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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 Mediating Artefact for Students in Transition from College to University (2019)
Journal Article
Fotheringham, J. (2019). Assessment as a Mediating Artefact for Students in Transition from College to University. All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AISHE-J), 11(2),

This paper presents research findings from a longitudinal study of students making the transition from colleges to a Scottish university. Data from interviews with staff and students suggest that although students are offered pre-entry transition sup... Read More about Assessment as a Mediating Artefact for Students in Transition from College to University.

Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders (2019)
Journal Article
Webb, A. S., & Tierney, A. M. (2020). Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 57(5), 613-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2019.1635905

In this paper, we focus on the experience of faculty learning to do the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Our two studies uncovered similar threshold concepts in SoTL in two contrasting contexts; one study done in the United Kingdom with t... Read More about Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders.

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.

Muddied Waters: Perceptions and Attitudes towards Mangroves and Their Removal in New Zealand (2019)
Journal Article
Dencer-Brown, A. M., Alfaro, A. C., & Milne, S. (2019). Muddied Waters: Perceptions and Attitudes towards Mangroves and Their Removal in New Zealand. Sustainability, 11(9), Article 2631. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11092631

Seaward expansion of New Zealand’s mangrove Avicennia marina (subsp.) australasica in estuaries has led to disparity in opinion over their social-ecological value. This study investigated existing stakeholders and interested parties’ perceptions and... Read More about Muddied Waters: Perceptions and Attitudes towards Mangroves and Their Removal in New Zealand.

Exceptionally high mangrove root production rates in the Kelantan Delta, Malaysia; An experimental and comparative study (2019)
Journal Article
Muhammad Nor, S. M., Huxham, M., Salmon, Y., Duddy, S. J., Mazars-Simon, A., Mencuccini, M., Meir, P., & Jackson, G. (2019). Exceptionally high mangrove root production rates in the Kelantan Delta, Malaysia; An experimental and comparative study. Forest Ecology and Management, 444, 214-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.04.026

Mangroves often allocate a relatively large proportion of their total biomass production to their roots, and the belowground biomass of these forests contributes towards globally significant carbon sinks. However, little information is available on r... Read More about Exceptionally high mangrove root production rates in the Kelantan Delta, Malaysia; An experimental and comparative study.

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..

Games in the Curriculum (2019)
Journal Article
Wake, P., & Illingworth, S. (2019). Games in the Curriculum. Learning and Teaching in Action, 13(1), 131-144

This paper reports the outcomes of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project 'Games in the Curriculum'. The project focussed on the use of 'off the shelf' tabletop games in Higher Education. We examined the use of games in six different settin... Read More about Games in the Curriculum.

Electing to Speak: Professional Dialogue in the Context of Professional Dialogue (2019)
Journal Article
Smart, F., Asghar, M., Campbell, L.-A., & Huxham, M. (2019). Electing to Speak: Professional Dialogue in the Context of Professional Dialogue. International Journal for Academic Development, 24(3), 232-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2019.1585356

Written submissions are traditionally used in the assessment of applications for Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, with dialogue offering an alternative approach. Quite why individuals elect for dialogue has received little attention. Using... Read More about Electing to Speak: Professional Dialogue in the Context of Professional Dialogue.

Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tierney, A., & McQueen, H. (2018, September). Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit. Presented at 2018 OUP BIOSCIENCE EDUCATION SUMMIT, Edinburgh, Scotland

Learning by Design’ was the theme of the 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit.
There were forty-eight delegates from 20 different UK HE institutes in attendance, representing a wide range of biology specialisms and roles.
The meeting was held over... Read More about Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit.

Seagrass removal leads to rapid changes in fauna and loss of carbon. (2019)
Journal Article
Githaiga, M. N., Frouws, A. M., Kairo, J. G., & Huxham, M. (2019). Seagrass removal leads to rapid changes in fauna and loss of carbon. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00062

Seagrass habitats are important natural carbon sinks, with an average of ∼14 kg C m−2 buried in their sediments. The fate of this carbon following seagrass removal or damage has major environmental implications but is poorly understood. Using a remov... Read More about Seagrass removal leads to rapid changes in fauna and loss of carbon..

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Pedagogic Research within the Disciplines: Should it be Included in the Research Excellence Framework? (2019)
Journal Article
Tierney, A. (2020). The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Pedagogic Research within the Disciplines: Should it be Included in the Research Excellence Framework?. Studies in Higher Education, 45(1), 176-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1574732

This paper is a response to Cotton, Miller and Kneale’s 2017 paper on the current state of higher education research within UK universities. It seeks to contribute to the debate surrounding inclusion of pedagogic research (PedR) via SoTL in the UK’s... Read More about The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Pedagogic Research within the Disciplines: Should it be Included in the Research Excellence Framework?.

Folk pedagogies and pseudo-theories: how lecturers rationalise their digital teaching (2019)
Journal Article
Drumm, L. (2019). Folk pedagogies and pseudo-theories: how lecturers rationalise their digital teaching. Research in Learning Technology, 27, https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v27.2094

The gap in knowledge about how learning theories relate to everyday digital teaching practices in universities inhibits scholarly and practical developments in this area. This article reports on part of a qualitative research project which identified... Read More about Folk pedagogies and pseudo-theories: how lecturers rationalise their digital teaching.

Promoting exemplary inquiry: searching for an effective pedagogical approach (2019)
Journal Article
Cowan, J. (2020). Promoting exemplary inquiry: searching for an effective pedagogical approach. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44(5), 628-639. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2019.1571175

This article traces and critically analyses a personal journey in search of effective ways to promote exemplary questioning on the part of students. The article is in many ways a polemic rather than a scientific study, which emerges as much from the... Read More about Promoting exemplary inquiry: searching for an effective pedagogical approach.

Stocks and soil-plant transfer of macro-nutrients and trace metals in temperate New Zealand estuarine mangroves (2019)
Journal Article
Bourgeois, C., Alfaro, A. C., Dencer-Brown, A., Duprey, J. L., Desnues, A., & Marchand, C. (2019). Stocks and soil-plant transfer of macro-nutrients and trace metals in temperate New Zealand estuarine mangroves. Plant and Soil, 436, 565-586. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-03945-x

Rapid expansion of temperate mangroves in New Zealand over the last decades has prompted an increase in resource consents for removal. However, little is known about the capacity of temperate mangroves to store elements, including pollutants. The mai... Read More about Stocks and soil-plant transfer of macro-nutrients and trace metals in temperate New Zealand estuarine mangroves.