Master’s Learning and Teaching: a Bibliography
Table of Contents
General ................................................................................................................................. 1
Assessment .......................................................................................................................... 1
Employability, Professional Development............................................................................ 3
Discipline Examples .............................................................................................................. 6
International Perspectives ..................................................................................................... 7
Learning and Teaching Strategies ...................................................................................... 10
Policy and Regulation ......................................................................................................... 14
Staff and Student Experiences ............................................................................................ 17
Transition and Induction ...................................................................................................... 21
General
Castle, K. (2010). Study Skills for your Masters in Teaching and Learning. (Learning Matters,
SAGE).
Kneale, P.E. (Ed.) (2015) Masters Level Teaching, Learning and Assessment Issues in Design
and Delivery. (London: Palgrave, Macmillan)
Knight, P.T. (1997) Masterclass: Learning, Teaching and Curriculum in Taught Master’s Degrees
(London: Cassell).
Assessment
Anderson, C., Day, K. and McLaughlin, P. (2008) ‘Student perspectives on the dissertation process
in a masters degree concerned with professional practice’, Studies in Continuing Education, 30:
1, 33–49.
Brown, G.T. (2014). What supervisors expect of education masters students before they engage in
supervised research: a Delphi study. International Journal of Quantitative Research in
Education, 2(1), 69-88.
Brown, S. (2012). Diverse and innovative assessment at Masters level: alternatives to conventional
written assignments. AISHE-J: The All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education, 4(2).
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Brown, S. (2014) ‘What are the perceived differences between assessing at Master’s level and
undergraduate level assessment? Some findings from an NTFS-funded project’, Innovations in
Education and Teaching International, 51: 3, 265–76.
Brown, S., Deignan, T., Race, P. and Priestley, J. Assessing students at Masters Level: learning
points for Educational Developers. SEDA Educational Developments: From Postgraduate
Certificates to embedding UKPSF at all levels, 13,3
Brown, S., Race, P., Canham, R., Priestley, J., Deignan, T. and Wilkinson, K. (2012) Assimilate: A
Compendium of Examples of Innovative Assessment at Master’s Level (Leeds: Leeds
Metropolitan University).
Casey, J. (2002) On-line Assessment in a Master’s-level Policy Subject: Participation in an On-Line
Forum as Part of Assessment (Australia: Charles Sturt University, Centre for the Study of
Higher Education).
Costa, D.S., Mullan, B.A., Kothe, E.J. and Butow, P. (2010). A web-based formative assessment
tool for Masters students: A pilot study. Computers and Education, 54(4), 1248-1253.
Delizée, A. (2011). A global rating scale for the summative assessment of pragmatic translation at
Masters level: an attempt to combine academic and professional criteria. Perspectives on
Translation Quality, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 9-24.
Dunne, M. (2014). Addressing the Cinderella Area: using Masters level study to support Secondary
English trainee teachers in developing effective teaching and assessment of speaking and
listening. English in Education, 48(1), 93-107.
Dunne, M. (2013). Unpicking The Myth Of “The Test”: Using Masters’ Level Investigations To
Develop Trainees Teachers’ Understanding Of Effective Assessment For Learning. UCLan
Journal of Pedagogic Research, 3.
Hasrati, M. (2013). Why bother about writing a Masters dissertation? Assumptions of faculty and
Masters students in an Iranian setting. Asia Pacific Education Review, 14(3), 455-465.
Jasper, M.A. and Fulton, J. (2005). Marking criteria for assessing practice-based portfolios at
masters’ level. Nurse Education Today, 25(5), 377-389.
McSherry, R. and Duggan, S. (2015). Involving carers in the teaching, learning and assessment of
masters students. Nurse Education in Practice.
Maisch, M. (2003) ‘Restructuring a master’s degree dissertation as a patchwork text’, Innovations
in Education and Teaching International, 40: 2, 194–201.
Marshall, T., Taylor, B., Hothersall, E. and Pérez-Martín, L. (2011). Plagiarism: a case study of
quality improvement in a taught postgraduate programme. Medical teacher, 33(7), e375-e381.
