Michael O’leary
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3737635 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael O’leary |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | O’leary |
| FIRMA | O’LEARY M |
| AFILIACIONES | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6771-904X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Back to the future? Reflections from 25 years of empirical research on Leaving Certificate assessment in Ireland
Post-primary students in Ireland are awarded the Leaving Certificate after passing the required assessments that occur in the final year of senior-cycle education. While planned changes have introduced incremental adjustments as to how assessment in this state-certified qualification is undertaken, recent unplanned events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated discussions on future assessment reforms. As we arrive at the centenary of the …
Teachers’ experiences of using Minecraft Education in primary school
Minecraft Education is a popular digital game-based learning platform designed for use in educational settings. This study explores teachers’ experiences of using Minecraft Education as an educational tool to foster the development of key competencies and skills in students. Semi-structured interviews with Irish primary school teachers (N = 11) were conducted during a national project-based initiative involving Minecraft Education in primary scho…
High Achievement in Mathematics and Science among Students in Ireland
National policy initiatives in Ireland, such as Project Maths and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Policy Statement have sought to increase the engagement and performance of students in mathematics and science. The current study investigated the performance of students in Ireland in these areas and in reading in international large-scale assessments (Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA], Tren…
Why multimedia might matter
The use of animations and images in technology‐based assessments (TBAs) represents a significant change in assessment design. To ensure that appropriate inferences can be drawn from assessments that use multimedia stimuli, their impact on test‐taker performance and behaviour must be investigated. To achieve this, an experiment was conducted with 251 Irish post‐primary students using an animated and text‐image version of the same TBA of scientific…
A validity perspective on interviews as a selection mechanism for entry to initial teacher education programmes
Across the world, teacher quality has come to be recognised as one of the most important variables affecting student outcomes; consequently, the regulation of entry into the profession is the subject of iterative review. The traditional ‘one-off’ interview, involving an interviewee and two or more interviewers, is a common, but not unproblematic, selection mechanism in the field. In particular, the modest positive correlation between performance …
Primary School Students’ Experiences using Minecraft Education during a National Project-Based Initiative
Minecraft Education is a digital game-based learning platform that is thought to support the development of twenty-first century competencies and skills. The purpose of this study is to explore primary students’ experiences of using Minecraft Education during an innovative national project-based initiative. The initiative had two phases: 1) educational episodes for teachers and students on how to use the platform and 2) a national competition tha…
Towards a Framework to Support the Implementation of Digital Formative Assessment in Higher Education
This paper proposes a framework to support the use of digital formative assessment in higher education. The framework is informed by key principles and approaches underpinning effective formative assessment and, more specifically, by approaches to formative assessment that leverage the functionalities of technology. The overall aim is to provide a structured conceptualisation of digital formative assessment that supports the planning of lectures …
‘Time to figure out what to do’
In line with the widespread proliferation of digital technology in everyday life, many countries are now beginning to use computer-based exams (CBEs) in their post-primary education systems. To ensure that these CBEs are delivered in a manner that preserves their fairness, validity, utility and credibility, several factors pertaining to their design and development will need to be considered. This research study investigated the extent to which t…
High stakes assessment policy implementation in the time of Covid-19
This paper provides a perspective on the manner in which Irish post-primary \nteachers interpreted and implemented a set of guidelines created by the \nDepartment of Education and Skills (DES) in Ireland when faced with the \ncancellation of the traditional high stakes Leaving Certificate (LC) examination \ndue to COVID-19. Subject teachers were asked to engage with a system of \ncalculated grades whereby they would estimate a percentage mark and…
Artificial intelligence in educational assessment
Artificial Intelligence is at the heart of modern society with computers now capable of making process decisions in many spheres of human activity. In education, there has been intensive growth in systems that make formal and informal learning an anytime, anywhere activity for billions of people through online open educational resources and massive online open courses. Moreover, new developments in Artificial Intelligence‐related educational asse…
Seeing the Landscape
The Dampier Archipelago (Murujuga) is on Australia’s National Heritage List because of its significant rock art and numerous stone structures. When people first started living in this arid landscape of the north-west coast, 50,000 years ago, the shoreline was 160 kilometres further north-and west. The Archipelago was created around 7,000 years ago, with sea-level rise following the termination of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Photogrammetry and…
