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14 September 2015 to 17 September 2015Belfast

Tuesday 15th September 2015
11.30 – 13.00

1.02

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy

Session Type: Individual Papers

Curriculum in the countries and regions of the UK
Chair: Smith, Kevin – Cardiff University

0423 – Fy Ardal/My Neighbourhood: Pupils’ perceptions of place — a pedagogy for living in Wales
Smith, Kevin – Cardiff University

0551 – Co-Curate North East: prizing open school curriculum-making processes
Thomas, Ulrike – Newcastle University; Leat, David – Newcastle University; Tiplady, Lucy – Newcastle University; Lloyd, Kat – Newcastle University; Hudson, Martyn -Newcastle University

Tuesday 15th September 2015
11.30 – 13.00

1.03

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Individual Papers

Theory into practice
Chair: Child, Simon – Cambridge Assessment

0181 – An investigation of the motivations underpinning student and teacher topic choice in History qualifications
Child, Simon – Cambridge Assessment; Darlington, Ellie – Cambridge Assessment; Gill, Tim – Cambridge Assessment

0338 – Can Social Realism do Social Justice? Debating the Warrants for Curriculum Selection
Zipin, Lew – Victoria University; Fataar, Aslam – Stellenbosch University; Brennan, Marie – Victoria University

Tuesday 15th September 2015
15.45 – 17.15

2.02

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Symposia

0180 – “21st Century Learning” in Irish Second Level Classrooms – The Bridge21 Experience
Tangney, Brendan – Trinity College Dublin; Bray, Aibhín – Trinity College Dublin; Conneely, Claire – Trinity College Dublin; Girvan, Carina – Cardiff University; Johnston, Keith – Trinity College Dublin; Lawlor, John – Trinity College Dublin; Murchan, Damian – Trinity College Dublin; O’Donovan, Danielle – Trinity College Dublin

Tuesday 15th September 2015
15.45 – 17.15

2.03

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Symposia

Convenor: Wyse, Dominic – UCL, Institute of Education
Discussant: Priestley, Mark – University of Stirling

0364 – Curriculum scholarship in the USA and the UK: Definitions, knowledge, and Language Arts/English
Pandya, Jessica – California State University; Wyse, Dominic – UCL, Institute of Education; Hayward, Louise – University of Glasgow

Wednesday 16th September 2015
09.00 – 10.30

3.02

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Individual Papers

Perspectives on the curriculum
Chair: Birdsey, Nicola – Cardiff University, University of South Wales

*0016 – The Pedagogical Impact on Students’ Development of Critical Thinking: Experience from Hong Kong Secondary Schools
Fung, Dennis – The University of Hong Kong

*0113 – What gets me is though some people in London don’t know what chicken nuggets come from. […] We know a lot more than they do about animals’: Teaching Food (not Nutrition) Education in Schools
Earl, Lexi – University of Nottingham

*0579 – Creating learning contexts that afford greater resilience to educational underachievement: A socio-cultural exploration of the situated learning experiences of central and peripheral learners in higher and lower achieving primary schools
Birdsey, Nicola – Cardiff University, University of South Wales

Wednesday 16th September 2015
09.00 – 10.30

3.03

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Individual Papers

Teacher sense-making
Chair: Knapton, Helena – Edge Hill University

0376 – The implications of the reformed Ancient Languages curriculum at GCSE: Teachers’ perceptions
Werno, Magda – Cambridge Assessment; Carroll, Prerna – Cambridge Assessment; Wilson, Frances – Cambridge Assessment; Constantinou, Filio – Cambridge Assessment

0499 – Why be good? Axiological foundations for behaviour management policies in 36 Secondary schools in England
Knapton, Helena – Edge Hill University

0329 – Teacher sense-making in school based curriculum development through critical collaborative professional enquiry: using ‘big ideas’ to imagine new possibilities and practices
Priestley, Mark – University of Stirling; Drew, Valerie – University of Stirling

 

Wednesday 16th September 2015
13.30 – 15.00

4.03

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Individual Papers

Activity in curriculum
Chair: Vidal-Hall, Charlotte – UCL Institute of Education

*0257 – Use of Assessment Criteria in Practical Science Activities
Jahan, Israt – University of New South Wales

