Improving Student Learning – For What?

The 15th Improving Student Learning Symposium, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 3–5 September 2007.

Papers

Keynotes

  1. Ray Land, University of Strathclyde, UK
  2. Love, life and learning: responsible assessment for the 21st century, Patricia Broadfoot
  3. Willing to learn: being a student in an age of uncertainty, Ron Barnett

Session 1

Monday 3 September 2007, 15.45-16.45

  1. Serious play and digital dialogue: the lessons of on-line interaction and digital game structure for face-to-face facilitation, Judith Harding
  2. The enquiring mind knows no boundaries: does teaching across the disciplines have to be so different? Ivan Moore, Karen O'Rourke, Norman J Powell
  3. Socialisation in fieldwork settings: implications for classroom practice, Mary McCulloch
  4. Quick-fix learning: challenging the concept of learning for learning’s sake, Maggie Hutchings
  5. Becoming a web designer - using intertextuality to understand student literacy practices in a web design discipline, Lynn Coleman
  6. Using an online formative assessment framework to enhance student engagement: a learning outcomes approach, Arlene Hunter
  7. Choice, authority and power in a consumerist higher education, David Gosling

Session 2

Tuesday 4 September 2007, 09.00-10.00

  1. Learning in higher education and work life, Helene Hård Af Segerstad, Lars Owe Dahlgren, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Håkan Hult, Kristina Johansson
  2. Measuring the creative baseline in transport design education, Jane Osmond, Andrew Turner
  3. Beyond Socio-Constructivist approaches to Assessment: an account of knowledge, Suellen Shay
  4. Student reading: an academic literacies approach, Rob Abbott
  5. Feedback, assessment and skills development, Mirabelle Walker
  6. Exploring structure and meaning in students’ descriptions of meiosis, using the two-learning cycle per mode version of the SOLO model, Frances Quinn
  7. Perspectives on teaching generic skills: what academics say and do, Andrew Comrie, Kate Farley

Session 3

Tuesday 4 September 2007, 10.10-11.10

  1. Completing a doctorate: For what? Margaret Kiley
  2. Higher education – for what – when students are linguistically outside their linguistic ‘zone of proximal development’? Ursula McGowan
  3. Researching assessment – in the dividing line between tests and assignments, formal rules and regulations and the individual student’s examination process, Åsa Lindberg Sand, Thomas Olsson
  4. Teamwork or overdependence: formal and informal collaboration among students, David Palfreyman, Susan Jones
  5. Longitudinal development in conceptions of learning in higher education: the implicatins of equivocal research findings, Jenny Morris
  6. Experiences and conceptions of learning of South African rural women in a distance education context: A phenomenological analysis, Mpine Qakisa Makoe
  7. Factors affecting Professional Job Mastering: Quality of Study or Work Experience? Per O Aamodt, Anton Havnes

Session 4

Tuesday 4 September 2007, 16.00-17.00

  1. Non traditional teachers for non traditional students: re-conceptualising teacher training for HE tutors in the creative disciplines, Sue Clayton, Neill Thew
  2. Helping students to GRASP the rules of grammar, Marina Orsini-Jones, Christine Sinclair
  3. Working to learn – valuing placements, Sue Moron-Garcia, Abigail Powell
  4. Research students as ‘becoming' academics: preparing for academic work, Lynn McAlpine, Gerlese Akerlind, Nick Hopgood
  5. Improving university students’ learning through education policy borrowing? Bettina Dahl-Søndergaard
  6. A pedagogy of larger concerns: conceptions underlying effective teaching in a research-intensive university, Jim Borgford-Parnel
  7. ‘If I was going there I wouldn’t start from here’: teaching students how to think rather than what to think, Margaret Price, Berry O’Donovan

Session 5

Wednesday 5 September 2007, 09.30-10.30

  1. Painting by numbers: assessment feedback and improving learning, Jill Millar
  2. Thresholds, interdisciplinarity and enculturation across the engineering and science disciplines, Michael Flanagan, Jan H F Meyer
  3. Exploring teacher authenticity in relation to student learning, Carolin Kreber
  4. Learning in higher education: developmental or instrumental? Berry O’Donovan, Margaret Price
  5. Improving postgraduate student learning for sustainable social development, research capaity building and personal growth, Gina Wisker, Gillian Robinson
  6. Changing teaching to improve student learning: variation in teachers’ intentions, Jo McKenzie
  7. Academic dishonesty: How is it viewed by computer programmers? Isabella M. Venter, Rénette J. Blignaut