Assessment of Communication Competencies in Engineering Design Projects     

Gert W. Brinkman  Thea M. van der Geest 《Technical Communication Quarterly》2003,12(1):67-81

Reforms in engineering education have caused a shift from the traditional stand-alone course in technical communication for Engineering students towards communication training integrated in courses and design projects that allows students to develop four layers of competence. This shift creates opportunities for realistic and situated learning, but offers challenges for assessment of communication competence at student, course and program levels. On the basis of a detailed definition of communicative competence, three formats for integrated communication training are described: Linked to design projects, integrated in design projects and integrated at program level. Assessment of communication competence in these formats is constrained by their characteristics with regard to student motivation, individual and group work, and situated learning.  相似文献   

Vocabulary of the Secondary Modern School Child     

D. G. Burns M.A.  Ph.D. 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2013,55(2)

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A review of competencies needed for health librarians – a comparison of Irish and international practice          下载免费PDF全文

Aoife Lawton  Jane Burns 《Health information and libraries journal》2015,32(2):84-94

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The role of outdoor adventure education in facilitating groupwork in higher education     

Sam J. Cooley  Victoria E. Burns  Jennifer Cumming 《Higher Education》2015,69(4):567-582

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Innovative learning and developments in motivation and achievement in upper primary school     

Lisette Hornstra  Ineke van der Veen  Thea Peetsma  Monique Volman 《教育心理学》2015,35(5):598-633

Although previous research has shown the potential of innovative learning for enhancing motivation and learning outcomes, further understanding is needed on which aspects of IL are most effective and whether these are equally motivating for different types of students. The present study investigated how developments in students’ motivation and achievement related to different aspects of innovative learning (i.e. authentic learning, collaborative learning and focusing on self-regulation), and whether these relations varied by students’ background characteristics. A sample of 722 grade five students from the Netherlands (average age 11?years old) and their teachers completed questionnaires during four measurements from grade five to grade six. Autoregression analyses were performed. Results showed both positive and negative relations between IL and developments in students’ motivation and achievement, indicating that IL is not a unidimensional construct. Furthermore, the effectiveness of different aspects of IL depended on students’ gender, and social and ethnic background characteristics.  相似文献   

‘I like the sound of that’ – an evaluation of providing audio feedback via the virtual learning environment for summative assessment     

Clare Carruthers  Brenda McCarron  Peter Bolan  Adrian Devine  Una McMahon-Beattie  Amy Burns 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2015,40(3):352-370

This study aims to ascertain student and staff attitudes to and perceptions of audio feedback made available via the virtual learning environment (VLE) for summative assessment. Consistent with action research and reflective practice, this study identifies best practice, highlighting issues in relation to implementation with the intention of redesigning activities in the light of the findings. It utilises four case studies where audio feedback was provided to students using the Wimba voice authoring tool within Blackboard Learn+ for various types of summative assessment. The intention was to identify how and in what context audio feedback via the VLE is effective and why. The research was undertaken via a combination of techniques, including a student survey and staff reflective logs. The findings indicate that students liked the convenience, effectiveness, flexibility and personalised nature of this feedback, but raised concerns with some aspects of the technology. This paper also makes practical recommendations for the use of the feedback mechanism, focusing on the most effective use of the digital medium, and highlights directions for future research.  相似文献   

Motivational teacher strategies: the role of beliefs and contextual factors   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Lisette Hornstra  Caroline Mansfield  Ineke van der Veen  Thea Peetsma  Monique Volman 《Learning Environments Research》2015,18(3):363-392

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Narrative construction of professional teacher identity of teachers with dyslexia   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Eila Burns  Sheena Bell   《Teaching and Teacher Education》2011,27(5):952-960

This paper considers the development of teachers’ professional identity in the context of educators that have diverse backgrounds. We elucidate how teachers with dyslexia working in tertiary education use narrative resources to construct and negotiate their professional teacher identities. The analysis of narrative interviews, interpreted within the framework of positioning theory and the theories of narrative identity, indicated that the interviewees constructed several professional teacher identities that were closely linked to each teacher’s perception of their dyslexia. The experience of dyslexia was clearly evident as a positive element in each identity. Instead of seeing it as an obstacle it can become a part of the teacher’s own identity and can be used as a tool to thrive in their profession.  相似文献   

A passion for portraits: Elizabeth Cay's pastels     

Thea Burns  Ashok Roy 《文物保护研究》2014,59(5):279-288

Elizabeth Cay (1771–1831), the grandmother of the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), was a talented amateur pastellist; several of her pastel portraits survive as does her set of pastels. She studied with Archibald Skirving (1749–1819), a Scottish miniature painter who later in life turned to larger-scale portraiture in pastel and served as drawing master to the Edinburgh elite. Cay's pastels are not fabricated sticks but consist of powdered pigment housed in various glass and ceramic containers and were apparently applied by stumps, still in her workbox, or brushes. The Cay color samples were identified by spectrographic analysis, polarized light microscopy, and microchemical tests which, in addition, indicated that a number of pigment mixtures present gave specific hues in keeping with earlier treatise accounts of the preparation of a pastel gamut for practical use. Elizabeth Cay's pastel workbox may be rare surviving evidence of one way, more common that we appreciate today, in which amateurs, and perhaps professionals, practiced pastel painting.  相似文献   

Notes on standard wave-lengths spectrographs,and spectrum tubes     

W.T. Meggars  Kelvin Burns 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1922,194(2):244-245

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