Department of Education Public Seminars
By Oxford University
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Description
Public seminars from the Department of Education. Oxford has been making a major contribution to the field of education for over 100 years and today this Department has a world class reputation for research, for teacher education and for its Masters and doctoral programmes. Our aim is to provide an intellectually rich but supportive environment in which to study, to research and to teach and, through our work, to contribute to the improvement of all phases of public education, both in the UK and internationally.
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| 1 | VideoFrom Inclusion to Exclusion from School: Transforming the lives of young people with special educational needs and disabilities? | This seminar explores the process of formal and informal exclusion from the macro, meso and micro level to understand some of the complex interactions between policy, school and individual factors. Government statistics indicate that children and young | 25 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoLaw and Exclusion from School | Combining legal analysis, theory, and evidence from practice, Lucinda Ferguson argues that the law is ill-equipped to support children at risk of permanent exclusion from school, particularly children with disabilities or other additional needs. The Hou | 13 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoExclusion and Mental Health: Exploring the Role of Improved Provision in Schools | This talk discusses the latest understanding of mental health needs in adolescent populations in the UK and the potential role that mental health services in schools can play. This talk will discuss the latest understanding of mental health needs in ado | 13 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoAlternative Provision and School Exclusions | This presentation will discuss the place of Alternative Provision (AP) in the process of exclusion in England, with a particular focus on issues related to social justice. This seminar is part of our public seminar series on ‘Exclusion from School and | 4 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoDifferences in rates of school exclusions in the four jurisdictions to the UK | This seminar reports on the ongoing work of the multi-disciplinary and multi-site Excluded Lives Group whose work has led to the ESRC funds project The Political Economies of School Exclusion and their Consequences. There are great differences in the ra | 20 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoArgument, Evidence and Continuity in the Augar Report | Released in May 2019, the Augar report was a result of a 6 person panel chaired by Philip Augar and was the first in England to have a remit for the whole of tertiary education. Parry argues whether its features are the nature of expert panels. The use | 19 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoIntegrating and AugmentingTertiary Education Students' Experiences in Workplace Settings | Drawing upon three large studies in Australian higher education, this presentation sets out a case for the kinds of curriculum practices, as well as a range of pedagogic practices that can be enacted prior to, during and after students’ work placement | 12 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoArtificial Intelligence and Social Relations in Schools: Who are the 'Digital winners'? | This lecture explores the different types of artificial intelligence systems in common use in education, before relating this to the covert use of algorithms in influencing educational journeys. The introduction of artificial intelligence in schools is | 12 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoRe and De-contextualizing global citizenship education – systematic analysis of the scholarship in the field | With the rising interest in GCE, understanding the current research landscape could be useful for policy-makers, educators and scholars who seek to build upon the existing body of knowledge and develop it in new directions. The global increase of the in | 4 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoPoverty Matters: Family income, parenting and child outcomes | Naomi Eisenstadt presents evidence that low income itself reduces the chances of good outcomes for children and causes stress in families which exacerbates the risk. Much of the current discussion on children’s outcomes has focused on educational att | 28 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoUsing Formative Assessment to Catalyse Self-Regulated Learning | This 2019 Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment lecture is delivered by Professor Nancy Perry. She is the Dorothy Lam Chair in Special Education and Professor of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education at the Universi | 17 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoWhat are Teachers' Professional Competencies? | This public seminar series considers teacher education reforms around the world in order to tease out future directions and possibilities for the relationships between teacher education policy, research and practice. The series marks 100 years since the | 19 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoBuilding Research Capacity in Teacher Education | Seminar 8 of 8 on teacher education reforms. Alis unpacks the notion of 'capacity' through a historiography of initiatives and a review of attempts at conceptual development. Much has been written about the alleged lack of integration between research a | 19 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoThe Connections and Disconnections in Teacher Education Policy, Research and Practice Future Research Directions | This seminar examines the alignments and tensions between teacher education research, policy and practice. This is the sixth seminar in a series of eight public seminars on 'Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy'. The semi | 3 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoOES Annual Lecture: The Quest for Better Teaching | This lecture explores why efforts to improve teaching too often fail and outlines