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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Academic studies in education"”.
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Sex bias in student assessments
Previous research examining sex bias in student assessments has focused on the differential evaluation of final year project marks (Bradley 1984, 1993, 1994; Newstead and Dennis 1990, 1993; Hartley 1992, 1994) and the pattern of degrees (Rudd 1984, Belsey 1988) awarded to male and female students. …
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Design, story-making and play through child-adult partnerships
This thesis explores how designing and story-making capabilities can be combined and used as everyday inventiveness for all. It examines the learning that arises out of “getting lost” in child-play and fictional speculation when combined with an iterative design process. The research highlights the …
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Using Feedback Dialogue in Personal Tutorials to Support International Student Attainment
… project sought a novel approach to addressing the Home/ International attainment gap on a diverse undergraduate business course in a UK Arts University. Using mixed methods this project investigated student and tutor conceptions of feedback and determined how a personal tutoring scheme …
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Blackboards were turned into tables...Questioning ‘horizontality’ in collaborative pedagogical art projects
Blackboards were turned into tables … Questioning ‘horizontality’ in collaborative pedagogical art projects is research based on the practice of the collective microsillons, which is developing collaborative pedagogical art projects in different contexts. The aim of the research is to explore the …
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Post-qualification education and professional identity in the contested landscape of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: a case of transformative learning in an online setting
The education of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) practitioners within Higher Education (HE) is controversial, and has attracted criticism from various quarters, yet little is known about the impact of such courses upon CAM practitioners or upon the CAM profession. A programme of online …
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Art as Education: Redefining a Live Art Practice as a Pedagogical Tool, and its Perception and Place in the Learning Environment
My research study examines and tests how the pedagogical elements of live art have the potential to contribute to young people’s development and to play a transformative role in secondary education. It uses a methodology underpinned by a constructivist epistemology that promotes knowledge …
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Definitions of quality: a study of quality systems and their relevance to academic libraries
… quality movement can be traced back to the teachings of the so-called "Quality Gurus" in the period immediately following the Second World War. Although initially most successful in Japan, and credited with much of that country's industrial success, the theories and techniques put forward by the …