Caroline Elbra-Ramsay
Senior Lecturer - PGCE Admissions Tutor
T: 01904 876523
E: C.ElbraRamsay@yorksj.ac.uk
Research Interests
My research interests are based around the
following areas:
Formative Assessment
My time as a primary school deputy head
included leading whole school development in assessment for
learning. I am interested in transferring this effective
primary practice into Higher Education for example, written
feedback. Recently I have investigated whether improvement
prompts could be used within written assignment feedback enabling
feedback to be more constructive and formative.
Other strategies including
layered questioning and learning partners are due to be
adapted and trialled on both undergraduate and post graduate
programs.
Trainee tracking
A related interest is that of the tracking of
trainee performance (academic and placement related) to enable
analysis of value added progress. and pinpoint
intervention. Alongside another member of staff, we hope
to develop and trial systems across the undergraduate
programme.
Leading Literacy
As a member of the Primary English team, the
last three years have involved establishing and embedding the
Leading Partners in Literacy project across all programmes.
This has included the development of video based VLE
resources and additional phonic
based placements.