new research on pedagogy and teacher development, which has been achieving promising signs of real change. | 29 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | VideoComparative teacher education research: Global perspectives in teacher education past, present and future | Seminar five of eight in series "Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy". The significance of teacher education has increased globally over recent decades. From international reports through to political manifestoes in man | 22 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoMaking Change Happen - The Reform of Initial Teacher Education in Wales | This public seminar series considers teacher education reforms around the world in order to tease out future directions and possibilities for the relationships between teacher education policy, research and practice. In Wales there is a growing appeti | 13 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoClassroom-based Interventions Across Subject Areas: Research to Understand What Works in Education | Seminar two of eight in series "Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy". This seminar is based on a recent book, which aims to help researchers and practitioners understand how and why interventions can be successful or not | 7 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | VideoStudent Access to Colleges at the University of Oxford | Seminar led by a panel of heads of colleges and senior tutors to discuss Oxford's student selection process At the University of Oxford first degree student selection is not ultimately determined by central admissions but is handled by the colleges, tho | 7 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | VideoPromoting fairer access to higher education: the necessity of contextualised admissions | The ethical case for reducing entry requirements for disadvantaged learners Vikki Boliver: UK universities are increasingly being called upon to reduce academic entry requirements for disadvantaged applicants as a vital means of promoting fairer access | 5 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | VideoRethinking Teacher Education - The Problem with Accountability | Professor Marilyn Cochran-Smith argues why we need to “reclaim” teacher education accountability for the profession and in support of the larger democratic project. During the past two decades in the U.S. and some other countries, there has been a g | 26 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | VideoAccess and Participation at Postgraduate level: research findings and their implications for policy and practice | This seminar will review the evidence on access to postgraduate study, identify what this might mean for funders, universities and their communities, and outline outstanding gaps in our knowledge. Participation in postgraduate study has increased consid | 13 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | VideoAccess and Participation in English HE: A Fair and Equal Opportunity for All? | The seminar will identify how universities and government have sought to make progress in this area during the last two decades and the patterns of participation arising from this. Access to higher education is a major social issue in the UK as in most | 11 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | VideoA Rational Approach to Evidence-Based Decision Making in Education Policy | If education policy-making is based strictly on rigorous evidence there is a risk of bias towards simple, discrete, measurable interventions. We present a framework for considering inconclusive evidence. If education policy-making is based strictly on r | 1 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | VideoTeachers' professional development on summative assessment of practical science: perspectives from Project Calibrate | This seminar will focus on the teacher education aspect of the project. It will outline the approaches being implemented to develop the teachers' knowledge and understanding to implement strategies to teach and assess practical science. Project Calibrat | 28 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | VideoAdmissions Testing Preparation Effects | This seminar is the first of a five-part seminar series on 'Student Access to University'. This seminar discusses the relationships between student characteristics and test performances with Oxford University admissions tests data. Selection to higher e | 15 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | VideoEquity and quality of educationL Paradoxes from Hong Kong and Singapore | An exploration of equity and quality of education in Hong Kong and Singapore. The highest performing education systems across OECD countries exhibit both high quality and equity. Among them are Hong Kong and Singapore. Yet both systems report huge inco | 3 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | VideoThe Age-Eclipsing Effects of Environment and Input on L2 Attainment in Instructional Contexts | This seminar explores some myths about L2 attainment in instructional contexts, drawing on evidence from a five-year longitudinal study conducted in Switzerland and carried out by the speakers themselves. Despite contrary research findings, many lay peo | 20 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | VideoCausal models of developmental disorders | In studies in psychology and education it is essential to think clearly about causal mechanisms. In this seminar Professor Hulme will outline the use of path diagrams as tools for representing, reasoning about, and testing causal models. The examples us | 7 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | VideoWhat is the future for subject-based education research? | This seminar will provide an assessment of the development of research in subject-based education, and of its future prospects. Using geography education as an exemplar, it will offer a challenging critique of this field of research. The intention of t | 23 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | VideoEvidence-Informed Inspection? Research at Ofsted | A look at the role of research in developing the work of Ofsted as 'an intelligent inspectorate'. In this seminar