Educations' Students Perception on the Professional Qualities of CUP Teachers...
Herdsa 2010
1. Widening Participation Learning More About Who is Coming to University and Where They Might be Going Gary Poole University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada
Long, M., Carpenter, P., and Hayden, M. (1999) Participation in education and training 1980-1994 . LSAY research report no. 13. Melbourne: ACER.
A brief history of higher education. In the beginning, there was content. Has requisite skills = assumptions are: (1) it takes a special institution to educate talented people; (2) talent is contagious The University Share = “smart students want to come here” Attitudes = “Spartans will” Long-term = famous alumni, MBA salaries Learning environment = infrastructure rather than pedagogy. McMaster would be a notable exception. Activity around Helsinki quote.
A brief history of higher education. In the beginning, there was content. Has requisite skills = assumptions are: (1) it takes a special institution to educate talented people; (2) talent is contagious The University Share = “smart students want to come here” Attitudes = “Spartans will” Long-term = famous alumni, MBA salaries Learning environment = infrastructure rather than pedagogy. McMaster would be a notable exception. Activity around Helsinki quote.
Predictive validity = past performance is the best predictor of future performance. So high school grades are best single predictor. At that, the predict between 10 and 20% of the variance in GPA. A measure of self-regulated learning predicted 4% UBC attrition rate between 1st and 2nd year = 10%. Math and English are the most deadly
Brownsville graduation rate = 16% (CBS News) In 2003, 3174 students applied. All were accepted. Assuming all attended, 508 would graduate, 2666 would not. UT@Austin 5-year graduation rate = 76% Ontario average = 75% UBC = 77% (Vancouver Sun, Oct. 31, 2006) Bradley report recommendation that low SES graduate at a rate that is at least 95% of the full cohort
Has requisite skills = assumptions are: (1) it takes a special institution to educate talented people; (2) talent is contagious The University Share = “smart students want to come here” Attitudes = “Spartans will” Long-term = famous alumni, MBA salaries Learning environment = infrastructure rather than pedagogy. McMaster would be a notable exception.
Changing outcomes = creativity, Communicating and collaborating with teams of people across cultural, geographic and language boundaries This from “Partnership for 21st Century Skills” US
Changing outcomes = creativity, Communicating and collaborating with teams of people across cultural, geographic and language boundaries This from “Partnership for 21st Century Skills” US