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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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Right of Inspection for Students
Regulations and Procedure
The following addition has been included in the Higher Education Codex with regard to the right of inspection, taking immediate effect (i.e. from the current 2019-2020 academic year onwards):“With regard to examinations, the principle of public access to documents means that students are entitled to receiving …
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Coaching (Individual) Students with Their Written and Oral Assignments
A lecturer can have a positive impact on the quality of written and oral assignments by coaching students during their writing process. Good coaching begins with clear instructions. In addition, high-quality feedback and proper preparation of the assessment are essential.
Give Clear and Specific Assignment InstructionsClear and specific instructions …
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Work Placement at Ghent University: Administrative Formalities
If a student does a work placement at Ghent University, they need to do the following paperwork:
a work placement contract (in Dutch): Ghent University students who embark on a curricular work placement at Ghent University use the same work placement contract as Ghent University students embarking on an external … Read more -
The Faculty’s Education Policy
The following education tip provides inspiration to write the chapter on 'The Faculty’s Education Policy ' of the Faculty Monitor. If applicable, separate suggestions are given for the PLAN and the DO. Plan
In line with the Ghent University Quality Assurance Conduct (Dutch: Eigen Regie), the faculty draws up a …
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Web Lectures: a Practical Example from the Faculty of Sciences
Web lectures are recordings of e.g. a presentation, or extracts from a lecture, reading or workshop. If you want to find out how to make the most of web lectures, you can find some inspiration below. This education tip brings you a number of good practices from the Faculty of …
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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.
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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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A Work Placement in the French-speaking part of Belgium or Abroad: Good to Know
Through a work placement in the French-speaking part of Belgium or abroad, students can acquire specific international/intercultural competencies. Every student at Ghent University should have acquired these competencies upon graduation. Strengthening professional skills in an intercultural/international context has a positive impact on the student’s personal and professional development. Moreover, …
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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 -
On-Campus Written Exams: Open-Ended Questions
This Education Tip containts information on different types of open-ended questions, when to use them, how to design high-quality open-ended questions and how to mark them.
What are Open-Ended Questions?Open-ended questions are questions to which students have to produce their own answer. There are several types of open-ended questions, …
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Institutional Alumni Surveys at Ghent University
Organizing alumni surveys at Ghent University is not a new feature: central alumni surveys have taken place in the past, but were discontinued due to low participation rates (among other things). In the meantime, faculties and study programmes set up their own surveys. A new round of central alumni …
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Study Coaches
What is a Study Coach?
Study coaches are Master’s students (of Teaching) of the study programme/faculty who commit themselves on a voluntary basis to be an accessible point of contact for a group of students during (the first year of) their study programme.
What Expect From a Study Coach?A …
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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 of your course unit’s structure, for your own use …
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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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How to Achieve High-Quality Assessments?
As lecturer, when assessing, you may initially think of ways to determine how well students master the learning material and pre-determined competencies. But assessing involves more than that. This education tip explains the difference between assessment of learning and assessment for learning and how to use both approaches …
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MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses
Are you interested in using high-quality online learning materials developed by other universities? This Education Tip will tell you more about MOOCs and how they can be implemented in your course unit.
What is a MOOC?MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course:
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Ghent University Goes Blended
What is Blend@UGent? Definition
Blend@UGent is a well-considered and well-aligned mix of online and on-campus education. This means students actively work with learning contents, both individually and in interaction with each other and lecturers.
Ghent University redesigns its learning environment into a blend of active, evidence-based teaching, learning opportunities and …
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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.
For example:
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The Answer Key: a Tool to Objectively Mark Open-Ended Questions
As lecturer, you need mark as objectively as possible. An answer key can help you with that. This Education Tip explains why and how.
What is an Answer Key?An answer key or model answer includes a list of what should be included in an answer and the marks you …
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