Funded LITE Grant Projects: Skills Development

Implementing a picture book design project in an undergraduate math course

Evaluating the effectiveness of balanced case studies in enhancing students’ competencies in sustainability management

Investigating the benefits of incorporating the MLSQ for first year students

Developing a framework for the observation and evaluation of student behaviours during in-class active learning activities.

Piloting an undergraduate mental health literacy course and assessing its efficacy in information retention, stigma, and resilience

Pilot a for-credit academic skills course for students who are not enrolled in a Foundation Term

Increasing the sample size and variation of a past study on career and competency ePortfolio efficacy

Creation of a community of practice for collaborative skills as well as well as create a resource set for students and instructors

Investigating malleable mindsets in overcoming conflict and the effect of culturally valuing independence on student success

Piloting a campus wide course on collaboration and assessing the efficacy

Reshaping Architecture education by applying participatory action research methodologies to promote empowered learning and student ownership of knowledge

Enhancing student support and the development of adaptive expertise among pharmacy students, examining the role of anxiety and its links to the curriculum

Creating and assessing teamwork training workshops for engineering students

Creating a common rubric for oral communication to improve student learning and professional preparation across the Engineering curriculum

Creation of a teamwork training program to demonstrate the value of such teaching

Creating a non-credit course for studying best practices for English Language Competencies, specifically discipline related extracurricular activities

Assessing ways to provide feedback and address core needs of students to improve their writing skills and piloting workshops based on instructor needs

Assessing the benefits various of dissertation boot camp types have on writing behaviors, confidence, and anxiety

Assessing how integrating AI-driven Virtual Standardized Patients can improve pharmacy students’ clinical skills, diagnostic proficiency, and communication abilities

Examining the effects of good writing habits on apprehension, self-efficacy, and self-assessment surrounding a writing assignment in an introductory health writing course

Examining the effects of mindfulness practices in a health studies writing course

Explores how engaging experts from outside the university fosters student growth in the applied, creative classroom

Developing and evaluating a virtual communication module to improve optometry students’ communication skills with patients

Enhancing student learning of Professional Planning competencies through work-integrated learning (WIL) by identifying best practices, examining professional competence in ethics, exploring student experiences, and developing recommendations for improvement

Enhancing second-year international development students’ applied research skills and career development through targeted grant writing training

Interviewing and surveying instructors and students about their teamwork skills and attitudes

Creation and assessment of a data literacy online learning platform for environment students

Piloting and assessing the SKAATR module for graduate students

Examining the effect of experiential learning on critical thinking

Assessing the efficacy of the Student Success Offices’ Skills tutorials on improved grades, answer clarity, and impact variation based on past success or lack thereof

Examining the effects of student learning groups on the success and perceptions surrounding their efficacy

Designing a web framework for group projects in large classes and studying its impact on learning

Testing the benefit of addressing students’ interview nervousness as physiological adaptation immediately before a co-op interview

Creating an opportunity for project/systems design students and engineering stakeholders to interact

Exploring how urban arts can be used as a teaching method for increased student engagement and decolonized learning