Contents
List of illustrations viii
Notes on contributors x
Acknowledgements xvii
Foreword xviii
Part 1 Teaching, supervising and learning in higher education 1
1 A user's guide 3
Heather Fry, Steve Ketteridge and Stephanie Marshall
2 Understanding student learning 8
Heather Fry, Steve Ketteridge and Stephanie Marshall
3 Encouraging student motivation 27
Sherria L. Hoskins and Stephen E. Newstead
4 Planning teaching and learning: curriculum design and development 40
Lorraine Stefani
5 Lecturing to large groups 58
Ann Morton
6 Teaching and learning in small groups 72
Sandra Griffiths
7 E-learning - an introduction 85
Sam Brenton
8 Teaching and learning for employability: knowledge is not the only outcome
Pauline Kneale
9 Supporting student learning
David Gosling
10 Assessing student learning
Lin Norton
11 Supervising projects and dissertations
Stephanie Marshall
12 Supervising research students
Steve Ketteridge and Morag Shiach
13 Teaching quality, standards and enhancement
Judy McKimm
14 Evaluating courses and teaching
Dai Hounsell
Part 2 Teaching in the disciplines
15 Teaching in the disciplines
Denis Berthiaume
16 Key aspects of learning and teaching in experimental sciences
Ian Hughes and Tina Overton
17 Key aspects of teaching and learning in mathematics and statistics
Joe Kyle and Peter Kahn
18 Key aspects of teaching and learning in engineering
John Dickens and Carol Arlett
19 Key aspects of teaching and learning in computing science Gerry McAllister and Sylvia Alexander
20 Key aspects of teaching and learning in arts, humanities and social sciences
Philip W. Martin
21 Key aspects of teaching and learning in languages 323
Carol Gray and John Klapper
22 Key aspects of teaching and learning in the visual arts 345
Alison Shreeve, Shan Wareing and Linda Drew
23 Key aspects of teaching and learning: enhancing learning in
legal education 363
Tracey Varnava and Julian Webb
24 Key aspects of teaching and learning in accounting, business
and management 382
Ursula Lucas and Peter Milford
25 Key aspects of teaching and learning in economics 405
Liz Barnett
26 Key aspects of teaching and learning in medicine and dentistry 424
Adam Feather and Heather Fry
27 Key aspects of teaching and learning in nursing and midwifery 449
Pam Parker and Della Freeth
Part 3 Enhancing personal practice 467
28 Enhancing personal practice: establishing teaching and
learning credentials 469
Heather Fry and Steve Ketteridge
29 Teaching excellence as a vehicle for career progression 485
Stephanie Marshall and Gus Pennington
Glossary 499
Index 513
Illustrations
FIGURES
2.1 The Kolb Learning Cycle 15
4.1 The logical model of curriculum development 52
4.2 A modification to Cowan's earlier model 53
4.3 Views of the curriculum 54
11.1 Supervisor-supervisee relationship in project supervision 153
14.1 Sources and methods of feedback 202
14.2 The evaluation cycle 208
15.1 Model of discipline-specific pedagogical knowledge (DPK) for
university teaching 219
24.1 The 'for-about' spectrum in business education 384
24.2 Shifting the focus along the 'for-about' spectrum 391
26.1 PBLat St George's 430
TABLES
2.1 Learning styles 19
2.2 Classification of academic knowledge 20
3.1 Reasons for studying 28
3.2 Percentage of students agreeing with questions on the ASSIST scale 32
3.3 Motivational generalisations and design principles 35-36
4.1 The University of Auckland: graduate profile 42
5.1 Emphasising the structure of lectures using signals and clues 62
7.1 Hypothetical teaching situations and possible e-learning responses 89-90
9.1 Questions students ask themselves 118
10.1 Characteristics of grades A, B and C 140
12.1 University of East Anglia: full-time research degrees 168
12.2 Doctoral qualifications obtained in the UK, 2001 to 2005 170
15.1 Dimensions associated with components of the knowledge base
for teaching 219-221
15.2 Dimensions associated with components of disciplinary specificity 221
15.3 Dimensions associated with components of the personal
epistemology 222
23.1 Skills and cognitive levels assessed by law coursework and
examinations 376
24.1 A critical reading framework for empirical academic papers 397
28.1A The UK Professional Standards Framework 470
28.1B Areas of activity, knowledge and values within the Framework 471