Matthew Courtney
Biographic Data
| ID | 5435856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Courtney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Courtney |
| SIGNATURE | COURTNEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nazarbayev University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3253-8353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Curriculum in Professional Practice
Curriculum in Professional Practice
Development, adaptation, and validation of a career interest assessment for secondary school students in Kazakhstan
Introduction This study aimed to develop and validate a career interest assessment for secondary school students in Kazakhstan. The instrument was adapted from the 48-item Agile Work Profiler (AWP) through pilot testing and consultation with career guidance specialists, resulting in a refined 22-item measure focused specifically on career interests. Methods Exploratory factor analysis was conducted with students aged 11–17 ( N = 4,634), followed …
Beyond Immobility
This study examines the interplay between reintegration and mobility aspirations among recent Afghan returnees in early 2024, challenging the assumption that successful reintegration equates to immobility. Based on survey data from 416 returnees from Iran ( n = 208), Pakistan ( n = 98), Türkiye ( n = 69), and Europe and employing structural equation modelling (SEM), it explores how initial migration aspirations, psychological well‐being, and soci…
The role of student–teacher college practicum experience on teaching self-efficacy, belief in the profession, and intention to teach in Kazakhstan
Covid-19-related learning loss
Piaac Survey of Adult Skills
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has transformed international research and policy debates on the assessment of adult skills. Although research using PIAAC data is accumulating, little is known about how these data are used and what they contribute to developing the various disciplines interested in adult skills. In this study, a data-…
Stratified support
We examine how shadow education is associated with educational inequality and mathematics achievement in six top-performing East Asian jurisdictions: Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Japan, Macao, Singapore, and South Korea. Using multilevel logistic and linear modelling on 2022 PISA data, we analyse the prevalence, socioeconomic stratification, and differential effects of five tutoring modes: one-to-one, internet/computer-based, asynchronous video ins…
Ethical human participant research in Central Asia
Central Asian researchers are underrepresented in the global research production in social sciences, resulting in a limited Central Asian perspective on many social issues. To stimulate the production of local knowledge, it is important to develop strong research cultures, including knowledge of ethical practices in research with human participants. There is currently scarce evidence about research ethics regulations used by social science resear…
Analyzing collaborative note-taking behaviors and their relationship with student learning through the collaborative encoding-storage paradigm
The present study (n = 357) investigates the effects of collaborative note-taking behaviors on learning performance and note quality. To conceptualize collaborative note-taking, the present study introduces the collaborative encoding-storage paradigm, where collaborative writing behaviors are viewed as types of collaborative encoding and the completeness or comprehensiveness of the notes is viewed as a measure of storage. The following collaborat…
The moderating effects of total comments on the relationship between comment implementation and online peer-supported writing performance
Prior research has suggested that participation in peer feedback activities, specifically the giving and receiving of comments, and the implementation of suggested ideas helps to improve writing quality. However, it is not always the case that received feedback is implemented. Currently, there is uncertainty regarding how the total number of comments received during a peer feedback activity interacts with the number of implemented comments and su…
Problem-solving support and instructional sequence
Examining Covid-19-induced learning loss
Do children speaking indigenous and regional languages benefit equally from updated curricula? A report on a longitudinal quasi-experimental pilot study in Central Asia
The role of identity and strategic narratives on public perceptions of China
Teaching poems by authors of colour at key stage 3
This paper draws on a survey conducted in 2020–21 in which 163 secondary English teachers in England named a total of 68 individual poems by poets of colour from the global majority which they taught in Key Stage 3 (students aged 11–14). Using the concepts of framing and mental schemas, we categorised these poems by considering which was the most likely frame or theme under which they would be taught. The largest category was Identity (15 poems),…
The interaction of collaboration, note-taking completeness, and performance over 10 weeks of an online course
Individual versus collaborative note-taking
There is research showing benefits to both collaboration and note-taking, but a lack of research into how they may both work together in an online context. More specifically, there is a gap in the research looking at how collaborative note-taking and individual note-taking can be compared when considering the quality of the notes taken, and how note-quality can impact student performance. The present study looks at the online note-taking behavior…
Kazakh, Russian, and Uyghur child language literacy
Mapping education research in post-Soviet countries
Culture and vision in virtual reality narratives
Hansen states that “FL studies must learn to conceive of culture as an open, multi‐voiced and dialogical interaction full of contradictions.” One advocated approach to teach transcultural understanding is through the analysis of cultural narratives. Kearney defines cultural narratives as “the multiple (sometimes competing), conventional storylines that cultural groups produce and use to make sense of and attribute meaning to their shared experien…
Teacher Engagement With Academic Reading in a Post-Service Tesol Course
Engaging school teachers with academic reading is challenging for all teacher trainers, yet if teachers’ knowledge base is to be up-to-date the input of new research information is essential. Within the field of teacher professional development, few research studies focus primarily on teacher academic reading. On the Auckland New Zealand TESOL diploma course reported on here, academic readings are key. They theorise the weekly lecture topics and …
The Impact of the Project K Youth Development Program on Self-Efficacy
Engagement and Mentor Support as Drivers of Social Development in the Project K Youth Development Program
Induction and mentoring in early childhood educational organizations
Culture and vision in virtual reality narratives
Hansen states that “FL studies must learn to conceive of culture as an open, multi‐voiced and dialogical interaction full of contradictions.” One advocated approach to teach transcultural understanding is through the analysis of cultural narratives. Kearney defines cultural narratives as “the multiple (sometimes competing), conventional storylines that cultural groups produce and use to make sense of and attribute meaning to their shared experien…
