Tania Allard

CW20 - 2020-03-31 to 2020-04-02 Does grade inflation exist? - CI6-CW20 Participants Jez Cope Philip Grylls Pablo Bernabeu Frances Cooper Tania Allard Context / Research Domain New university students often do not have the skills expected when they begin their degree courses. One reason for this may be that universities are less able to distinguish between student skills due to grade inflation. Grade inflation is the process whereby exam questions become easier each year, meaning more students achieve higher grades....

Collaborations Workshop 2018 - 2018-03-26 How to manage expectations while juggling different projects with overlapping deadlines and competing resources? - CI1-CW18 Reporter Tania R Allard - t.allard@sheffield.ac.uk Participants Stephan Druskat, Robert Haines, Tania Allard, Mark Woodbridge, Stuart Grieve, Brigitta Sipocz, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Raquel Alegre Context / Research Domain This problem is often found within Research Software Engineering like-teams working collaboratively in a number of research projects. Problem Now that the necessity of having an RSE in a project is established, the issue of managing the expectations of the projects and allocating resources to multiple concurrent projects....

Collaborations Workshop 2018 - 2018-03-26 Streamlining JupyterLab as a teaching tool Reporter Tania R Allard - t.allard@sheffield.ac.uk Participants Tania Allard, Matt Williams, Mark Dawson, Jeremy Cohen, Sam Mangham, Robin Long Context / Research Domain The problem covers the domain of training and education for new users of interpreted languages. Problem Existing tools to support training are either too simplistic, resulting in a steep learning curve for students who need to install complex environments and understand packaging systems or command-line REPL interfaces, or too complex, aiming to streamline the user experience to a level that presents too many choices and provides a cluttered interface....