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Saenen, Bregt; Hatch, Anna; Curry, Stephen; Proudman, Vanessa; Lakoduk, Ashley – European University Association, 2021
This report and the accompanying online repository (https://sfdora.org/dora-case-studies/) bring together and analyse case studies in responsible academic career assessment. The case studies are intended to serve as inspiration for institutions planning to become or already engaged in a complex review process, and to provide potential pathways of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Case Studies, Organizational Change, Educational Policy
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Ruby, Madi – Higher Education Policy, 2021
The focus of this small-scale self-evaluation is the implementation of a new middle-management role in a post-92 UK university. A realist appreciative inquiry was undertaken with five women who had been promoted to a middle-management role 18 months prior to the inquiry. This evaluation for knowledge offered an opportunity to reflect on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Management, Administrator Role, Universities
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Caute, Anna; Dipper, Lucy; Roper, Abi – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: People with aphasia rely on gesture more than healthy controls to get their message across, but use a limited range of gesture types. Gesture therapy is thus a potential avenue of intervention for people with aphasia. However, currently no gesture assessment evaluates how they use gesture. Such a tool could inform therapy targets and…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Nonverbal Communication, Speech Language Pathology, Check Lists
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Woods, Theo – Teaching History, 2021
In this article, Theo Woods shares the experience of one history department as they embarked on a substantial process of curriculum review and development. The department sought to address concerns that the range of history taught in their school, across the full seven years of students' secondary experience, was too 'traditional, White and…
Descriptors: Diversity, Curriculum Development, Holistic Approach, History Instruction
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Xiaotong Zhu; Carol Evans – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Enhancing students' assessment literacy is essential in enabling all students to manage their learning successfully. Understanding of the assessment standards required and how to meet them impacts students' learning outcomes within higher education (HE). However, there are many different conceptions of what assessment literacy comprises, making it…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Assessment Literacy, Instructional Improvement, Student Centered Learning
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Ken Hyland; Feng (Kevin) Jiang – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
The evaluation of research to allocate government funding to universities is now common across the globe. "The Research Excellence Framework," introduced in the UK in 2014, marked a major change by extending assessment beyond the 'quality' of published research to include its real-world 'impact'. Impact submissions were a key determinant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Government Role, Educational Research
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Ciaran O'Sullivan; Michael Grove; Ciarán Mac an Bhaird; Peter Mulligan; Kirsten Pfeiffer – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2024
Tutors play an important role in effective Mathematics Learning Support, and ensuring good initial training and development is key. Typically, in the UK and Ireland, tutors do not gain any formal recognition for the training they receive. This paper details a four competences model of training for tutors and presents the analysis of feedback from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutor Training, Tutors, Tutoring
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Shelley L. Craig; Ashley S. Brooks; Andrew D. Eaton; Kaitrin Doll; Ignacio Lozano-Verduzco; Nelson Pang; Lauren B. McInroy; Daragh T. McDermott – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Specialized research training is a key component of graduate education, yet sexual and gender diverse (SGD) emerging scholars may not receive quality training and networking opportunities at their home institutions. International and interdisciplinary trainings by SGD scholars may develop research competence and academic networks, but few such…
Descriptors: Research Training, LGBTQ People, Research and Development, Evaluation
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George Kinnear; Ian Jones; Chris Sangwin; Maryam Alarfaj; Ben Davies; Sam Fearn; Colin Foster; André Heck; Karen Henderson; Tim Hunt; Paola Iannone; Igor' Kontorovich; Niclas Larson; Tim Lowe; John Christopher Meyer; Ann O'Shea; Peter Rowlett; Indunil Sikurajapathi; Thomas Wong – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2024
This paper describes the collaborative development of an agenda for research on e-assessment in undergraduate mathematics. We built on an established approach to develop the agenda from the contributions of 22 mathematics education researchers, university teachers and learning technologists interested in this topic. The resulting set of 55…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, College Mathematics, Electronic Learning
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Andrews, Martin; Brown, Rachael; Mesher, Lynne – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2018
Within the Higher Education sector in the UK, it is acknowledged that the area of 'Assessment and Feedback' receives consistently poor levels of satisfaction from students when they complete module level feedback, course level feedback and the National Student Survey (NSS). There is evidence to suggest that this problem is pronounced within…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Learner Engagement, Case Studies
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Barber, Kerry-Anne – Primary Science, 2018
As the Science Co-ordinator at St Paul's RC Primary School, the author has been involved in producing and trialling resources for the Teacher Assessment in Primary Science (TAPS) project over the last four years. This article explains how St Paul's has used the Focused Assessments (FAs). The author has always tried to promote enquiry-based…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Brassington, Laura, Ed. – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2022
On the back of Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, this collection brings together a wide range of authors to consider what has worked well in evaluation of UK research, what could have worked better and where the UK's higher education system should go from here. Chapters in the volume include: (1) The REF: A hydra-headed beast or an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Evaluation Research, Higher Education
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Rybinski, Krzysztof – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
This article develops a machine learning methodology to analyse the relationship between university accreditation and student experience. It is applied to 98 university accreditations conducted by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) in the UK in 2012-2018, and 263,025 university ratings in three categories posted by students on the website…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Accreditation (Institutions), Student Experience, College Students
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Fang, Xiaoqing; Morris, Philip – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study, based on two questionnaires directed to translation lecturers in UK Higher Education (HE), aims to explore the teacher awareness of learner autonomy in the UK university translation classroom, and the extent to which students of translation are encouraged to become autonomous learners. It covers six aspects of translation education,…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Translation, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Bedford, Alison – History of Education Review, 2023
Purpose: This essay engages with scholarship on history as a discipline, curriculum documents and academic and public commentary on the teaching of history in Australian, British and Canadian secondary contexts to better understand the influence of the tension between political pressure and disciplinary practice that drives the history wars in…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, American Indian History
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