ED5304 - Evaluation and Scholarship in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | School of Education |
Available to Graduate Certificate of Education and other Masters students.
This subject will extend ED5300 and ED5301 by deepening an understanding of cycles of critical reflection through peer observation, action research and the scholarship of teaching and learning. It positions tertiary teachers as learners and researchers with the intention of improving student learning, including the context of research supervision. Assessment in this subject, as for all subjects in the Graduate Certificate of Education will be graded as satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
Learning Outcomes
- critically reflect on your own teaching practice and student learning;
- critically review the literature pertaining to an aspect of your teaching practice and student learning;
- design an intervention specific to your context to demonstrate an evidence-based approach to improving academic practice.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to use independent judgment to synthesise information to make intellectual and/or creative advances;
- The ability to place their research in a broader (preferably international)theoretical, practical and policy context.;
- The ability to conceptualise problems;
- The ability to conceptualise and evaluate a range of potential solutions to relevant problems.
| Prerequisites: | ED5300 ED5301 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Limited, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 28-Mar-2013 | |
| Face to face teaching 18-Apr-2013 to 19-Apr-2013 (18 - 19 April intensive plus online participation) | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Cecily Knight |
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| Assessment: | annotated bibliography (20%); literature review (40%); research design (40%). |
| Cairns, Limited, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 28-Mar-2013 | |
| Face to face teaching 15-Apr-2013 to 16-Apr-2013 (15 to 16 April intensive plus online participation) | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Cecily Knight |
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| Assessment: | anotated bibliography (20%); literature review (40%); research design (40%). |
| JCU Singapore, Limited, Study Period 56 | |
| Census Date 12-Sep-2013 | |
| Face to face teaching (3 day mandatory intensive attendance: 10, 17 and 24 July 2013) | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Cecily Knight |
| Lecturer: | Dr Margaret Carter. |
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| Assessment: | annotated bibliography (20%); literature review (40%); research design (40%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Limited, Study Period 26 | |
| Census Date 12-Sep-2013 | |
| Face to face teaching (2-day intensive during the Study Period: 11 and 12 July 2013) | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Cecily Knight, Dr Glenn Harrison |
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| Assessment: | annotated bibliography (20%); literature review (40%); research design (40%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.