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The added-value of gender specific role models in gender-skewed disciplines.

Background Evidence suggests that women and men exhibit their cognitive talents in different ways. This is one of a complex … (558 word resource by Matthew Scase et al.: September 2010).

Assessing the learning impact of electronic revision aids.

Background: Traditionally, weekly small group tutorial/example classes are used within the School of Chemistry / Faculty of … (764 word resource by Derek Irvine et al.: July 2009).

Feedback on exams: 1 to 1 tutorials in Geography.

Normally we give them their numeric marks as soon as we can after the exams. There's a prepared sheet for each module…

1 min 26s video by Robert Dugdale, School of Geography (June 2007)

Learning Sets as a strategy to enable learning from a work placement.

Alison: I think the role of the learning set, for me, in bringing students and mentors to share their practice is to develop …

3 min 34s video by Alison Clark et al. (January 2010)

Managing the personal side of small group teaching.

You have to draw distinctions very much between the teacher and the assessor, and I think all of us have to change hats from time…

2 min 2s video by Hamish Forbes et al. (January 2004)

Optimising small group teaching in Psychology

Background & Significance Small group teaching (tutorials) forms an essential part of the psychology course and is valued … (537 word resource by Antonia Hamilton, School of Psychology: September 2010).

Support for writing skills.

Students are going to need to develop very high levels of writing and argument and different ways of presenting their ideas …

1 min 46s video by Andrew Fisher, School of Humanities (June 2007)

Supporting students in reaching their academic potential.

Robin Dollery: getting into a University like Nottingham is very competitive. Once we get our students here, we would like to …

4 min 15s video by Robin Dollery et al. (February 2011)

Tutorials: participation and creativity using nominal group technique.

I've got several kind of set piece formats which I use. One of them is something that comes …

3 min 54s video by David Clarke et al. (September 2009)

Valuing the student voice: the tutorless tutorial.

I'm particularly mindful of the difficulty of getting everybody to participate in a way they're comfortable with, …

1 min 45s video by David Clarke, School of Psychology (November 2009)