Miloslavskaya, N. and Tolstoy, A. (2015). Professional Competencies Level Assessment for
Training of Masters in Information Security. In Information Security Education Across the
Curriculum (pp. 135-145). Springer International Publishing.
Mirzaee, A. and Hasrati, M. (2014). The role of written formative feedback in inducing non-formal
learning among masters students. Teaching in Higher Education, 19(5), 555-564.
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Naudé, M. (2010). E-Portfolios: A Case Example from Masters Level Business Students. Journal of
Organizational Behavior Education: JOBE, 3, 45.
O'Brien, L. (2012). An investigation into the use made of written feedback by Taiwanese masters
students on disciplinary coursework writing (Doctoral dissertation, University of Reading).
de los Ríos Carmenado, I., Díaz-Puente, J.M. and Blanco, J.L.Y. (2011). The integration of project
competences within the post-graduate programme: a case study of the International Masters in
Rural Development Agris Mundus. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences,15, 96-110.
Samkange, W. (2012). Analysing Research Methodologies: A case study of Masters of Education
in Educational Management Dissertations at the Zimbabwe Open University. International
Journal of Social Sciences and Education, 2(4).
Seymour, D. (2005) ‘Learning outcomes and assessment: Developing assessment criteria for
masters-level dissertations’, Brookese Journal of Learning and Teaching, 1: 2. Available at
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Tas, M. and Forsythe, S. (2010). Strategies to Support PGCE Mathematics and Science Students
Preparing for Assignments at Masters Level. Teacher Advancement Network Journal, 1(1).
Wakimoto, D.K. and Lewis, R.E. (2014) ‘Graduate student perceptions of eportfolios: Uses for
reflection, development, and assessment’, Internet and Higher Education, 21, 53–8.
Wharton, S. (2003) ‘Defining appropriate criteria for the assessment of master's level TESOL
Assignments’, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 28: 6, 649
Zafarghandi, A.M., Khoshroo, F. and Barkat, B. (2012). An investigation of Iranian EFL Masters
students' perceptions of plagiarism. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 8(2).
Employability, Professional Development
Alkhateeb F.M., Clauson, K.A. and Latif, D.A. (2012). Availability and Perceived Value of Masters
of Business Administration Degree Programs in Pharmaceutical Marketing and
Management. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 76(4).
Allen, D.E. and Idlebird, J.L. (2012). Evidence That Masters of Business Administration (Mba)
Students Are Better Prepared for Corporate Strategic Planning Than Masters of Science in
Accounting (Msa) Students. American Journal of Educational Studies, 5(1), 51.
Artess, J., Ball, C., Forbes, P. and Hughes, T. (2014) Taught Postgraduate Employability and
Employer Engagement: Masters with a Purpose. HECSU Report. Available at
http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/highereducation/Documents/2014/Full%20HECSU%20report%2
0FINAL%20130514.pdf
Association of American Geographers (2013) Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education in
Geography. Available at http://www.aag.org/edge
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Balogh, Z.E. (2012). Structural engineering masters level education framework of knowledge for
the needs of initial professional practice (Doctoral dissertation, Colorado State University).
Banville, D., White, C.S. and Fox, R.K. (2011). Physical Education Teachers' Professional
Development During Advanced Masters Coursework. In Research Quarterly for Exercise and
Sport (Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. A33-A34). 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 22091 USA: Amer
Alliance Health Phys Educ Rec and Dance.
Bentil, K.K. (2012). Contemporary construction management graduate education: an industrydeveloped masters programme. The Organisation and Management of Construction: Shaping
Theory and Practice, 3, 287-295.
Bryan, H. and Blunden, J. (2013). The place of community in professional development: a study of
newly qualified teachers and newly appointed heads of department engaged in the Masters in
Teaching and Learning. Journal of Education for Teaching, 39(1), 9-20.
Bullen, C.R. and Reeve, J. (2011). Turning postgraduate students’ research into publications: a
survey of New Zealand masters in public health students. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health,
1010539511417998.
