first year communication course
Preliminary essay plans: assisting students to engage academic literacy in a first year communication course
... of first year students has become a critical component of university endeavour as the diversity of the student body increases and as student enrolments ...core first year communication ...
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Demystifying assessment with 'bells and whistles' in a first year communication course
... Assessment for first year students can be a daunting experience, particularly for external students who do not have the same level of contact with lecturers. Any system that can help bridge this gap is a ...
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Effective Integration of Teaching and Research in a First Year Food and Nutrition Course
... A second explanation for the lack of association between re- search and teaching excellence is that the skills and attributes required to undertake rigorous research are very different to those required to excel as a ...
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The role of the first year engineering experience (FYEE) course
... In the USA, UK, Australia, as well as many other western countries, high schools no longer see universities as their prime stakeholders, but rather recognise that their focus should be more on preparing large cohorts of ...
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God, Queen and country: their place in a team assessment, using instantaneous audio visual communication technology, with external and on-campus students in a first year law course
... The course introduces students to the jurisprudential theories and critiques of these theories at a first year introductory ...the course aims to engage students with a deeper critical ...
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An investigation into communication apprehension and self efficacy of first year accountancy students
... planning course were related to their grades and persistence during the following ...oral communication apprehension, inverse relationships between students’ perception of competence and levels of ...
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An assessment strategy for a first year engineering problem solving course
... Reliability, repeatability and consistency in the assessments is achieved by staff training, use of standard marking rubrics, and ‘blind’ cross marking. Since the process involves peer and self assessment as well as ...
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PREPARING FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO BECOME ENGINEERS: THE IMPACT OF AN “INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING” COURSE
... one-way communication have been known to reduce students’ motivation to ...(ix) Communication; (x) Individual and Team Work; (xi) Life-long Learning; and (xii) Project Management and ...
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Responding To The Concerns Of Student-Athletes Enrolled In A First-Year Experience Course
... a first-year experience course using a standard text (Gardner, Jewler, & Barefoot, 2008) that addresses a broad range of topics from time management, learning styles, study strategies, career ...
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Exploring Reflective Capacity among First Year Students on a Computer in Education Course
... the course require students not only to practice new skills, but also to create meaning and construct their own conclusions based on their learning-by-doing experiences regarding all the related ...this ...
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Facilitating students' critical transition capabilities in a first year nursing course
... CDT contributes three main insights. First CDT highlights the role played by discourses in HE. Luke (1999, p.67) argues that if the primacy of discourse is acknowledged then mastery of discourse can be seen to ...
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Engaging first year students: a collaborative approach implemented in a first year nursing course
... cross-cultural communication program, ExcelL: Excellence in Cultural Experiential Learning and Leadership Program (Mak, Westwood, Barker & Ishiyama, ...
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Embedding graduate skills into a first year, management course: theory, practice and reflection
... This latter theoretical position resonated with our prior teaching experience across disciplines ranging from management and applied ethics to humanities. Our experience affirmed the premise that graduate skills such as ...
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Developing Communication Skills of EFL Teacher Trainees
... A course in effective communications played a significant role in developing the first year trainees’ communication ...the course caused them to change their existing beliefs about ...
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Course Design in Teaching of English to the First Year Engineering College Students in Chhattisgarh
... The teacher himself has to select suitable material for teaching either from published text-books or newspapers, magazines and science journals or has to construct them on his own. The materials are basically teacher ...
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The Most Used Technological Tools by Telecommunications Students in ISUTIC
... Twitter - is a social networking services microblogs, created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evans Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass, and released in July of the same year [23]. The company Twitter is based in San ...
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An investigation on the student performance in first year fundamental engineering course, Engineering Statics
... every year, it is reasonable to assume that the cause of students’ unsatisfactory performances is not only the subject knowledge but also the socio- economic ...
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SCHEMA FOR POSTER DESIGN, DEFENSE AND ASSESSMENT
... The main assessment objectives of the poster presentation are to test team members‟ interactive communication skills and their abilities and competence to explain technical engineering information to non-technical ...
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Course Outcomes Performance in Statistics for Engineers
... the course in session ...the first 32 position is in group ‘excellent’; position 33th till 65th in group ‘moderate’, and ‘weak’ students are in the position 66th to ...
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Evaluation of World Wide Web-based Lessons for a First Year Dental Biochemistry Course
... A challenge for today’s educators, including those involved in dental education, is to help the stu- dent learn rather than just teach. Development of critical thinking skills and the ability to be a life-long learner ...
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