Assessment options in higher education   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Deborah Craddock  Haydn Mathias 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2009,34(2):127-140

This article evaluates an initiative to introduce assessment choice within a taught unit on an undergraduate healthcare programme as a means of addressing poor performance, especially for those students diagnosed with dyslexia. Students’ perceptions of the assessment experience were sought via the use of two focus group interviews (n = 16). The article describes the effect the assessment experience had on students’ stress levels, individual learning styles and achievement. Students’ performance improved and statistical analyses indicated parity between the assessment methods offered with similar performance profiles between students with and without dyslexia. The conclusion reached is that while the introduction of assessment options may be time consuming for staff to develop, the benefits of an enhanced student‐centred approach to assessment may be well worth this investment in time. Although a limited study owing to the small sample size, the results should be of interest to those academics who are concerned with assessment and its impact on students’ achievement.  相似文献   

Ways of composing teaching teams and their impact on teachers’ perceptions about collaboration     

Mathias Krammer  Peter Rossmann  Angela Gastager  Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera 《欧洲师范教育杂志》2018,41(4):463-478

The present study examined the impact of teacher team composition on characteristics and attributes regarded as necessary for effective cooperative teaching. The study focused on potential differences between self-selected teacher teams and teams composed by the school administration. The central assumptions were that teachers working in self-selected teacher teams show more positive ratings of enjoyment, shared responsibility, job satisfaction and collective self-efficacy expectations than teachers who worked in institutionally composed teams. In order to investigate these hypotheses, an online survey was created. 321 language arts teachers participated in the survey. MANCOVA revealed significant differences in the dimensions ‘shared responsibility’ and ‘enjoyment with the co-teaching process’, where teachers from self-selected teaching teams showed significantly more positive ratings. These results support the assumption that self-selection of the team-mate is helpful for establishing compatible teaching teams, but does not necessarily lead to a higher quality of collaborative teaching.  相似文献   

MEDIA TONE AND PUBLIC OPINION: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF MEDIA COVERAGE AND PUBLIC OPINION ON CHANCELLOR KOHL     

Kepplinger  Hans Mathias; Donsbach  Wolfgang; Brosius  Hans-Bernd; Staab  Joachim Friedrich 《Int. Journal of Public Opinion Research》1989,1(4):326-342

This study investigates the relationship between media coverageof Helmut Kohl in seven leading German print media and the opinionsof the German general public about the politician between 1975and 1984. For the content analysis evaluative assessments aboutHelmut Kohl on six different dimensions of characteristics werecoded. The analysis of public opinion is based on 72 representativesurveys in which respondents expressed their evaluations ofthe politician. The two time series were compared by means ofcross-lagged correlations. The whole period was first examinedwith aggregations of three-months-intervals; then closer attentionwas paid to the time period since Helmut Kohl took office aschancellor on the basis of monthly intervals. In both cases,the results show that evaluation shifts in the media precedesimilar evaluation shifts in public opinion with a time lagof about three to six months for the whole period of investigation,and a somewhat shorter time lag for the time of his chancellorship.Evaluation shifts in the political magazines Der Spiegel andStern were more closely related to public opinion than evaluationshifts in the national dailies.  相似文献   

The agencement of taskification: On new forms of reading and writing in BYOD schools     

Samira Alirezabeigi  Jan Masschelein  Mathias Decuypere 《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2020,52(14):1514-1525

Abstract

The proliferation of digital devices in educational settings has contributed to the decentralization of knowledge from teachers and established textbooks to fluid online personalized resources, and from blackboards as spaces of materialization of this knowledge to personal screens. In this new constellation, school practices such as reading, writing and note-taking take new forms. How are these practices reconfigured when centered around mobile digital devices? In this paper, we investigate routine lesson practices of a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) school by means of an ethnographic observation. Adopting the term agencement as a heuristic device, we explore what practices are being constituted and how they are always in connection with one another. Moreover, we show that by practicing they produce different forms of action. We argue that in such a hybrid constellation, tasks find a different status beyond isolated and self-contained units for enhancing learning in different lessons. We introduce task-agencement, through which the task always entails a process of taskification that formats BYOD schools. With taskification, we mean that the task-agencement expands the domain in which tasks not only influence the organization and structure of lessons, but equally the very organization of the BYOD school by enacting a particular form of schooling. Finally, we propose a taskified form as a form of BYOD schooling that templates and formats how practices such as reading and writing, contextualization and introduction of the lesson are conducted.  相似文献   

Emerging collaborative and cooperative practices in 1:1 schools     

Annika Andersson  Matilda Wiklund  Mathias Hatakka 《Technology, Pedagogy and Education》2016,25(4):413-430

In this article, the authors explored how laptops used in 1:1 classrooms affect cooperation and collaboration practices. Based on an observational time study, the authors found that the most common activity in 1:1 classrooms is group work using the computer. They also found that, despite what the concept 1:1 alludes to about one student working with one computer, most laptop use takes on other forms such as two students working with one computer (1:2) or two students working together using two laptops (2:2). The findings reported in this article about the various different collaboration arrangements have implications for both research and practice. For practice, because teachers can arrange activities based on an awareness of the different student–laptop constellations that emerge when students are given a laptop. Research is likewise informed about the various group work constellations and can build on this knowledge for further analysis of the pros and cons with the different collaborative forms.  相似文献   

TOPIC EVALUATION     

H.S. Mathias 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》1981,6(2):105-119

