Tag: first year
Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction:
Assessing first year assessment in JOMEC
In order to find out how assessment is used in the BA degree within JOMEC, and in particular how assessment is viewed by students in the first year, eight focus groups were carried out in May 2007. It was found that students enjoyed the process of continuous assessment as it motivated them to work throughout [...]
A recent project focussing on the delivery of education in Communication Skills had been developed with the School of Optometry and lectures and workshops delivered to the September 2009 first year undergraduates for both schools. This is currently being evaluated although initial findings are that students welcomed the opportunity to study together on an interdisciplinary [...]
Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction:
Early engagement in SOCSI
There are several initiatives in place in the School of Social Sciences that ensure students coming to study as undergraduates at Cardiff are made to feel a sense of engagement and belonging that can greatly enhance their learning experience here. The ‘Engagement Trail’ starts pre-arrival, when students can participate in the SOCSI Undergrad Blog, and [...]
Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction:
Early engagement of learners in MATHS
At the start of academic year 2008/09 the School of Mathematics run a two-day induction event for its 170+ first year students. The sessions are presented by enthusiastic members of staff and postgraduate students and are designed to be informal and interactive, with a number of ice-breaker activities running throughout the programme. The aims of [...]
Practice Snippets &Practice Snippets: Management, Administration, Organisation:
Email updates to first year students in EARTH
The Year 1 co-ordinator sends a weekly email to all Year 1 students reminding them of significant deadlines and highlighting relevant events. APRE 2007/08 Dr C M Berry EARTH
Practice Snippets &Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction:
Generating pedagogical research via PCUTL for School policy development
2007-2008 saw the convening of a working party for the reform of first level teaching and the student experience (under the leadership of Dr. Max Deeg). After the first meeting of the working party it was agreed that two lecturers in the school, Simon Woodman and James Hegarty would take up PCUTL Module 2 in [...]
A new methodology in Italian beginners was introduced and feedback is being monitored. Year I Beginners is a pivotal stage in the language acquisition of Italian. The quality, coherence and effectiveness of the syllabus is important not only for the attraction and retention of students, but even more crucially, it provides the methodological basis for [...]
Practice Snippets &Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction:
Mature student induction in LEARN
LEARN offer a successful three-day induction programme and pamphlet (which is available to all Schools’ Admissions Tutors) for mature students who are about to begin undergraduate degree schemes at Cardiff University.This induction provides mature students with an opportunity to meet peers from a broad spectrum of Schools, make valuable contacts at this early stage in [...]
Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability:
Skills programme for first year students in JOMEC and SOCSI
JOMEC has been working with SOCSI on skills programmes for undergraduate students. This is an extracurricular activity designed to instil confidence in students in terms of employability skills. The students who have signed up are planning on writing a pre-arrival skills information packet for incoming students, which they will place on the JOMEC website. Other [...]
This project explored first year students’ perceptions of their need for, and likelihood of achieving, the range of employability skills for undergraduates set out in UK policy documents. First year students in three Schools were surveyed. The results suggest that ‘business awareness’ are not skills which students value or think they will achieve during their [...]
Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction:
Two week induction programme with formative work in ARCHI
Since the inception of the TPSD and BEEPM schemes, all three ASM schemes have shared induction events at the beginning of the academic year. The objective has been primarily to alert students from different backgrounds to the starting level that is expected of them, and to provide or point to opportunities for development. By 2008-9, [...]
Medical Education programmes request, via end of year evaluations, that exiting students provide a ‘Letter of Advice’ to new students PGMDE (APRE) 2008/09 Lynne Allery