Improve Engagement with Full Labs and Motivated Students: Interactive labs via low stakes assessment

Mckeever, Susan, O'Byrne, Patricia and O'Farrell, Amanda (2023) Improve Engagement with Full Labs and Motivated Students: Interactive labs via low stakes assessment. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Poor engagement and attendance is an endemic problem at third level, particularly post covid. Our approach shows how the use of regular in-lab assessment and challenges can dramatically increase student participation and learning. Using three case studies, we demonstrate how we have successfully used this low-stakes assessment approach to improve student outcomes, across a range of modules.

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https://eprints.teachingandlearning.ie/id/eprint/7365
Title:
Improve Engagement with Full Labs and Motivated Students: Interactive labs via low stakes assessment
Authors:
Mckeever, Susan, O'Byrne, Patricia and O'Farrell, Amanda
Identification Number:
10.21427/04cy-1r11
Official URL:
https://doi.org/10.21427/04cy-1r11
Date:
2023
Subjects:
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
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Update reference: NFU-2023-0507. Original abstract reproduced without summarisation from https://arrow.tudublin.ie/cddpos/15. Reuse basis: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. PDF: Improve Engagement with Full Labs and Motivated Students: Interactive labs via low stakes assessment. Creators: Susan Mckeever; Patricia O'Byrne; Amanda O'Farrell. Source: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/context/cddpos/article/1014/viewcontent/Improved_Engagement_with_Full_Labs___Susan_McKeever___Patricia_OByrne_and_Amanda_OFarrell.pdf. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Licence declared in the primary repository record. The source PDF is reproduced without changes.
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25 Oct 2026 02:19
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