An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week my guest on the podcast is expert on assessment, feedback and academic integrity, Professor Phillip Dawson from Deakin University. Among the topics we discuss on the podcast are the following:
- How academic integrity is learned throughout our lives – and how even Peppa Pig has been known to flout academic integrity.
- What a secondary school teacher needs to know about academic integrity – values and technical skills
- Academic integrity travels with us: Medical students who have more academic integrity problems have more professional integrity problems as doctors
- Acknowledging student work that is original
- Scalable feedback practices at feedbackforlearning.org.
- Text matching software (e.g. Turn-it-in) can help provide feedback at scale.
- Recognising patterns in errors legitimately made by students on a module
- Estimated instances of cheating among university students, by “outsourcing” their work, range from 6% to 16%
- When the student signals that an assignment is tough, the temptation to cheat appears, literally.
- Intellectual streaking and intellectual candour (Margaret Bearman and Elizabeth Molloy. The importance of faculty sharing their own experiences of receiving feedback with students.
- Contract cheating and blackmail. Lesley Sefcik and Jon Yorke.
- University faculty are more likely to spot contract cheating when they are looking out for it.
- Initial suspicion versus investigation of contract cheating
- Resources to combat contract cheating from the Australian Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency.
- Cheating and Assessment Project
- The difference between referencing blunders and contract cheating
- Where students are more/less likely to cheat: types of work, disciplines
- The work of Tracey Bretag and colleagues
- Designing assessments to minimise the likelihood of contract cheating
- Authentic assessments
- Benefits of few, enforceable authentic restrictions
- Review of authentic assessments by Villarroel et al (2020)
- Article on authentic assessment and authentic feedback by Dawson, Carless and Lee (2021).
- Assessment rubrics Article by Dawson
- Article 1 and Article 2 on assessment by James Popham: and
- Analytical, holistic and co-constructed rubrics
- Alfie Kohn podcast
- Winstone and Bowd (2020): the need to disentangle assessment and feedback in higher education
- Pitt & Norton (2017) Student Responses to feedback
- Sustainable assessment and evaluative judgment
- One person who inspires Phillip is his boss, David Boud: https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/david-boud.
- One of David Boud’s articles on sustainable assessment.
Wednesday Nov 28, 2018
Wednesday Nov 28, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Theme music composed and arranged by David Vesey
On this week's programme I speak to my friend and former colleague, Professor Anne O'Gara. Professor O'Gara was President of Marino Institute of Education from 2006 to 2018. Prior to that she taught in primary schools for several years before becoming Assistant National Coordinator of the Home-School-Community Liaison Scheme, and subsequently an inspector at the Department of Education and Skills. In this first part of our interview we focused on leadership in education. Among the topics discussed were:
- Entering an institution as a new leader
- Identifying priorities as a leader
- Bringing about Change and Resistance to Change
- Doing courses, lifelong learning and coaching
- Developing new courses
- Changing your leadership style
- 360-degree feedback
- Preparing for difficult conversations
- Partnerships with stakeholders
- What she misses and does not miss about the work
Wednesday Oct 03, 2018
Wednesday Oct 03, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to Catherine O'Connor about making the transition from post-primary school to college. Catherine is author of the book, Cracking the College Code: Making the Most of the First Year College Experience.
To get your own copy of Catherine O’Connor’s book Cracking the College Code: Making the most of the first year college experience, you can enter the competition on the programme this week. Either send your name and where you’re listening from, by e-mail to insideeducation@dublincityfm.ie. Or else retweet the link to this week’s programme on Twitter and include the hashtag #collegecode. Enter by midnight, Irish time on Monday, 8th October 2018.
Wednesday Mar 22, 2017
Wednesday Mar 22, 2017
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week I speak to education consultant and Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Massachusetts, Dr. Katie Novak, on the topic of Universal Design for Learning. She was in Ireland to give the keynote presentation at the 2017 Conference of AHEAD, the Association for Higher Education Access and Disability in Dublin. Among the topics we discuss are:
What is universal design for learning?
How might universal design for learning be applied in teaching English?
What is the difference between differentiated instruction and universal design for learning?
Why students need to fail in the short-term to find long term success.
What skills taught in school do we need to hold onto and what can be safely let go?
Katie refers to the book, The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey.
Wednesday Jan 18, 2017
Wednesday Jan 18, 2017
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Eric Clinton from DCU Business School. In the course of the interview we discuss the following topics:
- Entrepreneurship education
- Module design
- Social entrepreneurship
- Lessons learned from earning a black belt in Taekwondo and coaching the art
- The privilege of education
During our conversation Eric recommended the book Blue Ocean Strategy.
Wednesday Jan 11, 2017
Wednesday Jan 11, 2017
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. Pip Bruce Ferguson. Pip works at the Teaching Enhancement Unit at Dublin City University. This part of our conversation covered the following topics:
- Changing the research culture of a higher education institution
- Action research
- The network of educational action research Ireland.
- What counts as research?
During our conversation Pip referred to the following websites:
Wednesday Jan 04, 2017
Wednesday Jan 04, 2017
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak with Dr. Pip Bruce Ferguson who works in Dublin City University's Teaching Enhancement Unit. In a wide-ranging discussion we cover the following topics:
- Why she found primary teaching difficult
- Self development through her career
- The influence of Paolo Freire on her thinking
- Applying Freire to education
- How she got involved in staff development at university level
- How the process of staff development works
- The flipped classroom
I'll bring you the second part of my interview with Pip on next week's programme.
Wednesday May 11, 2016
Wednesday May 11, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest is Professor Leigh Graves Wolf who is the assistant director of the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology at Michigan State University. She was in Ireland to deliver a keynote address at the 2016 annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) in February last.
Among the sites mentioned on the programme are make.msu.edu and edutech.msu.edu.
Wednesday Apr 20, 2016
Wednesday Apr 20, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this second part of my interview with Stanford University's Professor Emeritus, Lee Shulman, Professor Shulman reflects on the idea of pedagogical content knowledge which was an idea he introduced to the world of education in 1985. Our discussion took place 30 years later at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme Professor Lee Shulman discusses the topic of professional education with particular reference to teacher education and to signature pedagogies. He is professor emeritus at Stanford University Graduate School of Education.