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The Impact of Gender on Engineering Students' Group Work Experiences

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Prisca Aeby, Mila Vukmirovic

Women remain significantly underrepresented in engineering education, a cultural milieu which is stereotypically seen as a masculine domain. Laboratory studies and some questionnaire-based studies suggest being numerically under- or overrepresented in stud ...

Tempus Publications2019

Impact of a learning analytics dashboard on the practice of students and teachers

Patrick Jermann, Francisco Pereira Correia Pinto, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

This paper reports results of the deployment of a learning analytics dashboard in the context of introductory Maths, Physics and Chemistry courses in the first year of the Engineering bachelor of a Swiss technical university. Informed by research on self r ...

2019

Developing teacher agency through dialogue

Roland John Tormey

Based on the experiences of a group of mainstream primary teachers of English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) learners in Ireland, a dialogic inquiry has the potential to influence perceptions regarding teacher agency. The participants examined their pract ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Short-term field study programmes for developing interdisciplinary skills in engineering education

Marc Laperrouza, Florence Graezer Bideau, Roland John Tormey, Eric Hoesli, Johanna Susette Gonçalves Martin

Short-term field study involves groups of students working in an off-campus (sometimes international) setting, and often involves working on realistic, open-ended problems, in interaction with a host community. Such learning experiences are intended to dev ...

2019

The Teaching Toolkit: design of a one-day pedagogical workshop for engineering graduate teaching assistants

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Through their role in labs, exercise/recitation sessions and tutorials, graduate or doctoral teaching assistants play a significant role in the education of engineering students. Yet doctoral assistants frequently get little pedagogical training, what trai ...

2019

Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education? Assessing pedagogical training as a step towards gender-inclusive curricula

Ingrid Le Duc, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Teaching advisors work to sensitize teachers to use inclusive teaching pedagogy because it facilitates learning to all students and makes teachers aware of how the gender composition of a class and its management can promote or hamper student learning and ...

European Society for Engineering Education2018

Fostering 21st Century Skills through Interdisciplinary Learning Experiences

Denis Gillet, Marc Laperrouza, Roland John Tormey, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

2018

Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education?

Ingrid Le Duc, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

2018

How do students perceive academic success in secondary schools and in higher education?

Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

2018

How do science and engineering students approach revisions? A self-regulated learning tool for supporting the transition from secondary to higher education

Roland John Tormey, Louis-Dominique Renaud, Cécile Hardebolle

2018

Creating a Smart Learning Space: Learning with and learning from student-generated data about learning

Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

2017

Curriculum co-design using participatory rapid prototyping tools

Roland John Tormey

Higher education is experienced by many academics as a highly individualized environment where they work in relative isolation and often do not see how their teaching fits together with other courses and into the wider curriculum. But, when the ultimate go ...

2017

Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program

Ambrogio Fasoli, Denis Gillet, Antonin Danalet, Ingrid Le Duc, Alexis Berne, Luca Bragazza, Delphine Preissmann, Samuel Bendahan, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Jérome Feige, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

To tackle the challenges of the 21st century, future scientists and engineers have to understand the interplay between societal challenges and technical solutions as early as possible in their education. They also have to develop the communication and the ...

Tempus Publications2016

The Formal and Hidden Curricula of Ethics in Engineering Education

Ingrid Le Duc, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Cécile Hardebolle

In recent years, a commitment to professional ethics and professional responsibility has been included among the learning outcomes required of engineering education programmes in many counties. So, how should engineering ethics be taught? There is evidence ...

2015

Conscientious Behaviour, Flexibility and Learning in Massive Open On-Line Courses

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey

Since 2011 the growth in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has been so enormous that, according to the Economist magazine, “the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations” (2013). One proposed benefit of MOOCs is that they allow consi ...

2015

Undergraduate group projects: Challenges and learning experiences

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey

Working in groups and managing projects are important professional skills for engineers, and there is a growing demand to teach and assess such skills. But what should be taught and when? Tuckman’s famous “stages of development of performing groups” provid ...

2015

Approaches to learning, metacognition and personality; an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis

Roland John Tormey

The “approaches to learning” framework is widely used in higher education. Unlike other learning styles models, a person’s approach to learning is seen as a function of the interaction between the learner, the discipline and the context (rather than as a f ...

2014

The centre cannot hold: untangling two different trajectories of the 'approaches to learning'framework

Roland John Tormey

The ‘deep/surface approach to learning’ framework is widely used in higher education. Its perceived strength is that it is regarded as having two functions: both being (1) a useful metaphor for development of teaching and learning in higher education and ( ...

2014

Sleepers’ lag - study on motion and attention

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mirko Raca, Roland John Tormey

Human body-language is one of the richest and most obscure sources of information in inter-personal communication which we aim to re-introduce into the classroom’s ecosystem. In this paper we present our observations of student-to-student influence and mea ...

ACM2014

Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities

Roland John Tormey

The changing ethnic make-up of Irish society has impacted upon schools. Existing, largely qualitative studies have highlighted mixed attitudes towards ethnic minorities. Literature has also focused on the role of the state in articulating a discourse that ...

2012

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