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Maintaining continuity of inquiry learning experiences across contexts: Teacher's management strategies and the role of technology (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anastopoulou, S., Yang, Y., Paxton, M., Sharples, M., Crook, C., Ainsworth, S., & O'Malley, C. (2010). Maintaining continuity of inquiry learning experiences across contexts: Teacher's management strategies and the role of technology. In M. Wolpers, P. A. Kirschner, M. Scheffel, S. Lindstaedt, & V. Dimitrova (Eds.), 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 28 - October 1, 2010. Proceedings (17-29). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16020-2_2

An inquiry-led investigation with technology was designed and implemented, aiming to enhance our understanding of how inquiry learning takes place within a personal, socio-cultural and institutional context. Children used personal technologies across... Read More about Maintaining continuity of inquiry learning experiences across contexts: Teacher's management strategies and the role of technology.

On the process and outcomes of inquiry learning: Changing approaches to assessment (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ainsworth, S., De Jong, T., Hmelo-Silver, C., Wilhelm, P., Hickey, D., Filsecker, M., …Dede, C. (2010). On the process and outcomes of inquiry learning: Changing approaches to assessment. In K. Gomez, L. Lyons, & J. Radinsky (Eds.), Learning in the Disciplines: ICLS 2010 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (85-92)

Inquiry learning is an educational approach that involves a process of exploration, asking questions and making discoveries in the search for new understandings. Researchers however are divided about the value of the approach. In the symposium, it is... Read More about On the process and outcomes of inquiry learning: Changing approaches to assessment.

Developing workable research methods: Lessons from a pilot study with vulnerable participants and complex assessments (2010)
Journal Article
Jones, S., Hamilton, S., Perry, L., O'Malley, C., & Halton, C. (2011). Developing workable research methods: Lessons from a pilot study with vulnerable participants and complex assessments. Journal of Research in Nursing, 16(4), 307-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987110380335

Following acute stroke, deterioration in nutritional status and weight loss is common; few studies have investigated this, perhaps due to difficulties with recruitment and completion of complex assessments with stroke patients. This study reports the... Read More about Developing workable research methods: Lessons from a pilot study with vulnerable participants and complex assessments.

Anonymity in classroom voting and debating (2010)
Journal Article
Ainsworth, S., Gelmini-Hornsby, G., Threapleton, K., Crook, C., O'Malley, C., & Buda, M. (2011). Anonymity in classroom voting and debating. Learning and Instruction, 21(3), 365-378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2010.05.001

The advent of networked environments into the classroom is changing classroom debates in many ways. This article addresses one key attribute of these environments, namely anonymity, to explore its consequences for co-present adolescents anonymous, by... Read More about Anonymity in classroom voting and debating.