Journal ArticleDOI
Doing away with ‘study skills’
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, the authors argue that the widespread approach to enhancing student learning through separate study skills courses is ineffective, and that the term "study skills" itself has misleading implications, which are counterproductive to learning.Abstract:
This paper argues that the widespread approach to enhancing student learning through separate study skills courses is ineffective, and that the term ‘study skills’ itself has misleading implications, which are counterproductive to learning. The main argument is that learning how to study effectively at university cannot be separated from subject content and the process of learning. The role of ‘study skills’ within universities’ skills frameworks, and as a component of students’ long-term development is discussed. Then, it is examined, with a focus on academic writing, what learning at university entails, and what is needed to support this learning. Finally, effective approaches to the enhancement of learning at university and beyond are considered.read more
Citations
More filters
Book
Developing Effective Assessment in Higher Education: A Practical Guide
Susan Bloxham,Pete Boyd +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the influence of assessment means that "there is more leverage to improve teaching through changing assessment than there is in changing anything else" (Gibbs and Simpson 2004-5: 22).
Journal ArticleDOI
The morphing of academic practice: unbundling and the rise of the para-academic
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analysis of these changes linked to the emergence of the "para-academic" staff who specialise in one element of academic practice, including up-skilling of professional support staff and the "deskilling" of academic staff.
Journal ArticleDOI
Using Academic Literacies and Genre-Based Models for Academic Writing Instruction: A "Literacy" Journey.
TL;DR: It is argued that the analysis of discipline-specific texts is the best starting point for teaching and learning of academic writing, and that students will be more willing to take a critical perspective when they are able to understand and control disciplinary discourses.
Journal ArticleDOI
Writing groups for doctoral education
TL;DR: In this paper, a retrospective evaluative study of research writing groups in one large metropolitan university is presented, showing that scholarly writing was learned in complex and timely ways; one particular feature was through the construction, articulation and critique of peers' texts.
Journal ArticleDOI
Improving the academic outcomes of undergraduate ESL students: the case for discipline‐based academic skills programs
Chi Baik,Joan Greig +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of an adjunct English language tutorial program on the academic performance of first-year Architecture students and found that regular participation in a content-based ESL program can lead to positive learning outcomes for students.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Student writing in higher education: An academic literacies approach
Mary R. Lea,Brian Street +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the expectations and interpretations of academic staff and students regarding undergraduate students' written assignments and suggested that implicit models that have generally been used to understand student writing do not adequately take account of the importance of issues of identity and the institutional relationships of power and authority that surround, and are embedded within, diverse student writing practices across the university.
Journal ArticleDOI
A reconceptualisation of the research into university academics' conceptions of teaching
TL;DR: In this article, a review of teaching conceptions of teaching of university academics is presented, where a high level of correspondence between largely independent studies reported in 13 articles is found, and there is some evidence of lecturers shifting beliefs across the spectrum over time.
Journal ArticleDOI
Student retention in higher education: the role of institutional habitus
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of a modern university in England that has good performance indicators of both widening participation (i.e. increasing the diversity of the student intake) and student retention is presented.
Journal ArticleDOI
Academic literacies: a pedagogy for course design
TL;DR: This paper examined how research findings from the field of academic literacies might be used to underpin course design across the broad curriculum of higher education and suggested that the focus on particular groups of students and on student writing alone might mask the relevance of the research findings for teaching and learning in higher education more generally.
Related Papers (5)
Student writing in higher education: An academic literacies approach
Mary R. Lea,Brian Street +1 more