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 […]