Podcasts
Modalities and mechanisms of effective school inspections
School inspections are assumed to have a great impact on what students learn and how they learn it but the intermediate steps between inspection and eventual student learning outcomes are vague.
6 February 2015
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The death of human capital: why there are no exceptions
Human capital theory has dominated the understanding of the relationship of education to work.
5 February 2015
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Production tasks underestimate the grammatical abilities of sequential bilingual children
The seminar will look at the acquisition of definiteness in sequential bilingual (L2) children, children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI), and agematched typically developing (TD) children across three languages: English, Dutch, and Greek.
21 January 2015
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Contrasting the dynamics of English and Finnish education policymaking
The presentation aims to understand and contrast the dynamics in English and Finnish education policymaking.
5 December 2014
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English language policy and educational planning: Issues and concerns in Asian contexts
This presentation discusses a number of current issues and concerns relating to English Language policies with particular attention to educational contexts in Asia.
1 December 2014
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Effects of pre-school education on outcomes at age 16 and predicted lifetime earnings: Findings from the mixed method EPPSE study
1 December 2014
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Are there some questions that can’t be answered? The limits of research in teacher education
This year will see the publication of no fewer than four highprofile reports into different aspects of teacher education (BERARSA, UUK, IFS/Nuffield, DFE Carter Review).
1 December 2014
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The rise and rise of testing and use of assessment data in Australia
In 2008 testing became high stakes in Australia and since that time we have witnessed the rise of a major industry with the emergence of readily available practice tests for purchase, increased provision of online resources and burgeoning tutoring services focused on National Assessment Program – Literacy And Numeracy (NAPLAN) style tests.
1 December 2014
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The Class: Connections and Disconnections in the Digital Age
We have been particularly interested in asking how young people perceive and respond to the demands made of them by school and family.
27 June 2014
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Developing a Dialogic Approach to Early Secondary School Science and Mathematics Teaching: insights and findings from the epiSTEMe project.
The Effecting Principled Improvement in STEM Education (epiSTEMe) project designed and trialled a research-informed intervention which sought to incorporate a dialogic component within the teaching of early-secondary science and mathematics.
17 June 2014
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Pronoun Interpretation in the Second Language
A much-studied phenomenon in first language (L1) acquisition concerns the fact that children have greater difficulty in interpreting sentences with pronouns than with reflexives, the so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE).
15 May 2014
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