Chinamasa, E. and Maphosa, C. (2012). Technological Andragogy: Case of Computer Application
Skills Development by Masters Students at a University of Technology in Zimbabwe. Journal of
Social Science, 33(3), 315-322.
Constantine, M. and Carpenter, D.C. (2012). Bringing Masters' level skills to the clinical setting:
What is the experience like for graduates of the Master of Science in manual therapy
programme?. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 28(8), 595-603.
Dixon, H. and Ward, G. (2015). The Value of Masters Study to Teachers’ Professional Practice:
Contradictory Discourses within the Workplace. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 40(2),
4.
Fletcher, E.C., Lasonen, J.L. and Hernandez-Gantes, V.M. (2013). Opening Doors for Career
Advancement: Masters’ Students Insight on Program Participation. International Journal of Adult
Vocational Education and Technology (IJAVET), 4(4), 38-54.
Fletcher, E. and Hernandez-Gantes, V. (2011). The status of career and technical education
masters programs in the United States. Proceedings from the Association for Career and
Technical Education Research Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Gauthier, A.D. (2014). Factors Influencing the Decision to Join a Professional Association by
Students in Student Affairs Masters Programs (Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania).
Gillani, I.G., Afzal, A. and Bashir, A. (2012). An analysis of the factors influencing the vocational
decision making of female students at masters level in university. Decision Making, 2(2).
Gorkovaya, I.A. and Bakanova, A.A. (2015). The Role of Motivational and Meaning Component of
Education in the Formation of Competence of Masters Psychologists. Psychological Science
and Education, 20(1), 5-14.
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Hizhynska, T. (2015). Professional training programs of masters in adult education at universities
of Germany. Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 5(1), 98-104.
Krahn, S.L., Kosson, D.S. and Clarke, J.H. (2011). A Revolutionary Masters Degree Curriculum in
Nuclear Environmental Engineering. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 105(127),
2011.
Liu, W.J. and Tang, L.H. (2013). Double-tutor Training Mechanism Exploration on Professional
Masters’ Degree of Engineering Combined with Academic. Journal of Educational Science of
Hunan Normal University, 4, 018.
Mahnovskа, I.R. (2013). Organisation of professional training masters students for nursing in credit
modal system. Вектор науки, 150. (English Abstract)
McCullough, F. and Micklewright, A. (2014). Dietitians Meet the NHS Agenda for Improved Patient
Care and Clinical Outcomes through Nutrition Support Study as a Module Masters Level-A
Preliminary Report. Journal of Nutritional Health and Food Science, 1(1), 4.
McEwen, L., Monk, J., Hay, I, Kneale, P.E. and King, H. (2008) ‘Strength in diversity: Enhancing
learning in vocationally-orientated, master’s level courses’, Journal of Geography in Higher
Education, 32: 1, 101–19.
McKay, K. (2015). Sexuality education within masters of social work programs (Doctoral
dissertation, Widener University).
Montgomery, K. and Byrne, S.K. (2010). How Doctoral-Level Advanced Practice Roles Differ From
Masters-Level Advanced Practice Nursing Roles. Role Development for Doctoral Advanced
Nursing Practice, 99.
Moselen, C. (2011). Is it all just Google? The research behaviour of education masters
students (Doctoral dissertation, ResearchSpace@ Auckland).
Mulina, O.N. (2014). The passport and the program of innovative competence development with
bachelors and masters of education. World of Scientific Discoveries/V Mire Nauchnykh
Otkrytiya, 54(7).
Perry, J., Green, A. and Harrison, K. (2011). The impact of Masters education in manual and
manipulative therapy and the ‘knowledge acquisition model’. Manual Therapy, 16(3), 285-290.
Pilkienė, S. (2014). Manifestation of generalist and specialist conceptions in skills acquired by
Masters in education science. Applied Research in Health and Social Sciences: Interface and
Interaction/Sveikatos ir Socialiniu Mokslu Taikomieji Tyrimai: Sandura ir Saveika, 11(1).
