eSTEeM

Centre for Scholarship and Innovation

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Projects

eSTEeM is providing a mechanism for professional development through practice-based scholarship within a mentored community. Much of our work is organised on a project basis with project management aimed at the delivery of new educational outcomes and scholarship outputs. 

eSTEeM supports a rolling portfolio of approx. 80 active scholarship projects under a number of themes which include:

  • Access, Participation and Success
  • Innovative assessment
  • Online/onscreen STEM practice
  • Supporting students
  • Technologies for STEM learning

To learn more about our projects, please click on the project titles or use the search feature below by entering keywords. To search by the name of a project leader, please use the 'Filter by Project Leader' tab on the right-hand side of this page.

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How should formative assessments be assessed? A study of S217 online quizzes

Jonathan Nylk Andy Diament

The aim of this project is to evaluate the level of student engagement with the online quizzes on S217 Physics: from Classical to Quantum, comparing the current model of assessment with a formative thresholded assessment model which has been shown to have a marked positive impact on stud

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Engaging physics students with the key competencies for sustainability through reflective assessment tasks

Martin Braun

Recent news on wildfires, flooding and heatwaves illustrates the effect of climate change on humankind. Closely linked is the issue of sustainability, the wise use of resources now so that we and future generations can enjoy a reasonable standard of living.

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Mitigating Generative AI Exploitation Through Isolated Practical Assessment: An Empirical Investigation of Assessment Integrity and Individual Learning Outcomes in Systems Penetration Testing and Cyber Security Education

Michael Bowkis Lee Campbell

This project uses a mixed methods approach to investigate whether curriculum innovation in assessment design can address the disruption caused by generative AI in practical computing education.

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Evaluating the effectiveness and student experience of using plug-in tablets as part of robust online assessment

Becca Whitehead Gemma Warriner

Our assessment is becoming increasingly vulnerable to the use of Generative AI to answer questions, rather than the students themselves. We aim to investigate the possibility of online assessment via a verbal one-to-one discussion.

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Academic discussions: evaluating student experience and outcomes and tutor perceptions of this novel form of assessment

Fiona Moorman Katja Rietdorf Karen New

In response to academic integrity concerns and with a view to piloting a more authentic form of assessment within the biology curriculum, S317 (Biological Science: from genes to species) and S296 (Cell biology) plan to introduce a structured spoken assessment ‘Academic Discussion’ (AD) into their

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