Dr Barbara Crossouard

Biography

Qualifications and Position

• MA (Glasgow)  MA (Surrey)  DPhil (Sussex)
• Senior Lecturer in Education
• Education PhD Convenor

Summary

• After a career in language teaching, mostly in international environments, my research and doctoral supervision interests are now primarily sociological, with a particular focus on assessment and identity construction across different educational contexts, from schooling to doctoral education. 

Professional Activities

• Member of the American Educational Research Association
• Member of the British Educational Research Association
• Member of the Society for Research into Higher Education
• Member of the Gender and Education Association

Teaching

• My teaching is mostly at doctoral or masters level, including  research methods and methodology, social theory, pedagogy and assessment
• As the PhD Convenor,  I was delighted to be awarded a Sussex Teaching Award in 2011 following a collective nominiation by the Education PhD students

Research

• Exploration of formative assessment within collaborative challenges in Scottish Primary Schools (Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Aw ard 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

Senior Lecturer in Education

PhD Convenor (Education)

I convene the Education PhD, which currently has around 50 students, from many different countries, researching in the fields of enquiry relevant to our Education Research Centres, these being the Centre for International Education (CIE), the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER), and the Centre for Inquiry and Research in Cognition, Learning and Teaching (CIRCLETS). 

We have an active and supportive doctoral community which organises many events throughout the year (e.g. doctoral conferences, research in progress workshops, reading groups. and social events). 

For more details of our PhD, including the research interests of our academic supervisors, an indication of research topics of our PhD researchers, and how to apply, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/pg/2013/research/1991.  Applicants are also welcome to contact me directly with academic enquiries about any aspect of our PhD.

Crossouard, Barbara (2013) [Review] Kathryn Ecclestone with Jennie Davies, Jay Derrick and Judith Gawn (2010) Transforming formative assessment in lifelong learning. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 20 (2). pp. 240-246. ISSN 0969-594X

Crossouard, Barbara (2012) Pupil mortification: digital photography and identity construction in classroom assessment. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 33 (6). pp. 893-911. ISSN 0142-5692

Crossouard, Barbara (2012) (De-)formative assessment: is formative assessment as benign as we think? In: (De-) formative assessment: is formative assessment as benign as we think?, 15 May 2012, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

Crossouard, Barbara and Pryor, John (2012) How Theory Matters: Formative Assessment Theory and Practices and their Different Relations to Education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 31 (3). pp. 251-263. ISSN 0039-3746

Crossouard, Barbara (2012) The reconstruction of the university doctorate viewed through Bernstein's conceptual frameworks. In: Oxford Learning Institute Seminar Series, 23 February 2012, Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford.

Crossouard, Barbara (2012) Absent presences: the recognition of social class and gender dimensions within peer assessment interactions. British Educational Research Journal, 38 (5). pp. 731-748. ISSN 0141-1926

Crossouard, Barbara (2011) Formative assessment and education: a political rather than instrumental issue. In: The Quality Turn: Political and Methodological Challenges in Contemporary Educational Evaluation and Assessment, 16-17 June, 2011, Umea University, Sweden.

Crossouard, Barbara (2011) The doctoral viva voce as a cultural practice: the gendered production of academic subjects. Gender and Education, 23 (3). pp. 313-329. ISSN 0954-0253

Crossouard, Barbara (2011) Using formative assessment to support complex learning in conditions of social adversity. Assessment in Education, 18 (1). pp. 59-72. ISSN 0969-594X

Crossouard, Barbara (2010) Reforms to higher education assessment reporting: opportunities and challenges. Teaching in Higher Education, 15 (3). pp. 247-258. ISSN 1356-2517

Pryor, John and Crossouard, Barbara (2010) Challenging Formative Assessment: Disciplinary Spaces and Identities. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 35 (3). pp. 265-276. ISSN 0260-2938

Aynsley, Sarah and Crossouard, Barbara (2010) Imagined Futures: why are vocational learners choosing not to progress to HE? Journal of Education and Work, 23 (2). pp. 129-143. ISSN 1363-9080

Crossouard, Barbara M and Aynsley, Sarah (2010) Vocational Lifelong Learners? International Journal of Lifelong Education, 29 (6). pp. 679-692. ISSN 0260-1370

Crossouard, Barbara (2010) The (re-)positioning of the doctorate through the eyes of newly-qualified researchers. Twenty-first Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, 5 (3). pp. 197-214. ISSN 1745-0144

Crossouard, Barbara and Pryor, John (2009) Using email for formative assessment with professional doctorate students. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 34 (4). pp. 377-388. ISSN 0260-2938

Crossouard, Barbara (2009) A sociocultural reflection on formative assessment and collaborative challenges in the states of Jersey. Research Papers in Education, 24 (1). pp. 77-93. ISSN 0267-1522

Pryor, John and Crossouard, Barbara (2008) A socio-cultural theorization of formative assessment. Oxford Review of Education, 34 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 0305-4985

Crossouard, Barbara (2008) Developing alternative models of doctoral supervision with online formative assessment. Studies in Continuing Education, 30 (1). pp. 51-67. ISSN 0158-037X

Crossouard, Barbara and Pryor, John (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. ISSN 1468-1366

Crossouard, Barbara (2007) Developing alternative models of doctoral supervision with online formative assessment. In: IADIS International Conference: E-Learning 2007, 6-8 July, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.

Crossouard, Barbara (2006) Formative Assessment from a Sociocultural Perspective: Exploring Identity Positions. In: Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, 7-11 April 2006, San Francisco.

Pryor, John and Crossouard, Barbara (2005) A SocioCultural Theorization of Formative Assessment. In: Sociocultural Theory in Educational Research and Practice Conference, University of Manchester.

Crossouard, Barbara and Pryor, John (2004) The Use of the Internet for Teaching, Learning and Assessment at the University of Sussex. Project Report. Unset.