Piotrowski, C. and Hemasinha, R. (2012). Career Path Decisions of Masters-Level Mathematics
Students: A Comparative Review. College Student Journal, 46(4), 823-828.
Ramírez, C., Reyna, M., García, A. and Ortiz, X. (2011). The scientific training of graduates from
three masters of science degree programs: a ten year follow up (1999-2009). Available at
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Robertshaw, D. and Denby, Y. (2014). The Interprofessional Master: what should interprofessional
education look like at Masters level?. In All Together Better Health VII International
Interprofessional Conference 6–8 June 2014, P1‐10.
Rushton, A. and Lindsay, G. (2010). Defining the construct of masters level clinical practice in
manipulative physiotherapy. Manual Therapy, 15(1), 93-99.
Sachinis, M. (2011). Curriculum renewal in Greek taught postgraduate translation courses: aligning
student needs and translation market requirements (Doctoral dissertation, Imperial College
London).
Walsh, S.P. and Tucker, K. (2011). The Perspectives of Students Undertaking Masters' Degrees
by Coursework on Career Development Learning. Australian Journal of Career
Development, 20(2), 42-47.
Wang, X, (2012). Cultivation Model Design of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Professional
Masters - A Case Study on New Huadu Business School of Minjiang University. Journal of
Minjiang University, 4, 019.
Weber, J.B., Alberú, P.S. and de los Ángeles Ortíz, M. (2012). MADEMS: A high school physics
teacher masters degree program. Latin-American Journal of Physics Education Vol, 1(326), 6.
Yermentaeyeva, A., Turgunbayeva, B., Bazarbekova, R., Nurtayev, E. and Bekzhanova, B. (2014).
Specific Features of Masters Students Professional Development. Procedia-Social and
Behavioral Sciences, 116, 4764-4769.
Zheng, G., Zhao, G., Liu, J. and Li, D. (2012). Research on Bachelors-masters Degree Training
Mode in Biotechnology Professional of Local Colleges and Universities. The Guide of Science
and Education, 11, 092.
Discipline Examples
Campion, N. and Malville, J.M. (2011). Masters-level education in archaeoastronomy at the
University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union,
7(S278), 357-363.
Darrow, W.W., Silva-Suárez, G. and Sebekos, E. (2011, June). Ethics, Principles, Practices, and
Issues in Public and Sexual Health: The Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a
Masters-Level University Course. Journal of Sexual Medicine Vol. 8, pp. 283-283.
EMT (2014) European Master’s in Translation. Available at
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/programmes/emt/index_en.htm
Gosselin, D.C. (2013). Laboratory earth: the foundation for an integrated, on-line, graduate-level,
science for educators Masters program. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs
(Vol. 45, No. 7, p. 795).
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MHPE (2014) Masters in Health Professionals Education, Syllabi. Available at
http://www.uhs.edu.pk/downloads/mhpeSyllabi.pdf
MS-GIST (2014a) Masters of Science in Geographic Information Systems Technology. University of
Arizona. Available at http://msgist.arizona.edu
Nadash, P., Miller, E.A., Porell, F.W., Birchander, E., Glickman, L. and Burr, J.A. (2014). Expanding
Access to Gerontological Education via Distance Learning: The Management of Aging Services
Masters Program at UMass Boston. Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 35(2), 115-133.
Quintana, J. (2011). Masters degree in veterinary medicine and animal husbandry (professionalizing
master’s degree-poultry area). EDULEARN11 Proceedings, 3383-3385.
Solomon, A.D. (2012). On a new masters level program in software engineering. ACM SIGSOFT
Software Engineering Notes, 37(5), 1-3.
Tekian, A. and Harris, I. (2012). Preparing health professions education leaders worldwide: A
description of masters-level programs. Medical Teacher, 34(1), 52-58.
Xian-jie, L.I.U. (2011). Accelerating the Development of the Agricultural Extension Masters Degree
Education and Training High-level Application Talents - Take Dalian Ocean University as an
Example. Journal of Changchun University of Science and Technology (Social Sciences
Edition), 3, 049.
