Professor Noel Entwistle
Professor Emeritus
- Moray House School of Education and Sport, IECS
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6673
- Email: noel.entwistle@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
Was the Bell Professor of Education in the University of Edinburgh from 1978 until 2005 and previously Professor of Educational Research in the University of Lancaster. Original degree in physics, taught physics fro three years before moving into educational research at the University of Aberdeen where I obtaoned a PhD in educational psychology. Subsequently, Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Society for Research into Higher Education an the Scottish Council for Resarch in Education. Honary doctorates from Gothenburg and Turku. Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and the international journal, Higher Education.
Research summary
Research interests include:
- student learning
- educational psychology
Methodology:
- Psychometrics (inventory design and quantitative analysis)
- phenomenography (interviewing and qualitative analysis)
Project activity
Currently writing a book which covers the development of my research into student learning over a 35 year period.
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Advances and Innovations in University Assessment and Feedback
(288 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Perceptions of assessment and their influences on learning
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
The disposition to understand for oneself at university: Integrating learning processes with motivation and metacognition
In:
British Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 83, pp. 267-279
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12010
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Influences on personal understanding: Intentions, approaches to learning, perceptions of assessment, and a 'meeting of minds'.
(17 pages)
In:
Psychology Teaching Review, vol. 19, pp. 80-96
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The nature and experience of academic understanding
In:
Psychology of Education Review, vol. 37, pp. 5-14
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Exploring the nature of academic understanding.
(9 pages)
In:
Psychology of Education Review, vol. 37, pp. 28-36
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Assessing students' experiences of teaching-learning environments and approaches to learning.: Validation of a questionnaire used in different countries and varying contexts.
In:
Learning Environments Research, vol. 16, pp. 201-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10984-013-9128-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The quality of learning at university: integrative understanding and distinctive ways of thinking
(31 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139048224
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Cultivating the disposition to understand in 21st century university education
(8 pages)
In:
Learning and Individual Differences, vol. 21, pp. 303-310
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2010.11.017
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Taking stock: An overview of research findings
(37 pages)
In:
Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education , pp. 15-51
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)