3.3

A part of 3.3: Inquiry on Teaching and Learning Poster + Talk session. Assessing the Development of Sentence-Level Writing Competence in a Second Year Science Course Jonathan Vroom, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy, UTM Michael Kaler, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, ISUP, UTM Christoph Richter, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Biology, UTM While many post-secondary teachers have mixed feelings on the merits of giving students sentence-level (grammatical and syntactical) feedback, recent research suggests that students do in fact want and expect this feedback (Lee, 2004; Blaauw-Hara, 2006; and Elwood & Bode, 2014). Moreover, when [...]

A part of 3.3: Inquiry on Teaching and Learning Poster + Talk session. Investigating the Impact of Optional Group-work on the Student Experience Jonathan Calver, Teaching Stream, Post Doc/Course Instructor (CUPE 3902, Unit 1), Computer Science, FAS Michelle Craig, Professor, Teaching Stream, Computer Science, FAS Jennifer Campbell, Professor, Teaching Stream, Computer Science, FAS We discuss the motivation for a current research study ongoing in the Department of Computer Science, describe the data collected, and present preliminary results. The study investigates the impact of allowing students to optionally work in small groups (1-3 students) on assignments in first year and [...]