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 […]
Feedback as a pedagogical tool in the case based learning curriculum at UBC: Is it working?
Project Investigator(s): Olusegun Oyedele, Associate Professor of Teaching, Southern Medical Program, UBC Okanagan Project Description Tutor feedback is central to student evaluation in the case based learning (CBL) curriculum within the Medical Undergraduate Program (MDUP) of UBC Faculty of Medicine. Tutors assess students for demonstrating skills such as communication of medical information, participation in a medical […]
The TEACHERS Project: Training and Engaging Academics in their Classrooms to positively impact Health, Education and Resiliency in our Students
Project Investigator(s): Sally Stewart, Associate Professor of Teaching, School of Health and Exercise Sciences; Jannik Eikenaar, Assistant Professor of Teaching, School of Engineering Project Description This project investigates the impact of supporting faculty members in adopting course-based interventions to improve student well-being. It follows our phase-one pilot that showed overwhelming positive results, consistent with current […]
The lived experience of new teachers’ navigation across the landscape of practice in nursing education: A interpretive phenomenological study
Project Investigator(s): Cheryl A. Segaric, Assistant Professor of Teaching, School of Nursing Project Description Using the interpretive phenomenology methodology, this pilot study will examine nurses’ experience in the role of novice clinical teacher. The context is accelerated undergraduate nursing education at UBC and, in light of a critical shortage of nurse educators, a call to […]
Learning motivation in chemistry: The interplay between value, self-efficacy and learning environment
Project Investigator(s): Jeanette Leeuwner, Science Education Specialist, Department of Chemistry Project Description Motivation impacts the direction, determination and quality of students’ actions during their learning process. ‘How Learning Works’ presents a theoretical framework of 3 elements that impact motivation: self-efficacy, value and the learning environment. The framework includes student behaviors that result from the interactions […]
Modulating student progression from guided- to open-inquiry to enhance self-regulated learning in a first-year biomedical engineering laboratory
Project Investigator(s): Gabrielle Lam, Instructor, School of Biomedical Engineering Project Description Inquiry-based learning is a constructivist, student-centered approach that can be used to engage students in the scientific process of discovery. However, its implementation in a first-year engineering laboratory course presents unique challenges, because students have had little prior exposure to unstructured learning, and are […]
Can we help students value biological diversity, especially the biodiversity they may be “blind” to, through participation in a Beaty Museum specimen curation project?
Project Investigator(s): Bridgette Clarkston, Instructor, Department of Botany Project Description First-year students have few opportunities to contribute to science beyond their classroom, especially in large-enrollment lecture courses. And while the Beaty Biodiversity Museum (BBM) is home to UBC’s biological research collections and contains over two million specimens, most courses in the Biology Program do not […]
What do First-Year Students Need? Assessing Students’ Transition to University Studies to Enhance the First-Year Experience in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Project Investigator(s): Candice Rideout, Instructor, Food, Nutrition and Health; Will Valley – Instructor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems; Christine Scaman, Associate Professor and Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Land and Food Systems; Rickey Yada – Professor and Dean, Faculty of Land and Food Systems Project Description Preliminary data indicates students in the Faculty of […]
Exploring the linguistic features of multiple choice questions: Evening the Playing Field for English as an Additional Language Students
Project Investigator(s): Mark Lam, Lecturer, Department of Psychology; Katherine Lyon, Instructor, Department of Sociology; Brett Todd, Lecturer, Vantage College Academic English Program; Jennifer Lightfoot, Instructor, Vantage College Academic English Program Project Description Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are a commonly used assessment tool in post-secondary institutions and are often lexically dense and grammatically complex (containing highly packed […]
Beyond the Classroom: Assessing the Impact of Community Based Experiential Learning (CBEL) on First Year Arts Students’ Course Performance and Satisfaction
Project Investigator(s): Kerry Greer, Instructor, Department of Sociology; Katherine Lyon, Instructor, Department of Sociology and Vantage; Thomas Kemple, Professor, Department of Sociology and Chair of First Year Programs in Arts; Susan Grossman, Director, Centre for Community Engaged Learning Project Description Anecdotal evidence from a pilot-year investigation suggests that community-based experiential learning opportunities enhances student engagement […]