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First Look articles  |
Take a first look at the latest additions to this new section, which will showcase articles by faculty members covering a diverse range of teaching and learning topics. They will feature in subsequent thematic issues of CDTL Brief.
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Chemical Engineering Students Design for Powering the World |
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Dr Mukta Bansal, A/P M. P. Srinivasan, Professor Gade Pandu Rangaiah,
A/P Sibudjing Kawi,
Professor I.A. Karimi & Dr Armando Borgna
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Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
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The capstone design project is a core requirement in many chemical engineering undergraduate programmes around the world. In this module/course, typically taken in the final semester, students participate in a group project to design a chemical process or product and submit a detailed report. Continue reading>>
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| November 2012, Vol. 15 No. 3 |
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| Assessing
Student Learning |
| Rubrics: Beyond Scoring,
An Enabler of Deeper Learning |
Ms Chua Siew Beng
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| Department of Management & Organisation, HRM Unit |
Rubrics are scoring guides commonly used by
educators to facilitate the grading of students’
submissions and performance in a course.
According to Andrade (2000), a rubric is
defined as “a scoring tool that lists the criteria
for a piece of work or ‘what counts’” Continue reading>>
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| Are We Assessing Our Students
Too Continuously? |
| Dr Peter Alan Todd and Dr Darren Yeo |
| Department of Biological Sciences |
| As NUS students go through their undergraduate
years, it sometimes seems as if they spend their
time rushing through one assignment after
another. It was this observation that prompted
to us to seek some quantitative feedback on
Continuous Assessment (CA) from the students
we teach, in this case Life Science students. Continue reading>> |
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| On Graduate
Education |
| Tensions in Graduate
Education |
| Dr Saif A. Khan, Associate Professor Lakshminarayanan Samavedham and
Professor Farooq Shamsuzzaman |
| Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |
| In attempting an ‘archaeology’ of knowledge,
Foucault (1966) in his seminal text The Order of
Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences
brings to light the possibility that scientists, as
subjects responsible for scientific discourse,
might be unconsciously determined in their
situation, their function, and their perceptive
capacity by conditions that dominate and even
overwhelm them. Continue reading>> |
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