Paul T.W. Baxter
This article revisits the work of the late anthropologist, Paul T.W. Baxter, re-reading his photographs and writing on pastoralism in northern Kenya through the prism of contemporary interest in anthropology in the ‘other-than-human’. It contextualises Baxter’s work within a wider school of anthropology of pastoralism, and his photography within wider photographic practice in anthropology and in the region of Kenya where he worked in the 1950s. W…
What makes teachers tick? Sustaining events in new teachers’ lives
To investigate what keeps teachers motivated on a day‐to‐day basis, we traced the importance of routinely encountered affective episodes . Significant research on emotions already highlights the relative importance of positive versus negative episodes, the importance of perceived origins of events and the need to differentiate between the frequency and affective intensity of episodes. Survey reports from 749 recently qualified primary teachers in…
Health Competence As Predictor of Access to Care Among Latinos in Baltimore
The Effects of Age‐based and Grade‐based Sampling on the Relative Standing of Countries in International Comparative Studies of Student Achievement
The investigation reported in this article was prompted by discrepancies between the published outcomes from two international tests of science achievement: the Second International Assessment of Educational Progress (IAEP2) administered in 1991 and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) administered in 1995. One finding was that while average science achievement for Irish 13 year‐olds was reported to be at the low end of t…
Scoring Omitted and Not-Reached Items
Missing data occur for a variety of reasons. Particularly problematic are those items anindividual skipped or could not reach in time. This article focuses on the practical effectsof using different statistical treatments with omitted and not-reached items in an itemresponse theory application. The particular strategy that is selected for scoring suchitems has a considerable impact on the interpretation of results. This impact is evident foreithe…
Population, economy and domestic groups - the Kitui case
Opening ParagraphMajor factors which influence the pace of change in rural districts of Kenya relate to the nature of the local environment and traditional economy, population density and the degree of integration with the national economy and polity. In general change takes place more rapidly in the better watered high potential areas than in the semi-arid or arid areas. Kitui is a district in the semi-arid zone of the Eastern Province, Kenya. T…
Drinking-Related Locus of Control as a Predictor of Attrition in an Alcoholism Treatment Program
Orientation control is a personality construct referring to an individual's beliefs about the locus of control over his life events. The social learning model of behavior implies that people differ with respect to this orientation. The Drinking-related Internal Locus of Control Scale is viewed as a measure of specific expectancies dealing with a variety of drinking behaviors. The present study examined the relationship between alcoholic patients'…
Responses to Drought in Kitui District, Kenya
The growth and decline of household herds in eastern Kitui, Kenya
Changes in Drinking-Related Locus of Control as a Function of Length of Alcoholism Treatment
Locus of control is viewed as a measure of the degree of responsibility an individual perceives himself to have over meaningful life events. The drinking-related Internal-External locus of control scale represents the translation of generalized expectancies for locus of control into a measure of specific expectancies dealing with a variety of drinking behaviors. The present study examined scores on the drinking scale cross-sectionally for a speci…
Self-Concept
The present study examined the self-concepts of 101 hospitalized alcoholics, 20 hospitalized non-alcoholics, and 20 controls using the Clinical and Research Form of the Tennessee Self-concept Scale. A moderate treatment effect on self-concept was found for the hospitalized alcoholics. Subscale scores were not related to treatment completion. Examination of the self-concept of hospitalized and normal controls suggested that the former group has a …
Psychopathology and Defensive Style of Alcoholics as a Function of Congruence-Incongruence between Psychological Differentiation and Locus of Control
Witkin's psychological differentiation construct and Rotter's locus of control construct were studied independently and in interaction to assess their ability to predict psychopathology and defensive style in a sample of 160 adult, male alcoholics. As predicted, locus of control was significantly correlated with both psychopathology and defensive style and field articulation was significantly correlated with defensive style. However, the congruen…
Relationship between Generalized Expectancies for Control and Experienced Control among Alcoholics
The Locus of Control and Experienced Control scales were administered to 89 male alcoholics. Both correlational and difference data suggested an inverse relationship between alcoholics' perceived locus of control and the magnitude of control experienced in social situations. Alcoholics with an internal locus of control experienced a significantly greater magnitude of control over both interpersonal and intrapersonal sources of pressure or stress …
Individual differences in aggressive responses to attack
Aggression as a function of the intensity and pattern of attack
Responses to Drought in Kitui District, Kenya
What makes teachers tick? Sustaining events in new teachers’ lives
