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Exams: Deleting Questions Afterwards
How do you proceed when you notice afterwards that a particular exam question was wrong, unreasonably difficult or unclear? How do you delete a question from the exam set?
Avoid DeletingPrevention is better than cure:
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Internationalization of Students and Lecturers in the Faculty
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Internationalization' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
The faculty internationalisation policy plan is in line with Ghent University’s vision and is attuned to the objectives as formulated in the Integrated …
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Student Reflection
Context
Ghent University has a long-standing tradition of student involvement. At Ghent University, student involvement can take different forms: student representatives contribute to and participate in the decision making process with regard to education at different levels (at the level of the study programme, the faculty and the university). In …
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Work Placement: Points to Consider for Study Programmes
What?
A work placement is a set of independent learning and individual coaching situations. During experiential learning in professional practice, students participate in the day-to-day business of a host organisation. The purpose of a work placement is to practice and apply profession-oriented knowledge, skills and attitudes. It is the course …
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Structural Contact with Minors during the Work Placement: Mandatory Check of the Criminal Record Certificate
The Flemish Government has decreed that as of 1 February 2023 any organisation offering activities which involve the education, psycho-medical-social assistance, youth counselling, child protection services, supervision and animation of minors must carry out a mandatory check of the criminal record certificate of certain new employees. This mandatory check …
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How to Efficiently Check Work Placement Documents?
Work placement folders or portfolios are often used as instruments to supervise and assess work placements. A considerable disadvantage of these, however, is that they take a lot of time to check afterwards. Try to find a balance between an assignment that can be checked in a limited amount of …
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DUGA: a Quiz App for and by Ghent University Staff
DUGA (Dare to Game) is an app to organise online quizzes.The leaderboard provides a competition element before, during or after your lecture.
You can find this page now on intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet-ict/SitePages/en/DUGA.aspx
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Student Insurance During Work Placement
Ghent University Work Placement Students: Types of Insurance?
Ghent University has taken out the following insurances (in Dutch) for trainees:
industrial/workplace accidents, in order to ensure that students are also insured for occupational accidents at the location of the work placement, and when travelling to and from the work placement …
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How can you let students participate in setting work placement objectives?
It is important to start from clear work placement competencies. These should be clearly phrased and transparently communicated to students. They can be a starting point for letting the students phrase their own work placement objectives that accentuate, concretize or deepen the learning outcomes, thus increasing engagement and motivation. …
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Why does Ghent University think work placements are important?
Ghent Universty attaches great importance to work placement because they offer an added value, both for the students and the programmes. This educational tip will discuss that added value. The tip is based on the Ghent University vision on work placements, as approved by the Educational Council.
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Preparing for the lecture: how do you stimulate that?
Do you want to use your lecturing time as efficiently as possible? Then sometimes it is necessary for students to complete one or more assignments in advance. With this education tip your students will turn up to your lectures prepared.
Tips for preparing students for your lecture Emphasise the importance … Read more -
Self-Assessment
What is Self-Assessment?
Self-assessment is the process in which students critically analyse and evaluate their actions and/or performance quality using a set of predetermined criteria. It enables them to identify and reflect on their strengths and weaknesses.
Self-assessment teaches students how to improve their achievements. It is a potent teaching …
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Partial Results: to Round Off or not to Round Off?
Are you allowed to round off partial exam results? The answer is straightforward: no! Rounding off is only allowed with the final result, not with partial results. The Education Tip below explains the details.
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The Study Programme’s Vision, Mission Statement and Programme-specific Learning Outcomes
What?
A study programme’s vision and competencies (or learning outcomes) comprise its profile, position, content-related focus and strategic choices and comply with Ghent University’s vision of premium-quality education. Drawing up a vision text and a set of programme-specific competencies (or learning outcomes) requires input from stakeholders like the students, the …
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Central Education Monitor
In order to fully understand the monitors it is important to be aware of the underlying PDCA model, the operational objectives and indicators. Click here for more information on how the PDCA model should be interpreted when consulting a monitor.
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Communication Tools in Ufora: an Overview
Clear and structured communication via Ufora is an absolute necessity for your students, especially in times of online or blended education. This page discusses how best to communicate, i.e. which are the proper Ufora tools.
You can find this page now on intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet-ict/SitePages/en/Communiceren-via-Ufora.aspx?connectsource=TopicNavigator
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Curios
Curios is the online testing environment that is developed, maintained and supported by the Educational Technology Office of the Ghent University Information and Communication Technology Department. The environment has its own authoring environment and integrates smoothly with Ufora.
Curios is an extensive (and therefore somewhat more complex) testing environment with …
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Referral Card: What Referral Services Are There?
Lecturers sometimes receive questions that go beyond the scope of their official teaching assignment: students want to talk about personal problems, want to refresh basic knowledge that they need for the course unit, send questions to which they should have known the answer for a long time, etc.
With such …
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Embedding the External Perspective
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Embedding the External Perspective' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan indicate in general terms: the faculty’s vision on embedding the external perspective at study programme level (why and … Read more
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Course Feedback by Students
What Is Course Feedback?
After each term, (former) students are asked to provide feedback on the general organisation, and certain specific aspects of the teaching practice with which they have come into contact. The output generated by this so-called course feedback (Dutch: vakfeedback) is used by Ghent …
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