Instructor Perceptions and Reported Practices Around Informal Peer Collaboration on Homework Among Engineering Students
Project Investigator(s): Agnes d’Entremont, Associate Professor of Teaching & Loay Al-Salehi, PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Science Project Description Although core engineering science courses typically do not focus on team and group work, many students complete their homework, and/or study for exams, in groups (“Informal peer collaboration”). Limited research has concluded that low levels of […]
Queering the School of Social Work and beyond
Project Investigator(s): Antoine Coulombe, Assistant Professor of Teaching; Hannah Kia, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Faculty of Arts Project Description This project will explore how the School of Social Work (SSW) prepares students to work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Queer, Two-Spirit, and other gender and sexual minority groups (LGBTQ/2S+). We will conduct a […]
Mapping our Communities: Shifting towards Place-Based Pedagogies in the Primary Years Cohort
Project Investigator(s): Iris Berger, Assistant Professor of Teaching; Melanie Wong, Assistant Professor of Teaching and Heather Androsoff, Faculty Advisor; Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education Project Description Place-based learning is foundational for the study of all subjects as it provokes students to immerse themselves in and respond to the local community, its cultures, heritage, […]
Thinking and writing like a scientist: Affirmation of student identities through functional approaches to academic literacies for emergent multilinguals
Project Investigator(s): Won Kim, Lecturer, Academic English Program, Vantage College Project Description In this classroom-based research project, I aim to explore whether and how identities of international students using English as an additional language in a first year coordinated program in science might be empowered as critical, competent, and confident writers in two related required […]
The Impact of Team-Based Learning (TBL) on Student Writing
Project Investigator(s): Rebecca Carruthers Den Hoed, Assistant Professor of Teaching, School of Journalism, Writing and Media, Faculty of Arts Project Description I proposed to measure the impact of team-based learning (TBL) on student writing in an undergraduate academic writing course (WRDS 150B) offered at UBC. My goal is improve our understanding of the role TBL […]
Conventional vs Digital Field Education in the Biogeosciences: Comparing Student Perceptions and Performance
Project Investigator(s): Nina Hewitt, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts Project Description The COVID-19 pandemic forced teaching and learning everywhere online, disrupting field-based methods that have long been fundamental to science education. This move accentuated the need to compare the effectiveness of conventional and digitally facilitated field education. Before the pandemic, […]
Trajectories of Students’ Self-perceptions as Self-directed Learners from Second to Fourth Year
Project Investigator(s): Gail Hammond, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land & Food Systems Project Description This project explores changes in students’ perceptions as self-directed learners from year 2 through year 4 in selected Food, Nutrition & Health courses in the Faculty of Land & Food Systems. Early in […]
Collaborative Online International Project to Develop intercultural Competency
Project Investigator(s): Luisa Canuto, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts Co-Investigator(s): Misuzu Kazama Project Description This research investigates the impact of two different Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects which were integrated in two UBC language courses (Italian and Japanese) to promote the development of students’ intercultural […]
Assessing active learning in passive environments: The benefits of adding interactivity to educational videos
Project Investigator(s): Kayli Johnson, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science Co-Investigator(s): Simon Lolliot Project Description Active learning techniques are now seen as the gold standard in many classrooms. To make room for interactive classrooms, many instructors have moved their content online. These online materials, however, mimic the passive learning that instructors […]
Fostering Friendships: Investigate the effectiveness of a light tight intervention at fostering community at UBC
Project Investigator(s): Simon Lolliot, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts Co-Investigator(s): Kayli Johnson; Mark Blaser Project Description One of the most fundamental problems that moving online during the COVID pandemic has created is the lack of community that students feel. Close friendships serve as stress buffers during the early days of […]