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| 1 | Exploring 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. | Lisa Holmes | 15 May 2018 | |
| 2 | Higher 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... | Tristan McCowan | 15 May 2018 | |
| 3 | The 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. | Robbie Gilligan | 30 Apr 2018 | |
| 4 | A 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. | Peter Tymms | 27 Mar 2018 | |
| 5 | A Founding Editors Perspective | Professor Patricia Broadfoot, Emeritus Professor of Education, gives a presentation for the OUCEA conference. | Patricia Broadfoot | 19 Mar 2018 | |
| 6 | Future Direction | Therese N. Hopfenbeck gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box. | Therese N. Hopfenbeck | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 7 | Assessment and learning theories | Jo-Anne Baird gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box. | Jo-Anne Baird | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 8 | Formative assessment: where do we go from here? | Ernesto Panadero gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box | Ernesto Panadero | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 9 | Assessment in Education's knowledge contribution to Formative Assessment | Gordon Stobart gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box. | Gordon Stobart | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 10 | Comments from previous editors' presentations | Mary James gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box | Mary James | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 11 | Formative assessment: Confusions, clarifications, and prospects for consensus | Dylan Wiliam gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box | Dylan Wiliam | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 12 | An author's appreciation | Paul Black gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box. | Paul Black | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 13 | Welcome to the conference | Therese N. Hopfenbeck opens the conference; Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box. | Therese N Hopfenbeck | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 14 | Social 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 | Claire Cameron | 16 Feb 2018 | |
| 15 | Creative Commons | System 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 | Ewart Keep | 13 Feb 2018 |
| 16 | Creative Commons | The 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 | Terezinha Nunes | 05 Feb 2018 |
| 17 | Measurement 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 | Joshua McGrane | 05 Feb 2018 | |
| 18 | Literacy 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 | Dr Sonali Nag | 25 Jan 2018 | |
| 19 | Stability 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. | Courtenay Norbury | 11 Dec 2017 | |
| 20 | Mediatising 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. | Stephen Parker | 11 Dec 2017 | |
| 21 | If '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. | Sue Maguire | 30 Nov 2017 | |
| 22 | Learning 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. | Art Graesser | 30 Nov 2017 | |
| 23 | English 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. | Ernesto Macaro | 14 Nov 2017 | |
| 24 | Long 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 | Elizabeth Fernandez | 01 Nov 2017 | |
| 25 | Recent Developments in Reading Assessment in the USA National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): An Analysis of Conceptual, Digital, Psychometric, and Policy Trends | OUCEA Annual Lecture, 25th May 2017, Ashmolean Museum | David Pearson, Maggie Snowling | 03 Aug 2017 | |
| 26 | Lexical diversity and coverage in tertiary-level STEM: a corpus-based comparison of English-medium lectures in Anglophone and non-Anglophone contexts | Jessica Briggs, Centre for Research and Development in English Medium Instruction, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the EMI conference. | Jessica Briggs | 05 Jul 2017 | |
| 27 | Language and disciplinary learning combined: CLIL challenging conceptions of language skills | Tarja Nikula, Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyvåskylå, gives a talk for the EMI conference. | Tarja Nikula | 05 Jul 2017 | |
| 28 | Systematic review of English Medium Instruction | Ernesto Macaro (with Samantha Seiter, Jiangshan An, Jack Pun, Julie Dearden), Centre for Research and Development in English Medium Instruction, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the EMI Symposium. | Ernesto Macaro | 05 Jul 2017 | |
| 29 | Building Optimal Predictive Models with Large Scale Assessment Data | Professor David Kaplan (University of Wisconsin-Madison) gives a talk for the Department of Education Research Seminar series. | David Kaplan | 14 Jun 2017 | |
| 30 | What can we learn from PISA (2015)?- Design, innovations, challenges and limitations | Professor Eckhard Klieme (German Institute for International Educational Research, DIPF) gives a talk for the Department of Education Research seminar series. | Eckhard Klieme | 14 Jun 2017 | |
| 31 | A synthesis of studies using PISA data – Implications for research, policy and practice | Professor Leonidas Kyriakides (University of Cyprus) gives a talk for the Department of Education Research Seminar Series. | Leonidas Kyriakides | 13 Jun 2017 | |
