The role of formative ‘low-stakes’ assessment in supporting non-traditional students’ retention and progression in higher education: student perspectives
Journal Article
Sambell, K., & Hubbard, A. (2004)
The role of formative ‘low-stakes’ assessment in supporting non-traditional students’ retention and progression in higher education: student perspectives. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 6(2), 25-36
There is little doubt that strategies to widen participation in UK higher education are having a significant impact on institutions, curricula and staff (Collins & Lim, 2002)....
Carnivalising the future: a new approach to theorising childhood and adulthood in science fiction for young readers
Journal Article
Sambell, K. (2004)
Carnivalising the future: a new approach to theorising childhood and adulthood in science fiction for young readers. Lion and the Unicorn, 28(2), 247-261
The comic narrative strategies that Reeve uses in Mortal Engines set it apart from the bulk of deeply serious, starkly pessimistic science fiction for young readers. Sambell i...
Perspectives on the Meanings of childhood in near-future fantasies produced for young people
Journal Article
Sambell, K. (2003)
Perspectives on the Meanings of childhood in near-future fantasies produced for young people. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 88(2), 33-44
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What do parents feel they need? Implications of parents' perspectives for the facilitation of parenting programmes
Journal Article
Miller, S., & Sambell, K. (2003)
What do parents feel they need? Implications of parents' perspectives for the facilitation of parenting programmes. Children & Society, 17(1), 32-44. https://doi.org/10.1002/chi.726
This paper is based upon in-depth interview studies with a range of parents and explores their beliefs, expectations and experiences of parenting support. Three dominant ways ...
Contemporary issues in childhood : approaches to teaching and learning
Book
Sambell, K. & Miller, S. (Eds.)
(2002). Contemporary issues in childhood : approaches to teaching and learning. ISBN 1904794009
Contemporary issues in childhood : approaches to teaching and learning takes a contemporary and in-depth look at the teaching of humanities where children and their world s ar...
Presenting the case for social change: the creative dilemma of dystopian writing for children
Book
Sambell, K. (2002)
Presenting the case for social change: the creative dilemma of dystopian writing for children. In Hintz, C. & Ostry, E. (Eds.). Utopian and dystopian fiction for children and youth, 163-178. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). ISBN 9780415940177, 9780415803649
No abstract available.
Debates in Skills development: world bank study on vocational skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa - a working group review.
Report
Caddell, M. & Holmes, K. P. (2002)
Debates in Skills development: world bank study on vocational skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa - a working group review. Edinburgh, Scotland: Working Group for International Cooperation in Skills Development
Assessment strategies to encourage partnership: students’ perspectives of the value of self and peer assessment in the development of written communication
Conference Proceeding
Johnson, R., & Sambell, K. (2000)
Assessment strategies to encourage partnership: students’ perspectives of the value of self and peer assessment in the development of written communication. In M. Graal, & R. Clark (Eds.), Writing development in higher education : partnerships across the curriculum :: proceedings of the 6th annual Writing Development in Higher Education Conference
No abstract available.
Towards a productive assessment practice : staff development guides
Book
Sambell, K., & The Assessment & the Expanded Text consortium, . (2000)
Towards a productive assessment practice : staff development guides. Northumbria University
No abstract available.
Learning from virtual experience: experiential learning mediated by information and communication technologies
Conference Proceeding
McDowell, L., Sambell, K. & Marples, G. (2000)
Learning from virtual experience: experiential learning mediated by information and communication technologies. In Rust, C. (Ed.). Improving student learning. Improving student learning strategically : proceedings of the 2000 8th international symposium /, 337-347. ISBN 1873576668, 9781873576663
No abstract available.