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Digital badges for initial technology teacher education: a method for grading explicit soft skills.
(Irish Learning Technology Association, 2015-05)
Soft skills encompass personality traits, social graces, communication, language, personal habits,
friendliness, and optimism that characterise one's relationships with other people. Soft skills
complement hard skills, ...
Technology mediated assessment of dynamic spatial ability.
(University of Limerick, 2016-09)
The role of spatial ability in STEM educational performance has been
substantially illustrated since the inception of this research agenda. However,
studies which have identified this relationship typically do so using ...
Spatial working memory in mental rotations: a case for exploring neural efficiency and cognitive strategies.
(ASEE, 2018)
Spatial ability, particularly the cognitive capacity for mental rotations, is a critical component of human cognition. Proficiency with mental rotation tasks is linked with education performance in various science, technology, ...
Adaptive comparative judgement: a mechanism to enrich and enhance assessment practices to support teaching and learning.
(2017)
One of the most fundamental and challenging aspects of pedagogical practices is assessment
of student learning. Assessment mechanisms are adopted in response to a variety of agendas,
such as providing a summative ‘grade’ ...
Operationalising pedagogical content knowledge research in technology education: considerations for methodological approaches to exploring enacted practice.
(BERA, 2019-08)
Like many areas of curricula internationally, technology education has encountered difficulties in
achieving continuity between the rhetoric of prevailing policy and the reality of enacted practices. In
technology ...
PATT36 International Conference
(Technology Education Research Group/Athlone Institute of Technology, 2018)
The 2018 conference theme, ‘Research and Practice in Technology Education: Perspectives on Human
Capacity and Development’ continues to maintain our focus on practice and ultimately enhancing the
quality and experience ...
An exploratory analysis into the relationships between spatial factors, domain-free general capacities and general fluid intelligence.
(ASEE, 2017)
The inception of psychometric research concerning individual differences in cognition was grounded in explaining and enhancing performance in education (Spearman, 1904). This work established the construct of a single ...
A comparison of Swedish and Irish secondary students' conceptions of engineers and engineering using the draw-an-engineer test
(ASEE, 2019-06)
Women are significantly underrepresented in engineering and engineering related disciplines. One area where this is clearly illustrated is in the percentage of females enrolled in higher education engineering courses. The ...
The importance of supporting technological knowledge in post-primary education: a cohort study.
(Routledge, 2019)
ABSTRACT
Background: Substantial research highlights the differences between
scientific and technological knowledge. Considering that learning is
heavily focused on the acquisition of knowledge, it is important to
examine ...
Identifying, developing and grading 'soft skills' in higher education: a technological approach.
(HEIT, 2016-11)
Identifying, developing and grading soft skills, i.e., transversal cross-curricular competencies,
in higher education requires the recognition of key qualities, the capacity to discriminate
between these qualities and a ...