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Jessie Durk; Amy Smith; Bilgesu Aydin; Adèle Julia; Isabel M. Rabey – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Being lectured by a woman physicist can benefit students' performance, motivation, and engagement with physics. However, due to the severe underrepresentation of women physics faculty, these instances may be scarce. Through semistructured interviews with seven women physics lecturers, we used expectancy-value theory to understand the situative…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Women Faculty, Physics, Science Instruction
National Foundation for Educational Research, 2017
The report is a resource which provides a framework for school leaders and department heads to plan a coherent whole school approach to assessment that will support the learning of each and every student. The resource is also about focusing on the needs of students, the ways in which assessment can best support good pedagogy and practice and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Educational Change, Departments
Levin, John S.; Martin, Marie C.; Damián, Ariadna I. López – SUNY Press, 2020
This book examines tensions and challenges in the professional lives and identities of contemporary academics. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over seven years with academics in the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors analyze the experiences of four types of academics as they respond and adjust to the demands of…
Descriptors: College Administration, Neoliberalism, College Faculty, Professional Identity
Heron, Marion; Head, Rebecca – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019
This paper offers a new perspective on exploring peer observation (PO) as an event or system, and contributes to the discussion on what happens "after" the PO cycle in terms of opportunities for dissemination. Data were gathered from semi-structured interviews with members of academic staff in a UK higher education institution about…
Descriptors: Observation, Peer Evaluation, Higher Education, Administrator Role
Zukas, Miriam; Malcolm, Janice – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the everyday practices of academic work in social science to understand better academics' learning. It also asks how academic work is enacted in relation to the discipline, department and university, taking temporality as its starting point. Design/methodology/approach: The study sought to trace academic…
Descriptors: Social Scientists, Social Sciences, Universities, Foreign Countries
Fullwood, Roger; Rowley, Jennifer; McLean, Jacqueline – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of organisational and individual factors on the knowledge sharing behaviour of UK academics. Although there a few articles that explore knowledge sharing between academics in an Asian context, there is currently only one article that explores this topic in a UK context. Semi-structured…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Sharing Behavior, Knowledge Management, Foreign Countries
Kok, Seng Kiat; McDonald, Claire – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
The changes in government funding alongside external pressures of increased international and national competition have meant that higher education institutions need to excel in a turbulent environment. The leadership, governance and management (LGM) of academic departments are key concerns. This study investigates the correlation between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Departments, Leadership
Fitzsimons, Sinéad; Johnson, Martin – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
In this paper we explore collaboration in the context of the educational services industry (ESI). We look to literature from the communication field to consider ethical strategies and methods for ensuring the validity of the outcomes of collaborative working. Drawing on Collaborative Product Development and conversation theory we devise four…
Descriptors: Ethics, Partnerships in Education, Educational Cooperation, Case Studies
Bernardi, Richard A.; Zamojcin, Kimberly A.; Delande, Taylor L. – Accounting Education, 2016
This research tests whether Holderness Jr., D. K., Myers, N., Summers, S. L., & Wood, D. A. [(2014). "Accounting education research: Ranking institutions and individual scholars." "Issues in Accounting Education," 29(1), 87-115] accounting-education rankings are sensitive to a change in the set of journals used. It provides…
Descriptors: Accounting, Authors, Departments, Business Administration Education
Hallett, Fiona – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
This paper seeks to analyse lecturers' views on how they understand academic development in order to elucidate current arguments around how knowledge is codified in higher education, and to what end. Whilst work of this nature has been carried out in a number of national and institutional contexts, much attention has been given to research…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Development, Higher Education
Maesse, Jens – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
From the 1990s onwards, economics departments in Europe have changed toward a culture of "excellence." Strong academic hierarchies and new forms of academic organization replace "institutes" and "colleges" by fully equipped "economics departments." This article seeks to demonstrate how and why…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Economics Education
Carr, Elizabeth – Teaching History, 2016
Planning to deliver the new GCSE [General Certificate of Secondary Education] specifications presents a challenge and an opportunity to any history department, whatever their previous specification. The sweep of history that students will now study at GCSE is much broader than "Modern World" departments are used to; including a medieval…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Medieval History, Curriculum Development, Educational Planning
Perry, Thomas – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
Value-added (VA) measures are currently the predominant approach used to compare the effectiveness of schools. Recent educational effectiveness research, however, has developed alternative approaches including the regression discontinuity (RD) design, which also allows estimation of absolute school effects. Initial research suggests RD is a viable…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Comparative Analysis, Value Added Models, Regression (Statistics)
Wyburd, Jocelyn – Research-publishing.net, 2017
Drawing on the research done for the British Academy's Born Global project, this chapter explores employer demand for the skills graduates in and with languages can develop. The research outcomes raise challenges for Higher Education (HE) professionals to articulate more clearly the nature of language degrees and the transnational profile of their…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Higher Education, College Graduates, Second Language Learning
Scott Jones, Julie; Goldring, John E. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2015
Initiatives, like the UK ESRC's RDI/CI programmes and the Q-Step Centres, have a long-term aim of addressing the well-documented decline in the pool of academics able and willing to teach quantitative methods (QM). However, these initiatives will take time to make an impact; therefore, the upskilling of current staff is a vital strategy if we want…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, College Faculty, Teaching Methods