Elaine McDonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 6045535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine McDonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | McDonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology and Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2816-5224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Understanding pre-service teachers’ improvement in professional practice
This paper examines the extent to which pre-service teachers exhibit improvements in their professional practice while on placement in their final years of initial teacher education (ITE). This research involved an analysis of the placement grades of three cohorts of pre-service post-primary teachers (N = 198) as they completed the final two years of a four-year concurrent programme of teacher education in the Republic of Ireland. For those place…
Re-envisioning pre-service teachers’ beliefs and feelings about assessment
In early 2020, Initial Teacher Education providers were forced to reimagine many long-established practices due to pandemic restrictions.One post-primary concurrent Initial Teacher Education programme in the Republic of Ireland responded by conceptualising and developing an initiative to engage pre-service teachers in an authentic assessment task through the preparation of a classroom-based assessment from the perspective of the pupil.They then e…
Presence accounted for? student-teachers establishing and experiencing presence in synchronous online teaching environments
In Ireland, as around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic necessitated that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) adopt innovative approaches to ensure the continuity of placement-related components of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes. One post-primary concurrent ITE programme conceptualised and developed the Teaching Online Programme (TOP), a multifaceted initiative to introduce student-teachers to the theory and practice of synchronous an…
Fertility desires and fertility
The relationship between desired and achieved fertility may be misspecified by excluding husbands’ fertility desires or by confounding effects of shared desires with the resolution of conflicting desires. Using couple data from the classic Princeton Fertility Surveys, we find relatively large husband effects on fertility outcomes as well as unique effects of spousal disagreement. Wives and husbands were equally likely to achieve fertility desires…
Fertility desires and fertility
The relationship between desired and achieved fertility may be misspecified by excluding husbands’ fertility desires or by confounding effects of shared desires with the resolution of conflicting desires. Using couple data from the classic Princeton Fertility Surveys, we find relatively large husband effects on fertility outcomes as well as unique effects of spousal disagreement. Wives and husbands were equally likely to achieve fertility desires…
Fertility desires and fertility
The relationship between desired and achieved fertility may be misspecified by excluding husbands’ fertility desires or by confounding effects of shared desires with the resolution of conflicting desires. Using couple data from the classic Princeton Fertility Surveys, we find relatively large husband effects on fertility outcomes as well as unique effects of spousal disagreement. Wives and husbands were equally likely to achieve fertility desires…
Presence accounted for? student-teachers establishing and experiencing presence in synchronous online teaching environments
In Ireland, as around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic necessitated that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) adopt innovative approaches to ensure the continuity of placement-related components of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes. One post-primary concurrent ITE programme conceptualised and developed the Teaching Online Programme (TOP), a multifaceted initiative to introduce student-teachers to the theory and practice of synchronous an…
Re-envisioning pre-service teachers’ beliefs and feelings about assessment
In early 2020, Initial Teacher Education providers were forced to reimagine many long-established practices due to pandemic restrictions.One post-primary concurrent Initial Teacher Education programme in the Republic of Ireland responded by conceptualising and developing an initiative to engage pre-service teachers in an authentic assessment task through the preparation of a classroom-based assessment from the perspective of the pupil.They then e…
Understanding pre-service teachers’ improvement in professional practice
This paper examines the extent to which pre-service teachers exhibit improvements in their professional practice while on placement in their final years of initial teacher education (ITE). This research involved an analysis of the placement grades of three cohorts of pre-service post-primary teachers (N = 198) as they completed the final two years of a four-year concurrent programme of teacher education in the Republic of Ireland. For those place…
Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (2 works) · Asynchronous communication (1 work)