Teacher candidates’ understandings of the relevance of relatedness/belongingness across varied class sizes
Principal Investigator: Surita Jhangiani, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology & Special Education Project description Teacher-student relationships are fundamental. Supportive learning contexts foster the satisfaction of students’ need for relatedness; that is, feeling cared for and socially connected with others. Despite its significance, teacher candidates’ perceptions of relatedness have yet to […]
Improving Dental Students’ Teamwork and Communication Skills through Anonymous Peer Feedback
Principal Investigator: PJ Murphy, Lecturer, Department of Oral Biological Medical Sciences Project description This project aims to improve teamwork and communication skills in dental students by using iPeer – an anonymous peer review platform for assessment of classmates’ performance and contributions in group assignments and class presentations. Small group learning and classroom presentations allow students […]
Educational Board Games on Migration/Indigeneity
Principal Investigator: Biz Nijdam, Lecturer, Department of Central Eastern and Northern European Studies & Centre for Migration Studies Project description This project explores the capacity and efficacy of board games in teaching about Indigenous issues, decolonization, settler colonialism, and the tensions that emerge between Indigenous sovereignty and contemporary immigration/migration. Research questions
Moving from content and memorization, to critical thinking and applied learning: an experiment in blended learning in the traditional Biochemistry classroom
Principal Investigator: Eden Fussner-Dupas, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Project description Biochemistry is a content-heavy, dense discipline. Learning the intricate details of an ever-advancing understanding of biochemical reactions, pathways and mechanisms that drives biology; is increasingly more challenging within the conventional didactic course format. Emerging evidence supports delivering information-dense STEM […]
Does offering students a choice of assessment help them learn?
Principal Investigator: Roland Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Physical Therapy Project description In 2022, I introduced the option of giving students a choice of assessment for the Pain Science content. After the module, I sent out a brief survey to try and understand why students picked their specific assessment method. For this project, […]
Literacy Narrative: An Essential Tool to Raise Students’ Genre Awareness
Principal Investigator: Nazih El-Bezre, Lecturer, The School of Journalism, Writing, and Media Project description Recent studies have pointed out that online learning during Covid-19 has had a negative impact on first year university students’ reflective thinking (e.g., Farahian et al., 2021). They have also suggested that these students’ reflective writing tends to be superficial. In […]
Evaluating and refining pedagogical strategies implemented in a new UBC capstone design course
Principal Investigator: Zeina Baalbaki, Lecturer, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering & Civil Engineering Project description The Environmental Engineering (ENVL) Capstone course (ENVE 401), delivered for first time this year, is a part of the new ENVL program launched in 2020. ENVE 401 requires 4th-year students to apply previously acquired skills while working on an […]
Perceptions of Journalism Students of Journalism
Principal Investigator: Saranaz Barforoush, Assistant Professor of Teaching, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media Project description Since I started teaching core classes in journalism education, I have always asked my students the first day ” why they want to do journalism ” each year the amount of students interested in doing journalism for the traditional […]
Perception Experiments of Automated Writing Evaluation and Grammatical Error Correction Tools for L2 English Learning Students
Principal Investigator: Jungyeul Park, Lecturer, Department of Linguistics Project description L2 instructors and students believe that the teachers are not doing their job if they do not provide feedback on the essays from students (Cho, 2018). Automated writing evaluation (AWE) and grammatical error correction (GEC) tools may offer potential solutions for reducing the workload for […]
Impact of ICARE Framework on Student Learning in an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program
Project Investigator: Nassim Adhami, Lecturer, School of Nursing Project description I have used the ICARE pedagogical framework as a teaching/learning tool for my undergraduate courses to improve student experiences. Improvements in student experiences is defined as students’ perceptions of feeling supported in their learning and being able to apply theory learnt in one class to […]