The Snakes and Ladders of a Students as Partners approach

Creator(s) (alphabetical)

Sarah Thelen

Organisation(s)

University College Cork

Discipline(s)

Teaching & Learning

Topic(s)

Student Success, Teaching and Learning Practice

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CC BY-NC-SA

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Conference posting using the game of snakes and ladders as a metaphor for the students as partners approach to research as presented the 2023 ISSOTL (International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) conference.

Benefit of this resource and how to make the best use of it

This poster, capturing interim results from the “A Students as Partners Approach to Analysing Student Engagement Data for Teaching and Learning” project, offers a useful visual metaphor for the research process in general and the students as partners approach in particular.

The poster also offers some initial conclusions about the challenges and benefits of the process as experienced by both staff and student partners.

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Thelen, S. (2025). The snakes and ladders of a students as partners approach. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/the-snakes-and-ladders-of-a-students-as-partners-approach/ License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).

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