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Chris Hall

The Problem With Evidence-Based Policies by Ricardo Hausmann - Project Syndicate - 0 views

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    "Many organizations, from government agencies to philanthropic institutions and aid organizations, now require that programs and policies be "evidence-based." It makes sense to demand that policies be based on evidence and that such evidence be as good as possible, within reasonable time and budgetary limits. But the way this approach is being implemented may be doing a lot of harm, impairing our ability to learn and improve on what we do. "
Chris Hall

Frontiers | The Learning Styles Myth is Thriving in Higher Education | Educational Psyc... - 0 views

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    "The existence of 'Learning Styles' is a common 'neuromyth', and their use in all forms of education has been thoroughly and repeatedly discredited in the research literature. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that their use remains widespread. This perspective article is an attempt to understand if and why the myth of Learning Styles persists. I have done this by analyzing the current research literature to capture the picture that an educator would encounter were they to search for "Learning Styles" with the intent of determining whether the research evidence supported their use. The overwhelming majority (89%) of recent research papers, listed in the ERIC and PubMed research databases, implicitly or directly endorse the use of Learning Styles in Higher Education. These papers are dominated by the VAK and Kolb Learning Styles inventories. These presence of these papers in the pedagogical literature demonstrates that an educator, attempting to take an evidence-based approach to education, would be presented with a strong yet misleading message that the use of Learning Styles is endorsed by the current research literature. This has potentially negative consequences for students and for the field of education research."
Chris Hall

Dr Ben Goldacre: make teaching a truly evidence-based profession. - 0 views

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    Dr Ben Goldacre today set out how teachers in England have the chance to make teaching a truly evidence-based profession.
Chris Hall

Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice - 0 views

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    "The Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice aims to provide a supportive publishing outlet to allow established and particularly new authors to contribute to the scholarly discourse of academic practice (both generally and in their discipline area) through the publication of papers that are theory-based and supported by evidence, as well as through the publication of Opinion Pieces and 'On the Horizon' papers on emerging work."
Chris Jobling

FASTECH: Feedback and Assessment for Students with Technology : JISC - 0 views

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    "FASTECH is designed to use readily available technologies to support the systemic enhancement of assessment and feedback strategies and practices at programme, faculty and institutional levels. A key aim is to provide evidence of, and guidelines for, technological improvements and change processes that can be used to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of assessment and feedback at these levels throughout the sector. By welcoming engagements, developing our work with, and inviting contributions from members of the HE community throughout the project, we aim to build a strong community of practice, focussed upon developing understanding of how to improve assessment and feedback practices and environments."
Chris Hall

Plagiarism Curricula May Reduce Need for Punitive Plagiarism Education | Miller | Evide... - 1 views

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    "Objective - To describe the development and implementation of two courses designed to help university students avoid plagiarism. Design - Quantitative and qualitative analysis. Setting - A university in the United Kingdom. Subjects - An unknown number of university students who took a Plagiarism Awareness Program (PAP) course between 2008 and 2011, and approximately 3,000 university students enrolled in a Plagiarism Avoidance for New Students (PANS) course delivered via a virtual learning environment (VLE) between October and December 2012. The authors attempted to collect rates of continued plagiarism among students who had taken plagiarism education courses. The authors also surveyed 702 university students about plagiarism in 2011. Methods - Data collected from PAP participants informed revision of the authors' approach to plagiarism education and led to development of the second course, PANS. At the end of the course, students completed a test of their knowledge about plagiarism. Authors compared scores from students who took a course supervised by a librarian to the scores from students who took the course independently. Main Results - Students reported that many aspects of citation and attribution are challenging (p. 149). The authors discovered that 93% of students who completed the PANS course facilitated by a librarian in-person passed the final exam with a grade of 70% or higher, while 85% of students who took the same course independently, without a librarian instructor, in an online VLE scored 70% or higher (p. 155). The authors report that referrals of students who plagiarized declined significantly (p-value < 0.001) since the implementation of a plagiarism avoidance curriculum. Conclusion - As reported by the authors, first-year university students require more extensive education about plagiarism avoidance. A university plagiarism avoidance program instructed by librarians reduces the total number of students caught plagiarizing an
Chris Hall

BITE: Recipes for Remarkable Research - FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK! - ... - 0 views

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    "BITE: Recipes for remarkable research is an edited field book capturing the research, learning and experiences of an international network of scholars studying effective and creative research environments. The book encapsulates what it is that enables remarkable research, and offers, as Professor Lizbeth Goodman says, "practical, evidence-based instantiations of ideas and innovations" as well as theoretical knowledge. It is set out as a recipe book, with supporting academic papers and case studies"
Chris Jobling

Why do we demand evidence for our research, but teach on instinct? | the academic teacher - 0 views

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    Shades of @NewtonsNeurosci here I think.
Chris Hall

Johnnie Moore's Weblog: Learning styles = astrology ? - 0 views

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    Ruth Clark's book on Evidence Based Training Methods. It provides some excellent provocative thinking, especially around the whole industry that's arisen around the notion of learning styles.
Chris Hall

Higher Education Academy - Events - Event Viewer - 0 views

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    This seminar is part of the Academy's Evidence-based Practice Seminar Series 2010 and is offered by the Higher Education Academy and its Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance Subject Centre, and the University of Wales, Newport. The seminar was du
Chris Hall

We Need Evidence - But What If We Don't Like The Findings? - 0 views

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    Should institutions should be developing iPhone applications providing, for example, resources of interest to new students?
Chris Hall

Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students' Outcomes in England - Gibbons ... - 0 views

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    We use administrative data to estimate the effect of neighbourhood composition on teenagers' educational and behavioural outcomes in England. We exploit a unique research design based on changes over time in neighbourhood composition experienced by residentially immobile students, where these changes arise purely through residential migration among other students in our data set. The complete coverage of our data allows investigating heterogeneity and non-linearities in the effect of neighbourhood composition at an unprecedented level. Our results show that changes in neighbourhood composition have no effects on test scores but some effects on behavioural outcomes, which are heterogeneous for boys and girls
Chris Hall

Learning Styles Concepts and Evidence - 0 views

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    Journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest December 2008 vol. 9 no. 3 105-119 Harold Pashler,1 Mark McDaniel,2 Doug Rohrer,3 and Robert Bjork4 1University of California, San Diego, 2Washington University in St. Louis, 3University of South Fl
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