Dr Barbara Crossouard : Education : University of Sussex

In detail...

Post:	Associate Tutor
Location:	Arts E E439
Email:	B.Crossouard@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	7042
UK:	(01273) 877042
International:	+44 1273 877042

Biography

Qualifications and Position

MA (Glasgow) MA (Surrey) DPhil (Sussex)
Visiting Research Fellow
DPhil convenor

Summary

After a career in language teaching, mostly in international environments, my research interests are now primarily sociological, with a particular focus on assessment and identity construction across different educational contexts, from schooling to doctoral education, and the intersection of this with gender, social class, and also digital technologies.

Professional Activities

Member, American Educational Research Association
Joint Convenor, British Educational Research Association Higher Education Special Interest Group
Member, Research and Development Committee of the Society for Research into Higher Education
Member, Scottish Educational Research Association
Member, Gender and Education Association
Member, International Doctoral Education Research Network

Teaching

My teaching is mostly at doctoral or masters level, including research methods and methodology, social theory, pedagogy and assessment

Research

Exploration of formative assessment within collaborative challenges in Scottish Primary Schools (Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Award 08-0406)
Exploration of the career trajectories of newly qualified researchers (funded by the Annual 'Newer Researcher' Prize (2008-9) of the Society for Research into Higher Education
Vocational learners and higher education transitions (funded by the British Academy and directed by Dr Sarah Aynsley)
The student experience of the viva voce (directed by Dr Paul Yates)
Evaluation of Jersey Actioning Formative Assessment (JAFA) with Professor Judy Sebba
Internet-Based Assessment (2002-2004) funded by the EU Minerva Action directed by Dr John Pryor and Professor Harry Torrance

Role

Visiting Research Fellow and Associate Tutor

Publications

Journal Articles

Crossouard B. with Pryor, J. (2010) Challenging formative assessment: disciplinary spaces and identities Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 35(3)pp265-276.
Crossouard, B. (2010) Reforms to Higher Education Achievement Reporting: opportunities and challenges. Teaching in Higher Education, 15(3) forthcoming.
Crossouard (2010) with Aynsley, S. Imagined futures. Why vocational learners are chosing not to go to higher education. Journal of Education and Work, 23(2), pp.129-143
Crossouard, B. with Pryor, J. (2009) Using Email for Formative Assessment with Professional Doctorate Students. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 34(4) p.377.
Crossouard, B. (2009) A sociocultural reflection on collaborative challenges in the States of Jersey. Research Papers in Education, 24(1) pp.77-93.
Crossouard, B. (2008) Developing alternative models of doctoral supervision with online formative assessment. Studies in Continuing Education, 30(1) pp.51-67.
Crossouard, B. with Pryor, J. (2008) Becoming researchers: a sociocultural perspective on assessment, learning and the construction of identity in a professional doctorate. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 16(3) pp.221-237.
Crossouard, B. with Pryor, J. (2008) A Sociocultural Theorization of Formative Assessment. Oxford Review of Education, 33(5) pp. 1-20.

Selected Conference Papers and Presentations

Crossouard, B. (2010) Speaking back to policy: doctoral graduates’ trajectories and perspectives. Paper presented at the Invitational Meeting of the International Doctoral Research Education Network (IDERN), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-20 April.

Crossouard, B. (2010) Assessing complex learning with SOBs. Roundtable presentation at the Classroom Assessment Special Interest Group, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association , Denver, USA, 1-4 May.

Crossouard, B. (2009) Supporting complex learning with with a mixed pallet of assessment vocabularies. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Scottish Educational Research Association, Perth, 26-28 November.
Crossouard, B. (2009) Exploratory study of the career trajectories of newly qualified researchers. Presentation at Vitae Researcher Development Conference, University of Warwick, 7-8 September (see http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/1151-86363/Workshops/119611/Vitae-researcher-development-conference-2009-realising-the-potential-of-researchers-.html#pageInfo).
Crossouard, B. (2008) Designing for Participation and Learning. Formative assessment and collaborative challenages. Presentation to Classroom Assessment SIG, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, 24-28 March.
Crossouard, B. (2008) Becoming a researcher: conflict and difference in the construction of (disciplinary) identities. Invited presentation at the University of Northumbria Academic Practitioners' Conference, June 2008.
Crossouard, B. (2007) Developing alternative models of doctoral supervision with online formative assessment IADIS E-Learning 2007 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-8 July.
Crossouard, B. (2007) A sociocultural reflection on collaborative challenges and formative assessment in the States of Jersey. Sociocultural Learning Theory and Practice Conference, University of Manchester, 11-12 September (available at http://www.lta.education.manchester.ac.uk/ScTIG/2007conferencepapers.html).
Crossouard, B. (2004) E-learning: as policy as practice, paper presented at Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, University of Sussex, England, 19-22 September
Crossouard, B. & Pryor, J. (2005) Creating an Alternative Assessment Regime with Online Formative Assessment: developing an identity, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada, 11-15 April
Crossouard, B., Pryor, J. & Torrance, H. (2004) Creating an Alternative Assessment Regime with Online Formative Assessment: developing a researcher identity, paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research, Crete, 22-25 September
Pryor, J. and Crossouard, B. (2008) Formative assessment: the discursive construction of identities. Invited Presentation within University of Northumbria CETL Symposium on 'Sociocultural Perspectives on Assessment?'. Fourth Biennial Joint EARLI/Northumbria Assessment Conference, Berlin, Germany.
Pryor, J. & Crossouard, B. (2006) Formative assessment in higher education. Prospects and Problems. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Higher Education, Brighton, 12-14 December.
Pryor, J. & Crossouard, B. (2005) A Sociocultural Theorization of Formative Assessment, paper presented at Sociocultural Theory in Educational Research and Practice Conference, University of Manchester, 8-9 September (available at http://orgs.man.ac.uk/projects/include/experiment/pryor_crossouard.pdf).
Yates, P. & Crossouard, B. (2006) The viva voce as a cultural practice: the production of academic subjects? Annual Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education. Brighton, 12-14 December.

Other Research Reports

Crossouard, B. & Sebba, J. (2006) An evaluation of formative assessment in the States of Jersey. University of Sussex, Falmer.
Crossouard, B. & Pryor, J. (2004) The Use of the Internet for Teaching, Learning and Assessment at the University of Sussex. An Interim Report from the Sussex Partners, available at http://onlineassessment.nu