Education (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Technology-enhanced learning supporting engagement, assessment, and reflection in higher education science
(ALMA MATER STUDIORUM University of Bologna, 2019)In this paper, the results of a study conducted in higher education science across three groups of early-career scientists in the same university²undergraduate students, masters students, and doctoral students²will ... -
Never the right time: maternity planning alongside a science career in academia
(2020)Pregnancy and maternity planning pose a challenge and stress in the academic career of a researcher, especially at the PhD and postdoctoral level, where the conditions of employment and role status are not clear. This paper ... -
Measuring Social and Psychological Outcomes from Activation Labour Market Programmes in Higher Education: A Pilot Study
(2018)Following the 2008 recession, Ireland experienced unemployment rates as high as 15% (McGuinness, O’Connell and Kelly, 2014). Policy responses have been through the introduction of upskilling and reskilling through activation ... -
Effective Practices for Helping Students Transition to Work
(Oxford University Press, 2020)People with disabilities have been among the most marginalized groups within society, with consequent limitations imposed on their access to many goods within society, including education, employment, and economic independence. ... -
A Short Instrument for Measuring Students' Confidence with Key Skills (SICKS): Development, Validation and Initial Results
(2020)Despite a shift in educational landscape towards more competence-based pedagogies that focus on developing students' higher order thinking skills, there remains a dearth of pragmatic measures to evaluate the skills deemed ... -
Engaging migrant and refugee communities in non-formal science learning spaces.
(2020)In this era of pandemics, economic crises and civil unrest, science centres and museums have an opportunity to become truly relevant resources to society. This paper summarises a number of critical lessons from the PISEA ... -
Trinity Access: School Data 2019
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Technology usage in mathematics education research - A systematic review of recent trends
(2017)There is a significant body of research relating to technology-enhanced mathematics education and the perceived potential of digital tools to enhance the learning experience. The aim of this research is to take a structured ... -
Towards a Devolved Model of Management of OER? The Case of the Irish Higher Education Sector
(2020)This paper reports on the research findings from a national project examining the issues in creating, sharing, using, and reusing open educational resources (OER) in the context of the development of open education in ... -
Parent Perspectives on Teaching and Learning During Covid-19 School Closures: Lessons Learned from Irish Primary Schools
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Teaching and Learning During School Closures: Lessons Learned. Irish Second-Level Teacher Perspectives
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Children's perspectives on the use of robotics for second language learning in the early years of primary education: a pilot study
(Research-publishing.net, 2019)This paper explores how floor programmable robotics can be used during play to promote language development. This paper describes a two-day pilot in two early years classrooms and presents data collected on children’s ... -
Computer-mediated communication in Chinese as a second language learning: needs analysis of adolescent learners of Chinese at beginner level in Ireland
(Research-publishing.net, 2019)Ireland’s new strategy for foreign language education, Languages Connect, identifies the establishment of Mandarin Chinese as a curricular language as a key goal for the coming years. Within the curriculum specification ... -
Constructionism 2020
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Mapping an ethnography of change in teachers of Italian (L2) learning process drama
(2016)This paper discusses a longitudinal, participatory case study focused on a group of experienced teachers of Italian (L2), learning to integrate process drama pedagogy in their practice. Process drama is an embodied approach ... -
Bespoke Mobile Application Development: Facilitating Transition of Foundation Students to Higher Education
(IGI Global, 2016)Smartphone usage by students has increased rapidly over the last number of years, and it is expected that the utilisation of mobile applications in educational environments will continue to increase. This chapter focuses ... -
How well do Engineering students retain core mathematical knowledge after a series of high threshold online mathematical test?
(2017)In the Dublin Institute of Technology, high threshold core skills assessments are run in mathematics for third-year engineering students. Such tests require students to reach a threshold of 90% on a multiple choice test ...
