Browsing by Author "McGinty, Sam"

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Developing Assessment Practices in Politics

Blair, Alasdair; McGinty, Sam (Book chapter)

Up until the early 1990s the traditional approach to teaching and learning in Politics was to use examinations and essays as the primary method of assessing students. This was somewhat in contrast to other subject-based ...
Feedback-Dialogues: Exploring the student perspective

Blair, Alasdair; McGinty, Sam (Article)

There have been many recommendations for dialogue to be part of the feedback process for students in higher education. In this paper we report on the findings of feedback-dialogue practices among 17 History, Politics and ...
Is peer feedback an effective approach for creating dialogue in Politics?

Blair, Alasdair; Curtis, Steven; McGinty, Sam (Article)

Feedback practices have recently come under increasing scrutiny, most notably because of the impact of the National Student Survey. This article draws on the work of a National Teaching Fellowship Scheme funded project ...