Strand Two Projects and Research

Contact Name	Title, brief description and status	Dissemination
Sarah Aitken, Business School Contact Sarah	The adaptation of first year overseas undergraduate students to Higher Education, and the effect of a structured induction programme on their academic performance. Status: Data (qualitative diary data, and quantitative marks data) have been collected and analysed. Sarah is currently writing a paper for BeJLT or equivalent.	Aitken, S. and Davey, S. (2008) 'The adaptation of first year overseas undergraduate students and the effect of a structured induction programme on their academic grades', presentation at the BSLE Conference. View the abstract online.l
Steven Davey For more information, please contact Karen Handley	Understanding the undergraduate student perspective using audio diaries. Status: Completed.	Poster presentation at the EARLI conference, September 2008 Davey, S. (2008) 'Undergraduate Audio Diary data analysis', ASKe report working paper available on request.
Mary Davis, Oxford Brookes International Contact Mary	Investigating the formative use of Turnitin to foster an understanding of UK academic conventions. Status: Completed	Internal ASKe workshop on the formative use of Turnitin, 20th May 2008. 40 people Davis, M. (2007) 'The role of Turnitin within the formative process of academic writing', presentation to BSLE Conference, available online [Powerpoint presentation]. Davis, M. (2007) 'The Role of Turnitin within the Formative Process of Academic Writing', Brookes eJournal of Learning and Teaching, vol. 2, Issue 2. Paper at the Designing for Learning Conference, University of Greenwich, 2007. Published in the conference proceedings. 1,2,3 leaflet on plagiarism generated from the research (2007)
Lynn Errey, Westminster Institute of Education Contact Lynn	General awareness raising via a range of outlets. Work on revising assessments. Workshops for staff and students. Status: Project completed.	Internal report received in 2007 on project outputs such as discussions with several members of staff including field chairs, module leaders, and other ACOs; presentations at staff away-days Presentation to Westminster Institute of Education's annual Teaching and Learning conference. Title: 'Why students might have difficulties in producing good academic writing, and ways to help them improve'. 2007.
Graham Gibbs, Business School Contact Graham	Literature review on groupwork Status: Completed. Please contact aske@brookes.ac.uk.
Peter Gray, Visiting fellow Contact ASKe	Developing a protocol for investigating the influences on student performance (marks) Status: Completed Summer 2009
Karen Handley, Business School Contact Karen	Creating an interactive repository of exemplar coursework assignments annotated with feedback: how might students use them? Status: Completed	Journal article accepted with minor revisions (April 2009) for Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. Title: From copying to learning? Using exemplars to engage students with assessment criteria and feedback. Handley, K. and Williams, L. (2007) 'From copying to learning? How students use previously-marked assignments to improve the quality of their own work'. Conference presentation at the Association for Learning Technologies Conference, September 2007, Nottingham, UK. ASKe seminar, Oxford Brookes University, 15th April 2008. ASKe seminar, Oxford Brookes University, 23rd May 2007.
Julie Hartley, Business School Contact Julie	Ensuring reliable assessment decisions in a distance learning post-graduate programme. Status: Completed	ASKe seminar, Oxford Brookes University, 23rd May 2007. Internal research report 'Supporting Associate Tutors in the assessment of Distance Learning Dissertations', Summer 2008
Anton Havnes For more information, please contact Karen Handley	What can feedback practices tell us about variation in grading across disciplines and programmes? Status: Completed	Presentation at the EARLI conference, August 2008.
