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Using comment only marking in a mathematics classroom in the Republic of Ireland: experience and learning of a student teacher
(Journal of Teacher Action Research, 2016)
Formative assessment is a well recognised and researched method of assessing student learning and understanding in the classroom. One method of formative assessment is the use of comment only marking. In this paper, a ...
Why choose teaching? An international review of empirical studies exploring student teachers career motivations and levels of commitment to teaching
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-03-18)
Why do individuals all over the world choose to become school teachers? What motivates them to become educators of young people, and how committed are they to this cause when they enter their teacher education courses? ...
Realising the management challenges for science communication outreach: a Social marketing perspective
(2010)
Social marketing recognises that neither government nor education alone can solve the
growing range of complex and multifaceted social policy issues facing societies around
the world. Social marketing is about behavioural ...
Distancing to self-protect: The perpetuation of inequality in higher education through socio-relational dis/engagement
(2011)
This paper explores the social class-differentiated behaviours of access and traditional-entry students, based on a three-year constructivist grounded theory study with 45 undergraduates at an Irish university. The participant ...
Dependence-Deconstruction: Widening Participation and Traditional-Entry Students Transitioning from School to Higher Education in Ireland
(2011)
Equality and quality in higher education (HE) are frequently juxtaposed in the literature. This paper presents evidence to contest deficit assumptions about widening participation, particularly the belief that entering HE ...
Enhancing children's literacy skills: designing the Q-Tales ecosystem for children's e-book design and publication
(Wiley, 2017-07-20)
Digital media, interactive storytelling and e-books are ubiquitous in contemporary education, and consequently play an increasingly important role in the development of children s nascent and emergent literacy. Digital ...
Digital Ensemble: The ENaCT design-based research framework for technology-enhanced embodied assessment in English education
(WILEY, 2017-03-16)
This article outlines the ENaCT educational design for Digital Ensemble, an innovative approach to English assessment integrating drama pedagogy with mobile computing (e. g. iPad). ENaCT represents the key themes that ...
Architecting the third teacher: Solid foundations for the participatory and principled design of schools and (built) learning environments
(Wiley, 2017-07-03)
This special issue of the European Journal of Education examines a crucially important, though largely overlooked area within educational design research: architecting and building physical educational environments. ...
Performance anxiety in academia: Tensions within research assessment exercises in an age of austerity
(SAGE Publications, 2016-08-24)
The current recessionary economic climate in Ireland has (re-)awakened a neoliberal agenda that is changing the dynamic of what is being valued within research assessment exercises, specifically across Arts, Humanities and ...
R-NEST: Design-based research for technology-enhanced reflective practice in initial teacher education
(Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2015)
This paper reports research into developing digital storytelling (DST) to enhance reflection within a specific professional learning context - that of a programme of teacher education while concomitantly producing a ...