Zarrouk, S.J. (2012). The challenges of running specialised taught courses: The geothermal
postgraduate course, university of Auckland. In Profession of Engineering Education:
Advancing Teaching, Research and Careers: 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian
Association for Engineering Education 2012, (p. 88). Engineers Australia.
International Perspectives
Baćević, J. (2010). Masters or servants? Power and discourse in Serbian higher education
reform. Social Anthropology, 18(1), 43-56.
Bennett, M.Z., Faltin, L. and Wright, M. (2010) ‘Critical thinking and international master’s students’,
Discourse, 3, 63–94.
Boughton, M.A., Halliday, L.E. and Brown, L. (2010). A tailored program of support for culturally
and linguistically diverse (CALD) nursing students in a graduate entry Masters of Nursing
course: A qualitative evaluation of outcomes. Nurse Education in Practice, 10(6), 355-360.
Bowker, D. (2013). Negotiating understanding and agreement in masters supervision meetings
with international students–okay?. Opening New Lines of Communication in Applied Linguistics,
83.
Brown, L. (2007) ‘A consideration of the challenges involved in supervising international masters
students’, Journal of Further and Higher Education, 31: 3, 239–48.
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Cadman, K. (2000) Voices in the air: Evaluations of the learning experiences of international
postgraduates and their supervisors’, Teaching in Higher Education, 5: 4, 475–91.
Cheu, R., Ferregut, C., Bina, L., Novakova, H., Horak, T., Novak, A., and Aguirre-Covarrubias, S.
(2013). Transatlantic Dual Masters Degree Program in Transportation and Logistics Systems:
First 2 Years of Implementation.Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation
Research Board, (2328), 1-8.
Chirgwin, S.K. (2015). Burdens too difficult to carry? A case study of three academically able
Indigenous Australian Masters students who had to withdraw. International Journal of
Qualitative Studies in Education, 28(5), 594-609.
Clarke, G. and Lunt, I. (2014) International Comparisons in Postgraduate Education: Quality,
Access and Employment Outcomes. Report to HEFCE. Available at
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Coates, N. and Dickinson, J. (2012) ‘Meeting international postgraduate student needs: A
programme-based model for learning and teaching support’, Innovations in Education and
Teaching International, 49: 3, 295–308.
Counsell, J.E. (2011). How effectively and consistently do international postgraduate students
apply the writing strategies they have been taught in a generic skills based course to their
subsequent discipline based studies? Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 5(1), A1A17.
Durkin, K. (2008) ‘The adaptation of East Asian masters students to western norms of critical
thinking and argumentation in the UK’, Intercultural Education, 19: 1, 15–27.
Feng, L. (2010). Sustainablility Education Curricula: Three Case Study Masters Programmes in
England and China (Doctoral dissertation, University of Sheffield).
Graves, R., Remedios, J., Tramutoli, V., Gil, A. and Cuca, B. (2014, May). A European Collaborative
EO Summer School for the Education of Undergraduate and Masters Level Students-FORMATEO. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 16, p. 14586).
He, K. (2012). Graduate Education in China. Available at
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Hu, J. (2011). Exploration of a new approach for designing online English language learning
materials: A case study in supporting the academic reading of international masters degree
students in a British university. Computer Science and Education (ICCSE), 2011 6th
International Conference on (pp. 1041-1046). IEEE.
Hu, J. (2010). An investigation into designing online language learning materials to support the
academic reading of international Masters degree students (Doctoral dissertation, University of
Warwick).
Idris, A.Y. (2011). Investigating the effects of the supervisor's feedback on international Masters
students' dissertation writing outcomes in the UK (Doctoral dissertation, University of Warwick).
Krentler, K.A. and Caruana, A. (2011). An International Collaborative Masters Degree in Integrated
Marketing Communications: A US-EU program in the Mediterranean. Cases on Innovations in
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Technological Strategies, 118.
