Research Catalog

Title

Teaching for quality learning at university : what the student does / John Biggs and Catherine Tang.

Author

Biggs, John B. (John Burville)

Publication

Maidenhead, England ; New York : McGraw-Hill, Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tang, Catherine So-kum
• Society for Research into Higher Education, publisher.

Description

xxii, 389 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Foreword to the first edition: "This book is an exceptional introduction to some difficult ideas."

Series Statement

SRHE and Open University Press Imprint

Uniform Title

SRHE and Open University Press imprint

Subject

• College teaching
• Learning
• Learning
• 81.61 teaching methods
• Education
• College teaching
• Universitetsundervisning
• Pedagogisk metodik
• Studieteknik > högskolan

Note

• Previous edition: 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [366]-381) and index.

Contents

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 -- 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 learning outcomes -- Assessing and grading for functioning intended learning outcomes -- Implementing, supporting and enhancing constructive alignment -- Constructive alignment as implemented : some examples

ISBN

• 9780335242757
• 0335242758
• 9780335242764 (canceled/invalid)
• 0335242766 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• ocn767560793
• 767560793
• SCSB-1619979

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library