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  • Focusing on first year assessment: Surface or deep approaches to learning?

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    Author(s)
    Donnison, Shan
    Penn-Edwards, Sorrel
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Penn-Edwards, Sorrel
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    This paper investigates the assessment and learning approaches that some first year students employ to assist them in their transition into their first year of study and extends our previous work on first year student engagement and timely academic support (Penn-Edwards & Donnison, 2011). It is situated within the First Year transition and student engagement literature and specifically speaks to concepts of learning within that body of literature. In this paper we argue that while students are in the transitional period of their studies, the use of assessment as a motivator for learning (surface approach) is valid first year ...
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    This paper investigates the assessment and learning approaches that some first year students employ to assist them in their transition into their first year of study and extends our previous work on first year student engagement and timely academic support (Penn-Edwards & Donnison, 2011). It is situated within the First Year transition and student engagement literature and specifically speaks to concepts of learning within that body of literature. In this paper we argue that while students are in the transitional period of their studies, the use of assessment as a motivator for learning (surface approach) is valid first year pedagogy and forms an initial learning stage in the student's progress towards being lifelong learners.
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    Journal Title
    The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education
    Volume
    3
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.5204/intjfyhe.v3i2.127
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 Queensland University of Technology. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Education systems
    Curriculum and pedagogy
    Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified
    Specialist studies in education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/47867
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