Placement Student

1. A Special Journey
Jiangchen Liu
Supervisor: Dr Miesbeth Knottenbelt
23/04/2013

2. Introduction
• School-Based Support for Tutors and
Demonstrators and references to IAD
support and other online materials
• My Learning Process

3. Aim of This Project
• What Support?
• What Relationship?
Suggestions
&
Recommendations

4. What I Did
Website Trawling
Summarizing
Questionnaire
Summarizing
&
Analyzing
Report

5. Findings

6. Findings
The most common references to local support
on the websites (of all schools that have
information about their local support):
• Induction courses—100%.
• Online materials and websites—87.5%.
• Follow-up training events—75%.
• Handbooks online—62.5%.

7. Findings
Response Rate:
• Group One (little or no information online):
81.82% (9 of 11)
• Group Two (detailed information online):
90.91% (10 of 11)

8. Of all 22 Schools: 77.27%
provide local support
Of 17 Schools having information:
•Initial Training Courses (100%)
•Peer support (63.6%),
•Follow-up training events (59.1%),
•Support from organizers (e.g. COs)
(50%),
•Online documents and references to
useful external websites (36.4%),
•Handbooks (36.4%).Marking Support: 36.4%
Percentage of Particular Support

9. Findings
• CSE>CHSS>CMVM
• Induction Courses (of 17 schools that have
information of induction courses):
Annual (52.94%)>Bi-annual(29.41%)>Not given (11.76%)
>Multiple(5.88%)
School Level (58.8%) >Subject Level (23.5%) > Programme
Level (5.9%) = Course Level (5.9%) = Not Specified (5.9%)
• Follow-up Training (of Schools which have
information of follow-up training):
Course Level (61.54%) > School Level (38.46%) > Subject
Level (15.38%) > Not Specified (15.38%)

11. Have
References
to IAD (17)
Tutoring &
Demonstrating
(10)
As
supplement
(9)
University
Handbook
(7)
Tutoring &
Demonstrating
(7)
Learning and
Teaching Roles
(3)
Homepage
(4)
As local
support (1)
Other
Purposes
(7)
IAD
Homepage
(6)
Support for
PG (1)

12. Recommendations
• Further investigation
• Handbooks
• College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

13. More information
of local support
More references of
IAD Support
S c h o o
l s
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I A D
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w i t h
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m a t i o
n o f
l o c a l
s u p p o
r t
o n l y
S c h o o l s
h a v i n g
n e i t h e r
r e f e r e n
c e s t o
I A D
s u p p o r t
n o r
i n f o r m a
t i o n o f
l o c a l

14. Recommendations
• Add links to Tutoring & Demonstrating.
• Make links more specific.
• Code of Practice on Tutoring and
Demonstrating
• Update links

15. It would be better if……
• More Accurate words.
• More Comprehensive Description.

16. My Expectation What I Learned

17. Help from all
other IAD staff

18. Balance WBL with
Other Courses
Working in English