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Adaptive Comparative Judgment and the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Online Learning

ACJ demonstrates much greater reliability in large-volume assessment when using a distributed team of assessors and also enables high numbers of students to efficiently receive valuable feedback from several assessors, whether used for staff assessing students or student peer assessment. All suggestions welcome!

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. Rosalyn Claase Ros is Head of Student Experience, having joined the Business School in November 2011 as the Careers Manager.

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As Scotland marks 20 years of its enhancement-led approach to quality in the higher education sector, I reflect on my involvement, particularly around work supporting student development, employability, and personal and professional success.

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Developing graduate attributes in a landscape of practices

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As the university consults widely on its curriculum transformation project, there is a valuable opportunity to reach a more nuanced understanding of what the Edinburgh attributes could be and their intersection with the curriculum. 2014) Learning in landscapes of practice. 1998) Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity.

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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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Geoscience Outreach: What we do, how we assess, and client/student reflections

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Image of OEGlobal award screenshot: [link] Here are a few examples: Prior to the pandemic, one of our psychology students developed a Mental Health & Wellbeing Booklet , a collection of strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing for age 12+. A recently graduated ecology student had a passion for insects.

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The Power of Relationships in Undergraduate Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. But only 14 percent of graduates said they had experienced such a relationship.