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Students using posters as a means of communication and assessment

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Poster sessions are widely used as a medium for the communication of results by professionals at conferences and by students to their peers. The authors have introduced poster sessions into undergraduate mathematical modelling courses. This has given our students an interesting and challenging task and it has caused us to devise a scheme for the assessment of posters.

This paper surveys the use of poster sessions with undergraduates, outlines the rationale for using posters with mathematics students, describes our experiences and proposes criteria to use in the assessment of student posters.

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  1. Centre for Teaching Mathematics, University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA, Plymouth, The United Kingdom

    John Berry

  2. School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Shore Road, BT37 0QB, Jordanstown, Co Antrim, The United Kingdom

    Ken Houston

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Berry, J., Houston, K. Students using posters as a means of communication and assessment. Educ Stud Math 29, 21–27 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01273898

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