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Scott Ramsay
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Always one of the most fun days of the year, watching the students graduate and march out to the sound of the university organ then a piper around the quads 🎉

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Staff members attending graduation ceremony
December 12, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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To this day, I remain bitter that a journal made us change the title of a paper into the effect of weather on tuberculosis notifications from “Don’t blame it on the sunshine”
November 27, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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Seems pointedly timed, given my last post... Thanks, universe
emilynordmann.bsky.social Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Nov 27
2017 meta-analysis on the factors that predict student achievement in higher education - teacher prep and organisation was third strongest effect size of 105 variables above intelligence & prior achievement, what you do matters.

Link www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/fb...

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Alt text for the image: A table listing rankings for different variables related to instruction and student motivation. The columns are labeled: Rank, Area, Category, and Variable. Rank: 1, Area: Instruction, Category: Assessment, Variable: Student peer-assessment. Rank: 2, Area: Student, Category: Motivation, Variable: Performance self-efficacy. Rank: 3, Area: Instruction, Category: Stimulating meaningful learning, Variable: Teacher’s preparation/organization of the course. Rank: 4, Area: Instruction, Category: Presentation, Variable: Teacher’s clarity and understandableness. Rank: 5, Area: Student, Category: Motivation, Variable: Grade goal. Rank: 6, Area: Student, Category: Strategies, Variable: Frequency of class attendance. Rank: 7, Area: Student, Category: Intelligence and prior achievement, Variable: High school GPA. Rank: 8, Area: Instruction, Category: Assessment, Variable: Student self-assessment. Rank: 9, Area: Instruction, Category: Presentation, Variable: Teacher’s stimulation of interest in the course and its subject matter. Variables Associated With Achievement in Higher Education: A Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses Michael Schneider and Franzis Preckel University of Trier The last 2 decades witnessed a surge in empirical studies on the variables associated with achievement in higher education. A number of meta-analyses synthesized these findings. In our systematic literature review, we included 38 meta-analyses investigating 105 correlates of achievement, based on 3,330 effect sizes from almost 2 million students. We provide a list of the 105 variables, ordered by the effect size, and summary statistics for central research topics. The results highlight the close relation between social interaction in courses and achievement. Achievement is also strongly associated with the stimulation of meaningful learning by presenting information in a clear way, relating it to the students, and using conceptually demanding learning tasks. Instruction and communication technology has comparably weak effect sizes, which did not increase over time. Strong moderator effects are found for almost all instructional methods, indicating that how a method is implemented in detail strongly affects achievement. Teachers with high-achieving students invest time and effort in designing the microstructure of their courses, establish clear learning goals, and employ feedback practices. This emphasizes the importance of teacher training in higher education. Students with high achievement are characterized by high self-efficacy, high prior achievement and intelligence, conscientiousness, and the goal-directed use of learning strategies. Barring the paucity of controlled experiments and the lack of meta-analyses on recent educational innovations, the variables associated with achievement in higher education are generally well investigated and well understood. By using these findings, teachers, university administrators, and policymakers can increase the effectivity of higher education. Keywords: academic achieveme…
November 27, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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What was the best end-of-module feedback survey question you ever used? (Or filled out on someone else's module?)

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a man stands in front of a white board with the words " can everyone stop asking "
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November 27, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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*Asked 250 first-year students for a suggestion while their classmates filed in*

*Answer #2 - 'Ah, that'll do.'*

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Screenshot of a poll asking 'What's your favourite song?'. Second answer was Groove is in the Heart by Deee-Lite. Photo of the song being played on the computer screen to the 250 students.
November 27, 2024 at 10:49 AM