Designing for Sustained Cognitive Engagement and Participation in Large-Enrollment Engineering Materials Classrooms
Project Lead: Farzaneh Farhang Mehr (Assistant Professor of Teaching, Materials Engineering) Project Summary This project investigates how a deliberately varied sequence of structured multimodal in-class learning activities influences sustained cognitive engagement in large engineering materials classrooms. The project will explore guided collaborative activities, interactive concept exploration, and other activity modes embedded within lectures to support […]
Understanding Career Readiness in Students of Molecular Biosciences
Project Lead: Scott Covey (Associate Professor of Teaching, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)Co-Leads: Nina Radisavljevic (Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), and Hannah Shariati (Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Project Summary Career readiness is a key concern for many students, and new technologies and scientific techniques are rapidly changing the molecular biosciences employment landscape. […]
Teaching Science Communication Design Through Learning Theory in PHAR 480 (Pharmaceutical Topics and Communication Seminar IV)
Project Lead: Jennifer Brown (Assistant Professor of Teaching, Pharmaceutical Sciences) Project Summary I developed a learning-theory-informed communication framework that focuses on cognitive load, multimedia, audience attention, and accessibility. This framework states that a presentation should encourage the audience’s motivation, access, reception, processing, and assimilation (MARPA) of information to be able to effectively support the audience […]
Contract Grading: Motivation and Quality in an Era of Anxiety and AI
Project Lead: Jon Beasley-Murray (Associate Professor, French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies) Project Summary This project will examine the effect of alternative grading (specifically, the contract grading system that I have developed) on student attitudes, experience, and motivation in a broad Arts course that most of them are taking as an elective. I am particularly interested […]
Trish Varao-Sousa
Evaluation & Research Consultant trish.varao-sousa [at] ubc.ca
Natasha Pestonji-Dixon
Evaluation & Research Consultant natasha.pestonji-dixon [at] ubc.ca
Adriana Briseño-Garzón
Senior Manager, Research & Evaluation adriana.briseno [at] ubc.ca
Andrea Webb
Director of ISoTL Professor of Teaching, Curriculum & Pedagogy andrea.webb [at] ubc.ca
Enlist Free ChatGPT to Restore Learning Agency to Students in CHIN465 2026-2027
Project Lead: Xiaowen Xu (Associate Professor of Teaching, Asian Studies)co-Leads: Bruce Rusk (Associate Professor, Asian Studies) and Clayton Ashton (Lecturer, Asian Studies) Project Summary This project aims to enable students to acknowledge, identify, and define the nature of free ChatGPT as a tool in their learning process in CHIN 465 (Fantasy in Chinese Literature), an […]
Measuring the Impact of Interactive Digital/AI Literacy Modules: Assessing Student Criticality and Self-Efficacy
Project Lead: Siobhán Wittig McPhee (Associate Professor of Teaching, Geography) Project Summary This project evaluates the impact of interactive Digital/AI Literacy modules (on the Tapestry Plus platform) on undergraduate students. I am investigating whether scenario-based, critical instruction on topics like cyber safety significantly increases students’ critical digital literacy self-efficacy and prompts measurable behavioural changes. It […]