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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"teaching excellence"”.
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An excellent adventure: Investigating the stories of Tertiary Teaching Excellence awardees
RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1, How does the concept of excellence unfurl in the narratives of Tertiary Teaching Excellence awardees? 2. How do these practitioners embody, convey, and foster that excellence in their practice? 3. What implications for Professional Development do these narratives of …
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Teaching excellence : an illusive goal in higher education teaching and learning
… all spheres of life. The global community seeks ‘excellence’ across all higher education roles: community engagement and leadership, research and innovation, and teaching and learning. However, universities are not always regarded as effective in fulfilling the needs of students, business or …
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The templated academy: troubling discourses of 'teaching excellence' in UK Higher Education
… education institution, focusing on the impact of teaching excellence policy constructs on academics' professional lives and identities. Institutional ethnography is a distinctive research approach that seeks to offer explication of institutional power dynamics. Interview data was juxtaposed with …
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An Investigation of Postsecondary Centers for Teaching Excellence Support for Universal Design for Learning
… training programs offered by Centers for Teaching Excellence (CTE) in postsecondary institutions. The factors examined were: administrative support, staffing for CTEs, CTE staff characteristics, CTE level of use of technology, CTE directors’ educational backgrounds, and the espoused …
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Capturing the multiple landscapes of excellence: perceptions, enactment, and evaluations of teaching practices in four university undergraduate courses
… the multiple landscapes of undergraduate teaching excellence as viewed by the major stakeholders in college classrooms, the students and their teachers. These landscapes were described and examined with an eye towards gleaning conceptualizations of teaching excellence that could inform the …
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A Case Study of United States History Teachers in Virginia in an Era of the Standards of Learning Assessment
… frequently fails to include an analysis of teaching practice. The goal of this study, then, was to explore current instructional practices among a selected group of four United States History teachers and search for patterns of practice as these teachers enacted the SOLs within the United …
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A framework for the delivery of built environment student satisfaction in England
… the HE sector along with measures to deliver teaching excellence, with the publication of the White Paper “Success as a knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice” (2016). The impact of the on-going policy development has resulted in greater access to higher …
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Social capital and faculty development in higher education
… enhance engagement in development activities and teaching practices. Grounded in Social Learning Theory and Social Capital Theory, the study explores how collaborative ties provide access to resources, mentorship, and innovation, while barriers like isolation and workload constraints limit their …
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STEM Program Implementation: A Case Study Analysis of Perceptions, Resources, Equity and Diversity
… were widely praised for their innovations and teaching excellence, and alignment with emerging best practices. However, there were perceptions that their curriculum was neither sufficiently documented nor aligned with school division priorities, and was insufficiently communicated with school …
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Instructional Design Thought Processes of Expert Nurse Educators
… Each participant had over ten years experience teaching, and all were recognized for their teaching excellence. They also had master's or doctoral degrees. Participants worked in small private schools, community colleges, or large public universities. The methodology was based in developmental …
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Exploring the theory and practice of knowledge exchange : intention, context and characteristics
… traditional roles as centres of research and teaching excellence with a recognised potential to generate significant social and economic benefits. This enquiry sets out to clarify the concept of KE as a distinct mode of university collaboration and identify important factors that act to shape …
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The professionalisation of teaching in higher education in the UK: perceptions and understandings
… Academy (HEA) in 2003, professionalisation of teaching in Higher Education (HE) has had a championing organisation, whose remit includes the accreditation of initial teacher education qualifications and institutional professional recognition schemes, the two routes by which teaching academics …
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Criteria for Initial Appointment in Rank and Subsequent Promotion for Faculty in Two-Year Public Colleges
… promotion were educational credentials and teaching excellence. There were differences between transfer and vocational faculty in the criteria used to determine academic rank.</p> <p>This study provides a better understanding of the prevalence of faculty rank among two-year colleges and the …
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Perceptions of Quality in Higher Education Learning Environments and the Impact of Personality Types on Satisfaction: The Development of a Practical Framework
… Yang & Mino, 2013). With the initiation of the Teaching Excellence Framework, the consideration of students’ satisfaction is becoming more prominent. Beckers et al. (2016a) concluded that further research should explore preferences of students to identify if preferences differed between groups …
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Science Student Learning Gain in English Higher Education Institutions: The Development of a Skills Assessment Tool
… was highlighted by discussions framing the teaching excellence framework (TEF), which considered the ‘distance travelled’ by a learner as a potential metric. There has been some difficulty surrounding utilising this metric within an English Higher Education context because the Higher …
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Exploring the relation between postgraduate student satisfaction and academic staff satisfaction
… management of the school to focus on and reward teaching excellence.
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The Search for Scholarly Teaching in Elementary Education
… if elementary teachers engaged in scholarly teaching. The purpose of this study was to investigate Boyer’s (1990) four dimensions of scholarship, application, integration, teaching and discovery, to better understand if there is scholarly teaching in elementary education. Four professional …
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Evaluation and proposed enhancements in learning undergraduate computer programming using visual Problem Based Learning (PbBL) visual Project Based Learning (PjBL) and visual computer programming
… critically appraised here, evaluated existing teaching strategies adopted on computing degree programmes and proposed pedagogical innovation that impacts and improves first year undergraduate computer programming and, enhances student learning. This necessitated a departure from the didactic …
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Defining and assessing teaching effectiveness in higher education
Teaching effectiveness in higher education is challenging. Given the number of stakeholders and the reasons for assessing teaching effectiveness creates additional challenges. Yet when tying teaching effectiveness to successful student learning outcomes and combining those interests to a case study …
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