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What we learned about community building from our Enhancement Themes PhD internship

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

From the focus groups, we identified the meaning of belonging for students. More importantly, we identified a variety of good community building practices, then divided them into three categories covering academic, administrative and co-and extra-curricular aspects, constructing a triangle model (Figure 1).

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Improving Academic Practice with Turnitin

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Turnitin can be effectively employed as a powerful means of helping students with their paraphrasing, summarising, synthesising, quoting, citing, and referencing. In Schools where student access is permitted, only limited additional support for developing good academic practice is provided.

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Guide To Assessment

Higher Ed Connects: Assessment

To find the right instrument for the job, consider the following: Commercially available tests are things such as the National Survey of Student Engagement and ETS Major Field Tests. Tip : Most colleges/universities have an Office of Institutional Research (see Section 4). Where will the data be collected?