Mark James Barrow

Mark James Barrow
University of Auckland · Faculty of Education and Social Work

MSc, EdD, DipTchg

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January 2010 - present
University of Auckland

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Introduction: Experience in palliative medicine provides a beneficial learning opportunity for doctors-in-training. There is, however, a gap in understanding which aspects of learning are most useful, which are problematic and how learning can best be facilitated. This study addresses that gap using the ‘threshold concepts’ framework. Threshold con...
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Throughout the West, efforts to achieve equity for students in higher education have met with mixed success. Much extant literature focuses on the position and perspectives of students in relation to this wicked problem: our research turns the spotlight onto the role of academic staff. In an effort to understand equity’s mixed fortunes more forensi...
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Aims and objectives To consider the characteristics of protocol documents themselves as a factor influencing the nature of care delivery and their potential to facilitate greater interprofessional collaboration. Background Healthcare guidelines and clinical protocols provide important guidance and direction to health professionals in their deliver...
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We developed an interprofessional advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) course for final-year undergraduate nursing and medical students, aiming to increase technical resuscitation and non-technical teamwork skills. We studied the effects of the course using mixed methods, comprising the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS), a ques...
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Aim: To explore relationships between student loans debt, financial support and career preferences upon graduation for all healthcare disciplines offered at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. Methods: The Faculty Tracking Project is a longitudinal study which invites students to complete a questionnaire at the be...
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This is a conceptual inquiry into the nature of the role of learning designer from mainstream cultural groups working within culturally-grounded digital design settings. This paper stems from the co-design of an online transition-to-study resource developed specifically for Māori and Pacific students about to begin postgraduate study at the Univers...
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Academic (or educational) development is a relatively recent project in universities. In Aotearoa New Zealand there were two waves of foundation for academic development, separated by almost 20 years, during which time much in national and international higher education had changed. This article draws on empirical and archival data to propose that...
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Background Interprofessional collaboration is enhanced if professionals work across discursive boundaries. While interprofessional education interventions may encourage this the practice environment may militate against the implementation of understandings developed in educational settings. Summary of work Interviews with doctors and nurses highlig...
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Practice-based learning integrates the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains and is influenced by students' beliefs, values, and attitudes. Concept mapping has been shown to effectively demonstrate students' changing concepts and knowledge structures. This article discusses how concept mapping was modified to capture students' perceptions o...
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Decisions about progress through an academic programme are made by Boards of Examiners, on the basis of students’ course assessments. For most students such pass/fail grading decisions are straightforward. However, for those students whose results are borderline (either at a pass/fail boundary or boundaries between grades) the exercise of some disc...
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This work arose from some early conversations around a related PhD thesis and a sharing of some concurrent interest in Meyer and Land’s theoretical framework of threshold concepts (Meyer & Land, 2006; Meyer & Land, 2005). We talked widely about clinical communication skills, the processes of change in learning, and the clinical setting of palliativ...
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Engaging young people with science is essential to ensuring a scientifically literate society. Furthermore, it is important to enable access to a variety of sciences during adolescence, when individuals are making decisions about their future educational and career paths. The Brain Bee Challenge (BBC) is a quiz-based international neuroscience outr...
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Abstract Calls for greater collaboration amongst health professionals and for programmes to support this are not new, nor are they likely to diminish. While various interventions have been adopted to improve collaboration, the literature suggests that these have neither been well-informed with a strong conceptual base nor have they accounted for th...
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Tertiary institutions aim to provide high quality teaching and learning that meet the academic needs for an increasingly diverse student body including indigenous students. Tātou Tātou is a qualitative research project utilising Kaupapa Māori research methodology and the Critical Incident Technique interview method to investigate the teaching and l...
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Medical schools need to justify their range of selection tools and processes. This paper describes the selection tools used at one university in New Zealand (Auckland), which combine a measure of academic achievement, score on a test of general cognitive ability, and score in a structured interview. Further, it describes considerations in justifyin...
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Residents and interns are recognized as important clinical teachers and mentors. Resident-as-teacher training programs are known to improve resident attitudes and perceptions toward teaching, as well as their theoretical knowledge, skills, and teaching behavior. The effect of resident-as-teacher programs on learning outcomes of medical students, ho...
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For 40 years, the ‘staff teaching seminar’ has aimed to prepare academics to meet the complex demands of university teaching. In Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ), as elsewhere, the seminar emerged in the late 1960s–early 1970s, and preceded centrally funded academic development (AD) centres. Targeting new academics, the programme typically focused on core...
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There are increasing calls, from a range of stakeholders in the health sector, for healthcare professionals to work more collaboratively to provide health care. In response, education institutions are adopting an interprofessional education agenda in an attempt to provide health professionals ready to meet such calls. This article considers the nat...
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Evidence suggests that doctors and nurses do not always work collaboratively in health care settings and that this contributes to suboptimal patient care. However, there is little information on interprofessional collaboration (IPC) among new medical and nursing graduates working together for the first time in a multidisciplinary health care team....
