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MacNeil, Stephen; Wood, Eileen; Zivcakova, Lucia; Glover, Robyn; Smith, Patrick – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2014
To support students in an introductory organic chemistry course, scaffolding in the form of weekly Learning Task Inventories (LTIs) were introduced. LTIs are chapter-by-chapter lists of detailed learning tasks students are expected to master during the course. This paper describes efforts to effectively implement LTIs, the effect of differing…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Hunt, Gary; Baldwin, Lyn; Tsui, Ernest; Matthews, Les – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2013
In May 2007, the Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Science established an ad hoc subcommittee to develop a new student ratings of teaching survey. The final survey, approved by the Faculty in February 2011, includes statements categorized in the dimensions of teaching shown in previous studies to be correlated with student achievement. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Measures (Individuals), College Faculty
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Pelton, Tim; Pelton, Leslee Francis; Sanseverino, Mary – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2008
This project began in response to a perceived need to assess students' perceptions with respect to the emerging use of audience response systems (clickers) in several mid- to large-size undergraduate courses at the University of Victoria. We developed and validated a "Clicker Use Survey" to gather students' opinions with respect to…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Undergraduate Students
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Neumann, Melody; Bank, Charly; Browning, Scott; Clarke, Jim; Harlow, Jason; Harrison, David; Ing, Karen; Kushnir, Lena; Kutas, Cecilia; Pitre, John; Serbanescu, Ruxandra; Wall, Marty; Wilson, Ron – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2008
Faculty and students at the University of Toronto were surveyed and interviewed to form a case study of serial team teaching, in which multiple instructors take turns teaching a segment of the same course in sequence. Student opinions ranged from slightly opposed to slightly in favour of team teaching overall. When asked about specific aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, College Instruction