Search results for author:"Lucy Thomas"
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Web Projects for Life Science Students
Michael Hollingsworth; Michael Mahon; Lucy Thomas
Bioscience Education Vol. 4 (November 2004)
Eleven years experience with the running of web-based projects for final year undergraduate students of the Faculty of Life Sciences at Manchester University, along with an example of one project, is described. Application of the scientific method...
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Educational Programming Intervention on Children's Mathematics Skills, Spatial Awareness and Working Memory
David Messer; Lucy Thomas; Andrew Holliman; Natalia Kucirkova
Education and Information Technologies Vol. 23, No. 6 (2018) pp. 2879–2888
This investigation concerns two questions: (i) is simple educational programming with children, compared to working on mathematical tasks, more effective in increasing scores in mathematical abilities, spatial awareness and working memory? (ii) is...
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Co-Curate: Working with Schools and Communities to Add Value to Open Collections
Simon Cotterill; Martyn Hudson; Katherine Lloyd; James Outterside; John Peterson; John Coburn; Ulrike Thomas; Lucy Tiplady; Phil Robinson; Phil Heslop
Journal of Interactive Media in Education Vol. 2016, No. 1 (2016)
Co-Curate North East is a cross-disciplinary initiative involving Newcastle University and partner organisations, working with schools and community groups in the North East of England. Co-curation builds on the concept of the "ecomuseum"...
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Development of a Scoring Algorithm To Replace Expert Rating for Scoring a Complex Performance-Based Assessment
Brian E. Clauser; Linette P. Ross; Stephen G. Clyman; Kathie M. Rose; Melissa J. Margolis; Ronald J. Nungester; Thomas E. Piemme; Lucy Chang; Gigi El-Bayoumi; Gary L. Malakoff; Pierre S. Pincetl
Applied Measurement in Education Vol. 10, No. 4 (1997) pp. 345–58
Describes an automated scoring algorithm for a computer-based simulation examination of physicians' patient-management skills. Results with 280 medical students show that scores produced using this algorithm are highly correlated to actual clinician ...