Professor Daniel Muijs will look at the role of research in developing the work of Ofsted as 'an intelligent inspectorate', including looki | 22 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 32 | VideoExploring Needs, Costs and Outcomes of Services Provided to Vulnerable Children and their Families | This seminar will explore the relationship between the needs, services received and outcomes for children and families supported by children’s social care (CSC) services. Drawing on evidence from a programme of research, the presentation will explore | 15 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 33 | VideoHigher Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of the Intercultural Universities in Mexico | This seminar will present findings of an exploratory study of the Intercultural University of Veracruz, one of a number of institutions created in Mexico to ensure access for indigenous populations, promote local development and to provide... In the fra | 15 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 34 | VideoThe Untapped Potential of 'Work' for Looked After Young People – Challenges and Opportunities | The seminar will explore the transformative potential of 'work' (ranging from paid employment to internships to volunteering) for marginalised young people. With Robbie Gilligan (School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin). Using e | 30 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 35 | VideoA study of children starting school and the progress they make in their first year around the world: The iPIPS project | Professor Peter Tymms (Durham University) delivers a seminar on the iPIPS project; an international study of children starting school around the world and the progress that they make in their first year at school. | 27 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 36 | VideoSocial Pedagogy in the UK today: where are we up to and where are we going? | Professor Claire Cameron from UCL Institute of Education gives a talk hosted by the Rees Centre for Fostering and Education | 16 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 37 | VideoSystem coherence and cohesion in English further education provision - glass half empty, or glass half full (and what's in the glass)? | Professor Ewart Keep, Director of SKOPE Department of Education, gives a talk for the public seminar series | 13 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 38 | VideoThe development of quantitative reasoning | Emeritus Professor Terezinha Nunes, Department of Education, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the department's Subject Pedagogy Research Group | 5 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 39 | VideoMeasurement with no standards: reflections of an unconventional psychometrician | Dr Joshua McGrane, Department of Education, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment | 5 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 40 | VideoLiteracy and foundation learning in multilingual India | Dr Sonali Nag, Oxford Departmant of Education, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the department's Families, Effecrive Learning and Literacy Research Group | 25 1 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 41 | VideoStability and change in developmental language disorders | Professor Professor Courtenay Norbury, University College London, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the Department of Education's Applied Linguistics Research Group. | 11 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 42 | VideoMediatising religious education: BBC radio and television for children and schools, c.1920s-1970s | Professor Stephen G Parker, University of Worcester, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by Department of Education's Philosophy, Religion and Education Forum. | 11 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 43 | VideoIf 'The Youth of the Country are the Trustees of Posterity' (Benjamin Disraeli, 1845), do we need to do more to support young people who are NEET in the UK? | Sue Maguire is Honorary Professor at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by SKOPE, Department of Education. | 30 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 44 | VideoLearning with Conversational Agents that Launch Multiple Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Learning Resources | Professor Art Graesser, Psychology and the Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by OUCEA, Department of Education. | 30 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 45 | VideoEnglish Medium Instruction Research: What do we know so far and what do we still need to find out? | Ernesto Macaro, Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series. The exponential growth of English Medium Instruction (EMI) both in Higher and Secondary Education globally | 14 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 46 | VideoLong term outcomes of former child migrants in care in Australia. "Uprooted from everything that attaches you". | Professor Elizabeth Fernandez, University of New South Wales Sydney, gives a public seminar hosted by the Rees Centre, Department of Education This presentation reports research which examines the in-care and post-care experience of people who lived in | 1 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 47 | VideoAssessing practical work in science | Neil Wade Oxford, Cambridge and RSA (OCR) and Stella Paes Formerly AQA, give a seminar for the Department of Education seminar series. This public seminar will be given by representatives from two awarding bodies for A-levels and GCSEs in England: OCR a | 13 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 48 | VideoEducation, inequality and institutions | This seminar will present recent research on the relationship between economic inequality and educational achievement as measured by large scale assessments. We begin by identifying a debate within the literature between those who advocate a "skills pre | 6 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 49 | VideoBright Spots Project: The subjective well being of looked after children and survey development | Professor Julie