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eSTEeM Projects

eSTEeM is providing a mechanism for professional development through practice-based scholarship within a mentored community. Much of our work is organised on a project basis with project management aimed at the delivery of new educational outcomes and scholarship outputs. 

eSTEeM supports a rolling portfolio of approx. 80 active scholarship projects under a number of themes which include:

  • Access, Participation and Success
  • Innovative assessment
  • Online/onscreen STEM practice
  • Supporting students
  • Technologies for STEM learning

To learn more about our projects, please click on the project titles or use the search feature below by entering keywords. To search by the name of a project leader, please use the 'Filter by Project Leader' tab on the right-hand side of this page.

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    Improving success and satisfaction of credit transfer students entering L3 modules in Science

  1. Eleanor CrabbJane Loughlin
  2. Credit transfer students are often regarded as having the potential to succeed in distance learning.

    May 2019 to December 2021

    Can an asynchronous student conference in Open Studio develop students’ critical evaluation skills?

  3. Catherine HalliwellJenny Duckworth
  4. The level 3 module Evaluating Contemporary Science (S350), helps students learn, develop and apply important key skills such as evaluation of current science research and communication of these findings to different audiences, along with professional skills such as time-management, giving constru

    May 2019 to April 2022

    Are virtual visits an effective way of engaging learners?

  5. David ConwayChristine GardnerJanet Hughes
  6. Winner of the 5th Best Poster Competition at the 9th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 29-30 April 2020.

    December 2019 to November 2021

    How one module can serve multiple qualifications through tailored implementation of presentation

  7. Carol CalvertRachel Hilliam
  8. Students taking qualifications mainly in science, economics and data sciences are now the majority of the students on a second-year undergraduate statistics course.

    March 2020 to November 2021

    Support for Students. Teaching for Tutors. An Investigation into Ideas on Encouraging Students to Engage

  9. Cathryn Peoples
  10. According to the social constructivist model of learning, social opportunities are considered to be important in an educational experience for their positive influence. The principle is that the learning can be reinforced through the interaction with others.

    August 2020 to March 2022

    Welsh-medium tuition in Level 1 Mathematics/Addysgu Mathemateg Lefel 1 trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg

  11. Andrew PotterDelyth TomosChris Hughes
  12. Welsh-medium education has attracted increased attention over the past 50 years. Much research has been conducted in secondary and higher education contexts, including the teaching and learning of mathematics in Welsh.

    November 2020 to December 2024

    Using knowledge from Associate Lecturers in a Bayesian model to predict the probability of students’ results

  13. Fadlalla Elfadaly
  14. Predicting the passing probabilities of an online module has always been an interest in higher education. It helps in planning, decision making, providing feedback to students and also in helping students work around any difficulties or milestones that are predicted to affect their results.

    November 2020 to December 2022

    Investigating how to enhance the idea generation process by students for their T452 project

    Having taught on project modules at HNC, HND and final UG level (T452), I have observed that the most intense tutor engagement is when discussing possible topics.

    August 2021 to July 2022

    Engineering residential school or home experiments? A comparison from the perspective of both the student and the tutor

  15. Alec GoodyearIestyn JowersJan KowalCarol MorrisDavid Sharp
  16. Residential schools are essential for accreditation of our engineering qualifications by Professional Engineering Institutions and they have had to be temporarily replaced by a set of practical engineering activities due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

    April 2021 to December 2021

    Creating a community of support through social activities

  17. Sue PawleyCath Brown
  18. A number of STEM students find their modules academically demanding; success for such students requires the development of resilience and a growth mindset, as discussed in Johnston-Wilder and Lee (2010.

    October 2021 to September 2023

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