Richard O’Donovan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6690215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard O’Donovan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Donovan |
| SIGNATURE | O’DONOVAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7138-1945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Selling’ the rural to pre-service teachers
‘I do plan to do that in the future, just not the near future’
This study examines pre-service teachers (PSTs) from two Australian universities regarding their involvement in rural professional experience (PE) placements and their potential impact on future career choices. The objective was to gain insight into the diverse teaching and learning experiences PSTs had during their rural PE, and what impact these had on their interest in working in country schools. This paper focuses on findings from urban and r…
Conceptual typologies of learning communities for master’s course students using a publications exemplar
With an increased emphasis being placed on the importance of postgraduate students publishing articles in international journals, many students may feel a need to organise learning communities with faculty members or their peers to support this aspirational activity. Most research in this area is related to doctoral students, but places relatively little focus on master ones. This study aims to conceptualise possible patterns for the formation of…
Information economics of teaching
By assessing student engagement with learning tasks along with students’ understanding of subject matter before and during teaching, teachers are able to shift their teaching approaches through improvisational pedagogical reasoning in real time. However, if a teacher does not know how to respond to students’ cues, their capacity to effectively adapt their teaching actions is reduced. This perspective resonates with the notion of pedagogical equil…
How educational leaders can maximise the social capital benefits of inter-school networks
Investigating the Victorian Government Schools’ Parent Opinion Survey validity
Missing the forest for the trees
Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) feature prominently in higher education and can impact an academic's career.As a result, they have attracted considerable research attention in order to identify evidence of bias and the influence of factors beyond an educator's control.This study investigates the influence of seven factors on a large dataset of student evaluations (N = 376,805) of academics teaching at an Australian university.Students were…
Reflective-Thinking and Resilience as Predictors of Professionalism in Master of Social Work Students
Social work students are expected to learn about and demonstrate several professional competencies during their academic and fieldwork studies. This study explored the associations between professionalism, resilience, and reflective thinking in a sample of 212 students enrolled in a Master of Social Work program. The sample was predominantly female, aged 20 to 29, with an international student enrollment status. Students completed a demographic q…
Online ‘ games ’
Owing to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid increase in the number of international higher education students, online academic programmes have become more centralised and became the main, sometimes only, form of education. Although the online environment offers flexible access to education, it can cause concerns and difficulties for both international students and the host universities as they may not be well informed of each oth…
Preparing preservice teachers for working with students with intellectual disability
In this paper, the utility of instruments for evaluating how well preservice teachers are being prepared for teaching students with intellectual disability in inclusive classrooms are explored. This included an investigation using an instrument to assess the attitudes of first-year preservice teachers (PSTs) toward individuals with intellectual disability (n = 96) and to measure changes in PSTs’ attitudes after participating in a supplementary fi…
How schools can move beyond exclusion
Healthy learning environments for young people are underpinned by respectful relationships. Unfortunately, Australian students who do not form reasonable relationships with peers and staff are unlikely to benefit from being at school. These students tend to disengage and are often excluded. However, a growing number of Australian schools have moved beyond exclusion as their default response in dealing with such students. In asking themselves Afte…
How schools can move beyond exclusion
Healthy learning environments for young people are underpinned by respectful relationships. Unfortunately, Australian students who do not form reasonable relationships with peers and staff are unlikely to benefit from being at school. These students tend to disengage and are often excluded. However, a growing number of Australian schools have moved beyond exclusion as their default response in dealing with such students. In asking themselves Afte…
How schools can move beyond exclusion
Healthy learning environments for young people are underpinned by respectful relationships. Unfortunately, Australian students who do not form reasonable relationships with peers and staff are unlikely to benefit from being at school. These students tend to disengage and are often excluded. However, a growing number of Australian schools have moved beyond exclusion as their default response in dealing with such students. In asking themselves Afte…
Reflective-Thinking and Resilience as Predictors of Professionalism in Master of Social Work Students
Social work students are expected to learn about and demonstrate several professional competencies during their academic and fieldwork studies. This study explored the associations between professionalism, resilience, and reflective thinking in a sample of 212 students enrolled in a Master of Social Work program. The sample was predominantly female, aged 20 to 29, with an international student enrollment status. Students completed a demographic q…
Online ‘ games ’
Owing to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid increase in the number of international higher education students, online academic programmes have become more centralised and became the main, sometimes only, form of education. Although the online environment offers flexible access to education, it can cause concerns and difficulties for both international students and the host universities as they may not be well informed of each oth…
Preparing preservice teachers for working with students with intellectual disability
In this paper, the utility of instruments for evaluating how well preservice teachers are being prepared for teaching students with intellectual disability in inclusive classrooms are explored. This included an investigation using an instrument to assess the attitudes of first-year preservice teachers (PSTs) toward individuals with intellectual disability (n = 96) and to measure changes in PSTs’ attitudes after participating in a supplementary fi…
Conceptual typologies of learning communities for master’s course students using a publications exemplar
With an increased emphasis being placed on the importance of postgraduate students publishing articles in international journals, many students may feel a need to organise learning communities with faculty members or their peers to support this aspirational activity. Most research in this area is related to doctoral students, but places relatively little focus on master ones. This study aims to conceptualise possible patterns for the formation of…
Information economics of teaching
By assessing student engagement with learning tasks along with students’ understanding of subject matter before and during teaching, teachers are able to shift their teaching approaches through improvisational pedagogical reasoning in real time. However, if a teacher does not know how to respond to students’ cues, their capacity to effectively adapt their teaching actions is reduced. This perspective resonates with the notion of pedagogical equil…
How educational leaders can maximise the social capital benefits of inter-school networks
Investigating the Victorian Government Schools’ Parent Opinion Survey validity
Missing the forest for the trees
Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) feature prominently in higher education and can impact an academic's career.As a result, they have attracted considerable research attention in order to identify evidence of bias and the influence of factors beyond an educator's control.This study investigates the influence of seven factors on a large dataset of student evaluations (N = 376,805) of academics teaching at an Australian university.Students were…
‘I do plan to do that in the future, just not the near future’
This study examines pre-service teachers (PSTs) from two Australian universities regarding their involvement in rural professional experience (PE) placements and their potential impact on future career choices. The objective was to gain insight into the diverse teaching and learning experiences PSTs had during their rural PE, and what impact these had on their interest in working in country schools. This paper focuses on findings from urban and r…
‘Selling’ the rural to pre-service teachers
Psychology (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Medical education (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (3 works)