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Local learning landscapes: exploring coherence, equity and quality in teacher professional development in England (2023)
Report
Greany, T., Noyes, A., Gripton, C., Cowhitt, T., & Hudson, G. (2023). Local learning landscapes: exploring coherence, equity and quality in teacher professional development in England. Wellcome

Ensuring that all teachers engage in high-quality Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CPDL) has long been a policy priority in school systems worldwide, given evidence that this can lead to improvements in teaching quality and, thereby,... Read More about Local learning landscapes: exploring coherence, equity and quality in teacher professional development in England.

Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Teacher Educators' Attitudes, Challenges, and Uses (2020)
Journal Article
Diery, A., Vogel, F., Knogler, M., & Seidel, T. (2020). Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Teacher Educators' Attitudes, Challenges, and Uses. Frontiers in Education, 5, Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00062

Teacher educators are encouraged to promote evidence-based practice in teaching and to use evidence for their own teaching. In the present study, teacher educators' attitudes, perceived challenges, and uses regarding evidence-based practice are descr... Read More about Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Teacher Educators' Attitudes, Challenges, and Uses.

Performing PowerPoint lectures: examining the extent of slide-text integration into lecturers’ spoken expositions (2019)
Journal Article
Hallewell, M., & Crook, C. (2020). Performing PowerPoint lectures: examining the extent of slide-text integration into lecturers’ spoken expositions. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44(4), 467-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2019.1579895

The PowerPoint assisted lecture (slide-lecture) is a common lecturing approach in Higher Education, in spite of much criticism of its use. Its popularity is facilitated by its affordances for multimodal instructional design, e.g. text with images and... Read More about Performing PowerPoint lectures: examining the extent of slide-text integration into lecturers’ spoken expositions.

Migrants in the labor market: implications for TVET (2019)
Book Chapter
Alla-Mensah, J., Fakoush, H., McGrath, S., & Wedekind, V. (2019). Migrants in the labor market: implications for TVET. In S. McGrath, M. Mulder, J. Papier, & R. Suart (Eds.), Handbook of vocational education and training: developments in the changing world of work (159-175). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94532-3_114

Migration is increasingly being seen as a political challenge and, thus, a policy priority. Yet the integration of migrants into labor markets is a key element of the political contestations of migration. On the one hand, successful labor market inte... Read More about Migrants in the labor market: implications for TVET.

The social anatomy of 'collusion' (2019)
Journal Article
Crook, C., & Elizabeth, N. (2019). The social anatomy of 'collusion'. British Educational Research Journal, 45(2), 388-406. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3504

This paper offers a conceptual analysis of collusion, the often overlooked relative of plagiarism in debates on academic integrity. Considered as an inherently social phenomenon, we present the results of a systematic effort to understand the anatomy... Read More about The social anatomy of 'collusion'.

How to combine collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples to foster mathematical argumentation – when working memory matters (2017)
Journal Article
Schwaighofer, M., Vogel, F., Kollar, I., Ufer, S., Strohmaier, A., Terwedow, I., Ottinger, S., Reiss, K., & Fischer, F. (2017). How to combine collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples to foster mathematical argumentation – when working memory matters. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 12(3), 281-305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-017-9260-z

Mathematical argumentation skills (MAS) are considered an important outcome of mathematics learning, particularly in secondary and tertiary education. As MAS are complex, an effective way of supporting their acquisition may require combining differen... Read More about How to combine collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples to foster mathematical argumentation – when working memory matters.