University Teaching & Learning 5000

Creating a syllabus

If you are looking for some additional guidance on the construction of a syllabus, review the Readings and Exercises page for May 12. I modified it today to include an additional set of materials with advice on this topic.

Ramsden, in Chapters 4 and 5 of his book, mentions the “Approaches to Studying Questionnaire” which he and others employ to assess the use of deep and surface approaches to learning and the conditions that promote each. If you are interested in seeing the questions themselves, you will find a short form of the questionnaire in the Appendix to this article:

Richardson, J. T. E. (1990). Reliability and replicabiity of the Approaches to Studying Questionnaire. Studies in Higher Education, 15, 155-168.