| 32 | Assessing 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. | Stella Paes, Neil Wade | 13 Jun 2017 | |
| 33 | Education, inequality and institutions | This seminar will present recent research on the relationship between economic inequality and educational achievement as measured by large scale assessments. | Robin Shields | 06 Jun 2017 | |
| 34 | Bright 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. | Julie Selwyn | 16 May 2017 | |
| 35 | Standards 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. | Jo Anne Baird, Dennis Opposs | 09 May 2017 | |
| 36 | From 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. | Elaine Kempson | 26 Apr 2017 | |
| 37 | Learning 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. | Florence Myles | 07 Mar 2017 | |
| 38 | Education 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. | Gary McCulloch | 28 Feb 2017 | |
| 39 | The 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. | Ewart Keep | 10 Feb 2017 | |
| 40 | Creative Commons | Imagining a future after schooling | Young people navigating uncertainty in contemporary Britain. | Graham Butt, Patrick Alexander | 31 Jan 2017 |
| 41 | Creative Commons | Stuck! 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. | Lee Elliot Major | 24 Jan 2017 |
| 42 | Creative Commons | Socioeconomic 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. | Anna Vignoles | 17 Jan 2017 |
| 43 | What 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. | Keri Facer | 16 Jan 2017 | |
| 44 | Schools 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. | Jane Bryson | 02 Dec 2016 | |
| 45 | 5 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. | Matthew van Poortvliet | 22 Nov 2016 | |
| 46 | What 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. | Neil Harrison | 15 Nov 2016 | |
| 47 | Religion 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. | Edward Kessler | 08 Nov 2016 | |
| 48 | Does 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. | Simon Marginson | 01 Nov 2016 | |
| 49 | Education 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. | Tony Gallagher | 31 Oct 2016 | |
| 50 | Making 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 | Jenny Lenkeit, Therese N Hopfenbeck | 31 Oct 2016 | |
| 51 | Creative Commons | What 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. | Pamela Sammons | 02 Jun 2016 |
| 52 | Measuring and developing second language fluency | Professor Judit Kormos, Lancaster University, gives a talk for the Department of Education seminar series. | Judit Kormos | 02 Jun 2016 | |
| 53 | Promoting 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. | Leonidas Kyriakides | 09 Mar 2016 | |
| 54 | Closing 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. | Ann Childs, Nigel Fancourt, Roger Firth, Ian Menter | 04 Mar 2016 | |
| 55 | The 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. | Heath Rose | 26 Feb 2016 | |
| 56 | Silence 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. | Jim King | 18 Feb 2016 | |
| 57 | Social 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. | Daniel Muijs | 09 Feb 2016 | |
| 58 | Reimagining liberal education: Affiliation and inquiry in democratic schooling | Professor Hanan Alexander, Haifa University, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series. | Hanan Alexander | 03 Feb 2016 | |
| 59 | Clever 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. | Peter Barrett | 27 Jan 2016 | |
| 60 | Research 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. | Annamaria Pinter | 21 Jan 2016 | |
| 61 | The 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. | David Berridge, Judy Sebba, Nikki Luke, Steve Srand | 03 Dec 2015 | |
| 62 | The 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. | Sir Kevan Collins | 03 Dec 2015 | |
| 63 | The 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. | David Putwain | 20 Nov 2015 | |
| 64 | How 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. | David Johnson | 12 Nov 2015 | |
| 65 | ‘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. | Neil Selwyn | 05 Nov 2015 | |
| 66 | Parenting support Evidence, policy and practice | Professor Geoff Lindsay, University of Warwick, gives a talk for the department of education public seminar series. | Geoff Lindsay | 28 Oct 2015 | |
| 67 | Assessment 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. | Jo-Anne Baird | 22 Oct 2015 | |
| 68 | Impact and Knowledge Exchange in an Evolving Research Environment | A panel session reflecting on research impact and knowledge exchange from different angles, from user perspectives and wide public debates, through institutional contexts and the interfaces with different funding bodies, and to international experiences | Andrew Dilnot, Claire Donovan, Colette Fagan, Roger Goodman | 21 Sep 2015 | |
| 69 | Approaches to facilitating research impact | The talk will reflect on ways in which research can lead to impact and how this can be evidenced. The main focus will be on approaches and strategies for increasing impact with respect to the next REF. | Simon Kerridge | 21 Sep 2015 | |
