Tag: W – Wellbeing

Collaborative Innovation Project

Shining the Spotlight: A Collaborative Journey to Support Scholarship in Higher Education

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In 2023, a group of committed academics came together to address a key issue in higher education: the lack of support for teaching-focused staff. Building on their previous individual and joint work, they had already started creating resources around recognising and rewarding higher education academics and scholars. They recognised that, while there were many scholarly… Continue reading Shining the Spotlight: A Collaborative Journey to Support Scholarship in Higher Education

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Regular testing: Part 2: Regular testing increases student motivation and self-efficacy

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Katy Burgess1,2, Anca Dobrescu2, and Jess Fielding2 1 Cardiff University, 2 University of Bristol We previously wrote a blog explaining benefits of retrieval. While there is a wealth of research demonstrating the benefits of testing for learning and long-term memory formation, there is less understanding about students’ experience of regular testing. There are a variety… Continue reading Regular testing: Part 2: Regular testing increases student motivation and self-efficacy

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Annual NTF Symposia

Regular testing: Part 1: Test your students regularly

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Katy Burgess, Cardiff University  Testing is a loaded term. When people think of testing, they think of assessment. Anxiety. Stress. Judgement. A number, meant to capture how good or bad your knowledge is on a particular topic.   But what if I told you that we should not see testing as a form of assessment? We… Continue reading Regular testing: Part 1: Test your students regularly