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Facilitating the design of data-informed andragogic tools to promote hypercognition for UK access to higher education learners (2021)
Thesis

Access to Higher Education courses in the UK serve the purpose of providing a route to Higher Education level study for those without the requisite qualifications to do so. However, students on these courses tend to be disproportionately from groups... Read More about Facilitating the design of data-informed andragogic tools to promote hypercognition for UK access to higher education learners.

Engineering science education: The impact of a paired peer approach on subject knowledge confidence and self-efficacy levels of student teachers (2021)
Journal Article

Teacher performance has been linked with both self-efficacy and subject knowledge confidence suggesting that it is important to address these aspects within initial teacher training programmes. This study investigated the development of pre-service t... Read More about Engineering science education: The impact of a paired peer approach on subject knowledge confidence and self-efficacy levels of student teachers.

Teacher training in England: Exploring views of trainee teachers, from two different training routes, on the formation of their professional identity (2021)
Thesis

This thesis explores the views of trainee teachers on two different training routes to a PGCE Primary qualification (School Direct and Core) on the formation of a professional identity. This thesis is set within the context of continuously developing... Read More about Teacher training in England: Exploring views of trainee teachers, from two different training routes, on the formation of their professional identity.

Benefits and barriers: A case study to explore teaching and learning in physics using a collaborative learning platform (2021)
Thesis

This is professionally focused case study research (Stake, 2005) which demonstrates pupil perceptions of the benefits and barriers to the collaborative learning of physics using a teacher-designed online learning platform. ‘The case’ is the resea... Read More about Benefits and barriers: A case study to explore teaching and learning in physics using a collaborative learning platform.

‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home (2020)
Journal Article

Consumer virtual reality (VR) headsets (e.g. Oculus Go) have brought VR non-fiction (VRNF) within reach of at-home audiences. However, despite increase in VR hardware sales and enthusiasm for the platform among niche audiences at festivals, mainstrea... Read More about ‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home.