Teaching for Quality Learning at University: What the Student Does

ISBN-13: 9780335242757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 418 str.

John Biggs

Opis

This best-selling book explains the concept of constructive alignment in education and aids implementation of this in teaching practice.

Spis treści

Foreword to original edition
Preface to fourth edition
Acknowledgements
The outcomes we intend readers to achieve
Part 1: Effective teaching and learning for today's universities
The changing scene in university teaching
Teaching according to how students learn
Setting the stage for effective teaching
Contexts for effective teaching and learning
Knowledge and understanding
Constructively aligned teaching and assessment
Part 2: Designing constructively aligned outcomes-basedteaching and learning
Designing intended learning outcomes
Teaching/learning activities for declarative intended learning outcomes
Teaching/learning activities for functioning intended learning outcomes
Aligning assessment tasks with intended learning outcomes:principles
Assessing and grading for declarative intended learningoutcomes
Assessing and grading for functioning intended learningoutcomes
Part 3: Constructive alignment in action
Implementing, supporting and enhancing constructivealignment
Constructive alignment as implemented: some examples
References
Index

O autorze

John Biggs held academic posts at the University of New England, NSW, Monash University, Melbourne and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada before being appointed Professor of Education at the University of Newcastle, NSW, then Professor of Education at the University of Hong Kong. He retired early to develop his work on constructive alignment and to write fiction. He returned to Hong Kong in 1999, this time to the Department of Psychology and is currently Honorary Professor in that Department. Catherine Tang obtained her PhD in Education from the University of Hong Kong in 1991, her dissertation focusing on assessment practices that aligned directly to course objectives. She has been engaged in staff development ever since, holding the posts of Deputy Director, later Head, of the Educational Development Centre at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Head of the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Supervision at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. She now works as an educational consultant in Hobart, Australia.