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Full-Text Articles in Education
Medical Student Mistreatment: Understanding 'Public Humiliation', Jesse D. Markman, Thomas M. Soeprono, Heidi L. Combs, Ellen M. Cosgrove
Medical Student Mistreatment: Understanding 'Public Humiliation', Jesse D. Markman, Thomas M. Soeprono, Heidi L. Combs, Ellen M. Cosgrove
School of Medicine Faculty Publications
Introduction: Mistreatment in medical school is an enduring problem in medical education. Little is known about the concept of ‘public humiliation,’ one of the most common forms of mistreatment as identified on the AAMC Graduation Questionnaire. The objective of this study was to further investigate ‘public humiliation’ and to understand the underpinnings and realities of ‘public humiliation’ in medical education. Method: Focus groups of medical students on clinical rotation at the University of Washington School of Medicine were conducted over one and a half years. Qualitative analysis of responses identified emergent themes. Results: Study results included responses from 28 third …
Practice Variability Promotes An External Focus Of Attention And Enhances Motor Skill Learning, Lee-Kuen Chua, Maria Katrina Dimapilis, Takehiro Iwatsuki, Reza Abdollahipour, Rebecca Lewthwaite, Gabriele Wulf
Practice Variability Promotes An External Focus Of Attention And Enhances Motor Skill Learning, Lee-Kuen Chua, Maria Katrina Dimapilis, Takehiro Iwatsuki, Reza Abdollahipour, Rebecca Lewthwaite, Gabriele Wulf
Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences Faculty Publications
Variability in practice has been shown to enhance motor skill learning. Benefits of practice variability have been attributed to motor schema formation (variable versus constant practice), or more effortful information processing (random versus blocked practice). We hypothesized that, among other mechanisms, greater practice variability might promote an external focus of attention on the intended movement effect, while less variability would be more conducive to a less effective internal focus on body movements. In Experiment 1, the learning of a throwing task was enhanced by variable versus constant practice, and variable group participants reported focusing more on the distance to the …
Benefits Of Formative Teaching Observations, Dan Gianoutsos
Benefits Of Formative Teaching Observations, Dan Gianoutsos
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Formative teaching observations by peer teaching faculty can provide helpful advice about small changes to teaching that can improve teachers’ and students’ experiences during the term (see reference list). The researcher posits that the UNLV Teaching Observation project catalyzed real-time changes to the participating faculty’s teaching and generated short-term solutions to some of their teaching challenges.
Student Outcomes -Online Vs. Hybrid, Sharon Jalene
Student Outcomes -Online Vs. Hybrid, Sharon Jalene
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
The purpose of this class is to introduce the student to the field of Kinesiology -the science of human movement. Concepts in the various subfields of Kinesiology are examined and career opportunities are explored. Students will also gain a better understanding of the course concepts through online lectures, discussions, assignments, and quizzes
Mentoring Meetings Increase Student Performance On “High Stakes” Projects In Stem, Elana A. Paladino
Mentoring Meetings Increase Student Performance On “High Stakes” Projects In Stem, Elana A. Paladino
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
The current project addresses whether one-on-one, mentoring meetings to discuss poster rough drafts will impact learning more consistently.
The Importance Of Universal Design In Teaching, Maria Pena
The Importance Of Universal Design In Teaching, Maria Pena
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences, including cognitive neuroscience, that guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences.
Trauma-Informed Schools And Educators, Carolina Meza Perez, Michelle Paul
Trauma-Informed Schools And Educators, Carolina Meza Perez, Michelle Paul
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Educators, staff, and administrators in the school community will be prepared to recognize and respond to those who have been impacted by traumatic stress.
Student Polling In Webcampus, Benjamin Root, Jennie Tran, Joey Kim, Philip Cheung
Student Polling In Webcampus, Benjamin Root, Jennie Tran, Joey Kim, Philip Cheung
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Our goal was to increase student engagement with online courses by building a student polling system that works inside of WebCampus.
Connecting Ethics To Fys Class Participation, Emily Shreve
Connecting Ethics To Fys Class Participation, Emily Shreve
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
One goal of UNLV’s First-Year Seminars is that students are introduced to, and understand the purpose of, the University Undergraduate Learning Outcomes (UULOs). This activity introduces students to Citizenship and Ethics, focusing especially on applying ethics in situations directly relevant to students’ daily lives.
Engaging Assignments Increase Performance, Jorge Ramon Fonseca Cacho
Engaging Assignments Increase Performance, Jorge Ramon Fonseca Cacho
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
It is well known that students who complete homework assignments and other outside of class activities related to the course lead to improve student outcomes. However, engaging a student and motivating them to complete their assignments is no easy feat. To address this, we developed new assignments for two sections of the Fall 2018 course CS135.
