Publications by Roland John Tormey

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What training should engineering students receive to enable them to contribute to reducing bias, discrimination and the persistent lack of diversity in engineering? Collaboration is central to professional engineering work and, consequently, teamwork and g ...

There is today a broad consensus that emotions influence all forms of teaching and learning, and scholarship on Emotions in Engineering Education (EEE) is an emerging and rapidly growing field. However, this nascent research is currently very dispersed and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Engineering accreditation bodies express a strong consensus that in addition to technical and scientific skills, engineering education also needs to promote the development of professional skills. In general, team-based projects are considered to be valuab ...

The use of digital tools has drastically increased in engineering education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These tools generate important ethical issues, in particular in terms of privacy and fairness. However, very few teacher training programmes ...

Writing a handbook implies describing the fundamental information needed by those teaching or researching in a field. This is a challenging task when the field is still maturing. This handbook grew from the idea that we could ‘collaboratively write’ engine ...

Although there is evidence that teacher emotional intelligence is important for pupil adjustment and learning and for teachers in managing the emotional demands of their work, little is known about the levels of emotional skill of teachers and beginning te ...

Ethical decision making by professionals is an important element in working towards a sustainable future. This chapter explores the different learning goals which apply to professional ethics education, highlighting a historical shift from a focus on purel ...

Although it is frequently claimed that learning analytics can improve self-evaluation and self-regulated learning by students, most learning analytics tools appear to have been developed as a response to existing data rather than with a clear pedagogical m ...

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 ...

Team projects are an integral part of the student learning experience. However, emotions can significantly affect student performance during team projects. Students use different emotion regulation strategies, such as surface-acting (emotive dissonance) an ...

Much recent sociological work on education makes reference to gender, sexual, ethnic, local and political ‘project’ identities, yet there remains a need to bring the nation, and the state, back in; to also question the way in which ‘national’ identities ar ...

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 ...

This book provides evidence-informed and practical advice on how to design, teach, and facilitate hands-on, experiential learning in practical higher education settings. With rich case studies and carefully considered analysis tasks, all underpinned by res ...

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 ...

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Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams

Emotions in Engineering Education: Preliminary Results from a Scoping Review

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

Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities

Which professional skills do students learn in engineering team-based projects?

A Canvas for the Ethical Design of Learning Experiences with Digital Tools

Mapping engineering ethics education

How emotionally intelligent are pre-service teachers?

Fostering 21st Century Skills through Interdisciplinary Learning Experiences

Teaching ethical decision making to students as 21st-century professionals

Designing for impact: a conceptual framework for learning analytics as self-assessment tools

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

Emotional labor experienced in team-projects: A comparison of engineering and hospitality students

The construction of national identity through primary school history: the Irish case

Sleepers’ lag - study on motion and attention

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

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

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

Facilitating Experiential Learning in Higher Education Teaching and Supervising in Labs, Fieldwork, Studios, and Projects

The Impact of Gender on Engineering Students' Group Work Experiences