Becky Kiddle, School of Built Environment Contact Becky	The Design of Social Learning Space at Wheatley Campus. Status: Completed January 2010
Jill Millar, Business School Contact Jill	Written feedback: do students understand it? Status: Completed.	Millar, J. (2008) 'Painting by numbers: understanding student feedback' in Rust, C. (ed.) Proceedings of 2007 15th International Symposium on Improving Student Learning, Oxford, OCSLD
Laura Morosanu, ASKe Contact Laura	Understanding the undergraduate student perspective using audio diaries. [1st year students - data collected in 2007-8 by Steven Davey] Status: All data now transcribed and being analysed. Journal article submitted in October 2009 to International journal, Higher Education Research & Development. Revise-and-resubmit responded to in December 2009	Morosanu, L. & Handley, K., ‘From Community of Practice to Networks of Support: Investigating First-Year Students' Experiences of Coping with Academic Life,’ Paper presented at the ‘European First Year Experience,’ Groningen, 13-15 May 2009 Morosanu, L. & Handley, K., ‘From Communities of Practice to Networks of Support: First-Year Students' Experiences of Coping with Academic Life,’ Paper presented at the ‘Improving Student Learning’ conference, Imperial College, London, 7-9 September 2009
Laura Morosanu, ASKe Contact Laura	Longitudinal study of students' experiences of assessment and feedback (diaries/poster montage) Status: Completed Summer 2009
Birgit den Outer, ASKe Contact Birgit	Marking, Dissertations, and Assessment Communities Status: Completed December 2009
Birgit den Outer, ASKe Contact Birgit	Staff experiences of 'coming to know' assessment standards at Brookes (audio/written diaries) Status: To be completed Spring 2010	den Outer, B. and Handley, K. (2009), ‘Staff, Standards, and Situation: Tutor Experiences of Assessment and Belonging in Academic Communities using Situational Analysis’, presented at the Improving Student Learning (ISL) conference, London, September 2009. den Outer, B. and Handley, K. (2009), ‘Staff, Standards, and Situation: The Tutor Perspective on Assessment and Belonging in Academic Communities using Situational Analysis’, presented at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Conference, Amsterdam, August 2009.
Judith Piggott, Business School Contact Judith	Developing students’ presentation skills using theatre. Status: Ongoing	Workshops given at; Association of Graduate Recruiters Conference, July 2007; The Development in Economics Education Conference, September 2007; BMAF Conference, April 2008. An article also appeared in the Guardian
Sarah Quinton, Business School Contact Sarah	How to encourage the keen student: What types of assessments engage higher achieving students? Status: Literature review now completed.
Andrew Rosenthal, School of Life Sciences Contact Andrew	Engaging students to learn with an adaptive summative strategy. Status: Ongoing
Diana Schmitt For more information, please contact Karen Handley	Sitting exams in a second language. Status: Completed	Schmitt, D. (2007) 'Sitting exams in a second language: minimising bias, maximising potential', OCSLD online paper. Conference presentation, Oxford Brookes University, October 2007 Used by Jude Carroll at external workshops at University of Liverpool, 2007 and Nottingham Trent University 2008
Sepe Sehati For more information, please contact Karen Handley	General awareness raising. Introduction of Turnitin with PG engineering students, running workshops and information sessions for students. Status: Project completed.	Sehati, S. (2008) 'Towards reducing plagiarism among post-graduates', Report available from ASKe. Sehati, S. (2007) 'Health psychology, global warming and plagiarism: creating the missing link?', Brookes Teaching News, Semester 2, 2006-7. Presentation at MSc programme meeting for the School of Technology, 2007. Presentation available from ASKe
Neil Trivett For more information, please contact Karen Handley	Review of marking cultures Status: Completed	Trivett, N. (2006) 'Does local culture influence standards and marking practice within schools?' Internal report produced for the University Learning and Teaching Committee, and available from ASKe.
Debbie Witney, Business School Contact Debbie	Enhancing Associate’s understanding of the assessment standards Status: Completed.
Debbie Witney and Theresa Smallbone, Business School Contact Debbie Contact Theresa	Wiki Work: an analysis of how Wiki’s might enable better collaboration for group Status: Completed	Conference presentation, Brookes Student Learning Experience Conference, May 2008 Witney, D and Smallbone, T. (2008) Presentation at the ALT-C conference, 'Supporting online collaboration: implications of teacher and student concerns for instructional design', Leeds, UK.
Sharon Curtis Contact Sharon	New 2009: Development of bespoke automated feedback software for new modules, plus development of user documentation for potential transfer of feedback system outside School of Technology
Alysa Levene & AM Kilday Contact Alysa	New 2009: Students' experiences of transitioning to University (History)
Gabor Lukacs Contact Gabor	New 2009: Oral vivas as a form of assessment.
Paul Mantle Contact Paul	New 2009: The benefits of coaching/mentoring on students' ability to work in groups