Reducing Anxiety While Boosting Creativity: Lessons From The Progymnasmata, Bryan Blankfield
Reducing Anxiety While Boosting Creativity: Lessons From The Progymnasmata, Bryan Blankfield
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
The fear of public speaking is a widely shared among individuals. This can be difficult to overcome when students are assigned several large, heavily-weighted speeches with few opportunities to become acclimated to standing in front of an audience. Several times throughout the semester students are assigned a 2–3 minute long speech inspired by the progymnasmata (a series of rhetorical exercises from Ancient Greece). The speeches vary widely from presenting a fable to impersonating an individual.
Categorization Of Exam Questions To Improve Metacognition, Tiffany Barrett
Categorization Of Exam Questions To Improve Metacognition, Tiffany Barrett
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
This practice addresses UNLV students’ need for greater metacognitive awareness. Students often employ memorization as a study strategy when preparing for an exam. This can create an inability to apply the knowledge in a complex or different scenario. We know that “practice retrieving” study activities produce greater gains in meaningful learning (Karpicke 2011) but often students don’t identify a need for a change in study habits and a deeper level of understanding, especially if their exam score is considered passing.
Using Microanalysis (Mfd) To Teach & Train Students, Sara Smock Jordan
Using Microanalysis (Mfd) To Teach & Train Students, Sara Smock Jordan
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue (MFD), that is, the detailed and replicable examination of any aspect of observable communicative behavior as it occurs, moment by moment, in a face-to-face dialogue (Bavelas, Gerwing, Healing, & Tomori, 2016) to examine professional conversations. MFD is an inductive methodology which uses detailed operational definitions and analysis rules, rather than relying on subjective judgment, to produce high inter-analyst agreement (Bavelas et al., 2016). MFD principles are applicable to teaching, training, and supervising clinicians in our CFT program.
Using Problem-Based Learning To Promote Self-Directed Learning At Unlv School Of Medicine, Rosalie Kalili
Using Problem-Based Learning To Promote Self-Directed Learning At Unlv School Of Medicine, Rosalie Kalili
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
It is imperative that medical students develop skills that promote life-long learning and manage the doubling rate of medical knowledge. Through the use of problem-based learning (PBL), self-directed learning (SDL) can be practiced; and both can serve as ongoing learning approaches beyond medical school.
Design Data-Driven Assignments For Clear, Transparent, And Efficient Teaching, Julian Kilker
Design Data-Driven Assignments For Clear, Transparent, And Efficient Teaching, Julian Kilker
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Working with students in hybrid, inperson, or online courses involves many data interactions. Data-driven assignments are structured to gather and evaluate student work at both macro and micro levels needed to evaluate learning and improve course materials. This practice uses Google Forms and linked Sheets to create data-driven assignments and custom dashboards.
Embedding Accessibility In Course Development, Gabriel Judkins, Rex Suba
Embedding Accessibility In Course Development, Gabriel Judkins, Rex Suba
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Accessibility as practice allows all to independently: acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, enjoy the same services within the same time frame with equivalent ease of use.
Fostering Student Engagement: Four Strategies, Erica Marti, Ryan Sherman, Haroon Stephen
Fostering Student Engagement: Four Strategies, Erica Marti, Ryan Sherman, Haroon Stephen
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
In response to studies demonstrating that poor teaching was the cause of many students leaving math, science, and engineering programs, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) developed the ExCEEd(Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Teaching Workshop. Several faculty from the UNLV Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Construction have attended the highly intensive five-day workshop. To evaluate the impact on student engagement, four basic instructional strategies from the ExCEEdworkshop, applicable to all fields, were tested and assessed during the Fall 2018 semester: Questioning techniques, physical models, instructor involvement, and group work.
Infographics As Data Visualization Class Assignment, Kim Nehls
Infographics As Data Visualization Class Assignment, Kim Nehls
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Data visualization is commonplace. UNLV students need to be prepared.
Student-Led Discussions, Deborah A. Obara
Student-Led Discussions, Deborah A. Obara
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
According to constructivist learning theory informed by cognitive and educational psychology, the optimal conditions needed for learning include accurate assessment of student background knowledge; engaging, scaffolded activities; cognitive elaboration; and more knowledgeable others available to assist when needed.
