Fwd: Assessment SIG: Re-visiting assessment design: developing students' skills for good academic practice

Assessment Special Interest Group Free Seminar

 

***Apologies for cross posting***

 

Re-visiting assessment design: developing students' skills for good academic practice

9 July 2010, The Higher Education Academy, York

 

Key themes:

• Assessment design
• Plagiarism and collusion

 

The aim of this seminar is to facilitate discussion of issues and identify good practice relating to how assessment can be designed to enable students to develop skills for good academic practice and minimise opportunities for student plagiarism or collusion.

The seminar will be of particular interest to practitioners, researchers and managers.

 

Speakers include:

·         Jill Pickard (Head of University Modular Framework) and Julia Brydon (Senior Lecturer), University of Northampton.

·         Jonathan Gibson (Academic Coordinator), The Higher Education Academy's English Subject Centre.

·         Amanda Relph (Principal Lecturer), University of Hertfordshire.

·         Vincent Perera (Senior Lecturer), Middlesex University.

·         Erica Morris, Senior Adviser, Academy JISC Academic Integrity Service.

 

This event is free of charge.

 

For more information and to book follow this link: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2010/academyevents/09.07.2010_Academic_Integrity_SIG

 

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Fwd: BOOKINGS OPEN - 'Meeting the challenge: Improving Black and minority ethnic student success and attainment' - THURSDAY 8 JULY 2010

 

BOOKINGS OPEN

 

'Meeting the challenge: Improving Black and minority ethnic student success and attainment'.

 

THURSDAY 8 JULY 2010

Coventry Techno Centre, Puma Way, Coventry CV1 2TT

 

Higher Education Academy, Equality Challenge Unit with Coventry University

 

Call for Contributions

 

The call for contributions is now closed. Thank you to those who submitted an abstract for the conference.

 

Booking and Programme

 

The conference is open for bookings. Registration is online at: http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/BME2010

 

There is a £50 charge to attend. Please note that there are a limited number of free places available for research students involved with this agenda.

 

The programme is available at wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/BME2010/Pages/Programme.aspx

 

Key Note Speaker

 

Professor David Gillborn, Professor of Critical Race Studies in Education, Institute of Education, University of London

 

Conference Overview

 

Following publication of the recommendations of the Ethnicity Gender and Degree Attainment Project (Jan 2008), the Academy and Equality Challenge Unit has been engaged in the delivery of a joint programme of activities to support the sector in addressing the project findings. This one day conference provides an opportunity for colleagues to engage with the emerging body of research about the BME student experience and achievement and with initiatives that offer pointers for making in-roads into reducing the BME attainment gap. This will include the work of institutions taking part in the Academy/ECU developmental summit programme to improve the degree attainment of BME students.

 

The event will bring researchers, practitioners, policy makers, managers and students together to share and discuss best practices; generate ideas for new research; and disseminate action orientated institutional research and development initiatives.

Further Information

 

Please visit the conference website, or for further information contact the organisers:

-       Coventry University -  Dr Christine Broughan (c.broughan@coventry.ac.uk) or Dr Gurnam Singh (g.singh@coventry.ac.uk)

-       Higher Education Academy - Jane Berry (Jane.Berry@heacademy.ac.uk)

-       Equality Challenge Unit – Gary Loke (Gary.Loke@ecu.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

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Fwd: Booking now open for: Research informed Teaching: Delivering participation, engagement and enquiry 14th July

Research informed Teaching: Delivering participation, engagement and enquiry

Wednesday July 14 2010, 9.30am – 4.45pm

Staffordshire University

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Alan Jenkins, Oxford Brookes University

Undergraduate Research for All Students?

 

Prof. Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Lancashire

The 21st Century Academic: Implementing Research-informed Teaching

 

The aim of the conference is to bring together practitioners, academics, researchers, students, policy makers and learning support staff to explore the pedagogic, technological and skills issues surrounding the contested notions of Research informed Teaching and the research-teaching nexus in higher education.

 

Provisional programme attached.

 

Please use the online booking form at:

 

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/research/research_informed_teaching/events/bookingform/

 

Cost of attendance: £95 (£45 Staffordshire University employees and SURF employees). Students who are involved in presentations can attend free of charge.

 

For more information on the conference please visit the conference web page at:

 

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/research/research_informed_teaching/events/index.jsp#conference

 

We look forward to seeing you on the 14^th of July.

 

Dr Geoff Walton, BA (Hons), MA, PhD, PgCHPE, FHEA, MCLIP

Academic Skills Tutor Librarian & Research informed Teaching Project Co-ordinator,

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Staffordshire University,

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