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The nature of academic development in contemporary universities has been a recent focus in the literature. Highlighting the diversity of practices that exist under its name, ‘academic development’ has been described by some as an ambiguous project and a fragmented field, while others suggest a more coherent project, pointing out a near universal co...
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This article considers interprofessional learning initiatives in the context of undergraduate and postgraduate education and the continuing professional development of doctors and other health professionals. The evidence for and challenges to delivering interprofessional education are discussed along with current interprofessional education initiat...
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Student learning is an active and constructive process. The role of a teacher is to provide an environment in which students are able to actively engage with subject matter in order to learn it. This article examines the principal features of good curriculum, course and lesson design and discusses ways in which doctors, in their roles as teachers o...
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Clinical teachers need to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their teaching. Evaluation of teaching and learning generally occurs within quality assurance frameworks that have common features. Understanding quality assurance systems and evaluation methods will help clinical teachers to improve the student learning experience.
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We outline the project management tactics that we developed in praxis in order to manage elearning projects and show how our tactics were enhanced through implementing project management techniques from a formal project management methodology. Two key factors have contributed to our project management success. The first is maintaining a clear educa...
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The emergence of academic development as a mode of institutional and/or academic and/or human capital building activity in universities is a relatively recent development in the history of Western universities. Nevertheless, in the twenty-first century, academic development has become a central, though contested, part of the business of most higher...
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The emergence of academic development as a mode of institutional and/or academic and/or human capital building activity in universities is a relatively recent development in the history of Western universities. Nevertheless, in the twenty-first century, academic development has become a central, though contested, part of the business of most higher...
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Residents in all disciplines serve as clinical teachers for medical students. Since the 1970s, there has been increasing evidence to demonstrate that residents wish to teach and that they respond positively to formal teacher training. Effective resident-as-teacher (RaT) programmes have resulted in improved resident teaching skills. Current evidence...
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Clinical teachers may be involved in planning and developing courses and teaching sessions for different groups of students or trainees. Understanding the principles of curriculum development and design can help teachers provide the most appropriate educational interventions for their learners.
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Doctors are seen as key to embedding health improvement and patient safety initiatives and there has been much international debate over how best to engage doctors in healthcare leadership and management. This paper explores the current focus on leadership development programmes for doctors through taking a comparative approach to initiatives in Ne...
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More than 40 years after its beginnings, academic development stands uncertainly on the threshold of becoming a profession or discipline in its own right. While it remains marginal to the dominant stories of the university, it has become central to the institution's contemporary business. This Research Note describes an enquiry that uses a mutliple...
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Excerpt: The dedication in this book clearly describes the authors’ target audience – those committed to teaching students to value the processes of learning, not just the learning. Clearly aiming the book at instructors, the authors address them throughout, emphasising the personal responsibility that...
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This article is concerned with the complex role played by student assessment in the formation of the human subjects that are the product of higher education. Using a framework informed by the work of Foucault, it explores the productive effects of assessment regimes. Drawing on narrative data collected during in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews wi...
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UNITEC is attempting to shift from a paradigm that views quality as systems compliance to a paradigm of personal care and individual responsibility where quality is about making a real difference in classrooms. A set of ‘quality principles’ has been developed to replace comprehensive standards and processes specified in the existing quality-managem...
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The implementation of quality‐management systems in New Zealand polytechnics is discussed. Although these institutions have sought to define quality in a way appropriate to a tertiary education provider, the introduction of a systems approach to quality has not necessarily led to the institutions meeting their objectives in terms of their quality d...
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This paper describes an assessment method that was adopted for a work‐based co‐operative education course that forms part of a BBS degree programme. An innovative feature of the course is the collaborative process used for assessing student achievement. The student's on‐site project work is assessed jointly by the student, employer and academic sup...
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The oxygen transport characteristics of lugworm blood were studied over a range of temperature and pH values encompassing tidal and seasonally dependent measurements from worm burrows. The blood showed a small carbon dioxide Bohr effect (?log P50/?pH = ‐0.14 to ‐0.06), contrasting with the known pH sensitivity of blood in the European lugworm, Aren...
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1.1. Ventilation is continuous in the lugworm, Abarenicola affinis, when worms are placed in plastic burrows in constant darkness and ventilation flow, , is measured with a thermistor device.2.2. Incurrent burrow water pH, pO2 and temperatures were recorded from natural burrows seasonally and throughout a tidal cycle. The physico-chemical microenvi...
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Focus of discussion Teachers at Unitec work in an institution that spans a breadth of tertiary instruction unusual in the sector and one that aims to achieve both vocational and professional outcomes. By examining and comparing the approaches and attitudes of staff (those with formal education about education and those without) this study aims to d...
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The role of universities in the determination of what counts as knowing and what it is to be knowledgeable is, at the start of the twenty-first century, a contested one. While universities and other higher education institutions frequently draw on Enlightenment understandings to define their role in this regard they are also, and perhaps increasing...
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Thesis (EdD--Education)--University of Auckland, 2003.

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