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Case Studies To Enhance Graduate Employability: Emerging Careers, Kirsty Mitchell, Madelaine Judd, Shelley Kinash, Linda Crane, Cecily Knight, Matthew Mclean, David Dowling, Ros Schwerdt, Caroline Lovell

Linda Crane

This is one in a series of case studies to enhance graduate employability. The theme of this case study is: • Emerging careers (preparing students for careers that do not yet exist) This case study on the role and context of emerging careers is based on interviews and focus groups with nine people across the stakeholder groups of employed graduates, students, educators and employers from four universities, and three businesses. This particular case study attempts to capture and share the insights of leading higher education thinkers/change agents. It also incorporates data from the surveys and in-depth interviews/focus groups described above. …

Performance, Assessment And Communication In One App: Mobile Tablet Assessment Is Here To Stay, Alistair Campbell Phd, Susan J. Main Mrs

eCULTURE

It is high time we moved performance assessment into the mobile age. Performance is one of the most difficult tasks to assess using traditional methods. The pen-and-paper method generates multiple administrative bottlenecks that prevent the assessor from focusing on their primary task of professional judgment. The application of mobile technology and tablet devices can now replace pen-and-paper assessment, and achieve significant synergies resulting from the combination of technology with the assessors’ professional judgment.

The presentation will demonstrate how the application of mobile technology to the assessment of performances can be successfully achieved. The Touch2Assess (T²A) software process developed …

Saps And Digital Games: Improving Mathematics Transfer And Attitudes In Schools, Richard Van Eck

Teaching, Leadership & Professional Practice Faculty Publications

Many suggest that digital games are a way to address problems with schools, yet research on their ability to promote problem solving, critical thinking, and twenty-first century skill sets appears to be mixed. In this chapter, I suggest that the problem lies not with digital games, but with our conceptualization of what it means to promote problem solving and critical thinking, and how transfer of such skills works in general and, specifically, with games. The power of digital games lies not in some magical power of the medium, but from embedded theories (e.g., situated learning and problem-centered instruction) and from …

Desarrollo De Habilidades Investigativas Mediante La Resolución De Problemas En Ciencias Naturales : Una Experiencia Con Niños De Primer Ciclo, Diana Marcela Aux Bello, María Alejandra Cerón Achicanoy, Nancy Juliet Pineda Rojas

Maestría en Docencia

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo analizar la influencia de la resolución de problemas en el desarrollo de habilidades investigativas: interpretativa, argumentativa y propositiva en Ciencias Naturales, en niños de primer ciclo. La metodología fue de carácter cuasi-experimental de tipo cualitativo-descriptivo, que consistió en aplicar una prueba de entrada, un tratamiento y una prueba de salida, con el fin de establecer su estado inicial y final de desarrollo. Se evidenció como problema el bajo nivel de los estudiantes de primer ciclo en cuanto a la adquisición de habilidades propias de las Ciencias Naturales para la resolución de situaciones problema, por …

Authentic Assessment, Sinead Freeman, James Fox, Vanessa Murphy, Nicola Hughes

Practitioner Research Projects

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