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Susan McKenney: Research & development projects

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Ongoing

Authentic learning in higher education: Designing teacher professional development supports for developing and enacting engineering curricula featuring real, open-ended challenges with Leonie Chapel and Cindy Poortman (UT)

Citizenship in chemistry teaching: Designing teacher professional development to support chemistry teachers in attending to citizenship development with Judith Rotink and Talitha Visser (MOCW)

Understanding and supporting teacher leaders: Research and development trajectory in cooperation with the Twents Carmel College and Monique Dokter (TCC)

School-based Curriculum Development: Understanding curriculum design processes in International Baccalaureate Schools with Nienke Nieveen and colleagues (IB)

QUalitative Analysis on SELFIE Impact (QUASI): Exploring the use of SELFIE for supporting schools in undertanding their digital readiness with Sara van der Linden and colleagues (EU/JRC)

Vocational Teacher Design Teams: Supporting teams that collaboratively (re)design learning environments at the school-work boundary in the context of Dutch higher vocational educational with Maria Custers and colleagues (Fontys)

Tailoring Preservice Teacher Admission Assessments: Increasing accessibility to and quality of teacher education programs as part of the Dutch national governance agreements with Susanne Spiele and Nienke Nieveen (VSNU/ICL/MOCW)

Democratizing Critical Thinking: Teacher design teams in vocational education innovate their education in ways that support critical thinking for and through citizenship development and Bildungwith multiple partners (NWO-NRO)

Educative Materials: Materials to support teacher growth in the context of cutting edge chemistry research with Tim van Dulmen and Talitha Visser (DUDOC/MOCW)

Video Coaching: Designing video coaching to support early career teachers' instructional practice with Sara van der Linden and colleagues (MOCW)

 

Completed

Preservice Teacher Admission Assessments: Increasing accessibility to teacher education programs as part of the Dutch national action plan with Susanne Spiele and Nienke Nieveen (VSNU/ICL/MOCW)

Online Teacher Professional Development: Literature review on processes and outcomes with Adrie Visscher, Sara van der Linden, and colleagues

Large Scale Curriculum Reform: Understanding and implementing large scale curriuclum change processes with Nienke Nieveen and colleagues (MOCW)

Teacher Intuition and Tact: Enhancing teacher intuition and pedagogical tact through systemic exercises with Gerbert Sipman and colleagues (HAN)

IMPULS: STEM learning innovation situated in cutting edge university research with ELAN colleagues (MOCW)

Curriculum Development Practices: Portraying the expertise of those who design curricula for large scale use with Jan van den Akker and colleagues (IB)

Design Dimensions: Understanding and improving curriculum materials design practices for effective large scale implementation in science with Anushree Bopardikar and colleagues (NSF)

Team-based professional developent: Possibilities and challenges of collaborative curriculum design in higher education, with Inken Gast and colleagues (CEE)

Critical dialogue: Citizenship development through respectful argumentation in primary school (NWO-NRO)

Betekenisvol Onderwijs: Case studies of teacher needs for creating meaningful learning opportunities in lower secondary vocational education (TYF)

Connecting the DOTS: Supporting the implementation of teacher design teams with Floor Binkhorst and colleagues (TYF)

Twente Outreach: Qualitative investigation of stakeholder concerns related to research-practice partnerships in education (UT)

ICT for Education in Developing Countries: A scoping study to inform research funding programming (IRDC)

Open Discovery Space: A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure (EU)

Scenarios for Effective Workplace Learning: HBO en MBO educators collaborate with internship mentors to improve vocational education (HPBO)

ICT-EL: Empowering teachers in the integration of ICT-rich learning for early literacy development (NWO)

Research & Development in Education: Systematic review of literature to understand the (dis)connections between educational research and development (NWO)

Designing for Scale: Reconstructive analysis of large scale curriculum design projects (SLO)

Design talk in teacher teams: Collaborative design of ICT-rich early literacy learning material with Ferry Boschman and colleagues (NWO)

Teachers as designers: Teacher roles and pupil outcomes in technology-rich early literacy learning with Amina Cviko and colleagues (Kennisnet)

The plan-enact-reflect cycle: Supporting para-teachers in an Indian NGO with Harini Raval and colleagues (NUFFIC)

Inhoudelijke leiderschap en het jonge kind: Case studies of innovative teacher teams who are improving the language arts curriculum in lower primary grades (SLO)

ECENL: An explorative study into the status quo of early childhood research in the Netherlands (SLO)

Taal in de Zaakvakken: The added value of ICT in linguistic and (science) conceptual development (SLO)

TRAITS: Training the Trainer for enhancing Skills program, aimed at capacity building among Amity Institute staff for education in India (Nuffic)

INDEED: Indian Dutch Exchange program on Educational Development aimed at capacity building among Pratham staff for (pre) primary education in India (Nuffic)

NITTT: Networking for Innovations in Teacher Training and Technology (World Bank)

SPES: Support for Primary Education in Suriname Consultant (IADB)