Feedback – Dr Lynette Pretorius

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Accurately assessing students’ use of generative AI acknowledgements in assignments

Posted: 20 December, 202311 June, 2024

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Lecturers play a pivotal role in shaping the learning of their students. In a metric-focused university environment, this learning necessitates the assessment of students’ learning throughout their educational journey. Assessing assignments not only gauges the understanding of the subject matter but also evaluates the development of critical academic skills. These skills, such as research, analysis, …

Tags: Academic integrity, AI literacy, Artificial intelligence, Assessing learning, Assessment, ChatGPT, Digital literacy, Educational technology, Ethics, Feedback, Teaching practice

Improving students’ understanding by building a culture of academic integrity

Posted: 20 October, 202329 May, 2024

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Credit: This blog post is an adapted form of a case study I wrote for Advance HE. Universities have been cracking down on cheating and all sorts of dishonest academic behaviour recently. They’ve rolled out a bunch of strict rules related to academic integrity and use fancy software to keep an eye out for academic …

Tags: Academic integrity, Assessing learning, Cooperative learning, Ethical research practice, Ethics, Feedback, Plagiarism, Referencing, Reflection, Sociology of education, Teaching practice

Benefits of doctoral writing groups

Posted: 19 October, 202329 May, 2024

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For many years now, I have been working to improve the experiences of PhD students. One practice I’ve found particularly useful is incorporating collaborative and peer-based learning through doctoral writing groups. My work with writing groups started way back in 2013 and, over more than a decade, I have further refined my approach. I currently …

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Learning how to evaluate the reliability of online sources

Posted: 20 November, 201829 May, 2024

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This post is based on an article I recently published. It is commonly thought that contemporary students are digital natives who are naturally able to use sophisticated digital literacy in their daily practices because they have been immersed in the digital age their entire lives. Research, though, shows that the concept of being a digital …

Tags: Assessing learning, Critical thinking, Digital literacy, Educational technology, Evaluation skills, Feedback, Teaching practice

Developing students’ critical thinking and clinical reasoning through problem-based assessment

Posted: 14 May, 201411 January, 2024

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In clinical education, the challenge is to not just impart content knowledge, but also help students develop critical real-world clinical skills. This is particularly true when it comes to critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills. In a paper I recently wrote with colleagues from a midwifery unit, we demonstrate how constructive alignment of a course’s …