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Dr Helen Cramman's Outputs (22)

Post-16 students’ experience of practical science during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on students’ self-efficacy in practical work (2024)
Journal Article
Cramman, H., Arenas, B., Awais, R., Balaban, C., Cropper, C., Dennis, F., Finch, K., Gray, H., Hall, A., Kitchen, G., Norman, K., O’Driscoll, L., Petts, P., Petri, S., Robson, J., Rosenburgh, A., Shields, L., Swift, G. P., & Vaughan, H. (2024). Post-16 students’ experience of practical science during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on students’ self-efficacy in practical work. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2, 39-69. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.14

This paper presents the findings from a detailed study investigating UK undergraduate students’ experience of practical science in their post-16 studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also examines their perceived confidence and preparedness in rel... Read More about Post-16 students’ experience of practical science during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on students’ self-efficacy in practical work.

Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19 (2024)
Journal Article
Burgoyne, K., Hargreaves, S., Akhter, N., Cramman, H., Eerola, P., Einbeck, J., & Menzies, V. (online). Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19. JCPP Advances, Article e12279. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12279

Background: Parents play a key role in their child's early development but evidence that parental engagement strategies are effective is unclear. The current study evaluated a parent‐delivered early language teaching programme that aimed to support c... Read More about Lack of effect of a parent‐delivered early language intervention: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial completed during COVID‐19.

Reading to learn? The co‐development of mathematics and reading during primary school (2022)
Journal Article
Hübner, N., Merrell, C., Cramman, H., Little, J., Bolden, D., & Nagengast, B. (2022). Reading to learn? The co‐development of mathematics and reading during primary school. Child Development, 93(6), 1760-1776. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13817

Understanding how early reading and mathematics co-develop is important from both theoretical and pedagogical standpoints. Previous research has provided mixed results. This paper investigates the development of reading and mathematics in a longitudi... Read More about Reading to learn? The co‐development of mathematics and reading during primary school.

Lessons learned from implementing blended and online undergraduate chemistry laboratory teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic (2021)
Book Chapter
Cramman, H., Connor, M. A., Hau, C., & Robson, J. (2021). Lessons learned from implementing blended and online undergraduate chemistry laboratory teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic. In E. Pearsall, K. Mock, M. Morgan, & B. A. Tucker (Eds.), Advances in Online Chemistry Education (177-193). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-2021-1389.ch012

In March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic led to unprecedented circumstances which impacted significantly on Higher Education. Since that time, requirements for social distancing and reduced access to in-lab teaching facilities have meant a dramatic redes... Read More about Lessons learned from implementing blended and online undergraduate chemistry laboratory teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The challenge and opportunities of quantum literacy for future education and transdisciplinary problem-solving (2021)
Journal Article
Nita, L., Mazzoli Smith, L., Chancellor, N., & Cramman, H. (2023). The challenge and opportunities of quantum literacy for future education and transdisciplinary problem-solving. Research in Science and Technological Education, 41(2), 564-580. https://doi.org/10.1080/02635143.2021.1920905

Background Knowledge of quantum computing is arguably inaccessible to many, with knowledge of the complex mathematics involving a particular barrier to entry, creating difficulty in terms of teaching and inclusive learning for those without a high le... Read More about The challenge and opportunities of quantum literacy for future education and transdisciplinary problem-solving.

The impact of Covid-19 on the English education teaching and learning environment and how this relates to sustaining and developing creativity, creative thinking and teaching for creativity - A literature review (2021)
Report
Cramman, H., Moger, P., & Menzies, V. (2021). The impact of Covid-19 on the English education teaching and learning environment and how this relates to sustaining and developing creativity, creative thinking and teaching for creativity - A literature review. [No known commissioning body]

The following literature review has been produced to inform and contribute to Arts Council England’s (ACE) interim report on the progress of the implementation of the recommendations made in the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education report. T... Read More about The impact of Covid-19 on the English education teaching and learning environment and how this relates to sustaining and developing creativity, creative thinking and teaching for creativity - A literature review.