Larrán Jorge, M., Andrades Peña, F.J. and Muriel de los Reyes, M.J. (2015). Factors Influencing
the Presence of Ethics and CSR Stand-alone Courses in the Accounting Masters Curricula: An
International Study. Accounting Education, 1-22.
Leung, W.S., Coulter, D.A., Moes, C.C.M. and Horvath, I. (2012, November). Reflections on
delivering a cross-discipline, cross-cultural, international, masters-level collaborative course
using e-Learning technologies. In Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on world wide
web applications, 7-9 November 2012, Durban, South Africa. Cape Peninsula University of
Technology.
Lin, X.H. (2010). A collective case study of the acquisition of disciplinary enculturation among
masters students in an English department in Taiwan (Doctoral dissertation, Master Thesis.
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology).
Meghe, S.D., Zahiruddin, Q.S., Gaidhane, A., Behere, P.B. and Mail, I.D. (2013). Masters of public
health education in India: Current scenario and future prospect. Health, 1(4), 99-103.
Morgan, M. (2015). Study expectations of different domiciled Postgraduate-Taught students in a
UK post-1992-institution. Quality Assurance in Education, 23(3).
Morgan, H.A. and Schaefer, l.N. (2011, October). First year experiences in a new international dual
Masters degree program in volcanology/geotechniques. In 2011 GSA Annual Meeting in
Minneapolis.
Pereira, D., Recio, M., Perez, A. V., López, S. and Palacios, E. (2015, April). MOOCs to
internationalize Masters. A case study at the University of Salamanca. In EGU General
Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 17, p. 123).
Rizvi, S. (2010). A transnational approach to educational leadership capacity building: a case study
of the masters of education programme at Notre Dame (Doctoral dissertation, Australian
Catholic University).
Rushton, D. and Duggan, C. (2013). Impact of Culture on Reflective Writing in Masters Level
Students. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 93, 956-963.
Ryan, Y. and Zuber-Skerritt, O. (1999) Supervising Postgraduates from Non-English Speaking
Backgrounds. (Buckingham, UK: Society for Research in Higher Education and Open University
Press).
Sedgley, M.T. (2015). Learning journeys with international Masters students in UK higher
education (Doctoral dissertation, University of Bradford).
Tian, M. and Lowe, J. (2013). The role of feedback in cross-cultural learning: a case study of
Chinese taught postgraduate students in a UK university. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher
Education, 38(5), 580-598.
Timm, A. (2012). What is it Like to Study for an Undergraduate Degree in India? Some Potential
Implications for the Transition into Taught Postgraduate Programmes Abroad. Transnational
Higher Education in the Asian Context, 161.
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Turner, Y. (2006) ‘Students from mainland China and critical thinking in postgraduate business and
management degrees: Teasing out tensions of culture style and substance’, International
Journal of Management Education, 5: 1, 3–12.
Watkins, D. (2011). The influence of Masters education on the professional lives of British and
German nurses and the further professionalization of nursing. Journal of ADVANCED
NURSING, 67(12), 2605-2614.
Wilson, D.W. (2015). A Phenomenological Study on a Masters of Business Administration Degree
from the Perspectives of Multinational Managers (Doctoral dissertation, Colorado Technical
University).
Learning and Teaching Strategies
Adomi, E.E. (2010). Screen reading behaviour of LIS masters degree students in Nigerian
universities. The Journal of Library and Information Management, 1(2), 48-54.
Ayub, M., Shamim, K.M. and Shahana, N. (2014). Needs Assessment of Anatomy for the
Gastroenterology Masters Course among Teachers, Practitioners and Students: Coverage of
Topics other than Topographic Anatomy. Bangladesh Journal of Anatomy, 11(2), 62-67.
Bell, J. (2012). Introducing problem-based learning as a learning strategy for Masters
students. Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 6(1), 3-11.
Benade, S. and Callaghan, R. (2015). The Value of Preparation in a Systems Engineering Masters
Module: A Longitudinal Case Study. Systems Engineering, 18(2), 131-145.
Bennett, S. and Barker, T. (2012). Using Peer Assessment and Electronic Voting to Improve
Practical Skills in Masters Students. Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on eLearning, 53.
