Search Results - "Ashwin, Paul"

Evoked prior learning experience and approach to learning as predictors of academic achievement by Trigwell, Keith, Ashwin, Paul, Millan, Elena S.

“…In separate studies and research from different perspectives, five factors are found to be among those related to higher quality outcomes of student learning…”
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Why Would Going to University Change Anyone? The Challenges of Capturing the Transformative Power of Higher Education in Comparisons of Quality by Ashwin, Paul

“…In this paper, I examine the tensions between the transformational potential undergraduate degrees and ways we have of measuring and comparing the quality of…”
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Interview with Paul Ashwin (Lancaster University) by Ashwin, Paul

“…Paul Ashwin is Professor at Lancaster University, UK. His professional interests include: quality of university teaching and education; development of…”
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Using Student Feedback to Reflect on Authentic PBL (aPBL) in Undergraduate Engineering Education by Lambert, Chris, Ashwin, Paul

“…Purpose The purpose of this study was to analyse student feedback and reflect on the experiences of convening a core module for Engineering undergraduates…”
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Evoked prior experiences in first-year university student learning by Ashwin, Paul, Trigwell, Keith

“…In this article, we focus on three aspects of students' prior experiences of learning: evoked conceptions of learning, evoked motivation and evoked…”
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The educational purposes of higher education: changing discussions of the societal outcomes of educating students by Ashwin, Paul

“…In this article, I examine the educational purposes of higher education in terms of the societal outcomes of educating students through higher education …”
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Transformational accounts of students’ undergraduate education are evoked by their engagement with knowledge by Ashwin, Paul

“…There are strong concerns about students perceiving their undergraduate education in instrumental, rather than transformational, ways. However, it is not clear…”
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Understanding educational development in terms of the collective creation of socially-just curricula by Ashwin, Paul

“…Suellen Shay's research focused extensively on both the challenges of creating socially-just higher education curricula and the knowledge and practices of the…”
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Novel technique of transfemoral venous pacing in a case of inferior vena cava stenosis by Varyani, Neeraj, Mathew, Cinosh, Kooran, Ashwin Paul, Calton, Rajneesh

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Knowledge, curriculum and student understanding in higher education by Ashwin, Paul

“…Knowledge is at the centre of students engagement with higher education. However, when policy makers discuss higher education and ways of defining the quality…”
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Developing Effective National Policy Instruments to Promote Teaching Excellence: Evidence from the English Case by Ashwin, Paul

“…There is increasing international focus on system-wide schemes of teaching excellence in higher education. In this article, I explore national policy…”
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How often are theories developed through empirical research into higher education? by Ashwin, Paul

“…This article reports on a review of empirical research published in selected higher education journals in 2008, which was focused on examining how often…”
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Student partnership: exploring the dynamics in and between different conceptualizations by Holen, Rasa, Ashwin, Paul, Maassen, Peter, Stensaker, Bjørn

“…The concept of student partnership has attracted increased attention during the last decade, often due to an assumption that it can mitigate neo-liberal…”
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Beyond the dichotomy of students-as-consumers and personal transformation: what students want from their degrees and their engagement with knowledge by Ashwin, Paul, Goldschneider, Benjamin, Agrawal, Ashish, Smit, Reneé

“…There is widespread concern that students are increasingly becoming passive consumers of education who primarily attend university to obtain the credentials…”
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Researcher creations?: The positioning of policy texts in higher education research by Ashwin, Paul, Smith, Karen

“…In this article we explore the way in which policy texts are positioned in a selection of higher education journal articles. Previous research has suggested…”
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Undergraduate students’ knowledge outcomes and how these relate to their educational experiences: a longitudinal study of chemistry in two countries by Ashwin, Paul, Blackie, Margaret, Pitterson, Nicole, Smit, Reneé

“…Are the ways of engaging with the world that students develop through higher education particular to bodies of knowledge they study? In this article, we…”
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How does completing a dissertation transform undergraduate students' understandings of disciplinary knowledge? by Ashwin, Paul, Abbas, Andrea, McLean, Monica

“…Dissertations are positioned as the capstone of an undergraduate degree, bringing together what students have previously learned from their programmes through…”
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Skin Metastasis From Solid Tumors: Is Targeted Therapy Making an Impact? by Arshad, Mohamed, Paul, Ashwin J, Kumar, Raghul

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Conceptualising transformative undergraduate experiences: A phenomenographic exploration of students' personal projects by Ashwin, Paul, Abbas, Andrea, McLean, Monica

“…Existing ways of understanding the transformative potential of students' undergraduate experiences either focus solely on the formal educational elements of…”
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Missionary Zeal: Some Problems with the Rhetoric, Vision and Approach of the AHELO Project by Ashwin, Paul

“…The OECD's Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) project is an important contribution to discussions of how to define and measure the…”
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