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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)
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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.

Students' approaches to open-ended science investigation: the importance of substantive and procedural understanding (2010)
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Roberts, R., Gott, R., & Glaesser, J. (2010). Students' approaches to open-ended science investigation: the importance of substantive and procedural understanding. Research Papers in Education, 25(4), 377-407. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671520902980680

This paper investigates the respective roles of substantive and procedural understanding with regard to students’ ability to carry out an open-ended science investigation. The research is a case study centred on an intervention in which undergraduate... Read More about Students' approaches to open-ended science investigation: the importance of substantive and procedural understanding.

Creative Thinking and Teaching for Creativity in Elementary School Science (2010)
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Newton, L., & Newton, D. (2010). Creative Thinking and Teaching for Creativity in Elementary School Science. Gifted and Talented International, 25(2), 111-124

While it is important to nurture creativity in young children, it is popularly associated more with the arts than the sciences. This paper reports on a series of studies designed to explore teachers’ conceptions of creative thinking in primary school... Read More about Creative Thinking and Teaching for Creativity in Elementary School Science.

The thinking styles of university mathematics students (2010)
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Moutsios-Rentzos, A., & Simpson, A. (2010). The thinking styles of university mathematics students. Acta Didactica Napocensia, 3(4), 1-10

In this paper, we focus on the relationship between studying university mathematics and the ‘thinking styles’ of both undergraduate and postgraduate mathematics students. A crosssectional quantitative study (N = 238) was conducted in a large Greek un... Read More about The thinking styles of university mathematics students.

Institutional ethnography and actor–network theory: a framework for researching the assessment of trainee teachers (2010)
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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.

Questioning the evidence for a claim in a socio-scientific issue: an aspect of scientific literacy (2010)
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Roberts, R., & Gott, R. (2010). Questioning the evidence for a claim in a socio-scientific issue: an aspect of scientific literacy. Research in Science and Technological Education, 28(3), 203-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/02635143.2010.506413

Understanding the science in a ‘socio-scientific issue’ is at the heart of the varied definitions of ‘scientific literacy’. Many consider that understanding evidence is necessary to participate in decision making and to challenge the science that aff... Read More about Questioning the evidence for a claim in a socio-scientific issue: an aspect of scientific literacy.

The Transmission and Evolution of Experimental Microcultures in Groups of Young Children (2010)
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Whiten, A., & Flynn, E. (2010). The Transmission and Evolution of Experimental Microcultures in Groups of Young Children. Developmental Psychology, 46(6), 1694-1709. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020786

A new experimental microculture approach was developed to investigate the creation and transmission of differing traditions in small communities of young children. Four playgroups, with a total of 88 children, participated. In each of 2 playgroups, a... Read More about The Transmission and Evolution of Experimental Microcultures in Groups of Young Children.

Assessing the creativity of scientific explanations in elementary science: an insider-outsider view of intuitive assessment in the hypothesis space (2010)
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Newton, D. (2010). Assessing the creativity of scientific explanations in elementary science: an insider-outsider view of intuitive assessment in the hypothesis space. Research in Science and Technological Education, 28(3), 187-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/02635143.2010.501752

Assessing creativity is commonly believed to be difficult but there is evidence that an intuitive, holistic assessment is easy and reliable. Given that children can engage in creative activity and teachers are expected to foster it, some assessment o... Read More about Assessing the creativity of scientific explanations in elementary science: an insider-outsider view of intuitive assessment in the hypothesis space.

Academic Identities for the 21st Century (2010)
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Smith, J. (2010). Academic Identities for the 21st Century. Teaching in Higher Education, 15(6), 721-727. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2010.522341

The academic identities for the twenty-first century conference sought time and space to explore ways of being in a contemporary university sector beset by challenges. As visions for ‘the university’ become increasingly diversified, technologies impa... Read More about Academic Identities for the 21st Century.

It depends how you look at it: On the relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness at the within- and the between-person levels of analysis (2010)
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Beckmann, N., Wood, R., & Minbashian, A. (2010). It depends how you look at it: On the relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness at the within- and the between-person levels of analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 44(5), 593-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2010.07.004

Research on personality structure has primarily focused on patterns of covariation between traits, and less emphasis has been put on the organization of relationships between thoughts, feelings and behaviors as they occur within individuals. Over sev... Read More about It depends how you look at it: On the relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness at the within- and the between-person levels of analysis.

Task-contingent conscientiousness as a unit of personality at work (2010)
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Minbashian, A., Wood, R., & Beckmann, N. (2010). Task-contingent conscientiousness as a unit of personality at work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(5), 793-806. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020016

The present study examined the viability of incorporating task-contingent units into the study of personality at work, using conscientiousness as an illustrative example. We used experience-sampling data from 123 managers to show that (a) momentary c... Read More about Task-contingent conscientiousness as a unit of personality at work.

Working memory deficits can be overcome: Impacts of training and medication on working memory in children with ADHD (2010)
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Holmes, J., Gathercole, S., Place, M., Dunning, D., Hilton, K., & Elliott, J. (2010). Working memory deficits can be overcome: Impacts of training and medication on working memory in children with ADHD. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24(6), 827-836. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1589

This study evaluated the impact of two interventions—a training program and stimulant medication—on working memory (WM) function in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Twenty-five children aged between 8 and 11 years partic... Read More about Working memory deficits can be overcome: Impacts of training and medication on working memory in children with ADHD.

Telling Stories: Enhancing Cultural Literacy in the Primary Classroom (2010)
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Howell, E. (2010). Telling Stories: Enhancing Cultural Literacy in the Primary Classroom. International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education, 1(3), 203-212. https://doi.org/10.20533/ijcdse.2042.6364.2010.0019

This paper draws on theory and educational policy about creativity and literacy; it includes an analysis of short stories composed orally by boys and girls aged 8-11 years. Data was collected during two small scale exploratory projects conducted in B... Read More about Telling Stories: Enhancing Cultural Literacy in the Primary Classroom.

The assessment revolution that has passed England by: Rasch measurement (2010)
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Panayides, P., Robinson, C., & Tymms, P. (2010). The assessment revolution that has passed England by: Rasch measurement. British Educational Research Journal, 36(4), 611-626. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411920903018182

Assessment has been dominated by Classical Test Theory for the last half century although the radically different approach known as Rasch measurement briefly blossomed in England during the 1960s and 1970s. Its open development was stopped dead in th... Read More about The assessment revolution that has passed England by: Rasch measurement.

Studying children’s social learning experimentally “in the wild” (2010)
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Flynn, E., & Whiten, A. (2010). Studying children’s social learning experimentally “in the wild”. Learning & Behavior, 38(3), 284-296. https://doi.org/10.3758/lb.38.3.284

Diffusion studies are taking us a step closer to understanding social learning and cultural transmission in young children. The first half of this article presents a review that focuses on four main cultural issues addressed by diffusion studies: (1)... Read More about Studying children’s social learning experimentally “in the wild”.

Forging identities: the experiences of probationary lecturers in the UK (2010)
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Smith, J. (2010). Forging identities: the experiences of probationary lecturers in the UK. Studies in Higher Education, 35(5), 577-591. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070903216650

This article concerns itself with how academic identities may come to be formed. Taking a longitudinal approach, stories of the experiences of probationary lecturers have been gathered and analysed, to outline an emergent typology of academic sociali... Read More about Forging identities: the experiences of probationary lecturers in the UK.