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‘To diary or not to diary’? – lessons learned from the SRHE workshop ‘Using Diary Method in Social Research’

SRHE

by Panagiota (Peny) Sotiropoulou At the beginning of February 2024, I attended the in-person workshop on Using Diary Method in Social Research , organised by the SRHE and facilitated by Dr Emily Henderson, Dr Zoe Baker and Dr Ahmad Akkad.

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My 2023 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

The last three times that I taught the course ( spring 2022 , spring 2020 , and fall 2017 ), I shared my reading list for the class on this blog. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 31291. The distribution of indirect cost recovery in academic research.

Finance 113
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Mr Sherwood v The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation[1]

SRHE

Eventually this led to two careful and scholarly reports: Marking Consistency Metrics in 2016 and Marking Consistency Metrics – An Update in 2018. The 2018 report found that grades for, say, English and History are much less reliable than those for Maths and Physics.

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DEI: Informing the Implicit to Create the Explicit in Classroom Culture

The Scholarly Teacher

Pedagogical leadership must balance the validation of students’ cultural socialization and prior experiences (Gay, 2018), with the creation of a sense of belonging and academic discourse that is personally meaningful to participants (Garrison, 2012). Researching the community of inquiry framework: Review, issues, and future directions.

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My 2022 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

The last two times that I taught the course ( spring 2020 and fall 2017 ), I shared my reading list for the class on this blog. EY-Parthenon (2018). National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885. Department heads here are expected to teach one course per year, and it was great to be asked to teach this course.

Finance 113
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What Happened to College Spending During the Pandemic?

Robert Kelchen

But as a researcher, I got an early gift this week when the U.S. Characteristic 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 Median change (pct) -1.2 Characteristic 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 Median change (pct) -1.8 -0.5 Characteristic 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 Median change (pct) -1.8 -0.5

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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation The first draft of this blog post was written before I published a post on 1/22 titled How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? I did not do enough research to answer the questions I was posing. Students and faculty depend on academic librarians for collaboration in learning and research.