BACKGROUND Evidence for the superiority of particular characteristics in PBL tutors in medical curricula is generally inconclusive. Most studies have investigated the effectiveness of content experts compared with that of non-experts as measured either by student satisfaction or academic achievement. A few have compared academic staff tutors with student tutors. The purpose of this study was to...

ToolkiT for sTudenTs, sTaff and higher educaTion insTiTuTions You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. Galileo Galilei It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irrev-erence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ToolkiT for sTudenTs, sTaff and higher educaTion insTiTuTions student-cent...

PURPOSE Although the global nursing faculty shortage has led to increasing reliance upon sessional staff, limited research has explored the impact of these sessional staff on the quality of teaching in higher education. We aim to examine differences in (a) student satisfaction with sessional and tenured staff and (b) assessment scores awarded by sessional and tenured staff in students' written ...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Many higher educational institutions and academic staff are still sceptical about the validity and reliability of student evaluation questionnaires, in par...