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Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarReport 8: Survey of the English Curriculum and Teaching
Overview This report summarises the results from a 2002 survey of English departments in the UK. The survey was conducted to collect data on what is taught, how it is taught and the resources and wider context which influence teaching. The report presents the...
Report 19: Survey of the English Curriculum and Teaching
Overview This report summarises the results from a 2009 survey of English departments in the UK. The survey was conducted to collect data on what is taught, how it is taught and the resources and wider context which influence teaching. The report presents the...
Seed guide 3: Best in Show – case studies in higher education English
Overview This Seed Guide contains detailed accounts by lecturers in English Literature, English Language and Creative Writing of innovative approaches to teaching in their discipline. As well as opening an entertaining and instructive window onto seminar rooms and...
Assessment exercises
1: Assessment Issues The first exercise below, which should be tackled only briefly, focuses on cultural assumptions about assessment. The second exercise introduces the problematic of assessment choice. The exercises may help to focus a discussion about the...
Assessment & the Expanded text project: Towards a Productive Assessment Practice – Case Studies
The case studies below are designed to be used by the tutor who wants to change and develop assessment practice to improve student learning. You can download them by selecting the graphic or download button. You will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these...
Assessment & the Expanded text project: Current assessment practice 3 – Work based learning, Self and Peer Assessment, Skills-based Assessment
Introduction 'The diversity of material and approaches, as well as programme objectives which value choice and independence of mind, suggest that it is desirable for students of English to experience a variety of assessment forms.' (CCUE/QAA: 1999). Current Assessment...
Assessment & the Expanded text: Current assessment practice 2 – Portfolios, Project work
Introduction 'The diversity of material and approaches, as well as programme objectives which value choice and independence of mind, suggest that it is desirable for students of English to experience a variety of assessment forms.' (CCUE/QAA: 1999). Current Assessment...
New Tools for Creative Interpretation: An Investigative Study using Digital Video and Computer Animation
Status Completed June 2006 Brief Description This project investigated the potential use of digital video and computer animation in teaching literary analysis skills. Students were trained in both, asked to make short films (in groups and by themselves) and then...
Make Your Own: Editing a Renaissance Play
Author Professor Lisa Hopkins, English studies Sheffield Hallam University Summary This case study describes how students go about preparing an edition of a Renaissance play entirely from scratch for a core module on an MA in English Studies (Renaissance Literature)....
Teaching metrics using EVS (Electronic Voting System) handsets
Brief Description "Arts-side departments have been slower to see the possibilities of using EVS in teaching; there is now an opportunity for English to lead innovation in this area." This project is a pilot scheme for developing possible uses of electronic voting...
Assessment & the Expanded text project: Current assessment practice 1 – Exams, Essays, Coursework, Oral
'The diversity of material and approaches, as well as programme objectives which value choice and independence of mind, suggest that it is desirable for students of English to experience a variety of assessment forms.' (CCUE/QAA: 1999). Current Assessment Practice is...
Introduction to assessment in English
The Assessment and the Expanded Text Consortium was a project directed by the English division at the University of Northumbria. It involves collaborating with colleagues who teach English courses at Sheffield Hallam University, Staffordshire University and the...
Communicating about assessment
(A version of the introductory paper on assessment delivered at the Exeter symposium on Assessment: Tradition and Innovation, 20th April, 2002 by Dr Siobhán Holland) One of the key functions of assessment is its role in inducting students into the conversation that...
Modes of assessment
On this page you will find brief descriptions of a selection of types of assessment that can be used to complement the essay. Not all of the activities listed here always require assessment: many can be used as non-assessed seminar activities. It goes without saying...
Assessment: Additional reference
Assessment and English Studies Assessment and the Expanded Text This project, funded by the Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning (FDTL), produced a range of booklets which explore the relationships between assessment and the variety of work students are...
Using Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) as a learning and teaching resource
Author Stephen Gregg Bath Spa University Summary This reports on my experience in building the Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) database into a first-year undergraduate module. The aim was to enable students to experience directing their own research using...
Teaching Theory and the use of the Reading Diary
Author Deborah Wynne Senior lecturer University of Chester Summary Many students find understanding and applying literary theory difficult. This Case Study draws upon my experience of teaching a module on women’s writing and feminist theory to undergraduates,...
Theatre Programming as a Problem-Based Assessment for use in Teaching Scottish/Irish Drama
Author Barbara Bell, Edge Hill University (Ormskirk, Lancashire), This paper was first presented at a Subject Centre conference Teaching Scottish and Irish Literature on 21st October 2005 at the University of Manchester. Summary The case study looks at the use of a...