Jannette Elwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 6155152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jannette Elwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jannette |
| FAMILY NAME | Elwood |
| SIGNATURE | ELWOOD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Predictability in high-stakes examinations
Key debates within educational assessment continuously encourage us to reflect on the design, delivery and implementation of examination systems as well as their relevance to students. In more recent times, such reflections have also required a rethinking of who is authoritative about assessment issues and whose views we seek in order to better understand these perennial assessment dilemmas. This paper considers one such dilemma, predictability i…
All the (cyber) world’s a stage
This paper explores the ways in which the use of technology presents girls with new and alternative ways to participate in and experience bullying. The focus is particularly on how girls experience and participate in ‘cyberbullying’ via Instant Messenger (IM) programmes and social networking sites (SNS). A mixed method approach was employed with girls aged 12–15 years old in Northern Ireland which captured 494 questionnaire responses and eight on…
Revisioning assessment through a children’s rights approach
The linkage between the impact of assessment and compliance with children’s rights is a connection, which although seemingly obvious, is nonetheless rarely made, particularly by governments, which, as signatories to the relevant human rights treaties, have the primary responsibility for ensuring that educational practice is compatible with international children’s rights standards. While some jurisdictions are explicit about an adherence to child…
Creating Communities of Shared Practice
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Gendered experiences, choices and achievement — exploring the links
The divergence in girls’ and boys’ interests and pastimes outside of school has been established by many national and international studies. What has rarely been examined is how these gender differences emerge and what their consequences are for children's learning both within and without school. The question considered in this paper is not what girls and boys can or cannot do but what is it that girls and boys choose to do. What lies behind thei…
Gender Bias in Examinations
Recent analyses of public examination results, particularly in the GCSE, have demonstrated significant gender differences in both entry patterns and outcomes. This generally involves better results for girls in subjects other than mathematics and some sciences. The article discusses whether examination boards should work for equal outcomes given that the assessment techniques used in examinations may differentially affect girls' and boys' perform…
Associations between pelvic anatomy, height and year of birth of men and women in Belfast
Standardized radiological pelvimetry was used to examine 242 male and 314 female adults attending the out-patient departments of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Seven indices of pelvic size and shape were measured from X-rays on each individual together with social and biological factors including age, height and year of birth. The aims were to quantify any differences in pelvic anatomy between the sexes and to measure correlations between …
Factors associated with anencephalus and spina bifida in Belfast
A high incidence of major malformations of the central nervous system has been reported from both Northern Ireland (Stevenson, Johnston, Stewart, and Golding, 1966) and the Irish Republic (Coffey and Jessop, 1957).These studies, however, were based on hospital births only, leaving some doubt as to whether these high frequencies are real or partly due to preselection of such cases for management in specialist obstetric units.Up to 1968, only one I…
Comparisons of secular and seasonal variations in the incidence of anencephalus in Belfast and four Scottish cities, 1956-66
In order to investigate whether the monthly numbers of anencephalic births were influenced by climatic factors, season was arbitrarily separated into four components corresponding to observations made in each month of the period 1955-66 as follows: the daily maximum air temperature (C) recorded during the month irrespective of the day on which it occurred (x1); similarly, the daily minimum air temperature (C) recorded on one day during the month …
Anencephalus in Belfast. Incidence and secular and seasonal variations, 1950-66
Gender Bias in Examinations
Recent analyses of public examination results, particularly in the GCSE, have demonstrated significant gender differences in both entry patterns and outcomes. This generally involves better results for girls in subjects other than mathematics and some sciences. The article discusses whether examination boards should work for equal outcomes given that the assessment techniques used in examinations may differentially affect girls' and boys' perform…
Gendered experiences, choices and achievement — exploring the links
The divergence in girls’ and boys’ interests and pastimes outside of school has been established by many national and international studies. What has rarely been examined is how these gender differences emerge and what their consequences are for children's learning both within and without school. The question considered in this paper is not what girls and boys can or cannot do but what is it that girls and boys choose to do. What lies behind thei…
Revisioning assessment through a children’s rights approach
The linkage between the impact of assessment and compliance with children’s rights is a connection, which although seemingly obvious, is nonetheless rarely made, particularly by governments, which, as signatories to the relevant human rights treaties, have the primary responsibility for ensuring that educational practice is compatible with international children’s rights standards. While some jurisdictions are explicit about an adherence to child…
Anencephalus in Belfast. Incidence and secular and seasonal variations, 1950-66
Comparisons of secular and seasonal variations in the incidence of anencephalus in Belfast and four Scottish cities, 1956-66
In order to investigate whether the monthly numbers of anencephalic births were influenced by climatic factors, season was arbitrarily separated into four components corresponding to observations made in each month of the period 1955-66 as follows: the daily maximum air temperature (C) recorded during the month irrespective of the day on which it occurred (x1); similarly, the daily minimum air temperature (C) recorded on one day during the month …
Factors associated with anencephalus and spina bifida in Belfast
A high incidence of major malformations of the central nervous system has been reported from both Northern Ireland (Stevenson, Johnston, Stewart, and Golding, 1966) and the Irish Republic (Coffey and Jessop, 1957).These studies, however, were based on hospital births only, leaving some doubt as to whether these high frequencies are real or partly due to preselection of such cases for management in specialist obstetric units.Up to 1968, only one I…
Associations between pelvic anatomy, height and year of birth of men and women in Belfast
Standardized radiological pelvimetry was used to examine 242 male and 314 female adults attending the out-patient departments of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Seven indices of pelvic size and shape were measured from X-rays on each individual together with social and biological factors including age, height and year of birth. The aims were to quantify any differences in pelvic anatomy between the sexes and to measure correlations between …
Gender Bias in Examinations
Recent analyses of public examination results, particularly in the GCSE, have demonstrated significant gender differences in both entry patterns and outcomes. This generally involves better results for girls in subjects other than mathematics and some sciences. The article discusses whether examination boards should work for equal outcomes given that the assessment techniques used in examinations may differentially affect girls' and boys' perform…
Gendered experiences, choices and achievement — exploring the links
The divergence in girls’ and boys’ interests and pastimes outside of school has been established by many national and international studies. What has rarely been examined is how these gender differences emerge and what their consequences are for children's learning both within and without school. The question considered in this paper is not what girls and boys can or cannot do but what is it that girls and boys choose to do. What lies behind thei…
Creating Communities of Shared Practice
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Revisioning assessment through a children’s rights approach
The linkage between the impact of assessment and compliance with children’s rights is a connection, which although seemingly obvious, is nonetheless rarely made, particularly by governments, which, as signatories to the relevant human rights treaties, have the primary responsibility for ensuring that educational practice is compatible with international children’s rights standards. While some jurisdictions are explicit about an adherence to child…
All the (cyber) world’s a stage
This paper explores the ways in which the use of technology presents girls with new and alternative ways to participate in and experience bullying. The focus is particularly on how girls experience and participate in ‘cyberbullying’ via Instant Messenger (IM) programmes and social networking sites (SNS). A mixed method approach was employed with girls aged 12–15 years old in Northern Ireland which captured 494 questionnaire responses and eight on…
Predictability in high-stakes examinations
Key debates within educational assessment continuously encourage us to reflect on the design, delivery and implementation of examination systems as well as their relevance to students. In more recent times, such reflections have also required a rethinking of who is authoritative about assessment issues and whose views we seek in order to better understand these perennial assessment dilemmas. This paper considers one such dilemma, predictability i…
Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Demography (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Incidence (geometry) (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Coursework (2 works) · Curriculum (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)