Coventry University Coventry University Repository for the Virtual Environment (CURVE) Author name: iPED Research Network Title: Proceedings of the 5th International iPED Conference, iPED 2010 Original citation iPED Research Network (2010) Proceedings of the 5th International iPED Conference, iPED 2010 Edited by the iPED Research Network. 15-16 September 2010. Coventry: Coventry University. ISBN 978-1-84600-0362 Available in the CURVE Research Collection: September 2010 Copyright © and Moral Rights are retained by the author(s) and Coventry University (unless otherwise stated in the Proceedings). A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This item cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder(s). The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk iPED 2010 5th International Inquiring Pedagogies Conference Proceedings ‘Conceptualising Impact: Exploring the effectiveness of practice through pedagogic research’ Wednesday 15 - Thursday 16 September 2010 Coventry University, UK ISBN 978-1-84600-0362 iPED 2010 Conceptualising Impact: Exploring the effectiveness of practice through pedagogic research The conference archived website may be found at www.coventry.ac.uk/iped2010 iPED 2010: Conceptualising Impact: Page 1 of 143 iPED 2010: Conceptualising Impact: Page 2 of 143 Table of Contents Welcome ................................................................................................................................................. 7 iPED 2010 Peer Reviewer Panel ............................................................................................................ 9 Conference Theme Overview ............................................................................................................... 10 Conference Programme (subject to change) ........................................................................................ 11 Keynote Speakers ................................................................................................................................. 19 Dr Alis Oancea, University of Oxford ........................................................................ 21 Keynote: Education research and the RAE: findings from the review of the impacts of the RAE 2008 on education research ......................................................................................... 21 Workshop: The RAE, the REF, and the future of research assessment in the UK.................... 21 Professor Sir Robert Burgess, ................................................................................ 23 Vice-Chancellor, University of Leicester .................................................................... 23 Keynote: Exploring Assessment in Higher Education: from Policy to Practice ........................ 23 Extended Abstracts and Full Papers ..................................................................................................... 25 17 Lewis Elton; “They do the things they ought not to do and do not do the things they ought to do” .................................................................................................................... 27 22 Ewa Maciejewski, Learner-led, Industry-supported, Technology-enriched Learning ............. 28 23 Karen Gresty and Andrew Edwards-Jones; Making a Difference to Transition from Foundation Degrees into Final Year University Science Programmes ................................................ 30 25 Billy Brick; Beyond Penpalling: Web 2.0 language learning .......................................... 32 26 Tina Bass; Does Lave and Wenger’s Original Approach to Workplace Learning Still Have Currency Today? ............................................................................................... 34 28 Jackie Shanley and Jayne Dalley-Hewer; I’m Part of the Discussion Now: Students’ perspectives on the development of Master’s-level academic skills .................................................... 36 30 Geof Hill; Making Use of Pedagogic Models as Reflective Catalysts for Investigating Pedagogic Practice .......................................................................................................... 38 34 John Mair, Andrew Noakes and Andrée Woodcock; Two Cultures Two Countries... one learning object joins them ................................................................................................ 44 35 Val Cox; Do Students See the Advantages of Online Marking and Feedback? ................... 46 36 Charlotte Mbali; The Perils of Impact Studies for Computer-based Innovations: A case-study of supervising the M.Ed theses of two Engineering lecturers ............................................... 52 37 Lisa Payne; Computing Students: Identities, motivation and expectations ......................... 57 39 Laura Dison and Stella Granville; Using a Socio-cognitive Approach for Analysing the Development of Comparison Writing on an Academic Literacy Course ................................ 59 40 Stella Granville and Laura Dison; Initiates into the Academy: Preparing first year students for academic literacy at a South African university ............................................................ 61 42 Bernadette McCabe; Tablet PCs as a Catalyst to Pedagogical Innovation: A case study in microbiology ..................................................................................................... 63 43 Peter Aborisade; Voice to the Voiceless? Exploring African digital-immigrant students’ reactions to Moodle resources ........................................................................................... 65 iPED 2010: Conceptualising Impact: Page 3 of 143 46 Linda Schwartz-Trivett; Music Theory Pedagogy and the Critical Stance: Re-imagining purpose, content and method in the classroom by means of a critical pedagogy of inquiry .................... 67 50 Alias Masek and Sulaiman Yamin; The Effects of Problem Based Learning Instruction on Knowledge, Higher Order Thinking Skills, and Perception in a Technical Engineering Programme69 68 Nicole Steils; The Impact of Methodology: Approaching and involving university students as research participants ........................................................................................... 75 70 Marina Orsini-Jones, Mike Cribb, David Jones, Ross Graham, Rebecca Lund and Fiona Lee; Student-Driven and Threshold-Concept Informed Curricular Change .................................. 77 71 Jonathan Worley, Mary Eakin and Martine Martin; Evaluating the Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring in Writing: Quantitative and qualitative methods ........................................................... 84 72 Mark Oliver, Stephen Bate and Mark Childs; Evaluation of Audio Message Feedback to a Signal Processing Class ............................................................................................... 86 73 John Heyda; Imagining Another Chance for Reader-Response Theory ............................ 93 74 Alison James; Maps, Membership, Mazes: How recognizing and producing their own landscapes of practice helps students deepen their personal and professional development ...... 98 75 Karen Quinn; Embedding Employability in HE – Worlds Apart: Illuminative lessons in understanding stakeholder perspectives .................................................................. 100 76 Hyacinth Skervin; Dialogic Analysis of Narrative Results from a Gender Study: Lessons for transformative research ..................................................................................... 103 77 Kathy Courtney; Exploring the Idea of Interprofessional Teaching in HE ........................ 105 80 Juliana H.C Hsu and Ching-Yi Li; The Construction of an Affective Curriculum: Building a learning network on campus ................................................................................ 107 81 Matt Mawer; Reflections on Researching Virtual Worlds as an Educational Space ............ 109 82 Clair Looby; Back to Basics: Understanding workbased tutors’ pedagogical constructs ....... 111 83 Wendy Smeets and Rebecca Westrup, How to Measure the Impact of Writing Support? ..... 112 84 Anthony Kent and Greg Messiah; The Influence of the Physical Environment on Student Sense- making: A widening participation perspective ............................................................ 114 85 Muhammad Munir Kayani, Anisa Kayani and Saima Parveen; Effectiveness of a Pre-Service Professional Development Programme: An analysis .................................................... 116 88 Nigel Ecclesfield and Fred Garnett; The Open Context Model of Learning and the Craft of Teaching ....................................................................................................... 118 89 Gemma Tombs; Using Technology to Innovate Practice: The case of virtual worlds ........... 120 90 Ian Wilson and Steve Martin; Applying Lean in Education: Reducing assessment workload by rethinking curriculum design ................................................................................ 122 94 Biljana Stojakovic and Goran Malcic; A Multimedia-Based Interactive Table of English Verb Tenses: Initial results of its power as a teaching tool .................................................... 124 97 Katie Bryant-Moetele; Becoming a Researcher: Exploring the relationship between