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Arlene Egan
Researcher at National College of Ireland
Publications - 10
Citations - 242
Arlene Egan is an academic researcher from National College of Ireland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Peer assessment. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 10 publications receiving 155 citations.
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Developing creativity in higher education for 21st century learners: A protocol for a scoping review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a protocol for a new review that will identify the characteristics of the frameworks as well as the tools being used by educators to formally develop students' creativity in higher education.
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Engaging Students Emotionally: The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Predicting Cognitive and Affective Engagement in Higher Education.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored whether emotional intelligence (EI) could predict cognitive and/or affective engagement in a sample of undergraduate psychology students in Ireland and found that TEI was a positive predictor of both cognitive and affective student engagement.
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A bifactor approach to modelling the Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale
TL;DR: This paper applied a bifactor model to the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) to provide a theoretical and methodologically satisfying resolution to the inconsistency in the empirical literature.
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Psychometric properties of the Posttraumatic Cognition Inventory within a Northern Ireland adolescent sample
TL;DR: These results provide the first piece of evidence that older adolescents cognitively respond to trauma in a similar manner to adults, that the PTCI is factorially invariant between genders, and that trauma cognitions are correlated with feelings of loneliness.
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An adult learner’s learning style should inform but not limit educational choices
Margot Barry,Arlene Egan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a discussion on why the use of learning styles measures continues to be popular despite the absence of rigorous research findings to support this practice, and conclude that while learning styles assessments can be useful for the purpose of reflection on strengths and weaknesses, they should play a limited role in educational choices.