Peer assisted study sessions (PASS), also known as Supplemental instruction, are structured peer guided sessions linked to a specific course, led by experienced and trained students called PASS-leaders. These PASS-leaders undergo several days of training before running their first session and receive supervision and feedback ‘on the job’. Research suggests that training improves student outcomes whereby supervision is considered best practice, as required by PASS protocols. However, it is unclear what type of supervision best supports PASS-leaders. Thus far, studies have not compared different methods for on-the-job interventions. Current practice involves supervisors observing PASS sessions without intervening but providing post hoc feedback. While this prevents undermining the PASS leaders, it delays their ability to act on feedback immediately. This study, carried out at an institution for initial teacher education, developed and tested a method for providing immediate feedback using a bug-in-ear device linked to a live-stream. Six PASS-leaders were observed during 4-6 sessions each, receiving either synchronous feedback with a bug-in-ear or in-person asynchronous post hoc feedback. In group interviews PASS-leaders reported appreciating the immediacy of synchronous feedback which allowed them to act on it in real-time. The surveys after each lesson indicated that they felt significantly more confident about teaching following live feedback. They described the supervisor as an invisible helper, providing support or assistance. Because the bug-in-ear method could only provide feedback on visible instructional and pedagogical actions, both PASS-leaders and PASS-supervisors recommended using this as a supplement to a pre-session briefing and a post-session debrief.
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Al 25 jaar zet HKU interdisciplinair kunstonderwijs op de kaart. Wat begon als een vernieuwend experiment is uitgegroeid tot een verankerd programma waarin studenten leren om interdisciplinair kunstonderwijs te ervaren en te ontwikkelen. Dit jubileum vormt een mooie aanleiding om te reflecteren: Welke waarde heeft (S)MASH gehad en hoe kan het zich blijven ontwikkelen?
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Supplemental instruction, also known as Peer Assisted Study Sessions (SI-PASS), is a well-established form of peer learning that has been implemented in higher education institutions across the globe and that coincides with learning gains for participants. While the effects on learning gains have been extensively studied with quasi-experiments, the underlying mechanisms that make SI-PASS effective are less well understood. This study explored what benefits students thought SI-PASS offered and through which mechanisms. We studied this by interviewing 14 students who participated in SI-PASS during a field experiment that reliably found a significant impact of SI-PASS on performance. The students were asked to expand on if and why they thought SI-PASS was effective. Thematic analysis and independent coding indicated an interplay of three main drivers. SI-PASS was experienced as effective because it stimulated the use of effective study techniques and social learning. These drivers were facilitated and enhanced by a pedagogical climate that lowered the threshold to engage in collaborative learning and effective study techniques. These findings could help pinpoint what elements should be highlighted during the preparation of SI-leaders and what aspects should be monitored and tested when implementing or studying SI-PASS.
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As the Dutch population is aging, the field of music-in-healthcare keeps expanding. Healthcare, institutionally and at home, is multiprofessional and demands interprofessional collaboration. Musicians are sought-after collaborators in social and healthcare fields, yet lesser-known agents of this multiprofessional group. Although live music supports social-emotional wellbeing and vitality, and nurtures compassionate care delivery, interprofessional collaboration between musicians, social work, and healthcare professionals remains marginal. This limits optimising and integrating music-making in the care. A significant part of this problem is a lack of collaborative transdisciplinary education for music, social, and healthcare students that deep-dives into the development of interprofessional skills. To meet the growing demand for musical collaborations by particularly elderly care organisations, and to innovate musical contributions to the quality of social and healthcare in Northern Netherlands, a transdisciplinary education for music, physiotherapy, and social work studies is needed. This project aims to equip multiprofessional student groups of Hanze with interprofessional skills through co-creative transdisciplinary learning aimed at innovating and improving musical collaborative approaches for working with vulnerable, often older people. The education builds upon experiential learning in Learning LABs, and collaborative project work in real-life care settings, supported by transdisciplinary community forming.The expected outcomes include a new concept of a transdisciplinary education for HBO-curricula, concrete building blocks for a transdisciplinary arts-in-health minor study, innovative student-led approaches for supporting the care and wellbeing of (older) vulnerable people, enhanced integration of musicians in interprofessional care teams, and new interprofessional structures for educational collaboration between music, social work and healthcare faculties.
De alliantie tussen professionals en cliënten in de jeugdzorg is een krachtige algemeen werkzame factor in de hulp aan kinderen en ouders met opvoedproblemen. De alliantie tussen professionals en cliënten bestaat uit de persoonlijke klik, overeenstemming over de doelen waaraan gewerkt wordt en de wijze waarop er samengewerkt wordt aan die doelen. Een positieve alliantie in een vroeg stadium van het hulpverleningstraject is een betrouwbare voorspeller van een positieve uitkomst. Het vroegtijdig zicht krijgen op de kwaliteit van de alliantie geeft de mogelijkheid om breuken en deuken in beeld te brengen en vroegtijdig bespreekbaar te maken en te herstellen. Het ritueel om de alliantie bespreekbaar te maken wordt in de praktijk nog weinig gestalte gegeven. Het vergt van professionals een scherp observatievermogen, goede reflectievaardigheden en de nodige creativiteit om het ritueel in het primair proces te passen. Met de te ontwikkelen experimentele leerlijn waar deze aanvraag op ingaat willen werkveldpartners inzetten op het aanleren van deze vaardigheden.
Centre of Expertise, part of Hanze
Lectorate, part of HAS green academy
Centre of Expertise, part of Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, Hogeschool Rotterdam, NHL Stenden Hogeschool, +1