To investigate what keeps teachers motivated on a day‐to‐day basis, we traced the importance of routinely encountered affective episodes . Significant research on emotions already highlights the relative importance of positive versus negative episodes, the importance of perceived origins of events and the need to differentiate between the frequency and affective intensity of episodes. Survey reports from 749 recently qualified primary teachers in…
Seeing the Landscape
The Dampier Archipelago (Murujuga) is on Australia’s National Heritage List because of its significant rock art and numerous stone structures. When people first started living in this arid landscape of the north-west coast, 50,000 years ago, the shoreline was 160 kilometres further north-and west. The Archipelago was created around 7,000 years ago, with sea-level rise following the termination of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Photogrammetry and…
Pop Music in an English Secondary School System
Population, economy and domestic groups - the Kitui case
Opening ParagraphMajor factors which influence the pace of change in rural districts of Kenya relate to the nature of the local environment and traditional economy, population density and the degree of integration with the national economy and polity. In general change takes place more rapidly in the better watered high potential areas than in the semi-arid or arid areas. Kitui is a district in the semi-arid zone of the Eastern Province, Kenya. T…
Individual differences in aggressive responses to attack
The growth and decline of household herds in eastern Kitui, Kenya
Pop Music in an English Secondary School System
Aggression as a function of the intensity and pattern of attack
Relationship between Generalized Expectancies for Control and Experienced Control among Alcoholics
The Locus of Control and Experienced Control scales were administered to 89 male alcoholics. Both correlational and difference data suggested an inverse relationship between alcoholics' perceived locus of control and the magnitude of control experienced in social situations. Alcoholics with an internal locus of control experienced a significantly greater magnitude of control over both interpersonal and intrapersonal sources of pressure or stress …
Individual differences in aggressive responses to attack
Psychopathology and Defensive Style of Alcoholics as a Function of Congruence-Incongruence between Psychological Differentiation and Locus of Control
Witkin's psychological differentiation construct and Rotter's locus of control construct were studied independently and in interaction to assess their ability to predict psychopathology and defensive style in a sample of 160 adult, male alcoholics. As predicted, locus of control was significantly correlated with both psychopathology and defensive style and field articulation was significantly correlated with defensive style. However, the congruen…
Self-Concept
The present study examined the self-concepts of 101 hospitalized alcoholics, 20 hospitalized non-alcoholics, and 20 controls using the Clinical and Research Form of the Tennessee Self-concept Scale. A moderate treatment effect on self-concept was found for the hospitalized alcoholics. Subscale scores were not related to treatment completion. Examination of the self-concept of hospitalized and normal controls suggested that the former group has a …
Changes in Drinking-Related Locus of Control as a Function of Length of Alcoholism Treatment
Locus of control is viewed as a measure of the degree of responsibility an individual perceives himself to have over meaningful life events. The drinking-related Internal-External locus of control scale represents the translation of generalized expectancies for locus of control into a measure of specific expectancies dealing with a variety of drinking behaviors. The present study examined scores on the drinking scale cross-sectionally for a speci…
Drinking-Related Locus of Control as a Predictor of Attrition in an Alcoholism Treatment Program
Orientation control is a personality construct referring to an individual's beliefs about the locus of control over his life events. The social learning model of behavior implies that people differ with respect to this orientation. The Drinking-related Internal Locus of Control Scale is viewed as a measure of specific expectancies dealing with a variety of drinking behaviors. The present study examined the relationship between alcoholic patients'…
Responses to Drought in Kitui District, Kenya
The growth and decline of household herds in eastern Kitui, Kenya
Population, economy and domestic groups - the Kitui case
Opening ParagraphMajor factors which influence the pace of change in rural districts of Kenya relate to the nature of the local environment and traditional economy, population density and the degree of integration with the national economy and polity. In general change takes place more rapidly in the better watered high potential areas than in the semi-arid or arid areas. Kitui is a district in the semi-arid zone of the Eastern Province, Kenya. T…
Scoring Omitted and Not-Reached Items
Missing data occur for a variety of reasons. Particularly problematic are those items anindividual skipped or could not reach in time. This article focuses on the practical effectsof using different statistical treatments with omitted and not-reached items in an itemresponse theory application. The particular strategy that is selected for scoring suchitems has a considerable impact on the interpretation of results. This impact is evident foreithe…
The Effects of Age‐based and Grade‐based Sampling on the Relative Standing of Countries in International Comparative Studies of Student Achievement
The investigation reported in this article was prompted by discrepancies between the published outcomes from two international tests of science achievement: the Second International Assessment of Educational Progress (IAEP2) administered in 1991 and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) administered in 1995. One finding was that while average science achievement for Irish 13 year‐olds was reported to be at the low end of t…