| 70 | Competing for excellence: Perverse and constructive effects of evaluation machines in academia | Professor Paul Wouters discusses the current tensions in the way researchers are being evaluated and assessed and introduces the concept of "evaluation machines" to understand the dynamics behind disconnected assessment practices. | Paul Wouters | 21 Sep 2015 | |
| 71 | What was I thinking?! - being an academic in the age of impact | Reflecting on experience as academic lead for the Warwick Commission for the Future of Cultural Value, Dr Eleonora Belfiore explores the possibilities and challenges that developing a collaborative approach to generating fresh policy thinking entails. | Eleonora Belfiore | 21 Sep 2015 | |
| 72 | Understanding research impact: analysis of the REF impact case studies | Delivering impact from research has become a central feature of the research policy landscape in the UK and beyond, in this seminar Dr Stephen Hill considers what is meant by ‘research impact’ and examines recent impact case studies. | Steven Hill | 21 Sep 2015 | |
| 73 | In metrics we trust? Impact, indicators & the prospects for social science over the next five years | James Wilsdon talks about the role of metrics in researcg assessment and the opportunities & dilemmas for the social sciences & humanities. | James Wilsdon, David Walker | 21 Sep 2015 | |
| 74 | Design 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. | Harry Daniels, Hau Ming Tse | 22 Jun 2015 | |
| 75 | Creative Commons | Questioning 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. | Susan James Relly | 09 Jun 2015 |
| 76 | What 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? | Gordon Stobart | 08 Jun 2015 | |
| 77 | Predictability 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. | Jo-Anne Baird, Therese Hopfenbeck, Daniel Caro | 22 May 2015 | |
| 78 | Does 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. | Janet Boddy, Donald Forrester | 13 Apr 2015 | |
| 79 | Education, language and the social brain | A public seminar from the Department of Education, given by Dr Neil Mercer, University of Cambridge. | Neil Mercer | 02 Mar 2015 | |
| 80 | Mobile 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”. | Niall Winters | 19 Feb 2015 | |
| 81 | Modalities 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. | Melanie Ehren, Pamela Sammons | 06 Feb 2015 | |
| 82 | The 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. | Hugh Lauder | 05 Feb 2015 | |
| 83 | Production tasks underestimate the grammatical abilities of sequential bilingual children | Department of Education Public Seminar delivered by Professor Theodoros Marinis on sequential bilingual children. | Theodoras Marinis | 21 Jan 2015 | |
| 84 | Contrasting the dynamics of English and Finnish education policymaking | A public seminar from the Department of Education, delivered by Dr Jaakko Kauko, University of Helsinki. | Jaakko Kauko | 05 Dec 2014 | |
| 85 | English language policy and educational planning: Issues and concerns in Asian contexts | A public seminar from the Department of Education, delivered by Dr Roger Barnard. | Roger Barnard | 01 Dec 2014 | |
| 86 | Effects 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. | Pat Sammons, Kathy Sylva | 01 Dec 2014 | |
| 87 | Are 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. | Katharine Burn, Trevor Mutton, Harry Daniels | 01 Dec 2014 | |
| 88 | The 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. | Val Klenowski, Jo-Anne Baird | 01 Dec 2014 | |
| 89 | The 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. | Sonia Livingstone, Chris Davies | 27 Jun 2014 | |
| 90 | From 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. | Claire Donovan | 17 Jun 2014 | |
| 91 | Developing a Dialogic Approach to Early Secondary School Science and Mathematics Teaching: insights and findings from the epiSTEMe project. | Prof. Kenneth Ruthven gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series | Kenneth Ruthven | 17 Jun 2014 | |
| 92 | Pronoun 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). | Roumyana Slabakova, Lydia White | 15 May 2014 | |
| 93 | Creative Commons | Multi-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 development. | Vicki Murphy | 24 Mar 2014 |
| 94 | Creative Commons | Can Psychological Research Improve Selection of Teachers? | In this talk, Prof. Klassen, University of York, considers how psychological research can inform how teachers are selected for training and practice, leading to new selection approaches that can strengthen the quality of schools in the UK and elsewhere. | Robert Klassen | 14 Mar 2014 |
| 95 | Heritage 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. | Jason Rothman | 28 Feb 2014 | |
| 96 | The 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. | Patrick Dunleavy | 28 Feb 2014 | |
| 97 | Creative Commons | Educational Testing as an Accountability Measure | A public seminar given by Dr Christian Ydesen who is a researcher at Aalborg University, Denmark | Christian Ydesen | 07 Feb 2014 |
| 98 | Creative Commons | Can 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. | Parvaneh Tavakoli | 07 Feb 2014 |
| 99 | Creative Commons | A 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). | Harry Daniels | 13 Dec 2013 |
| 100 | English 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 assessment | Constant Leung | 03 Dec 2013 |
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