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Special Status and (Exam) Accommodations: Regulations, Procedures and House Rules
An overview of the various special statuses and corresponding information for students can be found on the student portal.
The procedures for applying for and granting special status and (examination) accommodations are run entirely through OASIS.
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Building Self-Regulation Skills
What Are Self-Regulation Skills?
Students actively use self-regulation skills throughout a cyclical learning process (before, during, and after learning) to regulate their behaviour, thoughts and feelings in order to achieve their learning goals.
Self-regulation is a set of strategies that help students take control of their learning process, …
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Blended Mobility
Blended Mobility: What?
During blended mobility initiatives, students undertake a course unit at a foreign partner institution that includes both an online component and a short-term on-site component. These components are flexible in their sequence and duration. Students earn credits through a Transcript of Records, which their home institution …
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Educational Quality Assurance Unit: Procedures and Improvement Policy
The following education tip provides inspiration to write Chapter 'Educational Quality Assurance Unit: Procedures and Improvement Policy' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
Describe the faculty’s vision on the role of the EQCU (Dutch: CKO) in faculty …
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What role do work placements have in the Ghent University vision on education and the educational monitor?
Qualitative work placements perfectly connect to the six strategic educational goals, which are the translation of the Ghent University vision on qualitative education. These educational goals, in turn, are further developed in the operational goals of the programme monitors. The tip is based on the Ghent University vision on work …
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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 Assess Exemption Requests?
Assessing exemption requests is not always a straightforward matter. This Education Tip gives an overview of the most important points to consider when assessing exemption requests based on previously acquired credit certificates and previously acquired qualifications.
Please note: when a student requests an exemption based on previously acquired competencies, …
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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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Response Lecture (Online)
What is it?
During a response or interaction lecture, students discuss and delve into structured subject matter, they answer questions related to this subject matter and, conversely, you offer them an explicit opportunity to ask you, the teacher, about any uncertainties. Since a response lecture falls under the heading …
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Virtual Reality? For Real! A Education Innovation Project
The Faculty of Sciences' 2017 education innovation project Virtual Reality (VR) offers a unique way of turning abstract concepts and phenomena into something concrete by means of direct sensory experiences. Read about he project's findings below.
What is Captain Einstein?The Faculty of Sciences experimented with its own …
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Skills Test: an Assessment Situation Close to Professional Practice
Would you like students to demonstrate their skills? Take advantage of a skills test!
What is a Skills Test?A skills test is an assessment situation during which students demonstrate certain practical skills relevant to professional practice. This can be a general or very specific skill.
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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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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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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 … Read more
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Grade Conversion at Ghent University
What?
The way grades are awarded abroad (and at universities in the French Community) may differ from grading practices at Ghent University. A transparent conversion into Ghent University examination marks is therefore necessary. Ghent University is an international forerunner in terms of ECTS and aims to apply ECTS methodology …
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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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Faculty Education Services (FDO)
The following Education Tip offers inspiration to write Chapter 'Faculty Education Services (FDO)' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
Every faculty has extensive Faculty Education Services (Dutch: FDO), which are led by the Director of Studies. The …
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“First-Class Icebreakers”: Suggestions for Small and Large Student Groups
Icebreakers are a way of welcoming students and giving them the opportunity to get to know each other. The use of an icebreaker can make it easier for students to reach out to each other, and the lecturer, more easily afterwards.
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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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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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