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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 …
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Moderating Class Discussions
The discussion is a suitable teaching method for activating your students and for stimulating their oral and written language production, either during a class discussion or an online discussion. This Education Tip focuses on class discussions – how to initiate them, how to keep them going and moderate them, and …
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Entrepreneurial Action: How to Put it Into (Your Teaching) Practice?
Teaching students to think and act in an entrepreneurial way is an important challenge for education. An entrepreneurial attitude prepares students for a future with new types of jobs, new social needs and complex problems.
Many people usually only associate entrepreneurship with starting or running their own business or …
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Transgressive Behaviour at the Work Placement
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS BY WORK PLACEMENT SUPERVISORS IN CASE OF REPORTS OF TRANSGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR
1. ContextThe Reporting Centre for Transgressive Behaviour regularly receives questions about transgressive behaviour during work placements. This FAQ with practical tips is meant to help our work placement supervisors at the faculties handle …
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Rubrics: a Tool to Assess Papers or Skills
If you are looking to assess papers or skills, or to involve several assessors in marking, the use of rubrics will increase the validity of the assessment. You use the rubric to determine what is a good achievement, so that everyone involved will use the same standard for marking.
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Some Inspirational Blueprints for a Blended Redesign of Your Course Unit
What is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is a schematic visualization of your course unit. It contains the following elements:
clusters within your course unit; intermediate goals of those clusters; teaching methods; assessment methods; feedback methods.A blueprint generates a clear overview …
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Privacy and GDPR: Processing Personal Data
On 18 May 2018, the Executive Board approved the Generic Code of Conduct for the Processing of Personal Data and Confidential Information. In doing so, Ghent University endorsed its general data protection policy, emphasising safety, accuracy, care, and responsibility in handling personal data and confidential information. Our code of conduct, …
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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, …
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Motivational Teaching: Where to Begin?
Motivating students during lectures is challenging for everyone. For more information, please visit the website on motivational lecturing (in Dutch). The website is the result of an innovation project that came into existence in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, the Faculty of Medicine and Health …
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What are the Specific Points to Consider for Work Placements in the Global South?
For a work placement in the Global South, the same points of attention are of course relevant as for other work placements abroad. However, there are a number of specific points of attention as well, which can be found in this educational tip.
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Ghent University Education Support Services
Ghent University’s training offer has evolved considerably over the years. This is due to a confluence of events, such as the implementation of Ghent University’s Quality Assurance Conduct 2.0, the covid-induced transition from on-campus to online and blended teaching, a newly founded collaboration network through the European Enlight Consortium and …
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Opt for Quality: Programme Committee (PC): Procedures and Improvement Policy
The study programme is run by an efficient Programme Committee, where every member takes an active role in the decision-making process, and where students contribute actively to quality assurance processes. The ultimate goal is to foster a quality culture in the study programme. …
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Stakeholder Participation
At Ghent University, we expect every study programme to reflect on, and pursue an education policy that is an explicit implementation of our six strategic education objectives. One of these objectives is Stakeholder Participation.
We expect our programmes to set up processes and procedures to guarantee structural …
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Language use as lecturer: what should you pay attention to?
Do you think your students' language skills are important? Then taking care of your own language is a first essential step, whether you teach in Dutch or in a different language. This tip delves deeper into how to optimise your English or Dutch language skills and how to use them …
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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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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 gives …
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Assessment Principles
On 6 November 2014, the Education Council adopted a favourable position on a set of 17 assessment principles. This set contains general principles on how to assess students in view of the final exam mark.
The 17 assessment principles are an operationalization of Ghent University's Assessment Concept and Assessment …
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Structuring Lecture Series: from the Bigger Picture to the Syllabus
Well-structured lectures enhance the motivation and study success of the students. Learning and course materials (syllabus, textbooks, handouts, collection of articles...) play a significant part in that. That is why the course evaluations of a course unit, among other things, analyse the structure of the lecture series. Read here …
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What does Ghent University consider as “work placement”?
Ghent University has 11 faculties, with over 400 study programmes, and is home to a multitude of different (inter)national work placements. This educational tip defines the term work placement and is based on the Ghent University vision on work placement, as approved by the Educational Council.
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How to Communicate with the Host Organisation?
Unsurprisingly, open and transparent communication is a critical succes factor in the context of work placement. As a work placement coordinator, you should communicate your expectations to the host organisation beforehand. This Education Tip offers an overview of useful communication strategies.
Use Documentation write a concise and … Read more