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A transer of graduate attributes, or boundary crossing and leaving? (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Caddell, M., Cannell, P., & MacDonald, J. (2010, March). A transer of graduate attributes, or boundary crossing and leaving?. Presented at QAA Enhancement Themes Conference 'Graduates for the 21st Century: Integrating the Enhancement Themes

The medium became the message: the MEDAL project as learning space. (2009)
Book Chapter
Samberll, K., & Gibson, M. (2009). The medium became the message: the MEDAL project as learning space. In L. Hodsdon, & R. Segal (Eds.), FDTL voices : drawing from learning and teaching projects (100-107). Higher Education Academy

Our contribution offers a retrospective glimpse into some perspectives on the MEDAL (Making a difference: educational development to enhance academic literacy) project, a three-year initiative that created a pedagogic network for childhood studies (C... Read More about The medium became the message: the MEDAL project as learning space..

'I didn't expect to get so much out of it myself': Student perspectives on the relationship between peer mentoring and self assessment (2009)
Book Chapter
Sambell, K., & Beven, P. (2009). 'I didn't expect to get so much out of it myself': Student perspectives on the relationship between peer mentoring and self assessment. In J. Potter, & D. Hampton (Eds.), Students supporting students (15-18). Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA)

This paper presents case study research into the student experience of becoming a mentor on an undergraduate Joint Honours programme at Northumbria University. The teaching team who devised the scheme primarily sought to offer peer mentors a realisti... Read More about 'I didn't expect to get so much out of it myself': Student perspectives on the relationship between peer mentoring and self assessment.

Rethinking feedback : an assessment for learning perspective (2009)
Journal Article
Sambell, K., & Graham, L. (2009). Rethinking feedback : an assessment for learning perspective. HE Focus Quarterly Journal, 1(1), 2

The provision of feedback to learners has long been recognised as a crucial aspect of effective learning in university education and is often regarded as the main means by which student learning will be improved. In the UK the issue of feedback has a... Read More about Rethinking feedback : an assessment for learning perspective.

Assessment for learning : a brief history and review of terminology (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McDowell, L., Sambell, K., & Davison, G. (2008, September). Assessment for learning : a brief history and review of terminology. Presented at 16th Improving Student Learning Symposium

This paper examines terms which are currently used to describe what has come to be known as assessment for learning. Relevant terms include formative assessment, assessment for learning, assessment as learning, learning orientated assessment and sust... Read More about Assessment for learning : a brief history and review of terminology.

Using enquiry-based learning to support research informed teaching in the first-year experience (2009)
Book
Sambell, K. (2009). Using enquiry-based learning to support research informed teaching in the first-year experience. Northumbria University

This guide discusses a project that was funded by Northumbria University’s research-informed teaching (RiT) initiative: ‘The Impact of Enquiry-Based Learning: student perspectives of the links between discipline-based research, teaching and studentsh... Read More about Using enquiry-based learning to support research informed teaching in the first-year experience.

Seeing the signs : involving students as researchers across the disciplines via a research-based teaching framework (2009)
Book
Sambell, K. (2009). Seeing the signs : involving students as researchers across the disciplines via a research-based teaching framework. Northumbria University

The work reported in this guide was undertaken as part of a Northumbria University Research-informed Teaching project called ‘Seeing the Signs: involving students as researchers across the disciplines.’ The project supported the transfer of the pion... Read More about Seeing the signs : involving students as researchers across the disciplines via a research-based teaching framework.

Evaluating assessment strategies through collaborative evidence‐based practice: can one tool fit all? (2008)
Journal Article
McDowell, L., Smailes, J., Sambell, K., Sambell, A., & Wakelin, D. (2008). Evaluating assessment strategies through collaborative evidence‐based practice: can one tool fit all?. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 45(2), 143-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703290801950310

This paper reports on a collaborative project to improve assessment undertaken by a cross discipline group of university lecturers (Business, Engineering and Psychology) using action research methodology. First-stage analysis was based on results fro... Read More about Evaluating assessment strategies through collaborative evidence‐based practice: can one tool fit all?.

Rethinking feedback : an assessment for learning perspective (2007)
Book
Sambell, K., Gibson, M., & Montgomery, C. (2007). Rethinking feedback : an assessment for learning perspective. Northumbria University Press

Feedback is becoming an increasingly vexed issue in higher education. Lecturers routinely spend a great deal of time reading and annotating students’ work, only to worry that students are really only interested in a single piece of information: t... Read More about Rethinking feedback : an assessment for learning perspective.

Private schools and political conflict in Nepal. (2007)
Book Chapter
Caddell, M. (2007). Private schools and political conflict in Nepal. In P. Srivastava, & G. Walford (Eds.), Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries: Asian and African Perspectives

Blurring boundaries: towards a reconceptualisation of the private sector in education. (2006)
Journal Article
Caddell, M., & Ashley, L. D. (2006). Blurring boundaries: towards a reconceptualisation of the private sector in education. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 36(4), 411-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057920601024750

This Special Issue of Compare stems from papers presented to the eighth United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training (UKFIET) Oxford International Conference on Education and Development in 2005. It draws, in particular, on a set of... Read More about Blurring boundaries: towards a reconceptualisation of the private sector in education..

Private schools as battlefields: contested visions of learning and livelihood in Nepal. (2006)
Journal Article
Caddell, M. (2006). Private schools as battlefields: contested visions of learning and livelihood in Nepal. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 36(4), 463-479. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057920601024909

Current policy and programme considerations of the role of the private sector in the promotion of schooling reform and the achievement of Education For All encompass a somewhat narrow arena of debate. Discussion of the relative merits of private / st... Read More about Private schools as battlefields: contested visions of learning and livelihood in Nepal..

Supporting diverse students : developing learner autonomy via assessment (2006)
Book Chapter
Sambell, K., McDowell, L., & Sambell, A. (2006). Supporting diverse students : developing learner autonomy via assessment. In C. Bryan, & K. Clegg (Eds.), Innovative assessment in higher education (158-168). Routledge

This chapter focuses on two case studies in which lecturers aimed to use assessment as a pedagogic technique to foster learner autonomy. Analysis of the student viewpoint is used to highlight some of the issues that surround the use of assessment to... Read More about Supporting diverse students : developing learner autonomy via assessment.

Assessment for learning: developing autonomous learners in childhood studies (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McDowell, L., & Sambell, K. (2006). Assessment for learning: developing autonomous learners in childhood studies. In C. Rust (Ed.), Improving student learning through assessment : Proceedings of the 2005 13th international symposium

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Knowing but not knowing: conflict, development and denial. (2006)
Journal Article
Caddell, M., & Yanacopulos, H. (2006). Knowing but not knowing: conflict, development and denial. Conflict, Security and Development, 6(4), 557-579. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678800601066561

Drawing on case study material from Uganda and Nepal, this paper highlights the tension between what is ‘known’ and what is ‘done’ by practitioners working in the arena of conflict and development. It explores the forms of knowledge given conceptual... Read More about Knowing but not knowing: conflict, development and denial..