Seminar and tutorial sessions: the impact on students' learning.

Abstract

This research was conducted with level 2 students from the Early Childhood Studies (ECS) degree programme (specialist and combined award). This ECS degree programme is comparatively new. It was validated in May 2000 and the first cohort of students started the course in September 2000. As the validation took place in May, the course was too late to be included in the UCAS handbook. Consequently, the majority of this cohort of students was recruited from late applicants to UCAS and the ‘clearing’ system. 40 full-time students and 11 part-time students were recruited from a variety of educational backgrounds to the specialist programme. The project focuses on full-time students who entered their academic programme of study in the year 2000 and who were in their second year of study.