In university teaching practice, a common problem is the lack of understanding of the criteria for passing courses by students. There may be many reasons for that: lack of experience, ineffective communication with the lecturer, excessive amount of information, etc. To minimise these problems, lecturers should be reflective in the process of creating syllabi and when presenting them to students.
| Description | These workshops have two main objectives. The first is to present the results of the analysis of (a) the criteria for passing a course on the example of degree programmes in humanities and exact sciences and (b) the reasons why students may have problems understanding the requirements. The second is a discussion of the implications for lecturers and instructors. The data comes from two corpora: (1) criteria for passing a course from the syllabi of humanities and exact sciences degree programmes, (2) statements of 200 students of 2/3 year of the first cycle studies (100 each from Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Science and Technology) obtained through an anonymous questionnaire. The collected data will be subjected to qualitative linguistic analysis (Mayring, 2001) and sentiment analysis using artificial intelligence tools (LLM). The following categories will be taken into account in the analysis: clarity, completeness, detail, accessibility, fairness and compliance with educational goals. |
| Date | 25.10.2024 |
| Time | 12.45a.m.–1.45 p.m. |
| Language | polish |
| Place | University of Silesia
Bankowa 5 40-007 Katowice |
| Form | Open workshop |
| Organizer | University of Silesia in Katowice |