Continuing to drive student engagement in a changing HE landscape
Pearson worked with Dr Catherine Dobson at the University of Hull to look at how first year engineering students used Mastering both pre- and post-Covid.
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How to embed and deliver effective online assessment in a changing HE landscape
Over the last 5 years, Pearson and the University of Hull have worked together to explore the impact of Mastering Engineering on first year engineering students.
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10 tips for the best online assessments
Pearson worked with 13 universities across the UK to create a guide to delivering an optimal online assessment experience. This best practice advice for using Pearson's digital resources draws on research with these institutions.
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Revel and Swansea University
Revel was shown to improve exam scores when compared to students who did not use it. Revel impacted positively on student engagement with reading and lectures, increasing student confidence with their knowledge acquisition, demonstrated by their participation in lectures.
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Smarthinking Research Study 2020
This study is intended to provide insight into the use and impact of Smarthinking as it was employed across six anonymous UK Higher Education institutions at various times between September 2019 and May 2020.
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What students say
We get set homework every week. For me the benefit of MyMathLab is actually working through the examples that we've been taught in class. That's how I learn maths.
Llinos Owen, student, Engineering Maths, University of Liverpool, UK (MyMathLab)
I just wanted to let you know how helpful the Mastering Biology is! It makes me study better, almost forces me to it! And it is a perfect combination between pictures, videos and text. It's genius!
Renee Bakkemo, student, University of Essex (MasteringBiology)
It is like having a teacher by your side, you learn it a lot quicker than usual homework!
Jannick Mikkelsen, student, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (MyEconLab)
[MyFinanceLab is] like a personal tutor laying the path toward your learning finance.
Fredrik Hannfors, student, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden (MyFinanceLab)
What educators say
"What really helped was that fact that [MasteringEngineering] was online, available 24/7. That really helped; students these days want to decide when they study. That's when we really saw our pass rates go up."
- Gillian Saunders, lecturer, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, using MasteringEngineering with Hibbeler: Statics (MasteringEngineering)
The average mark is approximately 10% higher than it was previously. Furthermore, the failure rate has decreased significantly - from 32% to 5-14% in recent years.
Marion Birch and Niels Walet, Manchester University (MasteringPhysics)
Since I've been using it my pass rates have gone up - the first year I used the system it was quite striking.
Carrie Rutherford, London South Bank University, UK (MyMathLab)
Results show that these students performed on average 10% better on the final exam.
Matthew Olczak, Aston University, UK (MyEconLab)
The percentage of students who passed the course increased from 55% to 80%.
Halit Gonenc, University of Groningen, Netherlands (MyFinanceLab)
The number of low performers was lower than in the corresponding exams a year ago.
Jouko Karjalainen, Aalto University, Finland (MasteringPhysics)