BERİGEL, M. and KARAL, H. (2011). Students’ Adoption of Distance Education Environments: an
Action Research of a Non-Thesis Masters’ Program. Journal of Kirsehir Education Faculty,
12(2).
Borycki, E.M., Frisch, N., Kushniruk, A.W., McIntyre, M. and Hutchinson, D. (2012). Integrating
Experiential Learning into a Double Degree Masters Program in Nursing and Health Informatics.
In NI 2012: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics (Vol. 2012).
American Medical Informatics Association.
Bovill, C., Aitken, G., Hutchison, J., Morrison, F., Roseweir, K., Scott, A. and Sotannde, S. (2010).
Experiences of learning through collaborative evaluation from a masters programme in
professional education. International Journal for Academic Development, 15(2), 143-154.
Brooks, C. (2010). Writing at Masters Level. In Studying PGCE Geography at M level. Brooks, C.
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Brown, C.A., Halabi, M.L., MacDonald, K., Campbell, L. and Guenette, R. (2011). Photographic
media for pain expression: Situated learning with graduate-entry masters students to develop
skills in applying theory-to-practice. Creative Education, 2(02), 91.
Casey, D., Clark, L. and Hayes, S. (2011) Study Skills for Master’s Level Students: A Health and
Social Care Workbook (Exeter: Reflect Press).
Castle, K. (2010). Study Skills for your Masters in Teaching and Learning. (Learning Matters,
SAGE).
Conklin, J., Kyle, T. and Robertson, C. (2013). The essential transformation: How Masters students
make sense and learn through transformative change. Management Learning, 44(2), 161-178.
Cox, J. (2014). Encouraging and Training Conservatoire Students at Undergraduate and TaughtPostgraduate Level Towards Fluency in the Thought-Processes and Methods of Artistic
Research. In Research and Research Education in Music Performance and Pedagogy (pp. 4564). Springer Netherlands.
Davis, J., Beck, H., Eagle, S., Othman, S. and Abler, D. (2011). Making the most of partnership:
effectiveness of a collaboratively designed Masters degree program for teacher leaders in
elementary mathematics and science education. ICERI2011 Proceedings, 145-150.
Davis, S.W. (2013). Turning Teaching Inside Out: A Pedagogy of Transformation for CommunityBased Education. Palgrave Macmillan.
De Jong, N., Verstegen, D.M.L., Tan, F.E.S. and O’connor, S.J. (2013). A comparison of
classroom and online asynchronous problem-based learning for students undertaking statistics
training as part of a Public Health Masters degree. Advances in Health Sciences
Education, 18(2), 245-264.
Dietrich, D. (2012, June). Issues in the Online Training of Masters Students in Counseling:
Lessons from Teaching a Counselling Skills Course. In World Conference on Educational
Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (Vol. 2012, No. 1, pp. 2623-2623).
Divan, A. and Mason, S. (2015). A programme-wide training framework to facilitate scientific
communication skills development amongst biological sciences Masters students. Journal of
Further and Higher Education, (ahead-of-print), 1-25.
Dodman, T., Bird, T. and Hopkins, D. (2014). A Case Study of Developing Suitable Mobile
Learning Technology for a Distance Learning Masters Programme. Advancing Higher Education
with Mobile Learning Technologies: Cases, Trends, and Inquiry-Based Methods: Cases, Trends,
and Inquiry-Based Methods, 35.
Dolog, P., Thomsen, L.L., Thomsen, B. and Stage, J. (2010). Competence Centered Specialization
in Web Engineering Topics in a Software Engineering Masters Degree Programme.
In Proceedings of the 1st Educators' Day on Web Engineering Curricula, WECU-2010 in
conjunction with International Web Engineering Conference (pp. 1613-0073).
Fen, G.A.O. (2012). Probing into Problems of Writing Approach of Argumentations for In-service
Masters of Education: From the Angle of Process Genre Pedagogy. Higher Education of Social
Science, 2(3), 15-21.
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