Technology Assessment in Social Context (TASC) is a research project funded by the Australian Research Council from 2006 to 2008. Its primary aim is to develop a framework for technology assessment (TA) for Australia. Drawing on international TA practice and ‘Social Impact Assessment’, TASC also presents a new TA approach for the international TA community. The novelty of TASC is its emphasis o...

Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are increasingly responsible for instruction in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. Various professional development (PD) programs have been developed and implemented to prepare TAs for this role, but data about effectiveness are lacking and are derived almost exclusively from self-reported surveys. In this study, we...

Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) receive little to no formal training in pedagogy before entering the classroom. Such deficiencies may contribute to increase anxiety and poor self-efficacy for TAs, potentially hindering opportunities to train future faculty. We tested the effects of a previously established, low investment, method of TA training through making and receiving peer-evaluations o...

Although studies on technology-assisted student-centered learning (henceforth TA-SCL) is enormously growing in the recent years, few researchers concern current state of lecturers’ beliefs and readiness to implement TA-SCL. This study aims explore Malaysian attitude terms carry out TA-SCL approach university context. A survey design under procedure quantitative research was applied reach object...

The Remote Teaching Assistant (RTA) software currently under development at UC Davis allows students and Teaching Assistants (TA’s) to interact through multimedia communication via the Internet. To resolve the problem of TA unavailability and limited knowledge, an Expert Teaching Assistant (ETA) module is being developed. When TA’s are not on-line, students in need of help consult ETA. The focu...

OBJECTIVES To describe the teaching programme of Therapeutic Assessment (TA), a brief intervention at the point of initial assessment for adolescents with self-harm; to describe trainees' preferences and choices regarding their use of specific aspects of TA. DESIGN This is a comparative study investigating the differences in the TA skills before and after training. This design was chosen to e...

SCIENTIFIC TEACHING (ST) is a method developed nearly a decade ago by Handelsman and colleagues (2) in which instructional practice in undergraduate science is based on current educational research findings and established best practices. The ST approach uses a process in which all students, especially those in courses with large enrollments, are more actively engaged in learning compared with ...