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Congratulations to Dr Matt Homer on his new published paper in Medical Teacher - Setting defensible minimum-stations-passed standards in OSCE-type assessments This paper discusses how we set standards in exams for medical trainees, and it proposes a better method for part of how we do this. It uses statistical modelling of a large exam data...
Reflecting on Freire: a praxis of radical love and critical hope for science education - Cultural Studies of Science Education In this introductory manuscript, we present our vision for this special issue as a space for cultivating collective becomings in/with love, critical hope, and solidarity. We also contemplate our intentions and goals for putting together...
Matt Homer has been invited in April to the Centre for Educational Measurement at the University of Oslo. He will be giving a talk on the work he has done over the last few years on assessor variation in their judgments in examinations, and the impact this has on assessment outcomes. The context is in...
Congratulations to Dr Michael Walker on his new appointment to Research Centre Fellow for CPP. The overall purpose of Research Centre Fellows is to enhance the research environment of the School. Mick will support the Centre by adopting the role of ‘critical friends’, while also contributing to the research culture. We wish Mick all...
We are very happy to congratulate Judith on her second Editor's Choice publication! Judith's first 'Editor's Choice' article was published in 2015: Hanks, J. (2015). 'Education is not just teaching': learner thoughts on Exploratory Practice. ELT Journal, 69(2), pp. 117-128. (Editor’s Choice, April 2015) https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccu063 And this year, Judith has been successful a second time...
A big congratulations to Dr Lucy Taylor who has been selected to take on the editorship of this academic journal. Lucy is now one of the editorial team of the official journal of the United Kingdom Literacy Association, Literacy. Literacy is a peer-reviewed academic journal leading in the field of literary research. Aimed at academics, teachers,...
A big congratulations to Dr Indira Banner for receiving 'Runner Up' in the Engaged for Impact - Widening Perspectives category at the recent inaugural Research Culture and Engaged for Impact Awards, held on 19th July 2022. For further information - please read: Inaugural award winners honoured | For Staff | University of Leeds
The AILA 'Fully Inclusive Practitioner Research Network' Zoom meeting took place on 27 June 2022, co-convened by Dr Judith Hanks from the School of Education, along with Yoshitaka Kato and Emily Edwards. This event included participants from Australia, Brazil, China, Finland, Japan, Lithuania, USA, and the UK, on the theme of 'What do we mean...
Dr Judith Hanks recently facilitated and presented at this online training event - 'Coproduction and / by / through different ways of knowing', which took place on 23 June 2022. Other speakers included Kate Pahl, Rachel Mathieson, Chris Fforde and Cassie Kill. For more information about this online event that was organised by the Education,...
Dr Judy Sayers' published article is now available at Taylor & Francis Online, published Open Access. Please read Judy's new article here: Two methods for quantifying similarity between textbooks with respect to content distribution