David
Quick answers to your questions below :
$ 1. What do you consider to be a useful number of handouts per
$ session (lecturer)?
Sufficient to cover the topic and give students references
to other reading material. There is no standard number
response to this. I teach statistics and would want to
demonstrate a technique and make sure the students have a
definitive statement of any formula used.
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$ 2. How do you judge the quality of your handouts?
Colleagues in teaching teams tell me. Students tell me.
Evaluation sometimes reveal this.
$ 3. Does your department have a policy on the number of handouts
$ given to students?
No. We debate this periodically - we seem to have used the
pendulum to swing to mass handouts covering topics and back
again to our current position where we are questioning the
hidden student agenda relating to handouts - do mass
handouts actually deter students from reading around the
subject/turning up at lectures/engaging with reading etc.
INterestingly we did go through subject review last year
and generated masses of handouts for our paperwork review -
many of us felt uncomfortable ith this.
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$ 4.Do you think that putting handouts in electronic format, i.e. on
$ the web or intranet, is helpful?
Sometimes. Again it may deter students from actually
learning/reading taking responsibility for thier work.
It also means that lecturing staff have an extra mediium to
deal with.
Hope this helps
Deborah
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