Peer learning

Throughout the module students learn from and with each other and the lecturer has a central role in promoting and encouraging student learning in all contexts. The lecturer must be aware of and promote the potential for peer learning in all activities related to learning, teaching and assessment. The peer learning experience is an important factor in relation to integration as it has an enormous potential to enhance learning.

Peer learning refers to the use of learning, teaching and assessment strategies in which students learn from and with each other. Peer learning occurs throughout the module, during groupwork involving examining case studies and scenarios, and during the process of developing and presenting the Group Seminar Presentation. Peer learning can enhance subject mastery by promoting deeper levels of understanding based on discussion and free exchange of ideas (De Lisi, 2002). Peer learning encourages critical and active engagement with learning.

Further, students develop skills in organizing and planning learning activities, working together, giving and receiving feedback and evaluating their own learning (Boud et al., 2001). The peer assessment element can also enhance learning in the context of assessment of the contribution to the groupwork undertaken and the giving and receiving of feedback which this involves. Students have to think about the contribution of others and what this has meant to the success or otherwise of the group activity and grade their peers accordingly. This is a useful learning experience for students and will also make them think about their own contribution to the development of the group seminar presentation.

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An Integrated Approach to Learning, Teaching and Assessment in a Healthcare Ethics Module Conclusions

Module evaluation

Assessment strategy

Lecturer as facilitator

Learning and teaching strategies

The module Ethics in Healthcare

Curricula requirements

Integration what it means

An Integrated Approach to Learning, Teaching and Assessment in a Healthcare Ethics Module

Perspectives of Teachers and Students towards Assessment Conclusions

Norm-referenced assessment (NRA) in teaching staff grading

Grading descriptors