Mapping education research in post-Soviet countries
The role of identity and strategic narratives on public perceptions of China
The Impact of the Project K Youth Development Program on Self-Efficacy
Engagement and Mentor Support as Drivers of Social Development in the Project K Youth Development Program
Induction and mentoring in early childhood educational organizations
Induction and mentoring in early childhood educational organizations
Teacher Engagement With Academic Reading in a Post-Service Tesol Course
Engaging school teachers with academic reading is challenging for all teacher trainers, yet if teachers’ knowledge base is to be up-to-date the input of new research information is essential. Within the field of teacher professional development, few research studies focus primarily on teacher academic reading. On the Auckland New Zealand TESOL diploma course reported on here, academic readings are key. They theorise the weekly lecture topics and …
The Impact of the Project K Youth Development Program on Self-Efficacy
Engagement and Mentor Support as Drivers of Social Development in the Project K Youth Development Program
Culture and vision in virtual reality narratives
Hansen states that “FL studies must learn to conceive of culture as an open, multi‐voiced and dialogical interaction full of contradictions.” One advocated approach to teach transcultural understanding is through the analysis of cultural narratives. Kearney defines cultural narratives as “the multiple (sometimes competing), conventional storylines that cultural groups produce and use to make sense of and attribute meaning to their shared experien…
Mapping education research in post-Soviet countries
The interaction of collaboration, note-taking completeness, and performance over 10 weeks of an online course
Individual versus collaborative note-taking
There is research showing benefits to both collaboration and note-taking, but a lack of research into how they may both work together in an online context. More specifically, there is a gap in the research looking at how collaborative note-taking and individual note-taking can be compared when considering the quality of the notes taken, and how note-quality can impact student performance. The present study looks at the online note-taking behavior…
Kazakh, Russian, and Uyghur child language literacy
Teaching poems by authors of colour at key stage 3
This paper draws on a survey conducted in 2020–21 in which 163 secondary English teachers in England named a total of 68 individual poems by poets of colour from the global majority which they taught in Key Stage 3 (students aged 11–14). Using the concepts of framing and mental schemas, we categorised these poems by considering which was the most likely frame or theme under which they would be taught. The largest category was Identity (15 poems),…
Ethical human participant research in Central Asia
Central Asian researchers are underrepresented in the global research production in social sciences, resulting in a limited Central Asian perspective on many social issues. To stimulate the production of local knowledge, it is important to develop strong research cultures, including knowledge of ethical practices in research with human participants. There is currently scarce evidence about research ethics regulations used by social science resear…
Analyzing collaborative note-taking behaviors and their relationship with student learning through the collaborative encoding-storage paradigm
The present study (n = 357) investigates the effects of collaborative note-taking behaviors on learning performance and note quality. To conceptualize collaborative note-taking, the present study introduces the collaborative encoding-storage paradigm, where collaborative writing behaviors are viewed as types of collaborative encoding and the completeness or comprehensiveness of the notes is viewed as a measure of storage. The following collaborat…
The moderating effects of total comments on the relationship between comment implementation and online peer-supported writing performance
Prior research has suggested that participation in peer feedback activities, specifically the giving and receiving of comments, and the implementation of suggested ideas helps to improve writing quality. However, it is not always the case that received feedback is implemented. Currently, there is uncertainty regarding how the total number of comments received during a peer feedback activity interacts with the number of implemented comments and su…
Problem-solving support and instructional sequence
Examining Covid-19-induced learning loss
Do children speaking indigenous and regional languages benefit equally from updated curricula? A report on a longitudinal quasi-experimental pilot study in Central Asia
The role of identity and strategic narratives on public perceptions of China
The role of student–teacher college practicum experience on teaching self-efficacy, belief in the profession, and intention to teach in Kazakhstan
Covid-19-related learning loss
Piaac Survey of Adult Skills
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has transformed international research and policy debates on the assessment of adult skills. Although research using PIAAC data is accumulating, little is known about how these data are used and what they contribute to developing the various disciplines interested in adult skills. In this study, a data-…
Stratified support
We examine how shadow education is associated with educational inequality and mathematics achievement in six top-performing East Asian jurisdictions: Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Japan, Macao, Singapore, and South Korea. Using multilevel logistic and linear modelling on 2022 PISA data, we analyse the prevalence, socioeconomic stratification, and differential effects of five tutoring modes: one-to-one, internet/computer-based, asynchronous video ins…
Curriculum in Professional Practice
Curriculum in Professional Practice
Development, adaptation, and validation of a career interest assessment for secondary school students in Kazakhstan
Introduction This study aimed to develop and validate a career interest assessment for secondary school students in Kazakhstan. The instrument was adapted from the 48-item Agile Work Profiler (AWP) through pilot testing and consultation with career guidance specialists, resulting in a refined 22-item measure focused specifically on career interests. Methods Exploratory factor analysis was conducted with students aged 11–17 ( N = 4,634), followed …
Beyond Immobility
This study examines the interplay between reintegration and mobility aspirations among recent Afghan returnees in early 2024, challenging the assumption that successful reintegration equates to immobility. Based on survey data from 416 returnees from Iran ( n = 208), Pakistan ( n = 98), Türkiye ( n = 69), and Europe and employing structural equation modelling (SEM), it explores how initial migration aspirations, psychological well‐being, and soci…
Psychology (17 works) · Mathematics education (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Curriculum (5 works) · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)