Diversity, value and technology: exposing value pluralism in institutional strategy
Journal Article
Johnson, M., & Smyth, K. (2011)
Diversity, value and technology: exposing value pluralism in institutional strategy. Campus-wide information systems : CWIS, 28, 211-220. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650741111162699
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to explore ways in which value pluralism in institutional learning-technology strategy can be exposed and managed with the use of learnin...
Assessing problem‐based learning with practice portfolios: one innovation too many?
Journal Article
Oberski *, I. M., Matthews‐Smith, G., Gray, M., & Carter, D. E. (2004)
Assessing problem‐based learning with practice portfolios: one innovation too many?. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 41(2), 207-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/1470329042000208710
This paper presents and discusses the evaluation of a module on the care for older people in the community, designed through an analysis of educational needs in the local nurs...
Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition )(Scotland) Act 2007.
Book
Ashton, C. (2006)
Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition )(Scotland) Act 2007. In Current Law StatutesThomson
Places health promotion at the heart of schools' activities
Ensures that food and drink served in schools meets nutritional requirements set out by Scottish Ministers
Ensures ...
Freedom to learn: a radically revised pedagogy to facilitate lifewide learning in the academic curriculum.
Book
Cowan, J. (2010)
Freedom to learn: a radically revised pedagogy to facilitate lifewide learning in the academic curriculum. In N. J. Jackson (Ed.), Learning for a Complex World, 122-136. Authorhouse™
Higher education has progressed fairly steadily to a common pedagogical approach which centres on the idea of alignment. In this arrangement, intended learning outcomes are id...
Aphasia rehabilitation and the strange neglect of speed.
Journal Article
Crerar, A. (2004)
Aphasia rehabilitation and the strange neglect of speed. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 14, 173-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602010343000174
Timing data is infrequently reported in aphasiological literature and time taken is only a minor factor, where it is considered at all, in existing aphasia assessments. This i...
Napier University & Greengables Community Education Centre: partnership working to increase access to Higher Education
Journal Article
Greig, J., & MacKenzie, R. (2008)
Napier University & Greengables Community Education Centre: partnership working to increase access to Higher Education. Community Health Exchange E-bulletin, 120,
One key approach for improving recruitment to Higher Education and to build social capital is Widening Access. This approach seeks to reduce inequalities in access and our att...
'I wouldn’t have let you in if you’d had a folder.' Access and resistance in a qualitative interview study.
Journal Article
Brown, S. (2019)
'I wouldn’t have let you in if you’d had a folder.' Access and resistance in a qualitative interview study. Qualitative Research Journal, 19(3), 271-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-12-2018-0006
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss methodological issues connected to being a member of a stigmatised group invited to take part in a research study.
Design
This...
Widening access and learner diversity in health & social care: lessons from practice teaching.
Journal Article
Greig, J., & MacKenzie, R. (2007)
Widening access and learner diversity in health & social care: lessons from practice teaching. The Journal of practice teaching in health and social work, 7(3), 43-48. https://doi.org/10.1921/19642
The attempt to recruit non-traditional students to health and social work is not just to compensate for the decreased availability of traditional students but because it is so...
Estimating Scottish student retention rates using propensity score matching
Journal Article
Penny, K. I., Morton, I. D., Ashraf, M. Z., & Duffy, J. C. (2013)
Estimating Scottish student retention rates using propensity score matching. Leadership and policy quarterly, 2,
The performance of institutions such as universities and colleges is of increasing interest to funders, policy makers, potential students and the establishments themselves who...
Collaborative learning: comparison of outcomes for typically developing children and children with intellectual disabilities.
Journal Article
Wishart, J. G., Willis, D., Cebula, K. R. & Pitcairn, T. K. (2007)
Collaborative learning: comparison of outcomes for typically developing children and children with intellectual disabilities. American journal of mental retardation : AJMR. 112, 361-374. doi:10.1352/0895-8017(2007)112[0361:CLCOOF]2.0.CO;2). ISSN 0895-8017
Collaborative learning is widely used in mainstream education but rarely utilized with children who have intellectual disabilities, possibly on the assumption that the metacog...