Baseline Evaluation of the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education Report (2020)
Report
Cramman, H., Menzies, V., Gray, H., Mee, D., & Eerola, P. (2020). Baseline Evaluation of the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education Report. [No known commissioning body]

The Durham Commission on Creativity and Education published its Report on 11/10/2019 (Durham Commission, 2019). The Report contained a set of ten Recommendations, which aimed to establish and sustain the conditions for nurturing creativity in educati... Read More about Baseline Evaluation of the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education Report.

EasyPeasy: Learning through play. Evaluation Report (2019)
Report
Robinson-Smith, L., Menzies, V., Cramman, H., Wang, Y. (., Fairhurst, C., Hallett, S., …Siddiqui, N. (2019). EasyPeasy: Learning through play. Evaluation Report. [No known commissioning body]

Monitoring practical science in schools and colleges (2019)
Report
Cramman, H., Kind, V., Lyth, A., Gray, H., Younger, K., Gemar, A., …Kind, P. (2019). Monitoring practical science in schools and colleges. [No known commissioning body]

This report presents data relating to practical work in science provision in schools1 collected over three years in England and Scotland from 2015 - 2017. This study adopts the SCORE (2013) definition of practical work, namely: “A learning activity i... Read More about Monitoring practical science in schools and colleges.

Number Identification: A Unique Developmental Pathway in Mathematics? (2018)
Journal Article
Cramman, H., Gott, S., Little, J., Merrell, C., Tymms, P., & Copping, L. (2020). Number Identification: A Unique Developmental Pathway in Mathematics?. Research Papers in Education, 35(2), 117-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2018.1536890

We make a prima facie case for identifying a single pathway in the learning of Hindu-Arabic numerical symbols and discuss why this ability may be a critical gateway concept in developing mathematical competencies. A representative sample of English a... Read More about Number Identification: A Unique Developmental Pathway in Mathematics?.

Primary School Entry Assessment in New Zealand (2017)
Journal Article
Boereboom, J., & Cramman, H. (2018). Primary School Entry Assessment in New Zealand. NZ international research in early childhood education journal, 21(1), 47-61

There is a wide range of assessment tools used by schools to assess children at school entry in New Zealand. The lack of consistency of uptake and reporting of results leads to sporadic national data. This highlights a need for a national standardise... Read More about Primary School Entry Assessment in New Zealand.

Name writing ability not length of name is predictive of future academic attainment (2016)
Journal Article
Copping, L., Cramman, H., Gott, S., Gray, H., & Tymms, P. (2016). Name writing ability not length of name is predictive of future academic attainment. Educational Research, 58(3), 237-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131881.2016.1184948

Background: The Performance Indicators in Primary Schools On Entry Baseline assessment for pupils starting school includes an item which aims to assess how well a pupil writes his or her own name. There is some debate regarding the utility of this me... Read More about Name writing ability not length of name is predictive of future academic attainment.

Controlling Anisotropy of NiFe Thin Films During Deposition for Device Applications (2013)
Journal Article
Atkinson, D., Searle, S., Jefferies, M., Levy, J., & Cramman, H. (2013). Controlling Anisotropy of NiFe Thin Films During Deposition for Device Applications. Sensor letters, 11(1), 13-20. https://doi.org/10.1166/sl.2013.2780

Thin film permalloy (with compositions around Ni80Fe20 continues to be an important ferromagnetic material for a range of applications including sensors, inductors and spintronic devices. Very weak magnetostriction and magnetocrystalline anisotropy a... Read More about Controlling Anisotropy of NiFe Thin Films During Deposition for Device Applications.

Multilevel 3 Bit-per-cell Magnetic Random Access Memory Concepts and Their Associated Control Circuit Architectures (2012)
Journal Article
Cramman, H., Eastwood, D., King, J., & Atkinson, D. (2012). Multilevel 3 Bit-per-cell Magnetic Random Access Memory Concepts and Their Associated Control Circuit Architectures. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 11(1), 63-70. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnano.2011.2149538

Designs for two novel multilevel magnetic random access memory (MRAM) concepts are presented in this paper along with their associated control circuit architectures. Both the ChiralMEM and 3-D-MRAM concepts contain eight states with distinct electric... Read More about Multilevel 3 Bit-per-cell Magnetic Random Access Memory Concepts and Their Associated Control Circuit Architectures.