{"id":10266,"date":"2022-03-10T13:57:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2022-03-10T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T06:05:26","slug":"scupi-writing-center-hosts-its-innovation-research-mid-term-inspection-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/en\/activities\/scupi-writing-center-hosts-its-innovation-research-mid-term-inspection-presentation","title":{"rendered":"SCUPI Writing Center Hosts Its Innovation Research Mid-term Inspection Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, Sichuan University has carried out the mid-term inspection meeting for the \u201cNew Century higher education innovation research (Phase IX)\u201d projects. The inspection meeting for projects from Sichuan University – Pittsburgh Institute (SCUPI) was called by Prof. James McDougall from SCUPI Writing Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. McDougall and his team\u2019s project, \u201cIntegrated Academic Support Services for Language Learning in an EMI Setting\u201d, is also one of the University-level projects. The goal of its mid-term inspection meeting was to evaluate the effectiveness of the work of Writing Center and the students\u2019 motivation for looking for academic support service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. McDougall began with a brief history of Writing Centers\u2019 development in North America, and then introduced the progress of the writing program at SCUPI Writing Center (SWC). According to him, SWC has mainly implemented the following initiatives since the last semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022       A new appointment system <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022       Weekly staff meetings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022       Listening and speaking sessions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022       Feedback surveys<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The new appointment system helped students from SCUPI use academic support for a total of 2632 times during the Fall 2021 semester. Data also shows that the students who visited the SWC more than 8 times had had significant improvement in their English scores than those who visited less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the meeting, Prof. McDougall also mentioned that the SCUPI Writing Center will contribute extra effort for the project in the future which will cover the following aspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the team will do the following research:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Incorporate survey information<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Incorporate focus groups<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Use more robust and accurate tools for text analysis of student reflections<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Write up research into publishable journal articles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Contact other joint institutes to get a better contextual understanding of institutional practices across China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, the team will also launch the following endeavors to build a better SWC:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Better TA screening and training<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Identify low-scoring students and assign them Writing Center appointments<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Faculties who attended the meeting also participated in the discussion after the presentation of Prof. McDougall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. TsunZee Mai, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of SCUPI, wondered whether the online appointment system would make it more difficult for students to attend consultations. To answer this question, Prof. McDougall pointed out that through a formal appointment, students would know that there will be a particular professor or a student teaching assistant (TA) they want to consult with, which would consequently encourage students to attend the session. This statement was also confirmed by the comparative success rates data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Areum Jeong wanted to know what might be more effective with the support from the Institute. Prof. McDougall believed that a better TAs\u2019 screening and training can be fostered with the support of SCUPI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Faculty and staff who attended the meeting agreed that with the progress of the project, the SCUPI Writing Center will become a stronger tool to facilitate both the teaching and learning at SCUPI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor | Joanna Peng<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, Sichuan University has carried out the mid-term inspection meeting for the \u201cNew Century higher education innovation research (Phase IX)\u201d projects. The inspection meeting for projects from Sichuan University – Pittsburgh Institute (SCUPI) was called by Prof. James McDougall from SCUPI Writing Center.","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10277,"href":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/10277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppslots88.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}