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Enhancing Education

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Awarding Gaps

  • Awarding Gaps overview

Mind the Gap Toolkit

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1. How do you know?

  • 1. How do you know? overview
  • Quantitative research findings
  • Impact of Covid-19
  • Limitations of data
  • Qualitative research findings
  • Sources of useful data

2. What are the reasons?

  • 2. What are the reasons? overview
  • What does the sector say?
  • What do Cambridge students say?
  • Assessment and awarding gaps
  • The deficit approach
  • The hidden curriculum

3. What works?

  • 3. What works? overview
  • What is needed?

Examples of effective practice

  • Examples of effective practice overview
  • 1. Curriculum design
  • 2. Assessment & feedback
  • 3. Teaching practices
  • 4. Learning environments
  • 5. Staff & student engagement

APP Research Project

  • APP Research Project overview
  • Cycle 4 (2022-23)
  • Cycle 5 (2023-24)
  • Project Outputs

Cycle 1 (2019-20)

  • Cycle 1 (2019-20) overview
  • A | Advisory Hub
  • A | Anti-Racist Glossary
  • A | Mentoring
  • A | STEMM Subjects
  • B | Content Notes
  • B | Diagnosis and Screening
  • B | Diversifying Assessment
  • B | Double Time
  • B | Intermission
  • B | Time Costs

Cycle 2 (2020-21)

  • Cycle 2 (2020-21) overview
  • A | Curricular Representation
  • A | First-Year Transition
  • A | Supervisions
  • B | Assessment Guidance
  • B | Peer Learning
  • B | Supervisions

Cycle 3 (2021-22)

  • Cycle 3 (2021-22) overview
  • A | Decolonisation
  • A | Race and Mental Health
  • B | Diversifying Assessment
  • B | Formative Feedback
  • B | Self-Advocacy

Educational Enquiry

  • Educational Enquiry overview
  • Research & Evaluation
  • Ethics
  • Educational Research Networks

Ethics Review Committee

  • Ethics Review Committee overview
  • Review Process
  • Meeting Dates
  • Terms of Reference
  • Members

Students as Partners

  • Students as Partners overview
  • Students as Partners [PDF]
  • Introduction
  • Roles
  • Considerations
  • Starting a partnership project
  • Case studies
  • Networks and journals
  • References and resources

Assessment at Cambridge

  • Assessment at Cambridge overview
  • Good Practice Guidance [PDF]
  • Assessment Glossary
  • Commonly Interchanged Terms

Good Practice Guidance

  • Good Practice Guidance overview
  • Good Practice in Assessment
  • Format-specific Guidance
  • Case studies

Further Resources

  • Further Resources overview
  • Inclusive Teaching & Learning
  • Lecture Recordings
  • Black Advisory Hub

Content Notes

  • Content Notes overview
  • Common misconceptions
  • What do I do next?

What are content notes?

  • What are content notes? overview
  • Why use content notes?
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Other mental health conditions
  • Benefits for other students
  • Legal duty

How to use content notes

  • How to use content notes overview
  • When to use content notes
  • Staff concerns
  • How to present content notes
  • Alternative approaches

Peer Learning

  • Peer Learning overview
  • Murray Edwards "Subject Advisors"
  • Wolfson College "Writing Consultants"
  • History of Art "Buddy Groups"

Teaching Programmes

  • Teaching Programmes overview
  • Cambridge Teaching & Learning Recognition Scheme
  • Advancing Educational Practice Programme
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education

Researcher Development Fellows Programme

  • Researcher Development Fellows Programme overview
  • Application Questions

Short Courses

  • Short Courses overview
  • Supervising Undergraduates
  • Supervising Postgraduates
  • Accessibility & Disability
  • Admissions Selection
  • Direction of Studies
  • Tutoring

Networks

  • Networks overview
  • Researcher Development Forum
  • Teaching & Learning Newsletter

Teaching & Learning Community of Practice

  • Teaching & Learning Community of Practice overview
  • T&L Community of Practice Team

Skills Educators' Network

  • Skills Educators' Network overview
  • Student Skills Strategy

Events

  • Events overview
  • Enhancing Assessment Forum
  • Annual Meeting: Undergraduate Education
  • Annual Meeting: Postgraduate Education

Cambridge Teaching Forum

  • Cambridge Teaching Forum overview
  • Resources from Past Fora

Teaching Prizes

  • Teaching Prizes overview
  • Pilkington Prize 2025
  • History of the Prize
  • Nominations Process
  • Previous Prize Winners
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    About

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  • Enhancing Education

    Enhancing Education

    Enhancing Education overview
    • Guiding Principles
    • Awarding Gaps
    • Educational Enquiry
    • Assessment at Cambridge
    • Further Resources
  • Teaching Programmes

    Teaching Programmes

    Teaching Programmes overview
    • Cambridge Teaching & Learning Recognition Scheme
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    • Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
    • Researcher Development Fellows Programme
  • Short Courses

    Short Courses

    Short Courses overview
    • Supervising Undergraduates
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    Teaching Prizes

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Enhancing Education

  • Enhancing Education overview
  • Guiding Principles
  • Awarding Gaps
  • Educational Enquiry
    • Research & Evaluation
    • Ethics
    • Ethics Review Committee
    • Students as Partners
      • Students as Partners [PDF]
      • Introduction
      • Roles
      • Considerations
      • Starting a partnership project
      • Case studies
      • Networks and journals
      • References and resources
    • Educational Research Networks
  • Assessment at Cambridge
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Student engagement and student partnership networks and journals

Networks
RAISE Network
TSEP - The Student Engagement Partnership
Sparqs - Student Partnerships in Quality Scotland

Jisc CAN - Change Agents' Network

A network of staff and students working in partnerships to support curriculum enhancement and innovation (www.jiscinvolve.org)

Journals

Studies in Higher Education

International Journal for Students as Partners
Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal
Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change
International Journal for Academic Development

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