One and done, or a bundle and stumble? an exploration of assessment methods in undergraduate science curricula
- Authors: Edwards, Shelley
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/461539 , vital:76211 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.2478/atd-2022-0023"
- Description: Assessment, historically, has been done in a summative manner in post-secondary education (HE). Whilst useful for the purposes of grading and assessment of competency, there is also increasing pressure from post-secondary education institutions to meet certain standards in terms of education quality and graduate numbers, putting pressure on teachers to produce evidence of students’ level of understanding and thus putting a greater emphasis on the use of summative assessments. The formative assessment approach for student learning is preferable in some fields, but how useful is this format for the science subjects?
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- Date Issued: 2022
- Authors: Edwards, Shelley
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/461539 , vital:76211 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.2478/atd-2022-0023"
- Description: Assessment, historically, has been done in a summative manner in post-secondary education (HE). Whilst useful for the purposes of grading and assessment of competency, there is also increasing pressure from post-secondary education institutions to meet certain standards in terms of education quality and graduate numbers, putting pressure on teachers to produce evidence of students’ level of understanding and thus putting a greater emphasis on the use of summative assessments. The formative assessment approach for student learning is preferable in some fields, but how useful is this format for the science subjects?
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- Date Issued: 2022
Systematic revision of Afrogecko ansorgii (Boulenger, 1907)(Sauria: Gekkonidae) from western Angola
- Lobón-Rovira, Javier, Conradie, Werner C, Pinto, Pedro V, Keates, Chad, Edwards, Shelley, du Plessis, Anton, Branch, William R
- Authors: Lobón-Rovira, Javier , Conradie, Werner C , Pinto, Pedro V , Keates, Chad , Edwards, Shelley , du Plessis, Anton , Branch, William R
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/461550 , vital:76212 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5124.4.1"
- Description: Here we provide the first phylogenetic analysis that include Afrogecko ansorgii and a detailed morphological comparison with other species of leaf-toed geckos. For this purpose, we used two mitochondrial (16S, ND2) and four nuclear (RAG1, RAG2, CMOS, PDC) genes to produce a robust phylogenetic reconstruction. This allowed us to show that A. ansorgii is not related as previously believed to circum-Indian Ocean leaf-toed geckos and is rather more closely related to other Malagasy leaf-toed geckos. Additionally, we explore and compare osteological variation in A. ansorgii skulls through High Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography with previously published material. This allowed us to describe herein a new genus, Bauerius gen. nov., and additionally provide a detailed redescription of the species (including the first description of male material), supplementing the limited original description and type series, which consisted of only two females.
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- Date Issued: 2022
- Authors: Lobón-Rovira, Javier , Conradie, Werner C , Pinto, Pedro V , Keates, Chad , Edwards, Shelley , du Plessis, Anton , Branch, William R
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/461550 , vital:76212 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5124.4.1"
- Description: Here we provide the first phylogenetic analysis that include Afrogecko ansorgii and a detailed morphological comparison with other species of leaf-toed geckos. For this purpose, we used two mitochondrial (16S, ND2) and four nuclear (RAG1, RAG2, CMOS, PDC) genes to produce a robust phylogenetic reconstruction. This allowed us to show that A. ansorgii is not related as previously believed to circum-Indian Ocean leaf-toed geckos and is rather more closely related to other Malagasy leaf-toed geckos. Additionally, we explore and compare osteological variation in A. ansorgii skulls through High Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography with previously published material. This allowed us to describe herein a new genus, Bauerius gen. nov., and additionally provide a detailed redescription of the species (including the first description of male material), supplementing the limited original description and type series, which consisted of only two females.
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- Date Issued: 2022
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