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Assessment to Support Student Learning: Eight Challenges for 21st Century Practice (2019)
Journal Article
Sambell, K., Brown, S., & Race, P. (2019). Assessment to Support Student Learning: Eight Challenges for 21st Century Practice. All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AISHE-J), 11(2), -

There are many challenges for the colleagues who teach and assess students in the twenty-first century, and in this article, we explore eight of these, proposing some practical ways forward building on the scholarship in the field, aiming to make ass... Read More about Assessment to Support Student Learning: Eight Challenges for 21st Century Practice.

Assessment as a locus for engagement: priorities and practicalities (2019)
Journal Article
Sambell, K., Brown, S., & Race, P. (2019). Assessment as a locus for engagement: priorities and practicalities. Giornale Italiano della Recerca Educativa, https://doi.org/10.7346/SIRD-1S2019-P45

This paper considers how assessment can productively act as a locus for engagement. It focuses on the important case being made by diverse global assessment experts who argue that we would do well to rethink assessment such that learning, rather than... Read More about Assessment as a locus for engagement: priorities and practicalities.

What’s in a word? Practices associated with ‘feedforward’ in higher education. (2019)
Journal Article
Reimann, N., Sadler, I., & Sambell, K. (2019). What’s in a word? Practices associated with ‘feedforward’ in higher education. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 44(8), 1279-1290. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2019.1600655

The term ‘feedforward’ is increasingly employed in higher education, and this paper focuses on the way in which it fits into contemporary debates about feedback and its impact on practitioners. Semi-structured interviews were used to investigate the... Read More about What’s in a word? Practices associated with ‘feedforward’ in higher education..

Helping Student Nurses Learn the Craft of Compassionate Care: A Relational Model. (2018)
Journal Article
Adamson, L. (2018). Helping Student Nurses Learn the Craft of Compassionate Care: A Relational Model. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 6(3), 91-96. https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v6i3.376

This on the horizon article proposes a relational model for enabling the development of skills and attributes associated with
‘compassionate craftsmanship’ in the developing nurse. This pedagogic model was informed by findings from the author’s
res... Read More about Helping Student Nurses Learn the Craft of Compassionate Care: A Relational Model..

Seeking, hearing and acting: Staff perspectives of changes in assessment practice through TESTA (2017)
Journal Article
Adamson, E., Webster-Henderson, B., & Carver, M. (2017). Seeking, hearing and acting: Staff perspectives of changes in assessment practice through TESTA. SEDA Educational Developments, 18(4), 12-15

Assessment and feedback continues to be a key focus of attention within higher education. The TESTA (Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment) methodology has been used worldwide across a variety of disciplines, programmes and cultu... Read More about Seeking, hearing and acting: Staff perspectives of changes in assessment practice through TESTA.

Professionalism in practice: new directions in learning, teaching and assessment in higher education (2017)
Book
Sambell, K., Brown, S., & Graham, L. (2017). Professionalism in practice: new directions in learning, teaching and assessment in higher education. Palgrave Macmillan

This book acts as a highly practical guide for new and experienced lecturers, learning supporters and leaders in Higher Education; and offers plentiful examples and vignettes showing how learning can be brought to life through activity and engagement... Read More about Professionalism in practice: new directions in learning, teaching and assessment in higher education.

Self-reflection as a tool for inclusive learning and teaching (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McLatchie, J., & Campbell, L. A. (2017, July). Self-reflection as a tool for inclusive learning and teaching. Paper presented at SCUTREA Adult Education for Inclusion and Diversity, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Over the past twenty years Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have become transformative spaces as the student population has expanded. National and institutional policies have brought issues of widening access and internationalisation to the foref... Read More about Self-reflection as a tool for inclusive learning and teaching.

The Use of Phenomenological Approach in Evaluating Mentorship Preparation Program in South East Scotland (2017)
Journal Article
Neades, B. L., Lawson, B., Watson, W., & Montgomery, S. (2017). The Use of Phenomenological Approach in Evaluating Mentorship Preparation Program in South East Scotland. Sage Research Methods Cases, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473970663

The Nursing and Midwifery Council for the United Kingdom highlighted the importance of the role of the mentor in the development of competence in student nurses and midwives. Veronica Lambert and Margaret Glacken, as well as Zoe Wilkes, suggested tha... Read More about The Use of Phenomenological Approach in Evaluating Mentorship Preparation Program in South East Scotland.

Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability (2016)
Journal Article
Hallenberg, K. M., & Haddow, C. (2016). Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability. Law Teacher, 50(3), 352-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2016.1262985

The potential of higher education in advancing sustainability has been widely accepted and even partly realised, although a wholesale reorientation of core activities and curricula toward and embedded with sustainability is still an exception. But ev... Read More about Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability.

Exploring Intercultural Awareness: International Student Mobility in China and the UK through a Non-Essentialist Lens (2016)
Book Chapter
Foster, M. (2016). Exploring Intercultural Awareness: International Student Mobility in China and the UK through a Non-Essentialist Lens. In D. M. Velliaris, & D. Coleman-George (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Study Abroad Programs and Outbound Mobility; Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development (349-369). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0169-5.ch014

In the research literature regarding international students' learning experiences, a frequently studied theme is the ‘Chinese culture of learning' as contrasted by the ‘Western/United Kingdom (UK) culture of learning'. This essentialist approach tend... Read More about Exploring Intercultural Awareness: International Student Mobility in China and the UK through a Non-Essentialist Lens.

Workplaces and policy spaces: insights from third sector internships Scotland (2016)
Journal Article
Pegg, A., & Caddell, M. (2016). Workplaces and policy spaces: insights from third sector internships Scotland. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 6(2), 162-177. https://doi.org/10.1108/heswbl-07-2015-0039

Purpose
– Understanding the relationship between learning and work is a key concern for educational researchers and policy makers at the local, national and international level. The way that learning and the economic environment are framed impacts u... Read More about Workplaces and policy spaces: insights from third sector internships Scotland.

Informal feedback : feedback via participation (2015)
Report
Sambell, K. (2014). Informal feedback : feedback via participation. Hong Kong: Centre for the enhancement of teaching and learning (CELT)

This Briefing has been written by Professor Kay Sambell at the invitation of the HKU Wise Assessment Project. Its theme, capitalising on opportunities for informal feedback to enhance learning, has been explored by Professor Sambell in a number of pu... Read More about Informal feedback : feedback via participation.

Transition to Research: experiencing new paradigms. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tierney, A., & Barkess, G. (2015). Transition to Research: experiencing new paradigms.

The transition from undergraduate study to postgraduate research is a difficult one for students to negotiate. Similarly, the transition from disciplinary researcher to pedagogic researcher is a difficult transition for staff to undertake. There are... Read More about Transition to Research: experiencing new paradigms..

The flexible curriculum toolkit. (2014)
Digital Artefact
Caddell, M. (2013). The flexible curriculum toolkit.

The Flexible Curriculum toolkit web-site is designed to support programme teams to develop and enhance practice in flexible curricula.

The toolkit has used the Viewpoints methodology as a basis. We chose this methodology as we believe it is a prac... Read More about The flexible curriculum toolkit..