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Dominant discourses of pre‐service teacher education and the exigencies of the workplace: an ethnographic study from English further education (2010)
Journal Article
Dixon, L., Jennings, A., Orr, K., & Tummons, J. (2010). Dominant discourses of pre‐service teacher education and the exigencies of the workplace: an ethnographic study from English further education. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 62(4), 381-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2010.529501

The placement in colleges is a crucially formative experience for trainee teachers on pre‐service Further Education (FE) initial teacher training courses. A project at the University of Huddersfield researched these placements in four colleges in the... Read More about Dominant discourses of pre‐service teacher education and the exigencies of the workplace: an ethnographic study from English further education.

Institutional ethnography and actor–network theory: a framework for researching the assessment of trainee teachers (2010)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2010). Institutional ethnography and actor–network theory: a framework for researching the assessment of trainee teachers. Ethnography and Education, 5(3), 345-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2010.511444

This article provides an analysis of assessment practices on one university-led teacher-training course in England, delivered across a network of further education colleges. After establishing that assessment practices are bound up in texts of differ... Read More about Institutional ethnography and actor–network theory: a framework for researching the assessment of trainee teachers.

The assessment of lesson plans in teacher education: a case study in assessment validity and reliability (2010)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2010). The assessment of lesson plans in teacher education: a case study in assessment validity and reliability. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 35(7), 847-857. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602930903125256

This paper forms part of an exploration of assessment on one part‐time higher education (HE) course: an in‐service, professional qualification for teachers and trainers in the learning and skills sector which is delivered on a franchise basis across... Read More about The assessment of lesson plans in teacher education: a case study in assessment validity and reliability.

Assessment, and the literacy practices of trainee PCET teachers (2008)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2008). Assessment, and the literacy practices of trainee PCET teachers. International Journal of Educational Research, 47(3), 184-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2008.01.006

Drawing on concepts of learning as socially situated within communities of practice and of literacy as social practice (the New Literacy Studies), this paper seeks to explore the assessment practices of a part-time teacher training course for teacher... Read More about Assessment, and the literacy practices of trainee PCET teachers.