A.1 Peer reviewed papers
 

1. The changes in attitudes and beliefs of first year physics students: a study using the CLASS survey, International Journal of Innovation in Science and Maths Education, Vol 19, No 1 (2011)

available online at: http://escholarship.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/CAL/article/view/4780

2. "How attitudes and beliefs about Physics change from high school to Faculty: an investigation with CLASS" Simon P. Bates, Ross K. Galloway, Claire Loptson, Katherine A. Slaughter. Physical Review Special Topic: Physics Education Research, 020114 (2011) 

available online at: http://prst-per.aps.org/abstract/PRSTPER/v7/i2/e020114

3.  "Diagnostic tests in the Physical Sciences: a brief review" Ross K. Galloway and Simon P. Bates. New Directions: the Journal of the Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre  -  vol 6 2010 Available online from http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/publications/newdirections

4. "Closing the feedback loop for clicker questions" Simon P. Bates and Keith J. Brunton. New Directions: the Journal of the Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre  -  vol 6 2010 Available online from http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/publications/newdirections

4."Asking the right questions: designing diagnostic tests in undergraduate Physics education" Simon Bates and Rachel Archer. New Directions: the Journal of the Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre  -  vol 5 2009 Available online from http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/publications/newdirections

5. "Mapping the transition: Content and Pedagogy across the School-University boundary" Simon Bates and Kate Slaughter T New Directions: the Journal of the Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre  -  vol 5 2009 Available online from http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/publications/newdirections

6.  J. Hardy, D. Haywood, S. Bates, J. Patterson, S. Rhind, H. Macleod and J. Haywood (2008) Expectations and Reality: Exploring the use of learning technologies across the disciplines,  Sixth International Conference on Networked Learning, Halkidiki, Greece.

http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/past/nlc2008/abstracts/PDFs/Hardy_475-483.pdf

7.  Simon P. Bates, Judy Hardy, Jon Hill and Mario Antonioletti   "Tracking and Visualisation of Student Use of Online Learning Materials in a Large Undergraduate Course"  H. Leung et al. (Eds.): ICWL 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4823, pp. 464 – 474, 2008.
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008  Available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78139-4_41

 8. Simon P. Bates, David McKain and Bruce Sinclair
“DUMP: A database of MCQs for Physics”
New Directions: the Journal of the Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre  -  2007. Available online from http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/publications/newdirections

9. Simon P. Bates, Adam Stevens, Marialuisa Aliotta and Keith Brunton
“Assessing the impact and effectiveness of podcasts as pre-lectures”
Research proceedings of the 14th Association of Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2007),

10. Simon P. Bates, Judy Hardy, John Hill and David McKain,
“How design of online learning materials can accommodate the heterogeneity in student abilities, aptitudes and aspirations”

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Journal (LATHE) vol 2 2007-8, available online at http://www.glos.ac.uk/tli/lets/journals/lathe/issue2/index.cfm.  

11. Simon P. Bates, Karen Howie and Alexander St J. Murphy, "The use of electronic voting systems in large group lectures:challenges and opportunities"
New Directions: the Journal of the Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre (ISSN 1740-9888) - Issue 2 Dec 2006.

12. Judy Hardy, Simon Bates, Kirsty Murray, David McKain, Jessie Patterson, Brendan McGonigle, Lorenzo Vigentini and Andrew Jackson.
“The modus operandi of the next-generation learner: an analysis of tracking usage across the disciplines”
Research proceedings of the 13th Association of Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2006), Whitelock, D. and Wheeler, S. (Eds), 2006 108-121.

13. Simon P. Bates, David McKain and Alastair Bruce
"Integrating e-learning and on campus teaching I: an overview"
Research Proceedings of the 12th Association of Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2005),  Cook, J and Whitelock, D. (Eds), 2006 130-139. 

14. Simon P. Bates, Judy Hardy, David McKain and Mario Antionioletti
"Integrating e-learning and on campus teaching II: evaluation of student use"
Research Proceedings of the 12th Association of Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2005),  Cook, J and Whitelock, D. (Eds), 2006 140-153.

15. Simon P. Bates  “Reshaping Large Undergraduate Science Courses; the Weekly Workshop”
CAL-laborate, UniServe Science International Newsletter, 14 (2005) available online

A.2 Conference presentations (indicates paper in proceedings) / case studies.

2011

A longitudinal study of the development of attitudes and beliefs towards Physics.

Simon Bates, Kate Slaughter and Ross Galloway.

To appear in proceedings of the 2011 Physics Education Research Conference, PERC 2011, http://www.compadre.org/per/conferences/2011/

* Student generated content: using PeerWise to enhance engagement and outcomes in introductory physics courses

Simon Bates, Ross Galloway, Karon McBride 

To appear in proceedings of the 2011 Physics Education Research Conference, PERC 2011, http://www.compadre.org/per/conferences/2011/

2010

1. "...And the winner is": using clickers and student-generated content to promote engagement through in-class competitons.