Selwyn, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the Education Department public seminar series. It is increasingly recognised that understanding subjective wellbeing (SWB) – or asking people how they feel about their own lives is | 16 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 50 | VideoStandards in national examinations: What do they mean? | Jo Anne Baird, Director of Department of Education, University of Oxford and Dennis Opposs, Ofqual, give a seminar for the Department of Education public seminar series. Processes of standard setting and maintaining within curriculum rela | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 51 | VideoFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Capability and Financial Wellbeing: More than a semantic change | Professor Elaine Kempson, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the Department of Education seminar series on 24th April 2017. There has been a gradual shift in responsibility for social protection of individual citizens from the state to the individu | 26 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 52 | VideoLearning French in the primary school classroom: The origins of morphosyntax | Professor Florence Myles, University of Essex, gives a talk for the Education department seminar series. Young instructed learners of a second language are known to rely extensively in the early stages on rotelearning and formulaic language; the relati | 7 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 53 | VideoEducation and the new Conservatism: Social wellbeing, national character and British values | Professor Gary McCulloch, UCL Institute of Education, gives a talk for the Education Public seminar series on 27th February 2017. Conservative policies in education have often been analysed in terms of their neoliberal characteristics. In the early yea | 28 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 54 | VideoThe long term implications of devolution and localism for FE in England | This lecture explores findings from a SKOPE research project (funded by the FE Trust for Leadership) on the implications of the devolution from central government to localities of certain aspects of post-19 further and adult education. For the last 30 y | 10 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 55 | VideoImagining a future after schooling | Young people navigating uncertainty in contemporary Britain. This paper explores the emerging findings of the UrbanRural Youth Transitions Project, an 18 month ethnographic inquiry into how young people imagine and experience life immediately after | 31 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 56 | VideoStuck! Britain’s social mobility problem | The Sutton Trust’s Chief Executive, Dr Lee Elliot Major, will argue that Britain has failed to address its problem of low social mobility, drawing on a range of international evidence. This ‘stickiness’ is particularly persistent at both the top | 24 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 57 | VideoSocioeconomic inequalities in education achievement and student outcomes | Anna Vignoles, Professor of Education and Director of Research at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series. Whilst much attention has b | 17 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 58 | VideoWhat are universities for? | Keri Facer, Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol, gives the 6th Annual Lecture of the Oxford Education Society, the alumni and friends association of the Department of Education. As private sector providers begin to e | 16 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 59 | VideoSchools as workplaces: What makes a school a good place to work? | Professor Jane Bryson, Victoria University of Wellington, gives a talk for the department of education public seminar series. Arguably schools are a uniquely challenging type of organisation to manage, particularly in contemporary times. Schools are at | 2 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 60 | Video5 years of the EEF Findings, challenges and future priorities | Matthew van Poortvliet, Grants Manager, Education Endowment Foundation, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar on 21st November 2016. The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) was established in 2011 and has so far committed over £7 | 22 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 61 | VideoWhat do undergraduate students really think about money? | With Dr Neil Harrison University of the West of England. This seminar will synthesise the findings of four recent research projects focused on contemporary students’ opinions and behaviours around money. The analysis spans both quantitative and qualit | 15 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 62 | VideoReligion and belief in Britain: The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life | Dr Edward Kessler, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series on 7th November 2016. Religion and belief are driving forces in society today. Although there is some divergence of opinion over the extent, t | 8 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 63 | VideoDoes market competition and/or the growth of participation foster diversity in higher education systems? | Professor Simon Marginson, ULC Institute of Education, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series. This seminar returns to a long-standing issue in the literature on higher education systems, that of the relationship, if any, bet | 1 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 64 | VideoEducation in divided societies: The role of school collaboration | Professor Tony Gallagher, University of Belfast, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series on 24th October 2016. Mass education has traditionally been used as an integrating force, perhaps most notably in the role of the public | 31 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 65 | VideoMaking use of international large- scale assessment data in national contexts: PIRLS for Teachers | Dr Therese N Hopfenbeck, Department of Education, Oxford, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series on 17th October 