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Rubrics - Creating Transparency For Effective Teaching And Learning, Seamus Harrington Jan 2022

Rubrics - Creating Transparency For Effective Teaching And Learning, Seamus Harrington

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Mapping Of Digital Literacy Skills, Allison Kavanagh May 2016

Mapping Of Digital Literacy Skills, Allison Kavanagh

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In 2013 DIT developed a set of graduate attributes known as the “Five E’s”: Engaged, Enterprising, Enquiry based, Effective and Expert in chosen subject discipline. Each of these five attributes is comprised of several additional attributes, one of which is digital literacy.

This presentation explains what digital literacy is, why it is an important attribute for our students and graduates to develop, and discusses practical ways of creating a mapping between a programme’s assessment methods and the digital literacy graduate attribute.


The Experiences Of Employers Of Work Placement: A Quantity Surveying Perspective, Tony Cunningham Jun 2010

The Experiences Of Employers Of Work Placement: A Quantity Surveying Perspective, Tony Cunningham

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This phenomenological study examines the employers’ experiences of student work placement in quantity surveying practices. The principal aim of the research is to provide a composite comprehensive description of the work placement educational approach as experienced by of quantity surveying employers by presenting the issues, benefits and drawbacks associated with the approach.

The research design is interpretivist and qualitative in nature. The data was gathered through a series of one pilot and four phenomenological interviews with senior representatives of the quantity surveying profession. The primary concern was to gather rich and deep data which would allow a credible account of …


Peer Assisted Learning For International Business And Languages Students, Odette Gabaudan, Maria-Jose Gonzalez Jan 2010

Peer Assisted Learning For International Business And Languages Students, Odette Gabaudan, Maria-Jose Gonzalez

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This report provides a comprehensive outline of the context for the Peer Assisted Learning Project and the process of implementation in the BA (Hons) International Business and Languages in the academic year 2009-2010. It also includes a set of recommendations arising from the project and it concludes with an outline for future work in the area