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- Title
- Using student reflections to explore curriculum alignment
- Related
- Asian social science, Vol. 8, No. 14, (2012), p.9-18
- DOI
- 10.5539/ass.v8n14p9
- Publisher
- Canadian Center of Science and Education
- Date
- 2012
- Author/Creator
- Harvey, Marina
- Author/Creator
- Baumann, Chris
- Description
- The concept of curriculum alignment is held as a guiding principle of good curriculum design in higher education. Curriculum alignment can be mapped using a variety of strategies and tools. This paper reports on a project that expands the horizons of curriculum review by applying a novel methodology, word clouds, to investigate the use of student reflections for exploring curriculum alignment. Students, from Australia and Denmark, engaged in written reflections about their learning in a Business Brand Marketing subject. These reflections provide the data that is analysed for its alignment with the subject's learning outcomes. The word cloud analysis is found to be useful in providing evidence of curriculum alignment and indicators for directing deeper textual analysis.
- Description
- 10 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- curriculum alignment
- Subject Keyword
- student reflection
- Subject Keyword
- word cloud analysis
- Subject Keyword
- learning
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Learning and Teaching Centre
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Marketing and Management
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/197019
- Identifier
- ISSN:1911-2017
- Identifier
- mq_res-ext-201211061239-4
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright the Author(s). Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the author/s.
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