Instructor versus Student Perspectives of Cognitive Tasks in Chemistry Laboratories
Project Investigator(s): Robin Stoodley, Senior Instructor, Chemistry Project Description Do students and instructors share the same view of which cognitive tasks are present in chemistry laboratory experiments? Anecdotal evidence suggests they do not, but to what extent do they differ? Are there patterns to the differences? Why do they differ? The instructors’ views have already been […]
Exploring the Potential for First-Year Undergraduate Courses to Participate in Research Projects at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Project Investigator(s): Bridgette Clarkston, Instructor, Botany Project Description The Beaty Biodiversity Museum (BBM) is home to UBC’s biological research collections and contains over two million specimens—a wealth of potential for teaching and research projects. However, most courses in the Biology Program do not use the Museum and those that do interact mostly with the public displays. […]
Seating the Scene: Identifying antecedents and consequences of micro-segregation and testing an intervention to disrupt it
Project Investigator(s): Simon Lolliot, Instructor, Psychology, Steven Barnes, Senior Instructor, Psychology, Trish Varao-Sousa, PhD student, Psychology Project Description The present project aims to identify patterns of segregation in university classrooms, and implement a learning tool to ameliorate this segregation. Based on prior research on micro-segregation (segregation that occurs in every-day living spaces, including classrooms), we plan […]
Impact of placement of questions within videos on student learning
Project Investigator(s): Eugenia Yu, Senior Instructor, Department of Statistics, Nancy Heckman, Professor, Department of Statistics, Bruce Dunham, Professor of Teaching, Department of Statistics , Caitlin Donnelly, Lecture, Botany Project Description The Flexible Learning Introductory Statistics (FLIS) project is a multi-disciplinary, cross-faculty collaboration between UBC statistics instructors, focused on the development of instructional resources. We have created […]
Building a Participatory Participation Model for Discussion Based Courses
Project Investigator(s): Kristen Walker, Instructor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems Project Description University discussion-based courses often involve a participation component, including participation evaluation. However, many issues arise in how best to objectively and effectively assess participation. Students often perceive the evaluation process of participation as subjective and dependent on the relationship between the instructor and […]
An Analysis of Curriculum and Pedagogy Through a Consideration of Outdoor Learning Perceptions and Practices in UBC Education Courses
Project Investigator(s): Hartley Banack, Lecturer, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy Project Description Much literature indicates that time spent outdoors (TSO): 1) is healthy for us, 2) develops key environmental practices, and 3) enhances learning. However, most learning experiences, in K-12 and post-secondary, predominantly take place indoors. This project considers shifts in student-teacher outdoor learning perceptions and […]
The Role of Metacognition in Developing Transdisciplinary Skills in First Year Engineering Students
Project Investigator(s): Susan Nesbit, Professor of Teaching, Civil Engineering, Naoko Ellis, Pete Ostafichuk, Tanya Tan Project Description This study investigates the influence of metacognition lessons, developed for the first year engineering program, on levels of students’ transdisciplinary skills. We propose the use of a pre-post survey, as well as course performance evaluations to measure student levels […]
Enriching Educational Experiences in Social Justice and Active Citizenship through Community-Based Experiential Learning
Project Investigator(s): Reginald D’Silva, Senior Instructor and Academic Director, UBC-Ritsumeikan Academic Exchange Programs, Department of Language and Literacy Education; Ryan Deschambault, Instructor, UBC-Ritsumeikan Academic Exchange Programs; Amber Moore, PhD Student, LLED and Support Associate Project Description International students in the UBC-Rits Programs (UBC-Rits), as in other programs across UBC, are faced with learning challenges while enrolled […]
HEAL 100: Introduction and Principles of Health and Well-Being: Long Term Impact of Student Health and Academic Success
Project Investigator(s): Sally Willis Stewart, Director, Nutrition Education Centre, Faculty of Health and Social Development Project Description This proposal involves evaluating the transformative new first year health course, HEAL 100 – Introduction and Principles of Health and Well-being, implemented last fall. The positive result of this pilot project is the spark for now wanting to […]
Taking up Metalanguage: Effectiveness of Students’ Think-Aloud vs. ComPAIR Feedback during Peer Review
Project Investigator(s): Katja Thieme, Instructor, English, Vantage, Laila Ferreira, Firas Moosvi Project Description We investigate the use of ComPAIR as a platform for peer review among students in ASRW writing studies classes and compare feedback quality on ComPAIR with in-class methods of peer review. Writing studies instruction in ASRW has so far relied on the think-aloud […]