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Study skills introductory module

Glyn Williams As a department, we’ve done more talking about study skills, and making the expectations and norms of our programme or UK master study more explicit. But it’s going beyond the basic stuff on how to avoid plagiarism and so on. It sets expectations early on of engaging critically with work, that it’s okayContinueContinue reading “Study skills introductory module”

Structuring interactive large group teaching

Glyn Williams The course that I have largely been teaching is a planning and international development Master’s. The international development MA started off with 12 students and so the core modules for this course became shared with other programmes, which have massive numbers. Modules that were originally designed for teaching something like 15 or 20ContinueContinue reading “Structuring interactive large group teaching”

Feedback code of practice

Simon Green University of Leeds We have a code of practice for assessment and a section in it is about feedback. We do really basic things like making sure that formative messages are not buried within summative messages. We try to make it absolutely explicit what needs to be done to improve next time, andContinueContinue reading “Feedback code of practice”