2016. Co-written with Dr Jenny Lenkeit More information is available here; http://oucea.education.ox.ac.uk/resea | 31 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 66 | VideoWhat Can We Learn from students' reports of their secondary school experiences and their role in shaping academic outcomes at GCSE? | This lecture discusses the development of various measures of students experiences and views of their secondary schools based on self report questionnaires taken at ages 14 & 16. | 2 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 67 | VideoMeasuring and developing second language fluency | Professor Judit Kormos, Lancaster University, gives a talk for the Department of Education seminar series. Fluency is an important construct in the assessment of language proficiency and forms part of a large number of rating scales in various high stak | 2 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 68 | VideoPromoting quality in education: A dynamic approach to school improvement | Professor Leonidas Kyriakides, Department of Education, University of Cyprus, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series. This lecture refers to the dynamic approach to school improvement (DASI) which attempts to contribute to th | 9 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 69 | VideoClosing the Gap: Issues, challenges and impact of the implementation of a national experiment in educational research | Dr Ann Childs, Dr Nigel Fancourt, Dr Roger Firth, Professor Ian Menter and Dr Ian Thompson, Department of Education, Oxford, give a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar series. Abstract: During 2012, the National College for Teaching and | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 70 | VideoThe sociolinguistic and pedagogic implications of the spread of English as global language | Dr Heath Rose, Department of Education, Oxford, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series. The spread of English from the language of an island nation to today’s global lingua franca has clear ramifications for society, and fo | 26 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 71 | VideoSilence in Japan’s second language classrooms The dynamic interplay between context and learners | Dr Jim King, University of Leicester, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public seminar series on 15th February 2016. Silence is an area of study that receives relatively little attention from second language (L2) researchers, who in the past | 18 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 72 | VideoSocial and emotional early development: A programme to develop children’s social skills and help prevent bullying | Daniel Muijs, Professor of Education at the University of Southampton, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series. While dealing with bullying when it occurs in schools is extremely important, we are increasingly finding that pr | 9 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 73 | VideoReimagining liberal education: Affiliation and inquiry in democratic schooling | Professor Hanan Alexander, Haifa University, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series. Drawing on my new book Reimagining Liberal Education, I argue in this talk for a form of education in open, diverse, liberal democracies tha | 3 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 74 | VideoClever Classrooms: Evidence for the impacts of classroom design on learning | Professor Peter Barrett, University of Salford, gies a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series on 25th January 2016. Convener: Professor Harry Daniels Oxford Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research (OSAT) Based on an emp | 27 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 75 | VideoResearch into the links between language teacher development and working with children as co- researchers | Dr Annamaria Pinter, Warwick University, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series. Convener: Professor Victoria Murphy Applied Linguistics Research Group. Interview data conducted at regular intervals during the study has been | 21 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 76 | VideoThe educational progress of looked after children in England: linking care and educational data | Professor David Berridge University of Bristol, Professor Judy Sebba, Dr Nikki Luke and Professor Steve Strand, Department of Education give a talk for the Education Seminar Series. The respondent is Ms Emma Ing, Senior HMI Ofsted. This study investigat | 3 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 77 | VideoThe Education Endowment Foundation Challenges for the future | Sir Kevan Collins, Education Endowment Foundation, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series on 23rd Novemner 2015. This seminar will consider the emerging influence of ‘disciplined innovation’ and the rise of randomized con | 3 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 78 | VideoThe scare tactic: Does it work? Motivating students for test and examinations | Professor David Putwain (Edge Hill University) gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series. A relatively common motivational strategy used by teachers, and others, prior to high-stakes examinations (such as the GCSE), is to commun | 20 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 79 | VideoHow well are children in Sudan taught to read compared to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Results of a National Learning Assessment. | Seminar looking at education in Sudan and other North African countries. This seminar examines the development of a National Learning Assessment in Sudan and reports on the findings of its first study. We know that National Learning Assessments can play | 12 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 80 | Video‘Online all the time’ Teachers’ work in the digital age | Professor Neil Selwyn, Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminars series. This seminar explores the ways in which digital technologies are now implicated in teachers’ work and | 5 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 81 | VideoParenting support