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Exam marks: how do you access the distribution of marks in Oasis?
As lecturer-in-charge, you can request the distribution of marks for your course unit via Oasis. Programmes can also request the distribution of marks for all course units of the programme. On this basis, the assessment practice can be discussed in the study programme committee, assessment committee, examination committee or academic …
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How to Put Language Proficiency into (Your Teaching) Practice?
The Importance of Language Proficiency in Teaching Practice
Ghent University trains its students to become astute communicators (cf. Ghent University's Competency Model, competency area 4). Such a training is essential in our current network society. Throughout their studies, students learn to strengthen their communication skills by working on academic and …
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What to Expect of Students' Language Skills?
What language skills can you expect from your students, both for Dutch and other languages? How does the UGent assist them to improve their language skills and how can you help as a lecturer? And what can you demand with regards to the standard of their emails? This education tip …
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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.
Why Not Round off Partial Results? if the final mark of a course unit consists of … Read more -
How to Incorporate a Policy on Diversity into Your Study Programme
Diversity in Your Study Programme: Relevance?
Today’s society is very diverse. Inevitably, this means that our university and our study programmes face a number of challenges. Society needs highly educated knowledge workers who know how to deal with the present diversity. It is important, therefore, that students learn to deal …
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Voice problems: how do you prevent them?
As a lecturer, you depend on your voice. However, there are many lecturers who suffer from voice problems. With these education tips you will be on your way to becoming The Voice of the UGent.
Pay attention to your body postureBe sure to stand in front of the classroom, …
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Active Teaching: What is the ACTIVO Project?
You might already be a great supporter of active teaching and active learning, or you might even implement active teaching and assessment methods in your own teaching practice. With the ACTIVO project Ghent University aims for a university-wide implementation of active teaching. This Education Tip describes how Ghent University …
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What Is Our No-Show Policy?
Participation is free of charge for UGent staff. If you register for a training course as a UGent staff member, you agree with the cancellation policy below:
CancellationThe training sessions are free of charge and open to Ghent University staff. If you cannot attend the training session, we ask …
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Assessing: Taking into Account Students’ Previous Exam Results?
Can you take your students' previous exam results into account? The answer to that question is an unequivocal 'no'. This Education Tip explains why.
What is the Objective of Assessing?When you assess students, you consider to what extent they attain the pre-determined course competencies of your course unit. Only …
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How to Stimulate Devoting Attention to Diversity Within Your Lecturing Team?
"We should not focus on best practices, but on best practitioners” (Prof. dr. Estela Mara Bensimon)
Do not underestimate the role of lecturers in students’ study career: in addition to being supervisors of the learning process, they set an example, sometimes even as role models for the students. …
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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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Academic Writing in a Nutshell: How to Put This Ufora Learning Pathway into (Your Teaching) Practice?
If your students have to make writing assignments (using academic Dutch) and you want to support them in the process, you might consider referring them to the Ufora learning pathway ‘Academic Writing in a Nutshell’. This Education Tip explains the contents of the learning pathway, how students can get to work …
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What Is Constructive Alignment and Why Is It So Important?
What is Constructive Alignment?
Constructive alignment means bringing into alignment the predetermined competencies, the learning and teaching activities, and the assessment types. It is one of the most influential principles in higher education.
When designing a programme or course unit, you should consider the following three questions:
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How to Put Diversity into (Your Teaching) Practice
Diversity in Your Course Units: Relevance?
Today's super diverse society calls for highly skilled knowledge workers, who know how to deal with this reality. It is, therefore, the joint responsibility of study programmes and their lecturers to educate students into professionals who are able to deal with diversity issues in …
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Which administrative steps should be taken before the work placement?
At Ghent University, the administrative follow-up and organization of an work placement is coordinated by an work placement course holder at each faculty and / or study programme (in Dutch). They answer all (administrative) questions regarding the work placements and act as a point of contact for companies and organizations …
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Lecturers’ Surveys at Ghent University
In the run-up to the institutional review, Ghent University held a lecturers’ survey for the first time in 2015 (in Dutch). The purpose of this survey was to compare the lecturers’ input to the input of other interal and external stakeholders (students, alumni, …). New lecturers’ surveys will be …
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How to Prepare Students for Work Placement Assessment?
Right from the start of the work placement, make sure to discuss all aspects of the assessment (by whom, what, how and when) with all the people involved. The assessment will be more fair, consistent, objective and substantiated if the following elements are clear from the start:
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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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Ghent University’s Quality Conduct 3.0: Lean, Efficient and Based on Trust
Study programmes and faculties at Ghent University nowadays stand for premium-quality academic education that is being monitored through an internal quality assurance system, i.e. the so-called Eigen Regie 2.0.
This system has been introduced in response to the mandate given to higher education institutions by the legislator to implement …
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