Awarded Projects

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, […]