Health Competence As Predictor of Access to Care Among Latinos in Baltimore
What makes teachers tick? Sustaining events in new teachers’ lives
To investigate what keeps teachers motivated on a day‐to‐day basis, we traced the importance of routinely encountered affective episodes . Significant research on emotions already highlights the relative importance of positive versus negative episodes, the importance of perceived origins of events and the need to differentiate between the frequency and affective intensity of episodes. Survey reports from 749 recently qualified primary teachers in…
Paul T.W. Baxter
This article revisits the work of the late anthropologist, Paul T.W. Baxter, re-reading his photographs and writing on pastoralism in northern Kenya through the prism of contemporary interest in anthropology in the ‘other-than-human’. It contextualises Baxter’s work within a wider school of anthropology of pastoralism, and his photography within wider photographic practice in anthropology and in the region of Kenya where he worked in the 1950s. W…
Seeing the Landscape
The Dampier Archipelago (Murujuga) is on Australia’s National Heritage List because of its significant rock art and numerous stone structures. When people first started living in this arid landscape of the north-west coast, 50,000 years ago, the shoreline was 160 kilometres further north-and west. The Archipelago was created around 7,000 years ago, with sea-level rise following the termination of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Photogrammetry and…
High stakes assessment policy implementation in the time of Covid-19
This paper provides a perspective on the manner in which Irish post-primary \nteachers interpreted and implemented a set of guidelines created by the \nDepartment of Education and Skills (DES) in Ireland when faced with the \ncancellation of the traditional high stakes Leaving Certificate (LC) examination \ndue to COVID-19. Subject teachers were asked to engage with a system of \ncalculated grades whereby they would estimate a percentage mark and…
Artificial intelligence in educational assessment
Artificial Intelligence is at the heart of modern society with computers now capable of making process decisions in many spheres of human activity. In education, there has been intensive growth in systems that make formal and informal learning an anytime, anywhere activity for billions of people through online open educational resources and massive online open courses. Moreover, new developments in Artificial Intelligence‐related educational asse…
Towards a Framework to Support the Implementation of Digital Formative Assessment in Higher Education
This paper proposes a framework to support the use of digital formative assessment in higher education. The framework is informed by key principles and approaches underpinning effective formative assessment and, more specifically, by approaches to formative assessment that leverage the functionalities of technology. The overall aim is to provide a structured conceptualisation of digital formative assessment that supports the planning of lectures …
‘Time to figure out what to do’
In line with the widespread proliferation of digital technology in everyday life, many countries are now beginning to use computer-based exams (CBEs) in their post-primary education systems. To ensure that these CBEs are delivered in a manner that preserves their fairness, validity, utility and credibility, several factors pertaining to their design and development will need to be considered. This research study investigated the extent to which t…
A validity perspective on interviews as a selection mechanism for entry to initial teacher education programmes
Across the world, teacher quality has come to be recognised as one of the most important variables affecting student outcomes; consequently, the regulation of entry into the profession is the subject of iterative review. The traditional ‘one-off’ interview, involving an interviewee and two or more interviewers, is a common, but not unproblematic, selection mechanism in the field. In particular, the modest positive correlation between performance …
Primary School Students’ Experiences using Minecraft Education during a National Project-Based Initiative
Minecraft Education is a digital game-based learning platform that is thought to support the development of twenty-first century competencies and skills. The purpose of this study is to explore primary students’ experiences of using Minecraft Education during an innovative national project-based initiative. The initiative had two phases: 1) educational episodes for teachers and students on how to use the platform and 2) a national competition tha…
Teachers’ experiences of using Minecraft Education in primary school
Minecraft Education is a popular digital game-based learning platform designed for use in educational settings. This study explores teachers’ experiences of using Minecraft Education as an educational tool to foster the development of key competencies and skills in students. Semi-structured interviews with Irish primary school teachers (N = 11) were conducted during a national project-based initiative involving Minecraft Education in primary scho…
High Achievement in Mathematics and Science among Students in Ireland
National policy initiatives in Ireland, such as Project Maths and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Policy Statement have sought to increase the engagement and performance of students in mathematics and science. The current study investigated the performance of students in Ireland in these areas and in reading in international large-scale assessments (Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA], Tren…
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