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ABSTRACT;Focus; Instruments, methods, and challenges for facilitation and for improving students’ motivation and competences to work in groups in and out of class – tools and good practice
What did you intend the students to achieve from this teaching and learning activity?
To resemble recommendations for intervention research, group work is an essential part of the specialization:
'Intervention and Evaluation’ at the MSc in Public Health. The group work forms both practical and
professional implications/purposes during the course, where the students in groups are asked to develop
an intervention and plan the implementation and evaluation of said intervention. However, issues and challenges
about group work are an ongoing challenge during the specialization. Thus, to ease the group work
we introduced the self-developed study group reflecting tool among the students during the introduction
lecture of the spring 2023.
Which general features of the teaching and learning activity will you share at TAL2023?
The study group reflecting tool consists of four predefined elements:
1. Family life
2. Leisure time and -work
3. Level of ambition
4. Geography, and optional add-ons.
The tool is designed to make the students reflect upon their own life situations and preferences regarding
study-work-leisure-time balance and the elements, to accommodate their heterogeneity, and reflect upon
how they, individually and group-wise, can benefit and match each other’s expectations in relation to the
group work during the course. Finally, after having been through all elements of the study group reflecting
tool, the group is encouraged to write their co-operation and matching of expectations from their discussion,
decisions, and reflection, in a formal document, for later refining and holding each other to the agreements
made.
According to you and the students, what was the impact of the teaching and learning activity on student
learning/engagement/ development of competences?
Despite the implementation of the study group reflecting tool, issues and challenges rapidly occurred during
the course and in the group work. During the course evaluation, students highlighted the group work
issues in the commentary track when rating their overall satisfaction with the course. However, we have
not yet made a structured evaluation of the study group reflecting tool from student perspectives. Thus, we
plan to evaluate how the students implemented and applied it in their study groups during the Autumn semester
| Periode | 2 nov. 2023 |
|---|---|
| Begivenhedstitel | Conference Teaching for Active Learning (AL) |
| Begivenhedstype | Konference |
| Placering | OdenseVis på kort |