers
- Using approaches
to learning and critical pedagogy to understand the barriers
to academic engagement in higher education
Paul Ashwin - Widening Participation:
Diversity or Inequity?
Peter Ashworth, S Clegg, J Nixon - Different students,
different needs, different times: a re-theorisation of tertiary
transition
Maureen Burke, Soheil Ahmed and Malcolm MacKenzie - Variation in approaches
to learning and teaching in disciplinary contexts: how to accommodate
diversity?
Linda Drew - Full paper available Threshold concepts and
troublesome knowledge (3): Implications for curriculum design
and evaluation
Ray Land, Jan Meyer, Glynis Cousin, Peter Davies - Transparent opacity?
Assessment in the inclusive academy,
Susan Orr
Symposia
- Assessment: helping diverse
students understand the tacit demands of studying in higher
education
Sue Bloxham (convenor) - Changing the Student Experience:
Retention and Inclusivity - Translating Strategy in to Success.
Michelle Haynes (convenor) - Studying the impact of assessment
on student learning in Physical Science and BioScience courses
Graham Gibbs
(convenor)