We are here to help and support staff and students as they engage with this teaching and learning intervention:
Mairead Brady - [email protected]
Martin Fellenz - Martin [email protected]
Our experience with this project, and the feedback we have received from the participating lecturers and students about their experiences with comparison activities, fully support our initial expectations that the use of comparison activities to support student learning offers significant benefits. At the lower threshold of difficulty or ambition, such activities can be easily and beneficially implemented in many settings, both formal and informal. Given the impressive research evidence for the importance of comparison for learning, all that is required is to ensure that students receive explicit instructions to compare relevant referents, and the resulting learning is further enhanced by guidance in explicating the insights that learners generate from comparisons. At a more ambitious level, we have been able to work with colleagues who implemented comparison activities centrally in highly innovative and ambitious learning designs. The individual steps, the supporting materials we developed in collaboration with many participating lecturers and with the benefit of student feedback, and the experiences shared by our colleagues and students have been enormously helpful in making these implementations successful.
We are located within the Trinity College Campus