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Johnston, James; Reeves, Alan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
This study charts the socio-geographic fragmentation of the economics discipline in the UK. It is revealed that the marriage of economics teaching and research is now limited to elite institutions located mainly in the south of the UK. None of the UK's new (post-1992) universities submitted to the Economics and Econometrics (E&E) unit of…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Foreign Countries, Economics, Teaching Methods
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Clarkson, Suzy; Charles, Joanna M.; Saville, Christopher W. N.; Bjornstad, Gretchen J.; Hutchings, Judy – School Psychology International, 2019
Bullying is an internationally recognized problem and school-based bullying is particularly pervasive. KiVa is a robustly evidenced school-based antibullying programme developed and evaluated at Turku University, Finland, and subsequently disseminated across Finland. Following a positive UK trial of Unit 2 (for 10- to 12-year-olds), further UK…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prevention, Intervention, Bullying
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Cuesta Gómez, José Luis; Anuncibay, Raquel de la Fuente; González Bernal, Jerónimo; García Coto, Miguel Angel – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Objective: The evaluation of individual and organizational quality of life through the Guide to Quality-of-Life Indicators and its promotion in English-speaking areas. This guide was initially designed for people living with Autism Spectrum Disorder in specialist autism centers in Spanish and Italian-speaking areas where its effectiveness has been…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Questionnaires
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Spooner, Sarah Louise; Jensen, Eric Allen; Tracey, Louise; Marshall, Andrew Robert – Environmental Education Research, 2019
The experience of visiting a zoo as a child can be remembered decades later and potentially influences future environmental attitudes. In light of steadily growing criticism of the ethics and value of live animal shows, some zoos are seeking alternative means of delivering 'edutainment' to a broad audience. One such alternative is through theatre.…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Recreational Facilities, Theater Arts, Teaching Methods
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Helfaya, Akrum – Accounting Education, 2019
Both assessment and feedback have a vital impact on students' learning. Using computer-based assessment (CBA) with constructive and prompt computer-based feedback (CBF) reduces the attainment gap of the new generation of digital students. Action research methodology was employed to explore students' view of utilising CBA and/or CBF in teaching and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Accounting, Feedback (Response), Undergraduate Students
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Lortie-Forgues, Hugues; Inglis, Matthew – Educational Researcher, 2019
There are a growing number of large-scale educational randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Considering their expense, it is important to reflect on the effectiveness of this approach. We assessed the magnitude and precision of effects found in those large-scale RCTs commissioned by the UK-based Education Endowment Foundation and the U.S.-based…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Research, Effect Size, Program Evaluation
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Scott, G. W. – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2017
This study involves evaluation of a novel iterative group-based learning task developed to enable students to actively engage with assessment and feedback in order to improve the quality of their written work. The students were all in the final semester of their final year of study and enrolled on either BSc Zoology or BSc Marine and Freshwater…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Learner Engagement, Feedback (Response), Group Activities
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Taras, Maddalena; Davies, Mark S. – London Review of Education, 2017
This research focuses on the assessment literacy, that is, the understandings of assessment terminologies and how they relate to each other, in academic staff developers in the UK, collected via questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Academic staff developers have been trained and certified to support new higher education lecturers in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Beliefs, Vocabulary, Semi Structured Interviews
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Pandya, Bharti; Patterson, Louise; Cho, BooYun – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aimed to analyse if significant pedagogical transitions occurred from Pre-COVID-19 to COVID-19 period concerning applied teaching methods, course content, assessment strategies, technical support and faculty's readiness. Design/methodology/approach: This is a quantitative study wherein perceptions of 116 faculty (from higher…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, College Faculty, COVID-19
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Xin, Yan Ping, Ed.; Tzur, Ron, Ed.; Thouless, Helen, Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2022
This book provides prospective and practicing teachers with research insights into the mathematical difficulties of students with learning disabilities and classroom practices that address these difficulties. This linkage between research and practice celebrates teachers as learners of their own students' mathematical thinking, thus contributing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction, Classroom Techniques
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Seale, Jane – Research Papers in Education, 2016
This article aims to contribute to the development of frameworks for evaluating student voice projects in higher education by offering a critically evaluative account of two student voice projects. Although both projects had been underpinned by the principles of participatory (inclusive) research, one appeared to be more successful than the other…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Higher Education, Student Evaluation, Student Projects
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Ward, Rupert; Crick, Tom; Davenport, James H.; Hanna, Paul; Hayes, Alan; Irons, Alastair; Miller, Keith; Moller, Faron; Prickett, Tom; Walters, Julie – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2023
Employers are increasingly selecting and developing employees based on skills rather than qualifications. Governments now have a growing focus on skilling, reskilling and upskilling the workforce through skills-based development rather than qualifications as a way of improving productivity. Both these changes are leading to a much stronger…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Job Skills, Evaluation Methods, Microcredentials
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Burch, Vanessa C. – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2019
Health professions education has undergone radical changes over the past 100 years. This has necessitated a shift away from education programmes largely focused on testing knowledge and skills using predominantly written examinations. There has been a shift towards programmes which are intentionally designed with the end product in mind, a…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Clinical Experience, Situated Learning, Health Personnel
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Eddy, Lucy; Hill, Liam J. B.; Mon-Williams, Mark; Preston, Nick; Daly-Smith, Andy; Medd, Gareth; Bingham, Daniel D. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2021
Evidence suggests that children struggle to acquire age-appropriate fundamental movement skills (FMS), despite their importance for facilitating physical activity. This has led to calls for routine school-based screening of children's FMS. However, there is limited research exploring schools' capacity to conduct such assessments. This study…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Hodgson, John; Harris, Ann – English in Education, 2021
The teaching of grammar has been strongly debated for decades, often with reference to an alleged decline in the 1960s. This article takes a historical perspective on grammar, or knowledge about language, within English Education. In the eighteenth century, Adam Smith's "Lectures in Rhetoric and Belles-lettres" offered a discernibly…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Educational History
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