Marialuisa Aliotta and Simon Bates.

Physics Community and Cooperation: Selected Contributions from the GIREP-EPEC & PHEC 2009 International Conference, Ed. D Raine, C Hurkett, L Rogers (Lulu/ The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, Leicester, 2010) p166-175. ISBN 978-1-4461-6219-4 (http://physics.le.ac.uk/girep2009/)

2 Attitudes towards studying science: CLASS at Edinburgh

Simon Bates and Kate Slaughter 

Physics Community and Cooperation: Selected Contributions from the GIREP-EPEC & PHEC 2009 International Conference, Ed. D Raine, C Hurkett, L Rogers (Lulu/ The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, Leicester, 2010) p176-184. ISBN 978-1-4461-6219-4 (http://physics.le.ac.uk/girep2009/)

2009

3.  Judy Hardy, Jeff Haywood, Denise Haywood, Simon Bates, Jessie Paterson, Susan Rhind and Hamish Macleod,

Taking the lead: learners experiences across the disciplines, Proceedings of ALT-C 2009, Davis, H and Creanor, J (Eds), 1-11 (2009). available online from http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/projects/lead  
 

2007

4. (*) 14th Association of Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2007)
“Assessing the impact and effectiveness of podcasts as pre-lectures "

Presentation (Nottingham University, September 2007)
 

5. (*) REAP Re-engineering Assessment Practices International Online Conference.
"Assessment design for learner responsibility".
Invited case study on collaborative problem solving in first year Physics

(http://www.reap.ac.uk, May 2007).
 

6. (*) International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2007)
“Tracking & visualisation of student use of online learning materials in a large undergraduate course”.

Accepted for presentation and proceedings (Edinburgh, August 2007)

 

7. (*) Second International Blended Learning Conference: Supporting the Net Generation Learner
“Aardvark: a single-source, multiple-output content management system”,
Accepted for presentation and proceedings (University of Hertfordshire, June 2007)
 

8. (*) Science Learning and Teaching Conference 2007
“Rousing the Dead: A hands-on guide to interactive engagement in large lectures”
Accepted for workshop and proceedings (Keele University, June 2007)
 

9. (*) Science Learning and Teaching Conference 2007
“Podcasts in undergraduate science education”

Accepted for presentation and proceedings (Keele University, June 2007)
 

10. (*) MSOR / CETL conference: Continuing Excellence in the teaching of Maths, Stats and OR
“Technical Aspects of Developing a Web-based, Maths-aware Assessment System”
Presentation and paper in proceedings (Loughborough Sep 2006). 

11. VLE’s Pedagogy and Implementation Online conference: theory and practice of learning platforms.
“How the design of online learning materials can accommodate heterogeneities in aptitudes, abilities and aspirations”
Presentation (www.online-conference.net/vle2006, October 2006).
 

12. (*) 13th Association of Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2006)
“The Modus Operandi of e-elearners"

Presentation (Heriot-Watt University, September 2006)

13. Physics Higher Education Conference (PHEC 2006)
“Rousing the dead; a hands-on guide to interactive engagement strategies in lectures”
Presentation (Leicester, September 2006)

14. WebCT European User Conference 2006
"Enhancing the on-campus experience with online resources: the best of both worlds"
Presentation (28th Feb 2006, Heriot Watt)

15. (*) JISC online conference: Innovating e-learning 2006
Tracking e-learners across the disciplines.
Presentation and e-book (27th-31st March 2006)

16 (*) 12th Association of Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2005)
"Integrating e-learning and on campus teaching I: an overview"
Presentation (Manchester, 6-8th September 2005)

17 (*) 12th Association of Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2005)
"Integrating e-learning and on campus teaching II: evaluation of student use"
Presentation (Manchester, 6-8th September 2005)

18 (*) IASTED International Conference on Web-Based Education (WBE 2004)
"e-Learner Tracking: tools for discovering learner behaviour"
Presentation (Innsbruck, Feb 2004).

19 (*) 2nd Global Conference in Virtual Learning and Higher Education
"Evaluation of an e-Learning Strategy : watching the e-Learners learn"
Presentation  (Mansfield College Oxford, September 2003)

A.3 Book chapters 

1. Assessing the potential and impact of podcasts as pre-lectures 

Marialuisa Aliotta, Simon Bates, Keith Brunton and Adam Stevens
chapter in Podcasting for Learning in Universities, Eds Prof Gilly Salmon and
Dr Palitha Edirisingha OUP 2008 ISBN 0335234291

see http://www.atimod.com/podcasting/index.shtml