Creating An Inclusive Learning Environment in Classrooms with International Students through “Embodied Inter-referencing” Practices
Project Investigator(s): Ayaka Yoshimizu, Instructor, Department of Asian Studies Project Description Advancing reconciliation in classrooms and creating an inclusive learning environment is extremely important at UBC, which continues to occupy the unceded Indigenous land and has a diverse student body. However, doing this with international students is challenging as they come from different geo-politico-historical contexts […]
Evaluating the Impact of Experiential Learning on Land and Food Systems Education – A Longitudinal Study
Project Investigator(s): Will Valley, Senior Instructor, Food and Community (Land & Food Systems); Stephanie Lim, Department of Educational Studies Project Description Since 2005, Land and Food Systems undergraduate students must take two required courses (LFS250, 350) that offer our academically diverse students a common, interdisciplinary, integrative, and progressively more complex experiential learning foundation. LFS250 students […]
Improving the scientific writing of students: An examination of tutorial activities
Project Investigator(s): Maryam Moussavi, Sessional Instructor, Department of Zoology Project Description The project goal is to better assist students’ creation of logical arguments for their scientific writing. Worksheets and activities are being developed to assist with the initial set-up for the current scaffolded assignment, based on previous student feedback. I aim to evaluate the efficacy […]
Reflective essays for affective domain learning in science field courses
Project Investigator(s): Suzie Lavallee, Senior Instructor, Forestry and Conservation Sciences Project Description This study will examine the dimensions of affective domain learning in a capstone field course for a program (Natural Resources Conservation – Science and Management major) in UBC Faculty of Forestry. Assessments of attitudes, beliefs, professionalism, and ethics will be provided over a […]
Barriers to attending office hours among Biology students – Perceived and Actual
Project Investigator(s): Pam Kalas, Senior Instructor, Department of Zoology and Botany; Sunita Chowrira, Professor of Teaching, Department of Botany Project Description In large university courses, office hours represent unique opportunities for students to receive individualized support from instructors. So much learning is thought to take place during office hours interactions that publishing companies have developed educational […]
Role of classroom instruction for the development of interactional competence: Incomplete sentences in Japanese conversation
Project Investigator(s): Saori Hoshi, Instructor, Department of Asian Studies Project Description This project investigates the development of conversational skills by L2 learners of Japanese in an explicitly instructed setting, focusing on their use of incomplete sentences in free conversations with Japanese native peers. While use of incomplete sentences is a fairly common practice that speakers […]
A Community of Practice Pedagogy and Teaching Social Work Analysis
Project Investigator(s): Antoine Coulombe, Instructor, School of Social Work Project Description In this project, I will explore how the Community of Practice (CoP) pedagogy can be applied in learning Social Work (SW), how it can create a discussion space for challenging subjects; evaluate its principle applications; and determine the limits of this pedagogy. To date, […]
Can we help students value biological diversity, especially the biodiversity they may be “blind” to, through participation in a Beaty Museum specimen curation project?
Project Investigator(s): Bridgette Clarkston, Instructor, Department of Botany Project Description First-year students have few opportunities to contribute to science beyond their classroom, especially in large-enrollment lecture courses. And while the Beaty Biodiversity Museum (BBM) is home to UBC’s biological research collections and contains over two million specimens, most courses in the Biology Program do not […]