Evidence, policy and practice | Professor Geoff Lindsay, University of Warwick, gives a talk for the department of education public seminar series. Abstract: 'In this talk I shall draw upon two large scale studies of parenting programmes to explore two issues: evidence for their effe | 28 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 82 | VideoAssessment and learning: Fields Apart? | Professor Jo-Anne Baird, Department of Education, gives a talk for the Department of Education Seminar series on 19th October 2015. Co-written by Professor David Andrich. Introduced by Dr Therese Hopfenbeck. Educational assessments define what it means | 22 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 83 | VideoDesign and practice: a study of the design, build and occupation of new schools | Prof. Harry Daniels & Hau Ming Tse present an account of ways in which the discourses and practices of school design produce educational spaces which mediate and shape the discourses and practices of teaching and learning when the building is occupied. | 22 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 84 | VideoQuestioning the UK government’s vision of higher education and social mobility | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Susan James Relly, Assistant Director of SKOPE. Over recent years UK governments have expanded higher education and with it the supply of graduates. This expansion is linked to social mobili | 9 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 85 | VideoWhat Kind of Learning do we want? 21st Century Learning, the Standards Agenda and Expert Learners | How can we help students move from being novices to proficient apprentices to experts in the domain? Emeritis Professor of Education, Professor Gordon Stobart, lectures on the international policy rhetoric surrounding the need for 21st century learning. | 8 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 86 | VideoPredictability in High-Stakes Assessment: Students’ Approach to Learning | This study investigated the predictability of the Leaving Certificate examination in Ireland, where public accusations of predictable exams are of serious concern. The data combined survey responses of students' views of the examination, learning strat | 22 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 87 | VideoDoes being in care provide protection or increase risk? Understanding the outcomes of children in care | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Professor Janet Boddy, University of Sussex and Professor Donald Forrester, University of Bedfordshire. Professor Janet Boddy will talk about the European Perspectives on Outcomes and Everyday | 13 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 88 | VideoEducation, language and the social brain | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Neil Mercer, University of Cambridge. In recent years, researchers in evolutionary psychology and anthropology have proposed that we have evolved with “social brains” that enable us to m | 2 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 89 | VideoMobile learning in global health training. What about social justice? | Niall discusses emerging findings from the ESRC/DFIDfunded project "mCHW: a mobile learning intervention for community health workers”. The talk will present the background to the project and position his research at | 19 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 90 | VideoModalities and mechanisms of effective school inspections | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Melanie Ehren, senior lecturer at the London Centre for Leadership and Learning. School inspections are assumed to have a great impact on what students learn and how they learn it but the in | 6 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 91 | VideoThe death of human capital: why there are no exceptions | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Professor Hugh Lauder, University of Bath. Human capital theory has dominated the understanding of the relationship of education to work. It has retained plausibility until now due to the socia | 5 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 92 | VideoProduction tasks underestimate the grammatical abilities of sequential bilingual children | Department of Education Public Seminar delivered by Professor Theodoros Marinis on sequential bilingual children. The seminar will look at the acquisition of definiteness in sequential bilingual (L2) children, children with Specific La | 21 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 93 | VideoContrasting the dynamics of English and Finnish education policymaking | A public seminar from the Department of Education, delivered by Dr Jaakko Kauko, University of Helsinki. The presentation aims to understand and contrast the dynamics in English and Finnish education policymaking. Dynamics are und | 5 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 94 | VideoEnglish language policy and educational planning: Issues and concerns in Asian contexts | A public seminar from the Department of Education, delivered by Dr Roger Barnard. This presentation discusses a number of current issues and concerns relating to English Language policies with particular attention to educational contexts in Asia. It beg | 1 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 95 | VideoEffects of pre-school education on outcomes at age 16 and predicted lifetime earnings: Findings from the mixed method EPPSE study | A public seminar from the Department of Education, delivered by Professors Pam Sammons and Kathy Sylva. | 1 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 96 | VideoAre there some questions that can’t be answered? The limits of research in teacher education | A public seminar from the Department of Education, delivered by Dr Katharine Burn and Trevor Mutton. This year will see the publication of no fewer than four highprofile reports into different aspects of teacher education (BERARSA, UUK, IFS/Nuffield | 1 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 97 | VideoThe rise and rise of testing and use of assessment data in Australia | A public seminar from the Department of Education, delivered by Professor Val Klenowski, Queensland