Efficacy of a Voting App for Online Students
Project Investigator(s): Roland Stull, Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences; Anthony Di Stefano, PhD Student, Atmospheric Science Project Description Clickers have proven to be an effective way to engage students in face-to-face science courses. Our goal is to give online students a similar learning experience. In a flipped online class environment, our new […]
Teaching Historical Controversy: South Asian Case Studies
Project Investigator(s): Tara Mayer, Instructor, Department of History Project Description This project examines student responses to historical controversy. The literature about engaging with controversial issues in the classroom is inconclusive. Some studies suggest that it can be divisive and make both students and instructors ill at ease, while others regard it as key to teaching […]
Active Engagement with Feedback: Improving Assessment to Foster Learning
Project Investigator(s): Andrew Owen, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Project Description This project will develop and test strategies that promote active learning during student engagement with formative assessment feedback. I will draw on a review of existing literature and techniques to develop 2-3 specific feedback engagement techniques that will then be experimentally evaluated. Research […]
The differential learning effects of paper vs. digital textbooks
Project Investigator(s): Catherine Rawn, Professor of Teaching, Department of Psychology; Stefan Bourrier, PhD student, Department of Psychology Project Description The intent of this project is to investigate whether cognitive, learning, and memory effects are different for students who use traditional paper textbooks versus comparable digital formats. Research Questions Do digital textbooks, compared to their paper […]
The use of video-recorded answer keys in pharmacy practice education
Project Investigator(s): Charles Park, Lecturer, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Project Description Using video-recorded answer keys for feedback is a novel idea in the pharmacy practice education setting at UBC. This project will look at the use of the video-recorded answer key and if the students find the video answer keys more useful than traditional paper-based […]
Two Stage Review as an Approach to Improving Student Application of Concepts
Project Investigator(s): Tara Ivanochko, Instructor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences; Sara Harris, Instructor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences; Phil Austin, Instructor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Project Description EOSC 340: Global Climate Change is a math- and physics-intensive course open to science and engineering students at UBC. This project […]
Instructor versus Student Perspectives of Cognitive Tasks in Chemistry Laboratories
Project Investigator(s): Robin Stoodley, Senior Instructor, Chemistry Project Description Do students and instructors share the same view of which cognitive tasks are present in chemistry laboratory experiments? Anecdotal evidence suggests they do not, but to what extent do they differ? Are there patterns to the differences? Why do they differ? The instructors’ views have already been […]
Taking up Metalanguage: Effectiveness of Students’ Think-Aloud vs. ComPAIR Feedback during Peer Review
Project Investigator(s): Katja Thieme, Instructor, English, Vantage, Laila Ferreira, Firas Moosvi Project Description We investigate the use of ComPAIR as a platform for peer review among students in ASRW writing studies classes and compare feedback quality on ComPAIR with in-class methods of peer review. Writing studies instruction in ASRW has so far relied on the think-aloud […]
An Examination of the Learning Motivation and Learning Satisfaction of Students Participating in PASS
Project Investigator(s): Christina Sylka, Head, David Lam Management Research Library, Kalenne Thors, Manager, Canaccord Learning Commons, Sauder School of Business, Sunah Cho, Faculty Liaison, Sauder-CTLT, Cassie Gilpin, Student Engagement & Academic Advisor, Sauder School of Business, Tim Huh, Professor, Operations and Logistics, Sauder School of Business, Jonathan Berkowitz, Full-time Lecturer, Operations and Logistics, Sauder School of […]
Pre-Training and Multimedia Presentations for Undergraduate Linguistics
Project Investigator(s): Strang Burton, Instructor, Linguistics Project Description Multimedia resources, because they let students hear speakers and see visuals of speech production, seem like a natural fit for teaching linguistics and languages. But do they actually improve student outcomes and engagement in large undergraduate classrooms? And if so, what specific ways of deploying them work best? […]