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Prof Jannette Elwood

Professor of Education

BSc, MA, PhD

 

Room 71.02.002
69/71 University Street
School of Education
Queen's University Belfast

Tel:  +44(0)28 9097 5967  
Fax:  +44 (0)28 9097 5066
Email:  j.elwood@qub.ac.uk

 

Leadership Roles:

Director, Doctoral Research Centre

Member: Senior Management Board

Executive Editor: Assessment In Education: Principles Policy and Practice

 

Teaching:

Assessment  and Testing: Concepts and Issues (EdD)

Assessment Issues for Teaching and Learning in Classrooms (Masters)

PGCE Educational Studies Tutorials

Supervision: 8 Doctoral Students

 

Research/Scholarship Interests:

Examinations and assessment;  social consequences and impact of assessment
socio-cultural approaches to assessment  gender equality and assessment
children's rights and assessment; assessment and policy systems

 

Major Appointments:

Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford Centre for Educational Assessment

Expert Panel Member for Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Research Council of Norway
UTDANNING 2020 Education Research Programme

Chair of Research Committee and Council Trustee
Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA)

Vice President (2004 – 2006) Association of Educational Assessment-Europe

 

Selected Research Projects:

Investigation into the predictability of the Irish Leaving Certificate Examinations (2013) funded by State Examinations Commission, Ireland with Prof. Jo-Anne Bair & Dr Therese Hopfenbeck,  University of Oxford Centre for Educational Assessment and Dr Ayesha Ahmed, CamExam.

Centre Research Study: 14-19 Reforms: A study of the impact of the 14-19 Educational Reforms on Schools and Colleges in England (2009-2011) funded by Qualification and Curriculum Authority (QCA) England with Prof. Jo-Anne Baird (University of Oxford)

Teachers and standards-referenced assessment and reporting through moderation (2006 – 2009) funded by Australian Research Council with Prof Val Klenowski, Queensland University of Technology, Prof Claire Wyatt-Smith Griffith University Queensland, Australia Dr Anne Looney, National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, Dublin, Ireland.

 

Selected Publications:

Elwood J (2013) The role(s) of student voice in 14-19 education policy reform: reflections from students on what they are, and what they are not, consulted about, London Review of Education. 11(2). Pp. 97-111.

Elwood J and Baird, J (2013) Students: researching voice, aspirations and perspectives in the context of educational policy change in the 14–19 phase, London Review of Education, 11 (2), pp. 91-96 (Special Issue)

Elwood, J (2013) Educational assessment policy and practice – a matter of ethics, Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 20(2), pp. 205-220

Duffy G and Elwood J (2013) The perspectives of ‘disengaged’ students in the 14-19 phase on motivations and barriers to learning within the contexts of institutions and classrooms London Review of Education. 11(2).

Kernaghan D and Elwood J (2013) All the (cyber) world’s a stage: Framing cyberbullying as a performance, Cyberpsychology, 7:1, Article 5, doi: 10.5817/CP2013-1-5 http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/index.php

Elwood J (2012) Qualifications, examinations and assessment: perspectives and views of students in the 14-19 phase on policy and practice, Cambridge Journal of Education, 42: 4, 497-512.

Elwood J (2010), Impact of Assessment on Learner Groups (Boys/Girls), in Penelope Peterson, Eva Baker, Barry McGaw, (Editors), International Encyclopedia of Education, volume 3, Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 486-491

Elwood J (2010) Exploring girls' relationship to and with achievement: linking assessment, learning, mind and gender, in Jackson, C, Paechter C, and Renold E (2010) (Editors) Girls and education 3-16: continuing concerns, new agendas, London: Open University Press, pp. 38-49

Elwood J and Lundy L (2010) Revisioning assessment through a children's rights approach: implications for policy, process and practice', Research Papers in Education, 25: 3, 335 — 353

Elwood J (2008) Gender Issues in Testing and Assessment, in Murphy P and Hall K (2008) (Eds) Learning and Practice: Agency and Identities, London: SAGE/Open University, pp. 87-101.

Elwood, J (2006) Formative Assessment: possibilities, boundaries and limitations, Assessment in Education, 13(2), pp. 215-232.

Elwood J (2006) Gender Issues in Testing and Assessment, in Skelton C, Francis, B and Smulyan L (2006) (Eds) Handbook of Gender and Education, London: Sage, pp. 262-278.

Elwood J (2005) Gender and Achievement: what have exams got to do with it?, Oxford Review of Education, 31(3) pp. 373-393.

Elwood, J and Klenowski V (2002) Creating communities of shared practice: assessment use in learning and teaching, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 27(3), 243-256.

Elwood J and Murphy P (2002) Tests, Tiers and Achievement: Gender and Performance at 16 and 14 in England, European Journal of Education, 37(4), 395-416.

Elwood, J (2001) Examination techniques: issues of validity and effects on performance, in Scott, D (ed.) Curriculum and Assessment, Westport, CA: Ablex Publishers, pp 84.103.

Elwood J (1999a) Issues in performance assessment: the contribution of teacher-assessed coursework to differential performance in examinations in the UK, Educational Research and Evaluation, 5(4), pp. 321-344.

Elwood, J (1999b) Gender, achievement and the ‘Gold Standard’: differential performance in the GCE A level examination, The Curriculum Journal, 10(2), pp. 189 – 208.

Epstein, D, Elwood, J, Hey, V and Maw, J (1998) (eds) Failing Boys? Issues in Gender and Achievement, Buckingham: Open University Press.

Murphy, P and Elwood, J (1998) Gendered learning inside and outside school: influences on achievement in Epstein, D, Elwood, J, Hey, V and Maw, J (1998) (eds) Failing Boys? Issues in Gender and Achievement, Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 162 – 181.

Murphy P and Elwood J (1998) Gendered experiences, choices and achievement – exploring the links, The International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2(2), pp. 95 – 118.

Elwood J (1995) Undermining gender stereotypes: examination and coursework performance in the UK at 16, Assessment in Education, 2(3), pp. 283-303.

Stobart G, Elwood, J and Quinlan, M (1992) Gender bias in examinations: how equal are the opportunities?, in British Educational Research Journal, 18(3), pp. 261-276.