*0492 – Designing change: developing early years pedagogy around the use of computers in reading development
Vidal-Hall, Charlotte – UCL Institute of Education

Wednesday 16th September 2015
13.30 – 15.00

4.04

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Symposia

0405 – Collaborative pedagogies: case studies of new and more established literacy practices that reinforce the role of language in learning in schools and in higher education
Booth, Paul – Kingston University; Coultas, Valerie – Kingston University; Lloyd, Beth – Kingston University

Wednesday 16th September 2015
15.45 – 17.15

5.04

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Individual Papers

Researching assessment literacy
Chair: Black, Glenda – Nipissing University

0099 – Reading between the lines: exploring the characteristics of feedback that support examiners’ professional knowledge building
Johnson, Martin – Cambridge Assessment/University of Cambridge

0119 – Teacher Candidates’ Assessment Literacy Development
Black, Glenda – Nipissing University

0333 – Enabling Assessment (EA): A new innovative theory of assessment
Singh, Birendra – UCL Institute of Education

Wednesday 16th September 2015
15.45 – 17.15

5.05

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Innovation Session

0582 – Decoding Curriculum Theory into Effective Classroom Practice: A Case Study of the Northern Ireland Curriculum
Gallagher, Carmel – General Teaching Council Northern Ireland; McGuinness, Carol – Queen’s University, Belfast; McHenry, Mary – St. Louise’s Comprehensive College

Thursday 17th September 2015
09.00 – 10.30

6.03

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Symposia

Convenor: Stylianides, Gabriel – University of Oxford
Discussant: Simons, Shirley – UCL Institute of Education; Drew, Valerie – University of Stirling

 

0185 – Classroom-Based Interventions in Different Subject Areas
Bentley, Jason – Sir Stanley Matthews Academy; Burn, Katharine – University of Oxford; Carrier, Jaya – Bishop Challoner School; Childs, Ann – University of Oxford; Fielding, Anna – St Edward’s School; Firth, Roger – University of Oxford; Hillier, Judith – University of Oxford; McNicholl, Jane – University of Oxford; Stylianides, Gabriel – University of Oxford; Taylor, Richard – Gillingham School; University of Oxford; Thompson, Ian – University of Oxford

 

Thursday 17th September 2015
09.00 – 10.30

6.04

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Individual Papers

Researching summative assessment
Chair: Greatorex, Jackie – Cambridge Assessment

0199 – Investigating a new method for standardising essay marking using levels-based mark schemes
Greatorex, Jackie – Cambridge Assessment; Sutch, Tom – Cambridge Assessment; Werno, Magda – Cambridge Assessment; Munro, Jess – Cambridge Assessment; Dunn, Karen – Cambridge Assessment

0505 – Validity and comparability of assessment: how do these concepts relate?
Crisp, Victoria – Cambridge Assessment

0534 – Student voices and high stakes examinations: reflections on young people’s views about qualifications and qualifications reform
Elwood, Jannette – Queen’s University Belfast

0203 – Piloting a method for comparing examination question paper demands
Greatorex, Jackie – Cambridge Assessment; Chambers, Lucy – Cambridge Assessment; Constantinou, Filio – Cambridge Assessment; Ireland, Jo – Cambridge Assessment

Thursday 17th September 2015
12.15 – 13.15

7.03

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Innovation Session

0114 – Does 11-14 schooling in the UK have the flexibility to respond to innovations such as SCIART or STEAM education? And should schools facilitate art science collaborations?
Robson, Deirdre – St Mary’s University College; Hickey, Ivor – St Mary’s University College

Thursday 17th September 2015
14.30 – 16.00

8.01

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Individual Papers

Formative assessment practices
Chair: Dann, Ruth – Manchester Metropolitan University

0052 – Habermas’s theory of communicative action applied to the development of classroom feedback practices for pupils who make less than expected progress
Dann, Ruth – Manchester Metropolitan University

0418 – Exploring the Relationship between Grading and Assessment for Learning in Norwegian Physical Education
Leirhaug, Petter – Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Sogn og Fjordane University College

0559 – Teachers’ perceptions of Inquiry: Impact on formative assessment in the classroom
Correia, Catarina – King’s College London