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Ma, Mitchell; Fukuzawa, Sherry; Vandergugten, John; Bennett, Jack – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study examines the learning experience of Chinese international undergraduate students taking a large core first-year anthropological science course (ANT101) by distance learning during the Winter of 2021 at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). We review the general learning experiences of Chinese international students (n=30)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Foreign Countries
Richards, Jessie; Endersby, Lisa; Cliplef, Lynn; Chen, Deb; Ashbourne, Dianne; Hamilton, Jacqueline; Ho, Mabel; Watson, Ellen – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2023
Occupations often require a set of common characteristics and abilities in order for an individual to be successful (Super, 1990), and new professionals have to navigate much more than new offices, policies, tasks, and expectations to achieve that success. The authors sought to better understand the early career stage in the field of educational…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Beginning Teachers, Career Development, Self Concept
Locke, Sean R.; Osborne, Jenna; Jung, Mary E. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2023
The iterative process of writing a co-authored manuscript may take several months to complete. Draft-in-a-day is an alternative group-based approach to writing that draws on concepts from social cognitive and group dynamics theories to efficiently write the first draft of a manuscript, while providing rich opportunities for trainees to develop…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Writing Processes, Authors, Revision (Written Composition)
Adapting the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire for a Writing and Communication Program
Mugon, Jhotisha; Dong, Gracia; Kim, Nam-Hwui; Jobidon, Erin – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2023
Integrating educational assessment tools, such as the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), into university classrooms can help students and faculty gain insight into areas of strength and challenge for students. The present study adapted and integrated the MSLQ into a set of first-year communication courses for Faculty of Arts…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Questionnaires, Test Construction, Writing (Composition)
Dorland, AnneMarie – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2023
Meaningful and impactful learning experiences are rife with failure. And yet, students struggle with framing, tolerating and attributing failure in a positive manner within the post-secondary learning context. This paper explores whether using design thinking as a pedagogical approach might help students learn to tolerate, reframe and attribute…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Marketing, Design
Donaldson, Sheetal – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
This article describes the Context Based Learning (CBL) redesign of Nursing courses addressing life transitions, including by implementing group discussion, written concept analysis, group presentations, reflections on thinking and simulation performance, group skills analysis and a final paper. The purpose of the study was to determine how these…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Nursing Education
Murphy, Michael P. A.; Groen, Jovan F. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
This article presents an evaluation of an active learning classroom (ALC) initiative at the University of Ottawa. Preliminary results indicate three broad trends to inform future practice and classroom design: 1) Despite advances in educational technology, there remains a strong appetite for low-tech, interactive learning opportunities; 2)…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, College Freshmen, Active Learning
de Moissac, Danielle; Waddell, Candice; Smith, Nadine; Rocque, Rhéa – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
With the increased incidence of poor mental health in young adults, health promotion strategies are needed on campuses. World Cafés were held to facilitate discussion around three main topics: thoughts about findings emerging from a recent health survey; resources currently available on campus; and strategies or resources needed to improve student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mental Health, Health Promotion, College Students
Coles, Matthew; Leung, Fok-Shuen; Radzimski, Vanessa; Sargent, Pam – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
This article describes the landscape of teaching assistantships (TAships) in the Mathematics Department of a large, public, research institution. First, we present visualized data describing the terrain for all mathematics graduate students. Second, we focus on three specific journeys in that terrain. We employ an autoethnographical research…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
Cramer, Kenneth; DeBlock, Denise – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
Following 20 years of publishing rank and reputation scores for Canada's 49 institutions of higher education, the present analysis tested five hypotheses: (1) rank and reputation should be positively correlated across schools for each year; (2) rank and reputation should be positively correlated across the 20 years for each school; (3) a school's…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Universities, Reputation, Educational History
Manion, Kathleen; Shah-Preusser, Noreen; Dyck, Trish; Thackeray, Susan – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
Learning in teams offers unique benefits to understand and address contemporary, global, and local challenges through effective and thoughtful learning journeys. However, learning in teams is not always thoroughly planned or effectively delivered. In trying to better understand what processes support or hinder effective and innovative learning in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, College Students, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes
Ismail, Elizabeth; Chittle, Laura – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
The teaching assistant program at the University of Windsor facilitates opportunities for students to develop leadership capacity, creativity, and pedagogical knowledge. This study explored the skills that student workshop facilitators were developing and/or enhancing, and how these skills might be used outside of teaching-related duties. Data…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Transfer of Training, Teaching Skills, Workshops
Rushe, Shannon E.; Salter, Diane J. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
Faculty Development programs aim to improve the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of teaching faculty with the goal of enhancing the student learning environment. This article describes a two-year research project that explored the impact of a task-based faculty development certificate program. Attitudinal and behavioural changes were assessed…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Certification, Task Analysis, Attitude Change
Shaw, Lindsay; Brown, Kristin; Ellis, Donna; Wolf, Peter; Dawson, Debra; Goff, Lori; Kustra, Erika – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2019
Teaching culture is the product of a dynamic interplay among the embedded patterns, behaviours, values, beliefs and ideologies about teaching and learning within and across the many microcultures that make up a university. Educational researchers from across Canada developed a set of Institutional Teaching Culture Perception Surveys (ITCPS) to…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
Hull, Kerry; Lawford, Heather; Hood, Suzanne; Oliveira, Vanessa; Murray, Michele; Trempe, Maxime; Crooks, Jamie; Jensen, Murray – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2019
The increased prevalence and severity of academic-related distress is of significant concern on college campuses. Of particular relevance to instructors is the anxiety relating to classroom teaching and evaluation practices. Sources of evaluation anxiety include student uncertainty about the nature of the expected demands as well as their ability…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Test Anxiety, Student Evaluation