History Syllabuses

A Needs-based Evaluation of EAP Syllabuses

The main purpose of the present exploration was to see if EAP syllabuses have been developed based on reading comprehension needs of undergraduate students. To this end, 656 undergraduate students, 75 graduate students, 150 post-graduate students, 75 content teachers and 30 EAP teachers of fifteen randomly selected academic disciplines filled in a needs analysis questionnaire. To triangulate th...

Pragmatics and Practicalities of Teaching and Learning in the Quicksand of Database Syllabuses

In this paper we reflect on experiences of delivering a database design module at Sheffield University and discuss some of the issues and problems relating to teaching, learning and assessment in this area. In particular, the paper discusses the tensions that are experienced when delivering a module to a mixed group presenting a diversity of backgrounds, ranging from the technologically sophist...

Teaching Context 'synthetic and Analytic Syllabuses' in a South Korean University Setting

Exploring the differences between students trained under the old and new HSC syllabuses

The School of Physics at the University of Sydney has a research group called SUPER, the Sydney University Physics Education Research group. In December 2000, an enthusiastic postdoctoral fellow, Dr Chris Stewart, joined SUPER. We considered possible research projects and decided to explore the differences between students trained under the old HSC syllabus with those trained under the new HSC ...

On the Description of Individual Course Units for Programme Assessment and Better Syllabuses

Presently, higher education programmes are being assessed at several different levels, locally, or even countrywide. In this paper, we propose a template for the description of each curricular unit in higher education programmes that seeks to promote reflective teaching, widely acknowledged as fundamental to improve practices leading to improved student learning, while being advantageous and co...