University of Technology. In 2008 testing became high stakes in Australia and since that time we have witnessed the rise of a major industry with the eme | 1 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 98 | VideoThe Class: Connections and Disconnections in the Digital Age | This talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, reflects on a recent ethnographic study of a year 9 class – researched at school and at home over an academic year. We have been particularly interested in asking how young people perce | 27 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 99 | VideoFrom Multiversity to Postmodern University | This seminar presentation traces the emergence of postmodernist models of higher education institutions (HEIs) from Clark Kerr’s 1963 idea of the American multiversity to Zygmunt Bauman’s more recent notion of the postmodern university. | 17 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 100 | VideoPronoun Interpretation in the Second Language | A talk from the Department of Education Public Seminar series given by Prof. Roumyana Slabakova (Universities of Southampton and Iowa) and Prof. Lydia White (McGill University). A much-studied phenomenon in first language (L1) acquisition concerns the f | 15 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 101 | VideoMulti-Word Vocabulary and literacy development in children with English as an Additional Language | Dr Vicky Murphy talks on research examining figurative vocabulary knowledge in primary school children with EAL, examining collocations (multiword phrases) and idioms and the relative contribution this type of word knowledge makes to literacy developmen | 24 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 102 | VideoHeritage Speaker Bilingualism: Input Issues in Grammatical Outcomes | Professor Jason Rothman presents a survey of experimental research examining the grammatical knowledge and performances of heritage speaker bilinguals, most of which demonstrate that as a group they differ significantly from monolingual counterparts. | 28 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 103 | VideoThe Impact of the Social Sciences | Patrick Dunleavy, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, explains how the impacts of university social science have been under-researched, and their effectiveness often decried. | 28 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 104 | VideoEducational Testing as an Accountability Measure | A public seminar given by Dr Christian Ydesen who is a researcher at Aalborg University, Denmark In this presentation Dr Ydesen will reveal perspectives based on experiences from twentieth-century Danish educational history by outlining contemporary, te | 7 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 105 | VideoCan a single model of task complexity differentiate between the difficulty of writing and speaking tasks? | Dr Parvaneh Tavakoli is Lecturer in TESOL & Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading. In this presentation the existing models of task difficulty will be introduced and their applicability to L2 writing and speaking modes will be examined. | 7 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 106 | VideoA Sociocultural Imagination: Studying the Formative Effects of 'Everydayness' | Harry Daniels is Professor of Education at the University of Oxford. He previously held Chairs at the Universities of Bath and Birmingham. He is co-convener and Research Director of the Oxford Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research (OSAT) | 13 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 107 | VideoEnglish as an Additional Language: Talking to Learn? | Prof. Leung (King's College London) has worked for many years in the field of second/additional language education. His academic and research interests include classroom pedagogy, content and language-integrated curriculum development, language assessme | 3 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 108 | VideoThe Attraction of Psychology and the Rhetoric of Neuroscience: on 'Knowing How to Go On' in the Educational Field | Paul Smeyers is Research Professor for Philosophy of Education at Ghent University, Extraordinary Professor at K.U.Leuven, and Honorary Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University. | 20 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 109 | VideoStudent Evaluations of University Teaching: Recommendations for Policy and Practice | Professor Herb Marsh is a world-leading researcher in Educational Psychology. He is the author of internationally recognised psychological tests that measure self-concept, motivation and university students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness. Althou | 12 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 110 | VideoDoing practical work: rationality and heuristics in teaching | A public seminar given by Professor Walter Doyle, University of Arizona, at the Oxford University Department of Education. A basic tension exists in education between ideas and reform proposals, on the one hand, and practical work in classrooms, on the | 29 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 111 | VideoDoes it matter what 'validity' means? | In this seminar Paul E Newton, Professor of Education Assessment University of London, Institute of Education talks about how scholars have been trying to agree on a meaning of validity. | 25 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 112 | VideoExploring the meanings of standards in language testing | Public Seminar delivered by Professor Barry O'Sullivan from the British Council on 11/02/2013. Prof. Sullivan argues that the success of any learning system hinges on the quality of the original performance standards, the manner in which the standards a | 12 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 113 | VideoTask as Workspace for Language Learning and Teaching | Public Seminar delivered by Prof. Martin Bygate, University of Lancaster on 28/01/2013. A focus for Task Based Language Teaching research which might help the development of TBLT. | 7 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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