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Assessing-to-learn; enriching the assessment process
Russell, M. (ICEE/ Silesian University of Technology, 2005)Assessment has a profound effect on learning - it focuses the students’ attention and actively encourages out-of-class engagement with the learning resources. Indeed it is repeatedly quoted as being the single most important ... -
Assessment for Learning: An introduction to the ESCAPE project
Russell, M.; Bygate, D. (2010)Assessment is a significant aspect of the student learning experience and good assessment engages students with the curriculum; it creates opportunities for dialogue and ultimately stimulates learning. In spite of the ... -
Behaviours of near two-dimensional ventilation configurations
Russell, M.; Surendran, P.N.; Probert, S.D. (2002)Performances of eight configurations of a ventilated room are predicted. The flows exhibit increasingly three-dimensional tendencies as the proportion of wall occupied by the supply and extract vents is reduced. For all ... -
Engaging students via student-unique Weekly Assessed Tutorial Sheets: A four year review
Russell, M. (2009)Following unacceptable examination performance in a core engineering module, (fluid mechanics and thermodynamics), an alternative and innovative approach to assessment was developed. The new approach centered on the use ... -
Evaluating the Weekly-Assessed Tutorial Sheet approach to assessment: background, pedagogy and impact
Russell, M. (2005)This paper presents the results of using student-unique, weekly-assessed tasks to overcome a low examination performance in a first-year engineering module. In this instance, the weekly assessment tasks were created by ... -
Evaluating the weekly-assessed tutorial sheet approach to assessment: the students' experience
Russell, M. (2006)Evaluations of teaching and assessment interventions often focus on pre- and postintervention changes in examination and/or coursework performance. Whilst these are important indicators in their own right, it is interesting ... -
FDiff3: a finite-difference solver for facilitating understanding of heat conduction and numerical analysis
Russell, M.; Probert, S.D. (2004)The growing requirement for energy thrift and hence the increasing emphasis on ‘low-purchased-energy' designs are stimulating the need for more accurate insights into the thermal behaviours of buildings and their components. ... -
Individualising students' scores using blind and holistic peer assessment
Russell, M.; Haritos, G.; Combes, A. (2006) -
Influence of active heat sinks on fabric thermal storage in building mass
Russell, M.; Surendran, P.N. (2001)There is an increasing drive towards low energy architecture and developing buildings that work with the climate rather than in spite of it. One technology in the area of low energy building design is that of utilising ... -
Peer assessment : educationally effective and resource efficient
Barefoot, Helen; Lou, Fang; Russell, M. (2011)Peer assessment was included within a Level 4 Human Physiology module at the Univer-sity of Hertfordshire following a periodic programme review during the academic year 2006-2007. The peer assessment exercise was thought ... -
A Personalised Assessment Programme in Engineering Education
Russell, M. (2010-09-22)The number of students entering higher education has grown considerably during the last decade. High student numbers and the attendant large class sizes present significant challenges for teachers. Such challenges include ... -
Preliminary explorations into Just-in-Time Teaching
Russell, M. (2006)Accepting that learning is dialogic necessitates the development of teaching and learning activities that support a learning-conversation. Further, Blended Learning requires learning technologies to support the conventional ... -
Quantifying acceptable mesh dependencies for computational investigations of airflows within rooms
Russell, M.; Surendran, P.N.; Probert, S.D. (2002)Ignorance of mesh dependency can sometimes be an embarrassment in numerical calculations. Mesh structures need to be developed to eradicate mesh dependency without compromising the finite computing resource and/or incurring ... -
Use of computational fluid dynamics to aid studies of room air distribution: a review of some recent work
Russell, M.; Surendran, P.N. (2001)Computational fluid dynamics has a wide range of application in the study of room air distribution. The application is providing valuable guidance for those interested in such areas as comfort, productivity and sick building ...