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Measurement And Scale Development Skills For Public Health Doctoral Scholars, Manoj Sharma
Measurement And Scale Development Skills For Public Health Doctoral Scholars, Manoj Sharma
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Web-based synchronous teaching is gaining popularity all over the world. In web-based synchronous teaching, both pedagogical robustness and the building of content expertise are mandatory. I taught a new doctoral course, HED 763 Measurement and Scale Development in Social and Behavioral Health in the Spring of 2022. The specific teaching techniques that I used were (a) enhanced pedagogical features that included delivery as web-based synchronous, organizing the course in Canvas and making it available from day 1, recording all lectures beforehand in Panopto, utilizing case studies, employing WebEx and its breakout sessions feature, guest lectures, and having weekly skill-building activities …
Modeling Collaborative Research Practices With Zotero, Julian Kilker
Modeling Collaborative Research Practices With Zotero, Julian Kilker
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The early stages of research when students explore topics and evaluate resources are critical. Yet researchers can be overwhelmed by evaluating sources, organizing resources and notes, and working with collaborators. During these stages it is particularly important to model meaningful research relationships to support student success. I address these challenges by having students explore Zotero, a free “research assistant” application and web portal, as they work on structured research assignments. While Zotero is known as a powerful citation manager, my practice focuses on its features that are most relevant to storing, organizing, and sharing resources while working on both informal …
Engaging Remote Students Through Planning And Play Using Shared Google Docs, Julian Kilker
Engaging Remote Students Through Planning And Play Using Shared Google Docs, Julian Kilker
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Like many faculty teaching remotely, I faced challenges with student engagement, participation, and feedback, as well as balancing planned and impromptu course activities. In response, I explored using Google Docs to create productive and playful collaborative spaces inspired by Marie Foulston’s informal “Party in a Shared Google Doc” social experiment.
Remote Teaching Of Research Methods, Manoj Sharma
Remote Teaching Of Research Methods, Manoj Sharma
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Research Methods (PBH 360-1002) offered by the School of Public Health was taught remotely by Manoj Sharma to undergraduate students (primarily from public health) in Fall 2020. The specific teaching techniques that were used in teaching this course were delivery as remote learning, organizing the entire course in Canvas and making it available from day 1, recording all lectures beforehand in Panopto, utilizing cases studies, employing WebEx and its breakout sessions, and having skill-building activities in each module that were sequential. In this course, the fourth-generation multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change was utilized from a pedagogical perspective to …
Equity Design Framework, Lindsay J. Russell
Equity Design Framework, Lindsay J. Russell
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The Equity Design Framework allows instructors to address student equity in their online classes by taking a critical look at their current teaching practices and find ways to enhance equitable opportunities for all students. The framework is set up so the instructor can look at their online course and determine specific aspects that they would like to assess in regards to equity. Instructors then measure their current practices and look for ways they can incorporate equity either through their own self-reflection or by building self-reflective practices into their own teaching.
Critically Thinking About Real-World Content And Practices: The Theory Show & Tell, Erika Engstrom
Critically Thinking About Real-World Content And Practices: The Theory Show & Tell, Erika Engstrom
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Analytical and communication skills list high on employers’ priorities. Beyond assessing comprehension through exams and research papers, this project requires, pilot research using content analysis, in-class presentation, short-form synthesis of findings.
Enacting Agency Through Influence On Power Relationships, Steve Hayden
Enacting Agency Through Influence On Power Relationships, Steve Hayden
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Agency is the temporal and ecological understanding of the capacity to make choices, take principled action,and enact positive change. Why is agency important? Because teaching is complex! 1. New policy directions 2. Wider variety of stakeholder voices 3. Increase in student diversity 4. Power relationships are embedded in school context: Hierarchical structure, Accountability Measures, Evaluative components
Connecting With Students As A Motivator For Learning, Michelle Arroyo
Connecting With Students As A Motivator For Learning, Michelle Arroyo
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Students want to feel cared for and that their instructors have their best educational interests in mind. Having an instructor who demonstrates compassion and shows empathy toward students creates a positive classroom climate and the course is more meaningful to the students at UNLV.
Reducing Anxiety While Boosting Creativity: Lessons From The Progymnasmata, Bryan Blankfield
Reducing Anxiety While Boosting Creativity: Lessons From The Progymnasmata, Bryan Blankfield
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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
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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.
Reality In The Classroom: Teaching Critical Thinking With Scenarios, Timothy T. Self
Reality In The Classroom: Teaching Critical Thinking With Scenarios, Timothy T. Self
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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.
Working Groups As Classroom Management Style, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Kathryn Rafferty
Working Groups As Classroom Management Style, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Kathryn Rafferty
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There is a need at UNLV to improve student retention across disciplines, which can be done by improving students’ confidence in their performance, improving their satisfaction with classes and their major selections, and providing welcoming and open spaces for participation and inclusion.
Are Dogs Better Than Cats?: Teaching Oral & Written Persuasion Skills, Sara Mathis
Are Dogs Better Than Cats?: Teaching Oral & Written Persuasion Skills, Sara Mathis
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First generation students often come into UNLV underprepared for the rigors of speaking and writing. Student’s success in their courses and future careers depend on their abilities to persuade through oral and written skills.
Volunteering In The Community: Combining Service And Learning, Elena Gandia Garcia
Volunteering In The Community: Combining Service And Learning, Elena Gandia Garcia
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Most of the patients who use the services offered by the Lied Pediatric Clinic are minorities (70%), and half of those patients are Hispanic. The clinic lacks of professional interpreters to help monolingual doctors and residents to communicate with their patients.
Instructional Methods That Improve Outcomes For Unlv Students In The Virtual Classroom, Tiffiany Howard
Instructional Methods That Improve Outcomes For Unlv Students In The Virtual Classroom, Tiffiany Howard
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The demand for online education programs has resulted in the expansion of course and degree offerings, and a steady increase in online student enrollment nationwide (U.S. News, 2016). While the goal of online education is to improve access to higher education, historically underrepresented groups experience lower course completion rates and poorer grade performance in online classes, when compared to underrepresented students enrolled in hybrid and in person courses.
Using A Breakout Box To Encourage The 4cs In The Classroom, Erica S. Tietjen
Using A Breakout Box To Encourage The 4cs In The Classroom, Erica S. Tietjen
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Small groups can benefit from practicing the “4Cs” skills that will continue to be important in the 21st century (NEA, 2017): Critical thinking Communication Collaboration Creativity
Photo Assignments: An Exploration Of Student Retention Rate, Lawrence Mullen
Photo Assignments: An Exploration Of Student Retention Rate, Lawrence Mullen
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In an attempt to increase student retention and graduation rates, many colleges and universities have some sort of freshman course, or first-year seminar that serves to introduce students to college life. The course also helps students transition from high school.
Approaching Intersections In The Classroom, Shelly Volsche
Approaching Intersections In The Classroom, Shelly Volsche
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Most university professionals are accustomed to understanding diversity by demographics.
Socrative Student And Real Time Assessment, Emma Frances Bloomfield
Socrative Student And Real Time Assessment, Emma Frances Bloomfield
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Many graduate K-12 without skills necessary to manage learning (ACT, 2008)
Critical Service Learning, Anna C. Smedly-Lopez
Critical Service Learning, Anna C. Smedly-Lopez
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Service Learning Initiative for Community Engagement in Sociology (SLICES) is a critical, research-focused, community-based, leadership and knowledge project. By engaging in Community Based Participatory Action Research Projects (CBPAR) students have an opportunity to work multiple semesters, if they choose, to develop research skills, serve in leadership roles, serve and collaborate with local organization, and engage in professional development.