Peer choice - does reviewer self-selection work?
Journal Article
Hartley, J., Cowan, J., & Rushby, N. (2016)
Peer choice - does reviewer self-selection work?. Learned Publishing, 29(1), 27-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1010
The British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) uses a novel system for obtaining referees by e-mailing the abstracts of submissions to a panel of over 250 referees and a...
The learner’s role in assessing higher level abilities
Journal Article
Cowan, J., & Cherry, D. (2012)
The learner’s role in assessing higher level abilities. Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 6, 12-22
This paper responds to the vision of a new assessment culture, which will be a meaningful integration of teaching, learning and assessment. It reviews the advice in the litera...
Public feedback - but personal feedforward?
Journal Article
Cowan, J., & Chiu, Y. J. (2012)
Public feedback - but personal feedforward?. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 4,
Academic feedback is taken here as the reporting to student writers of the strengths and weaknesses of their submitted draft work, while academic feedforward refers to constru...
Helping Eastern students to master Western critical thinking
Journal Article
Chiu, Y. J., & Cowan, J. (2011)
Helping Eastern students to master Western critical thinking. Asia Pacific education review, 6, 103-111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-011-9189-2
It is possible that some of the problems that confront Eastern learners when they are asked to engage in critical thinking come from the misleading association of the title...
Choices of approaches in e-moderation: conclusions from a grounded theory study
Journal Article
Vlachopoulos, P., & Cowan, J. (2010)
Choices of approaches in e-moderation: conclusions from a grounded theory study. Active learning in higher education, 11, 213-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469787410379684
Much has been published in recent years about the desirable nature of facilitated interactions in on-line discussions with educational purposes. However little has been report...
Developing the ability for making evaluative judgements
Journal Article
Cowan, J. (2010)
Developing the ability for making evaluative judgements. Teaching in Higher Education, 15(3), 323-334. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562510903560036
It is suggested that a more specific emphasis should be placed in undergraduate education on the explicit development of the ability to make evaluative judgements. This higher...
Dealing with affective needs in e-learning: Contrasting two cases in two cultures.
Book Chapter
Chiu, Y. J., & Cowan, J. (2009)
Dealing with affective needs in e-learning: Contrasting two cases in two cultures. In B. Olaniran (Ed.), Cases on Successful E-Learning Practices in the Developed and Developing World: Methods for the Global Information Economy, 42-57. Hershey. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-942-7.ch004
This chapter presents and contrasts descriptions of two cases of online affective support provided to support students engaged in higher level learning tasks. The cases are se...
Breaking the Rules: writing reflectively for yourself.
Book
Cowan, J. (2008)
Breaking the Rules: writing reflectively for yourself. In N. L. Mertens (Ed.), Writing, Processes, Tools and Techniques, 109-113. Nova Science Publishers
The rules which epitomise good writing may on occasions be broken, deliberately and with what the writers judge to be good purpose. This can well occur when students or staff ...