scholarly journals Always Flipped? A Peer-Centred Cycle for Teaching and Learning in the English Literature Class

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colette Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Feedback Loop ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Peer Learning ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
English Departments ◽  
Literature Class ◽  
Literary Pedagogy

In English departments, the default literary pedagogy of ‘read and discuss’ renders student performance particularly vulnerable to shortfalls in the area of deep reading. Where students rely on online content resources before reading literary texts, they effectively flip the class, decreasing rather than increasing active learning. This article presents a blended model for mitigating this trend by means of a reciprocal peer learning feedback loop. The Peer-Centred Cycle minimises direct instruction online or in class, and uses an online-to-classroom feedback loop to shift the majority of classroom activity to reciprocal peer learning, distinguishing it from both flipped classroom pedagogies, as well as from RPL as an occasional classroom strategy.

scholarly journals The flipped classroom with tutor support: an experience in a level one statistics unit

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Ramzan N. Khan ◽  
◽  
Rashmi Watson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Demographic Differences ◽  
Learner Engagement ◽  
Level Statistics ◽  
Traditional Lectures ◽  
Flipped Classrooms ◽  
And Performance

The flipped classroom aims to improve learning by engaging students in educational activities outside of traditional lessons. Flipped classrooms have steadily gained popularity in the last decade and are a topic of discussion in teaching and learning forums. However, its adoption in mathematics and statistics has been subdued. Most higher education mathematics and statistics are still delivered through traditional lectures where students are passive participants. In this study, experiences of flipping a large first-level statistics class are presented. The implementation included a combination of peer learning and tutorassistance in lectures. Student performance, in the form of final examination and overall marks over four semesters (two with traditional delivery and two flipped), were analysed for differences with respect to the two teaching modes after adjusting for demographic differences. In addition, student survey data were analysed with a view to revealing any relationship between attitude towards a flipped classroom and performance. The results showed that students' performance improved and an increased understanding of concepts was achieved through the flipped classroom approach. Evidence also indicated an increase in learner engagement. Student feedback indicated a higher preference for a flipped mode overall and in particular for ages 20 and below.

Effect of flipped teaching on the performance and perceptions of pre-service teachers on a biology course

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Reinoso ◽  
Jaime Delgado-Iglesias ◽  
Itziar Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Year

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse student performance and perceptions when a flipped classroom setting is used, in comparison with the traditional model. Design/methodology/approach The inverted learning model or “flipped classroom” is a pedagogical approach that attempts to reverse the traditional teaching and learning process, making the student the protagonist of their own learning, and is characterised by the theoretical contents being taught “outside the classroom”, allowing students to spend more class time carrying out other types of more practical activities that encourage much more active learning, such as enquiry exercises, problem solving, collaborative projects and so on. The study was conducted on a biology course of the Primary Education Bachelor’s Degree during the 2017/2018 academic year (n = 240). Findings The results revealed that better learning outcomes were achieved by students when the flipped classroom methodology was proposed. It has also been found that student perceptions of the teaching approach were more positive when the flipped model was followed. The flipped classroom methodology also seems to foster student participation and motivation more effectively than traditional teaching formats, mainly because the active learning activities that are carried out in this new educative approach manage to involve the students in their own learning processes. Originality/value Despite the enhanced popularity of flipped classroom research in multiple educational contexts and the growing number of studies published in recent years, there is little empirical evidence regarding the effect of the flipped classroom on learning outcomes and satisfaction in pre-service teachers.

scholarly journals The Use of Ideological Becoming in English Literature as a Means to Stimulate Students’ Readiness to Speak

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S9) ◽  
pp. 784-788
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Ideological Becoming ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Aesthetic Values

This study explores the relationship between ideological becoming and students’ readiness to speak using English Literature. Learning literature can be daunting and intimidating for students. Moreover, some view the incorporation of literature in language learning is only to serve the need to impart culture and aesthetic values in students without significantly contributing to the aims of teaching and learning and students’ communicative competence. In addition, some instructors find literature to be complex, thus unsuitable to be adopted in the language learning syllabus. During language learning, speaking poses the most challenging skill to master as the students have reservations and experience anxiety in expressing themselves freely and openly in sharing their thoughts. In order to promote speaking skill among the students in a literature classroom, they need to be engaged actively with activities that would facilitate and accelerate their motivation to speak. With this in view, the researcher finds Bakhtin’s notion on ideological becoming may help students to be more expressive in sharing their views during lessons. Ideological becoming is a process of learning by positioning one’s voice with other voices. Through this process, students are required to get their voices heard and recognized while interacting with others. Thus, this article aims to review the following, first, how is literature used in class to promote speaking skill, and second, how the notion of ideological becoming can be a useful tool in learning literature. The state of ideological becoming brings positive implication for the teaching of literature as students are encouraged to be critical and assertive in defending and justifying their responses toward any literary texts.

