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Enhancing students’ engagement through effective feedback, assessment and engaging activities

Kotecha, Meena ORCID: 0000-0001-9211-5988 (2011) Enhancing students’ engagement through effective feedback, assessment and engaging activities. MSOR Connections, 11 (2). pp. 4-6. ISSN 1473-4869

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Identification Number: 10.11120/msor.2011.11020004

Abstract

This paper is about students’ perceptions of mathematics and statistics and their impact on students’ engagement, enthusiasm and academic self-efficacy. I will discuss the strategies I developed to improve learning and teaching in statistics and mathematics service course classes, consisting of 15 students each, some of which also worked extremely well in my lectures to large audiences of about 350 students. I would argue that such an approach could not only enhance students’ perceptions of the subjects and their engagement in classes/lectures but also promote critical thinking, independent learning, reasoning and several transferable skills associated with university education. I will share the outcome of my teaching approach which not only fulfilled my initial expectations but far surpassed them. It increased students’ engagement and their enthusiasm which improved their performance in class activities and coursework. Furthermore, it improved students’ perceptions and attitudes to mathematics and statistics as reflected in their feedback. I have included some of their comments to highlight the impact a teaching approach can have on students.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/msor/index
Additional Information: © 2011 The Author
Divisions: LSE
Statistics
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
Date Deposited: 02 Dec 2011 10:02
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2024 23:09
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/39868

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