A topic evaluation questionnaire is described which was used with a group of first‐year science undergraduates. Its aim was to determine students’ reactions to individual course topics in terms of: the extent to which they felt they had grasped each topic; those on which they had spent most time; those on which they had wished for more help; and their familiarity with each topic at ‘A’ level. Responses were evaluated in relation to other data collected at the time and highlighted a close relationship between reported ease of grasping and previous familiarity of topics. However, situational and contextual features also significantly affected the extent of grasping. In particular, the pacing and the progressive accumulation of topics in a course which led to difficulties with later topics, and the competing demands of other courses. The paper considers both the results of the topic evaluation questionnaire and how data from such a questionnaire can be more fully interpreted when placed in the context of other sources of evidence.  相似文献   

Continuing attachments in academic work in neoliberal times: on the academic mode of existence     

Mathias Decuypere  Maarten Simons 《Critical Studies in Education》2019,60(2):226-244

Is there (still) something specific about academic practice in contemporary neoliberal times? This article reports on a sociomaterial, ethnographic study informed by Deleuze’s untimely empiricism conducted at two research centres of a research university. We unfold the specificity of ‘the academic’ by elaborating upon two central notions: relational aspirations (the attachments of these academics, and the operations that such attachments generate) and mode of existence (the way academic practice comes into being by and through these attachments). The article discerns four types of relations that are typical for academic practice and argues that the way in which academic practice exists nowadays is characterized by a continuous distancing in action, that is, by drawing things together and by slowing things down.  相似文献   

Scandinavian Approaches to Gender Equality in Academia: A Comparative Study     

Mathias Wullum Nielsen 《Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research》2017,61(3):295-318

This study investigates how Denmark, Norway, and Sweden approach issues of gender equality in research differently. Based on a comparative document analysis of gender equality activities in six Scandinavian universities, together with an examination of the legislative and political frameworks surrounding these activities, the article provides new insights into the respective strategies for governing and promoting the advancement of women researchers. In doing so, it exposes some interesting disparities among the cases and shows how Norwegian and Swedish gender equality activities revolve around a broader span of different approaches than the Danish. The study draws upon existing knowledge on the efficacy and implementation success of diversity policy programmes to gain a more profound understanding of implications of these differences.  相似文献   

Mentoring on a Programme for New University Teachers: A partnership in revitalizing and empowering collegiality     

Haydn Mathias 《International Journal for Academic Development》2013,18(2):95-106

This paper evaluates the use of subject‐based collegial mentors in an initial teacher development programme for new lecturers in a research‐intensive UK university. The use of mentors is common in such programmes but their status tends to be that of critical friend and they have little formal influence in the programme. In the programme reported, departmental mentors were accorded a higher status as collegial partners and members of the programme team who also acted as formal assessors. The rationale for their enhanced involvement was to facilitate a genuine sense of ownership and responsibility by subject departments for the initial development of their new lecturers as university teachers. The evaluation study found that formalized mentoring engendered a strong sense of collegiality and ownership by disciplinary communities of practice in the process of initial teacher development. Some of the anticipated issues, such as the potential role conflict of mentor as guide and assessor, did not arise. The longer‐term development of the use of disciplinary mentoring in the programme is discussed.

Cet article évalue l’emploi de collègues‐mentors disciplinaires dans le cadre d’un programme de développement initial pour les enseignant‐es au sein d’une université de recherche située au Royaume‐Uni. L’emploi de mentors est chose commune dans le cadre de tels programmes; leur rôle tend cependant à être celui d’“ami critique”, ce qui leur accorde peu d’influence dans le cadre du programme. Dans ce cas‐ci, le mentors départementaux se sont vus accorder un statut supérieur, étant considérés comme partenaires‐collègues et membres de l’équipe du programme, devenant du coup des évaluateurs formels. Leur implication accrue visait à faciliter le développement d’un sentiment de propriété et de responsabilité par les départements disciplinaires relativement au développement initial en tant qu’enseignant‐e de leurs nouveaux membres. Cette recherche‐évaluation semble indiquer que le mentorat formalisé a engendré un fort sentiment de collégialité et de propriété par les communautés disciplinaires de pratique au sein du processus de développement initial des enseignants. Certains des problèmes anticipés, tels que le conflit potentiel causé par les rôles contradictoires de guide et d’évaluateur du mentor, ne se sont pas concrétisés. Le développement à long terme de l’emploi du mentorat disciplinaire au sein du programme est aussi abordé.  相似文献   

Cognitive Styles and Preferred Learning Mode,Reading Attainment and Cognitive Ability in 11‐year‐old Children     

Richard Riding  David Mathias 《教育心理学》1991,11(3-4):383-293

Eighty 11‐year‐old children were assessed for preferred learning mode (pictorial or text), reading attainment and cognitive ability. They also received the Cognitive Styles Analysis which gave their positions on the Wholist‐Analytic and verbal‐Imagery cognitive style dimensions. With respect to learning mode, wholists preferred the mode which corresponded to their verbal‐imagery style; verbalisers chose text while Imagers chose pictures. Analytics, by contrast, were fairly equally divided across the verbal‐imagery dimension. On reading attainment and cognitive abilities, the performance of the wholists was superior by the verbalisers and declined fairly linearly with increasing imagery style, while analytics were again fairly constant across the dimension. The results were discussed in terms of their implications for the cognitive style dimensions.  相似文献