Ian Dennis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Dennis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Dennis |
| SIGNATURE | DENNIS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5296-6814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sophie, Greta, Cuiyuan, and Feminist Desire
Desire has a history and, for a literary criticism inflected by mimetic theory, novelistic prose fiction offers a privileged view of its unfolding. We study novelistic fiction, as opposed to various romance genres, to grasp that history, for what its authors have been able to see, understand, and dramatize—this is the procedural model, indeed the authority established by René Girard and that has largely governed such criticism thereafter.1 But of…
Charles Maturin
We will make the happy tremble’
Charles Robert Maturin’s The Milesian Chief (1812), long neglected, may now be ripe for closer attention, particularly for its evocation of the imagined power of suffering over audiences. Deploying a structure supplied by Sidney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl and Madame De Staël’s Corinne, the novel dramatizes the arrival of a cosmopolitan heroine in Ireland, her tortured romance with an Irish nobleman, and their ultimate destruction in a rebellio…
A Multiple-Indicator Multiple-Cause Model for Posttraumatic Stress Reactions
Objective: This study aimed to develop a multiple-indicator multiple-cause model (MIMIC) to describe the relationship among posttraumatic stress (PTSD) responses, general health problems, death anxiety, personality factors, and coping strategies among community residents exposed to the technological disasters of aircraft and train crashes. Materials and Methods: One hundred forty-eight community residents, after exposure to the aircraft or train …
Degree Performance as a Function of Age, Gender, Prior Qualifications and Discipline Studied
The computerised records of a large university were analysed in an attempt to determine which variables served as predictors of degree performance. Age was a powerful predictor: mature students gained better degrees on average than younger students; and mature students with non‐traditional qualifications obtained the best degrees of all. Gender, year of graduation, and type of qualification were weak predictors of performance, but degree classifi…
Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction
Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mime
The speed–error trade‐off problem in psychometric testing
The standard procedure for scoring speeded psychometric tests (guessing corrected number right in fixed time) produces scores which depend both on the speed and accuracy of candidates' responding. These in turn depend both on a candidate's ability to perform the task and the compromise between speed and accuracy which is adopted. This paper uses computer simulations based on McClelland's (1979) cascade model to investigate the extent to which the…
A new approach to exploring biases in educational assessment
This paper presents and illustrates an approach to the study of marking biases based on multi-sample confirmatory factor analysis. This is applied to the marks awarded by two independent markers to the final year dissertations of 197 female and 58 male psychology undergraduates. One of the two markers had supervised the work on which the dissertation was based on a one-to-one basis. The results suggest that about 30 per cent of the variance in th…
The Strange Case of the Disappearing Sex Bias
Bradley (1984) suggested that second markers of student projects, who have less expertise, exhibit a pattern of marking bias whereby female students are marked less extremely than males. Newstead & Dennis (1990) failed to reproduce the pattern of results which prompted this conclusion. Bradley (1993b) suggests that either (i) the second markers in Newstead and Dennis's study may have shown a one‐way bias where females are consistently marked down…
A Neolithic Downland Monument in its Environment
Excavations at the Easton Down long barrow were part of a wider programme of research into the Neolithic sequence and context of the Avebury area in north Wiltshire. The short barrow, on high chalk downland to the south-west of Avebury and the upper Kennet valley, and containing only a few inhumations according to Thurnam's 19th-century investigation, dates to the later 4th millennium BC. Test pits around the barrow produced very little struck fl…
Blind Marking and Sex Bias in Student Assessment
Three studies are reported which investigated the existence of sex bias in the marking of undergraduate degrees. Study 1 failed to find any evidence that females were marked less extremely than males by second markers, as has been found in previous research. Study 2 found that marker disagreements were not resolved upwards more frequently for male candidates, again contradicting the results of some previous research. Study 3 failed to find any of…
A Neolithic Downland Monument in its Environment
Excavations at the Easton Down long barrow were part of a wider programme of research into the Neolithic sequence and context of the Avebury area in north Wiltshire. The short barrow, on high chalk downland to the south-west of Avebury and the upper Kennet valley, and containing only a few inhumations according to Thurnam's 19th-century investigation, dates to the later 4th millennium BC. Test pits around the barrow produced very little struck fl…
Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction
Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mime
A new approach to exploring biases in educational assessment
This paper presents and illustrates an approach to the study of marking biases based on multi-sample confirmatory factor analysis. This is applied to the marks awarded by two independent markers to the final year dissertations of 197 female and 58 male psychology undergraduates. One of the two markers had supervised the work on which the dissertation was based on a one-to-one basis. The results suggest that about 30 per cent of the variance in th…
Blind Marking and Sex Bias in Student Assessment
Three studies are reported which investigated the existence of sex bias in the marking of undergraduate degrees. Study 1 failed to find any evidence that females were marked less extremely than males by second markers, as has been found in previous research. Study 2 found that marker disagreements were not resolved upwards more frequently for male candidates, again contradicting the results of some previous research. Study 3 failed to find any of…
A Neolithic Downland Monument in its Environment
Excavations at the Easton Down long barrow were part of a wider programme of research into the Neolithic sequence and context of the Avebury area in north Wiltshire. The short barrow, on high chalk downland to the south-west of Avebury and the upper Kennet valley, and containing only a few inhumations according to Thurnam's 19th-century investigation, dates to the later 4th millennium BC. Test pits around the barrow produced very little struck fl…
The Strange Case of the Disappearing Sex Bias
Bradley (1984) suggested that second markers of student projects, who have less expertise, exhibit a pattern of marking bias whereby female students are marked less extremely than males. Newstead & Dennis (1990) failed to reproduce the pattern of results which prompted this conclusion. Bradley (1993b) suggests that either (i) the second markers in Newstead and Dennis's study may have shown a one‐way bias where females are consistently marked down…
The speed–error trade‐off problem in psychometric testing
The standard procedure for scoring speeded psychometric tests (guessing corrected number right in fixed time) produces scores which depend both on the speed and accuracy of candidates' responding. These in turn depend both on a candidate's ability to perform the task and the compromise between speed and accuracy which is adopted. This paper uses computer simulations based on McClelland's (1979) cascade model to investigate the extent to which the…
A new approach to exploring biases in educational assessment
This paper presents and illustrates an approach to the study of marking biases based on multi-sample confirmatory factor analysis. This is applied to the marks awarded by two independent markers to the final year dissertations of 197 female and 58 male psychology undergraduates. One of the two markers had supervised the work on which the dissertation was based on a one-to-one basis. The results suggest that about 30 per cent of the variance in th…
Degree Performance as a Function of Age, Gender, Prior Qualifications and Discipline Studied
The computerised records of a large university were analysed in an attempt to determine which variables served as predictors of degree performance. Age was a powerful predictor: mature students gained better degrees on average than younger students; and mature students with non‐traditional qualifications obtained the best degrees of all. Gender, year of graduation, and type of qualification were weak predictors of performance, but degree classifi…
Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction
Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mime
A Multiple-Indicator Multiple-Cause Model for Posttraumatic Stress Reactions
Objective: This study aimed to develop a multiple-indicator multiple-cause model (MIMIC) to describe the relationship among posttraumatic stress (PTSD) responses, general health problems, death anxiety, personality factors, and coping strategies among community residents exposed to the technological disasters of aircraft and train crashes. Materials and Methods: One hundred forty-eight community residents, after exposure to the aircraft or train …
We will make the happy tremble’
Charles Robert Maturin’s The Milesian Chief (1812), long neglected, may now be ripe for closer attention, particularly for its evocation of the imagined power of suffering over audiences. Deploying a structure supplied by Sidney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl and Madame De Staël’s Corinne, the novel dramatizes the arrival of a cosmopolitan heroine in Ireland, her tortured romance with an Irish nobleman, and their ultimate destruction in a rebellio…
Charles Maturin
Sophie, Greta, Cuiyuan, and Feminist Desire
Desire has a history and, for a literary criticism inflected by mimetic theory, novelistic prose fiction offers a privileged view of its unfolding. We study novelistic fiction, as opposed to various romance genres, to grasp that history, for what its authors have been able to see, understand, and dramatize—this is the procedural model, indeed the authority established by René Girard and that has largely governed such criticism thereafter.1 But of…
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