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| Unlocking the potential of digital gamified CLIL to facilitate adaptation and inclusion for refugee and migrant secondary school | Sep 7 2023 - 2:36pm |
Secondary schools in Greece and Cyprus welcome numerous refugees and migrants from various countries. These young learners often complain that they would have performed better in their tests, exams and coursework if their teachers would have allowed them to use their mother tongue, English (second/foreign language to most teenagers due to their engagement in online gaming) and the target language (Greek/Cypriot Greek) when they tried to make sense of the instructions for their assignments, the theories involved and the assessment criteria. |
| Exploring Lecturers’ Inclusive Formative Assessment Literacy: Advancing Higher Education for Sustainable Learning and Developmen | Sep 7 2023 - 2:37pm |
The formative assessment methods currently used in Higher Education (HE) do not seem to address diverse students’ needs and help them improve valuable academic skills, i.e., writing, necessary if they want to graduate and secure a career-enhancing position in the future (Winstone & Boud, 2022). Moreover, research indicates that very few studies – if any- have explored inclusive formative assessment practices of lecturers in HE (Kruiper et al., 2022). |
| Let’s break the mould, let’s shake the world: Why women cannot advance in professional roles in finance? | Sep 7 2023 - 2:35pm |
Finance is an area still dominated by men despite figures indicating the opposite. This study wishes to investigate why women would work in investment banking (IB), but not progress into professional roles. Eighteen female employees in three banks in London were interviewed, to explore how gender diversity could be tackled within the sector. The research revealed that senior management teams (SMTs) avoid hiring women as managers because they have to “interrupt” their career due to maternity and are often unable to reconcile their family commitments with the long working hours required. |
| Daughters of a lesser God: The impact of Covid-19 on female early career academics’ experiences of precarity with regard to work | Sep 7 2023 - 2:34pm |
Despite increased research on gender inequality in the academy, few papers report on how it manifests within precarious work in Higher Education (HE), especially amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. This multiple case study explored 34 academics’ experiences of precarity in 3 universities in London to unravel the challenges for these women using lengthy semi-structured interviews and opportunity and snowball sampling. It unravelled that it has intensified insecurities and discriminations - particularly for female academics - stemming from the neoliberal restructuring of the HE sector in Europe. |
| Exploring the use of Virtual Professional and Academic Learning Communities to Foster Sustainable Learning in Management Educati | Sep 7 2023 - 2:33pm |
In the present study, Virtual Professional and Academic Learning Communities (VPALC) were used to offer academic, technical (IT), psychological, and reflective support to undergraduate final-year Business students in the UK with the aim of meeting their needs for sustainable learning development, networking, training and professional growth through peer support and interaction with experienced professionals in the post-Covid-19 era. |
| Investigating the Impact of an IFAP (Inclusive Formative Assessment Practices) Scheme on Students’ Writing skills, Self-regulati | Sep 7 2023 - 2:32pm |
The present study explored the use of an Inclusive Formative Assessment Practices (IFAP) scheme with undergraduate Business students. In terms of this project, 200 students were asked to used formative peer assessment (PA) in their first semester and self-assessment (SA) in their second semester to help them improve their writing performance, self-regulation, and motivation promoting sustainable learning development (SLD) and Social Justice. Students’ pre-test and post-test scores showed that the scheme improved students’ writing performance. |
| Exploring Lecturers’ Inclusive Formative Assessment Literacy (LIFAL) in Higher Education (HE) | Sep 7 2023 - 2:30pm |
"The literature indicates that most undergraduate learners face considerable challenges with various academic skills, i.e., writing and either fail in exams or produce written assignments of poor quality (Aizawa et al., 2020). The assessment methods currently used in Higher Education (HE) do not seem to address diverse students’ needs and help them improve valuable academic skills, i.e., writing, necessary if they want to graduate and secure a career-enhancing position in the future (Winstone & Boud, 2022). |
| Using Dynamic Assessment of Writing to Promote Technology-Enhanced Learning in Higher Education | Sep 7 2023 - 2:28pm |
Responding to students’ request for the use of digitally-enhanced formative assessment practices, this project used a dynamic assessment approach that has been developed within the Vygotskian sociocultural theory of learning. It aimed to develop students’ professional skills, i.e., digital skills, in blended learning by promoting experiential learning, improve students’ writing performance and favourable attitudes towards learning and support their well-being in HEI especially in the post-Covid-19 era Fifty final year students participated in this project as part of their module. |
| Inclusive formative assessment practices (IFAP) in Higher Education: Promoting Education for Social Justice | Sep 7 2023 - 2:23pm |
According to the literature, there are very few long-term studies which have implemented more than one formative assessment methods in Higher Education (HE) and more to explore their impact on students’ motivation and writing performance. Moreover, very few long-term studies, if any, have actually conducted research in HE using a mixed methods approach. The aim of the current study was to enhance students’ motivation and writing performance and ensure that no student is left behind irrespective of their background. |
| Increasing quality of family support to vulnerable families with preschool children in Croatia | Sep 7 2023 - 2:22pm |
The Centre for Parenting Support ‘Growing up Together’ (‘Rastimo zajedno’), in partnership with UNICEF, develops accessible, evidence-informed and sustainable universal, targeted and indicated group-based parenting support programmes and supports the network of professionals who implement them in family centres, kindergartens and NGO’s throughout Croatia. |
| Promoting subjective well-being of foster care children by support their biological and foster families for visits | Sep 7 2023 - 2:21pm |
Despite the importance of visits during foster care and their impact on child well-being, psychoeducational programmes to improve the quality of these contacts are scarce. The Foster Care and Adoption Research Group of the University of Malaga has designed the first Spanish programme for this purpose, Visits: a context for family development (Bernedo et al., 2020), targeting biological and foster families. |
| Program “Visits: a context for family development” | Sep 7 2023 - 2:20pm |
Based on the importance of parent-child contact during foster care placement, the Foster Care and Adoption Research Group of the University of Malaga carried out a study on the needs of foster children, birth families, non-kinship foster families and social workers in regard to contact visits. |
| Episodic memory and episodic foresight in middle childhood: Effects of parental maltreatment and neglect | Sep 7 2023 - 2:19pm | |
| AdoPt Project - Adoptive families' strengths, difficulties and service needs: A Portuguese follow-up study. | Sep 7 2023 - 2:12pm | |
| Episodic memory and temporal cognition in child's narrative: a study of parental maltreatment and neglect. | Sep 7 2023 - 2:09pm | |
| The families' trajectories in the Child Welfare System: evaluating the influence of an evidence-based parenting program. | Sep 7 2023 - 2:07pm | |
| Tackling translational research challenges: evaluation of the sustained use of an evidence-based parenting program in real-world | Sep 7 2023 - 2:06pm | |
| A positive parenting approach to childhood overweight and obesity: Long-term effects and underlying mechanisms of change of Grou | Sep 7 2023 - 2:05pm | |
| Children's perspective on parental maltreatment: a study of children's episodic memory and episodic foresight. | Sep 7 2023 - 2:01pm | |
| Assessing the effectiveness of a parenting intervention in family preservation and reunification | Sep 7 2023 - 1:58pm |