Staff
Ms Louise Gascoine
Biography
Louise graduated from the University of St Andrews with MA Honours Geography in 2005. After gaining SEN school based experience and completing a Certificate in Psychology, Louise trained to teach secondary Geography at Newcastle University. She completed her M.Ed in Practitioner Enquiry (part time) with distinction, whilst teaching in a wide variety of school settings in North East England. At this time, she also worked on a freelance basis on a variety of projects as a research assistant including a Learning to Learn project with Dr Kate Wall in 2010, a rapid evidence review with Professor Steve Higgins also in 2010 and more recently a Sutton Trust Toolkit for Higher Education Access with Professor Carole Torgerson.
In 2011, Louise was awarded a Durham Doctoral Studentship for PhD study in the School of Education. Louise’s research interests centre on the field of metacognition and in particular the use of the methods used to explore this with school age children. The working title of her PhD is ‘Investigating the development of metacognition across school age children using Pupil Views Templates’. The research will use a visual tool; Pupil Views Templates (PVTs) in order to explore this.
- This PhD thesis will focus on PVTs as a research tool to explore developmental trends in declarative metacognition; it will be the first systematic sample of data using PVTs across the entire compulsory UK school age range (4-16 years).
- This thesis will also include a systematic review of methodologies that have been used since 1992 to explain and measure or assess metacognition.
Publications
Journal papers: academic
- Gascoine, L. (2010). Case Study: Pupil Perceptions of PLTS. Learning and Teaching Update 36: 9-10.
Books: reviews
- Mitchell, C. (2012). Doing Visual Research. International Journal of Research & Method in Education 35: 326-328.
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