Excellence in Teaching
The College of Life Sciences & Medicine (CLSM) takes part in the annual University of Aberdeen Best Practice in Teaching Fair.
March 2009
The theme was ‘Assessment and Feedback’ and the following posters were displayed by CLSM staff:
- Formative assessment: confidence building for exams
- Pre-circulated assessment forms for grading coursework and providing feedback
- Use of an e-learning-based Honours project to provide formative feedback for junior students & summative feedback for Honours students in Medical Sciences
- Feedback & assessment in Foundation Skills for Life Sciences
- Use of the personal response system for in-course assessments
- Immediate feedback for student assignments
- Peer assessment & group work in a level 2 Vertebrate Zoology course
March 2008
The following CLSM posters were displayed at the inaugural University of Aberdeen Best Practice in Teaching Fair:
- PRS revision sessions: the students’ view
- Flexible delivery of skills teaching at level 2 in the College of Life Sciences & Medicine
- Early monitoring and intervention in the Phase I MBChB course
- Interactive and integrative teaching to large classes
- Using live theatre to communicate the impact of domestic abuse to medical students
- Development of problem solving skills in Medical Sciences
- Best practice in the School of Psychology
- MBChB Medical Humanities student selected component (SSC)
- Teaching diversity: death and dying in a multicultural society
- Research-led, group-based teaching in the great outdoors
- Data acquisition in the class practical
- Professional placements: taking a year out to find a way into employment
- Research-based teaching at sub-Honours levels in the School of Medical Sciences