Designing Engaged Learning Experiences: Service-Learning At Unlv, Rian Satterwhite
Designing Engaged Learning Experiences: Service-Learning At Unlv, Rian Satterwhite
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
“Service-learning is a form of experiential education in which students engage in activities that address human and community needs together with structured opportunities for reflection designed to achieve desired learning outcomes.” Jacoby and Associates, 1996
Active Learning And Transparency In Teaching Gateway Mathematics Courses, Viktoria Savatorova
Active Learning And Transparency In Teaching Gateway Mathematics Courses, Viktoria Savatorova
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
The need: we concentrate our attention on the gateway courses (for example, PreCalculus ) which have had traditionally low passing scores and retention. Objectives: in our teaching practice we aim to be consistent assuring: Active participation in the class work based on understanding the concepts and ability to implement them; Clear understanding of the requirements and the grading system (what should be done, when it needs to be done, and how to do that?)
Reality In The Classroom: Teaching Critical Thinking With Scenarios, Timothy T. Self
Reality In The Classroom: Teaching Critical Thinking With Scenarios, Timothy T. Self
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
One of the challenges for hospitality educators is to develop critical thinking skills in the future leaders of the industry. It is often thought that students will develop this skill as a by product of course work, but research indicates that it must be explicitly taught.
Dynamic Lightboard Videos, Kristina Schmid, Peter Mccandless, Eddie Gomez
Dynamic Lightboard Videos, Kristina Schmid, Peter Mccandless, Eddie Gomez
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
STEM content in online courses can be difficult to convey. Instructional videos are often limited to voiced-over, handwritten examples which can limit the quality of dynamic presentation. The need is for a technological medium that facilitates a personal connection. The Office of Online Education’s new lightboard technology enhances video presentation. This solution supports online learning and student engagement to promote student success.
Pre-Tests Improve Students’ Critical Thinking, Alison Sloat
Pre-Tests Improve Students’ Critical Thinking, Alison Sloat
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
First-year students’ critical thinking and analysis in science is rudimentary in SCI 101, the College of Sciences First Year Seminar. I tested whether the use of Pretests (Figures 1 and 2) can improve students’ inquiry, critical thinking, and analysis skills.
Body Continuum Polling: A Dynamic Technique For Any Classroom, Erica S. Tietjen
Body Continuum Polling: A Dynamic Technique For Any Classroom, Erica S. Tietjen
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Body continuum polling is an active technique designed to engage students physically in the classroom space, by getting them move around the classroom to place themselves along a gradient (less to more, low to high, etc.) that spans the room. Students provide their opinion on a question or topic, combined with a kinesthetic approach that engages them with movement (Mobley & Fisher, 2014).
Quote Of The Day: Increasing Student Engagement With Textbooks And Common Readers, Brandy Smith
Quote Of The Day: Increasing Student Engagement With Textbooks And Common Readers, Brandy Smith
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Ensuring that students not only complete assigned readings, but also actively engage with the readings, is a common challenge faced by faculty. Research indicates that approximately only onethird to one-half of students complete assigned readings for any given day (Hatteberg & Steffy, 2013; Hoeft, 2012; Burchfield & Sappington, 2000).
A Strategy To Increase Formative Assessment And Student Engagement During Labs, Jennifer C. Utz, Angela Hammond
A Strategy To Increase Formative Assessment And Student Engagement During Labs, Jennifer C. Utz, Angela Hammond
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
In a 200-level biology laboratory course, we developed learning objectives (LO) for each lab. We also developed practice activities that directly corresponded to each LO. Students earned participation credit through completing the practice activities. As students progressed through their lab work and felt ready, they would request that the lab instructor come check their progress towards mastering a particular LO. If students were successful with the practice, the instructor would mark completion for that LO on the students’ lab handout. If students were not successful, the instructor would provide feedback and recommend additional learning approaches. Since the purpose of the …
Civic Engagement And Service Learning Partnerships, Diane Villa, C. Stockwell, M. Cohen, K. Stucki
Civic Engagement And Service Learning Partnerships, Diane Villa, C. Stockwell, M. Cohen, K. Stucki
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Service learning is designed to promote volunteerism and civic awareness. Community engagement in higher education specifically involves university members partnering with local community organizations to address a need. Students engage with community partners through service learning and other activities (Moore & Mendez, 2014). Service learning is a practice that connects new knowledge and social responsibility through active learning (Benson & Younkin, 1996).
The Flipped Classroom And Its Impact On Student Engagement And Academic Performance In A Culinary Arts, Career And Technical Education Program, Michael Holik
Journal of Research in Technical Careers
The purpose of this study was to gather evidence from a CTE culinary arts program to determine if students perform better academically and are more engaged in the flipped classroom using digital technology, than the traditional classroom. The study included 24 participants in a post-secondary, CTE culinary arts program who were divided into two groups of 12: a traditional, teacher-centered group and a flipped, student-centered group. Utilizing action-based research, surveys, journals, and an engagement matrix were created and used. Although not statistically significant, student grades in the flipped classroom were nearly 4% higher than those in the traditional classroom and …