scholarly journals The teaching situation of the department of English in the universities of Bangladesh: a critical evaluation

LEKSIKA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Md. Ruhul Amin
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
English Department ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
English Departments ◽  
Teaching Situation ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

It has a long history of teaching English literature and language in this sub-continent. The European colonial rulers introduced this teaching with the motive of serving their own purpose, but paradoxically this teaching has benefited the people of this soil as well in many ways. From the very beginning, the English department of any college or university has been treated as one of the most prestigious departments that have produced the best citizens of this soil. But recently the teaching scenario of these departments in Bangladesh is being severely affected owing to different kinds of changes that have occurred in the social and academic arenas of the country. It is now the demand of the present time that the English departments of the universities of our country should take proper steps to address those problems properly and bring back its reputation. The present study attempts to find out the problems that are affecting the teaching and learning process of these departments and thereby damaging the glory and reputation of them, and also to provide some suggestions to cope with those problems.

Critical Contexts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Williams
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
Modernist Fiction

This concluding chapter argues that the critical contexts of the literary texts dealt with in this volume cannot be so confined inside the period before 1950, not merely for writers whose works have maintained or increased their esteem, but also for the bulk of that work belonging to the large categories of colonial, Victorian, and even nationalist writing that exhibits the values and attitudes of empire. Much of the postcolonial criticism of colonial fiction treats it as symptomatic of imperial views on race, nature, gender, or progress rather than as literature Criticism in this volume means something distinct from that applied to nineteenth-century English literature or American modernist fiction where the specifically literary qualities and values of the writing remain central concerns of its criticism, even where the values and ideology of modernism, for example, have been sharply contested.

Peer learning as a tool to strengthen math skills in introductory chemistry laboratories

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa C. Srougi ◽  
Heather B. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Peer Learning ◽  
Introductory Chemistry ◽  
Math Skills ◽  
Attrition Rates ◽  
Math Ability ◽  
Chemistry Laboratories ◽  
Main Ideas

Math skills vary greatly among students enrolled in introductory chemistry courses. Students with weak math skills (algebra and below) tend to perform poorly in introductory chemistry courses, which is correlated with increased attrition rates. Previous research has shown that retention of main ideas in a peer learning environment is greater when partners have dissimilar abilities. Therefore, in an effort to improve student learning outcomes, we implemented peer learning interventions in our introductory chemistry laboratories to determine if math skills were enhanced when partners differed in math ability. Student performance and attitudes were analyzed in laboratory sections consisting of instructor-assigned partners who differed in math ability, compared to sections where students self-selected a partner. Students who were assigned math partners of different ability showed an 8% improvement in chemistry math concepts compared to no improvement among those who self-selected a partner, as assessed using pre- and post-math tests. Mathematical learning gains were particularly large (16%) for those students in the 50th percentile of math performance. Students also reported a significantly more positive attitude change about working with others compared to students who self-selected a partner. In addition, assigned students demonstrated a more positive shift in self-concepts such as chemistry knowledge and laboratory skills. This study illustrates that peer learning can serve as a useful and easy-to-implement tool to strengthen math skills and improve student attitudes in introductory chemistry laboratories.

Teaching and learning pathology: a critical review of the English literature

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Marshall ◽  
Nicola Cartwright ◽  
Karen Mattick
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Literature

Pandemic-Driven Online Teaching - the Natural Setting for a Flipped Classroom?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor K. Lai
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Natural Setting ◽  
Traditional Lectures ◽  
Online Setting ◽  
Method Of Instruction

Abstract As the COVID-19 pandemic forced a sudden shift to online teaching and learning in April 2020, one of the more significant challenges faced by instructors is encouraging and maintaining student engagement in their online classes. This paper describes my experience of flipping an online classroom for a core Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics class to promote student engagement and collaboration in an online setting. Comparing exam scores with prior semesters involving in-person, traditional lecture-style classes suggests students need a certain degree of adjustment to adapt to this new learning mode. A decrease in Student Rating of Teaching (SRT) scores indicates that students largely prefer in-person, traditional lectures over an online flipped class, even though written comments in the SRT contained several responses favorable to flipping the class in an online setting. Overall, SRT scores on a department level also showed a similar decrease, which suggests students were less satisfied with the quality of teaching overall throughout the department, with this flipped method of instruction neither improving nor worsening student sentiment towards online learning. In addition, whereas most students liked the pre-recorded lecture videos, they were less enthusiastic about using breakout rooms to encourage student collaboration and discussion. Further thought and discussion on best practices to facilitate online student interaction and collaboration are recommended, as online learning will likely continue to grow in popularity even when in-person instruction resumes after the pandemic.

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