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Face to Face Day schools: Understanding attendance and non-attendance on psychology modules

Project Team: Caroline KellyKaty SmithMarianna LatifRachel PennyPaige CuffeMadeline Knightley

This project aimed to understand attendance for optional face-to-face tuition events on psychology modules. A mixed method approach was used to capture the student voice, and the five methods are presented here.

Teaching Critical Thinking Skills

Project Team: Sue NielandIan McGarryAmita Sen-Gupta

In the age of digital information and high levels of technology in academic life, critical thinking skills are not just considered as an element of academic literacy; they have been interpreted in terms of the ability to use Microsoft Office and reference managing software effectively when underg

SMART Feedback: Exploring the impact of action-focused student feedback on the student experience of learning

Project Team: Charlotte Lattin-Rawstrone

The proposed study intends to investigate the application of aspects of the research and framework through an intervention that builds on this framework with a specific focus on the reciprocal process and enactment of outcomes of feedback components by using SMART goals in the feedback process.

The Experience of BAME Students on DE300

Project Team: Sharon Xuereb

It is well documented that Black and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) students are awarded lower grades at university than their White counterparts. In the UK, a first class and second upper class degree classifications are considered ‘good degrees’.

Embedding Accessibility into the Curriculum: An Accessibility Tool as a Checklist

Project Team: Rhiannon EdwardsShazna MuzammilVanessa Moore

The Accessibility Tool is currently being piloted on modules presenting in 22B and 22J with the goal of disseminating the final version across OU by 23J.

Closing the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Enquirer and Recruitment Gap in FASS

Project Team: Karen HaganLystra Hagley-DickinsonPepta Joefield-BeebyAnna Clarke

The BAME Insight Factsheet produced by Marketing demonstrated that there is a BAME enquirer gap in the OU.

Dyspraxia (Developmental Coordination Disorder): Understanding Students’ Requirements

Project Team: Jo HorneRhiannon EdwardsAngela Eyre

Developing Academic Integrity in Postgraduate Students

Project Team: Sue NielandPaige Cuffe

This project will explore the development of postgraduate students’ understanding and practice of academic integrity, that is of good academic conduct, focusing particularly on the module Principles of Social and Psychological Inquiry.

Integrating OUAnalyse into DE100 to Aid Retention and Progression

Project Team: Cathy SchofieldTracey Elder

An Examination of Motivation and Engagement of Students Studying at Different Intensities

Project Team: Cathy SchofieldAlison Gisby