Using the Tuning Protocol to Generate Peer Feedback During Student Teaching Lesson Plan Development

Using Student Feedback to Improve Teaching - A Reflection

The use of SEC and SET in tertiary institutions to assess academic performance is widespread, and mandatory in some Australian universities. However, a lot of controversy exists about the practice. In this position paper, we argue that SEC and SET should be used mainly as a means to solicit constructive feedback for the improvement of course and teaching. We believe the current SEC and SET surv...

IMPROVING STUDENT PEER FEEDBACK Linda

Instructors use peer feedback to afford students multiple assessments of their work and to help them acquire important lifelong skills. However, research finds that this type of feedback has questionable validity, reliability, and accuracy, and instructors consider much of it too uncritical, superficial, vague, and content-focused, among other things. This article posits that the typical judgme...

Teaching Experiments and Student Feedback

A Web-based Lesson Plan Creator for Teaching Preparation Programs

This paper presents our ongoing work for designing and implementing a web-based Lesson Plan Creator for pre-service credential candidates in special education programs. To help reduce the workload of credential candidates as well as improve their professional teaching skills, we have designed a lesson plan creator system with the idea of shortening the amount of time required for creating sound...

The Methodology for Ontology Development in Lesson Plan Domain

Ontology has been recognized as a knowledge representation mechanism that supports a semantic web application. The semantic web application that supports lesson plan construction is crucial for teachers to deal with the massive information sources from various domains on the web. Thus, knowledge in lesson plan domain needs to be represented accordingly so that the search on the web will retriev...