From romance to rocket science: speed dating in higher education

Muurlink, Olav; Matas, Cristina Florencia Poyatos

doi:10.1080/07294360.2010.539597

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“…On that day, each student presents a 2-min speech pitching a line of research. Students then participate in a speed-dating activity (Muurlink & Poyatos Matas, 2011), with the goal of finding a partner and a topic. Typically, pairs form organically, although oftentimes students compromised to select what academic conversation they would join.…”

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Joining the conversation: Teaching students to think and communicate like scholars.

Parks¹

2022

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology

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Although today's psychology students are well versed in the early stages of the scientific method (developing a research question; designing an experiment), they are rarely asked to engage in the final stage of the scientific method: building and communicating an idea among scholars. As a result, students often fail to appreciate the "unending conversation" that is academic inquiry. To help students learn to think "like scientists" and join a scholarly conversation, we have tried mirroring elements of scholarly practices in the classroom (e.g., writing, collaboration). Evidence in the natural sciences has suggested that each of these pedagogical techniques, taken individually, can enhance students' critical thinking. More recent work in chemistry education, however, has demonstrated that a holistic approach, engaging students in multiple scholarly practices, may lead to greater gains in critical thinking. In this article, I argue for such an approach in psychology-one that more closely mirrors how scholars operate in the real world. As a model, I present a scaffolded writing project that asks students to think like scientists by engaging in multiple scholarly practicescollaborative writing, inquiry-based research, and peer review. I hypothesize that students can make significant gains in critical thinking when they are placed in the role of scholar. I thus call for a new direction in how we approach today's psychology students and highlight the critical need for empirical testing of this and other combinatory approaches.

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2022

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“…Although speed-dating formats were originally introduced for romantic purposes, their possibilities for implementation have been broadened to several different application contexts. Examples include technology transfer in fragmented regional innovation systems [31], student-driven feedback and engagement [32], conveying science from scientists to journalists [33], a tool for building research culture [34] customerto-customer interactions [35], and others. The advantage of these one-to-one encounters is that the dialogue partners can better understand the level of knowledge of their respective counterparts and respond to it, thus preventing intimidation of the partner due to knowledge differences [36].…”

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Dyadic Analysis of a Speed-Dating Format between Farmers and Citizens

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Alienation between farmers and citizens has increased amid complex developments of agriculture’s intensification, urbanization processes, demographic change, and specialization in food supply chains in developed countries. Traditional public relations instruments have failed to generate societal acceptance of today’s intensive agricultural practices. At the same time, the agricultural sector feels alienated from societal value changes. Other controversial contexts showed that open face-to-face encounters at eye level hold the potential to promote mutual understanding and acceptance. The study aims to analyze how speed-dating conversations between farmers and citizens, considering participants’ characteristics, impact different outcome variables. 24 farmers and 22 citizens specifically recruited for participation in the speed-dating were organized to have short conversations of 10–15 min in different farmer-citizen-constellations. Each conversation had a specific overall agricultural topic including animal welfare, agricultural technology, environmental protection, agricultural policy, and esteem for food. Four months after, different outcomes were measured in a follow-up survey. For 84 person-constellations complete dyadic data were available to be analyzed by hierarchical regression analyses. Participants were mostly satisfied with the dialogue format and gained new factual and personal information. Results indicate stronger impacts of socio-demographic characteristics and personality traits than characteristics of the conversations themselves. Constellations with male citizens, female farmers, more educated farmers, extroverted participants, emotionally stable farmers, and more open participants tended to have higher dyadic outcome variable values. The results call for a re-design of farmer-citizen dialogue formats to facilitate more direct interpersonal communication.

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Faculty Development for Organizational Change

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2013

Faculty Development in the Health Professions

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From romance to rocket science: speed dating in higher education

Cited by 12 publications

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Joining the conversation: Teaching students to think and communicate like scholars.

Joining the conversation: Teaching students to think and communicate like scholars.

Dyadic Analysis of a Speed-Dating Format between Farmers and Citizens

Faculty Development for Organizational Change

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