Jen McConnel
Biographic Data
| ID | 6875645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jen McConnel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jen |
| FAMILY NAME | McConnel |
| SIGNATURE | MCCONNEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4947-0260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
"I'm Not the Only Writer in The Room": A Framework for Co-Creating Confident Writing Classrooms
This study is rooted in social cognitive theory, specifically Bandura's work on self-and collective efficacy. The authors explore self reported confidence levels with writing instruction from secondary teachers across subjects in Canada and the United States by pairing a self-efficacy scale developed by Locke and Johnston (2016) with semi-structured interviews conducted via Skype. 60 teachers participated in the survey, with 25 from Canada and 35…
Thresholds and Ordeals: (Re)storying the Teacher’s Journey
This article explores the ways in which the language of the hero’s journey can serve as a heuristic for teachers at all stages of their professional experience. Teachers in Canada and the United States were interviewed via Skype about their experiences around writing and literacy. Four teachers are profiled here, two from Canada and two from the United States. Through narrative analysis, the author suggests that using the specific language of the…
The Brightest Part of the Forest: A Grit Analysis of an Ontario Children’s Book Award
This study explores how grit manifests in the nominees of Ontario’s Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award children’s literature competition from 2013-2018. Performing a document analysis (Bowen, 2009), we used a modified version of Duckworth’s (2018) grit scale to gauge the grittiness of the nominees’ protagonists. We found that 28 of the 60 titles portrayed grit with 19 of those titles scoring four or higher on the modified grit scale indicating t…
Elementary teachers’ cognitive processes and metacognitive strategies during self-directed online learning
This study involves an in-depth examination of Canadian elementary teachers’ cognitive processes and metacognitive strategies they used during a self-directed online learning experience. The virtual revisit think aloud, a methodology that combines a retrospective procedure with screen recording technology, was used to capture verbalisations from 13 elementary teachers as they used an online database. Resulting think aloud protocols and post-task …
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The Brightest Part of the Forest: A Grit Analysis of an Ontario Children’s Book Award
This study explores how grit manifests in the nominees of Ontario’s Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award children’s literature competition from 2013-2018. Performing a document analysis (Bowen, 2009), we used a modified version of Duckworth’s (2018) grit scale to gauge the grittiness of the nominees’ protagonists. We found that 28 of the 60 titles portrayed grit with 19 of those titles scoring four or higher on the modified grit scale indicating t…
Elementary teachers’ cognitive processes and metacognitive strategies during self-directed online learning
This study involves an in-depth examination of Canadian elementary teachers’ cognitive processes and metacognitive strategies they used during a self-directed online learning experience. The virtual revisit think aloud, a methodology that combines a retrospective procedure with screen recording technology, was used to capture verbalisations from 13 elementary teachers as they used an online database. Resulting think aloud protocols and post-task …
"I'm Not the Only Writer in The Room": A Framework for Co-Creating Confident Writing Classrooms
This study is rooted in social cognitive theory, specifically Bandura's work on self-and collective efficacy. The authors explore self reported confidence levels with writing instruction from secondary teachers across subjects in Canada and the United States by pairing a self-efficacy scale developed by Locke and Johnston (2016) with semi-structured interviews conducted via Skype. 60 teachers participated in the survey, with 25 from Canada and 35…
Thresholds and Ordeals: (Re)storying the Teacher’s Journey
This article explores the ways in which the language of the hero’s journey can serve as a heuristic for teachers at all stages of their professional experience. Teachers in Canada and the United States were interviewed via Skype about their experiences around writing and literacy. Four teachers are profiled here, two from Canada and two from the United States. Through narrative analysis, the author suggests that using the specific language of the…
Psychology (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Literacy (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Cartography (1 works) · Cognition (1 works)