Berry O’Donovan

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Berry O’Donovan is a scholar working on Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Berry O’Donovan has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Education, 3 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 1 paper in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Berry O’Donovan's work include Student Assessment and Feedback (13 papers), Evaluation of Teaching Practices (8 papers) and Reflective Practices in Education (7 papers). Berry O’Donovan is often cited by papers focused on Student Assessment and Feedback (13 papers), Evaluation of Teaching Practices (8 papers) and Reflective Practices in Education (7 papers). Berry O’Donovan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Berry O’Donovan's co-authors include Margaret Price, Chris Rust, Karen Handley, Jill Millar, Jude Carroll, Laura Moroşanu and Ian Sadler and has published in prestigious journals such as Studies in Higher Education, Higher Education and Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.

In The Last Decade

Berry O’Donovan

16 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Feedback : all that effort, but what is the effect?

2010 483 citations Margaret Price, Karen Handley et al. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Berry O’Donovan United Kingdom	13	1.8k	286	159	123	120	16	2.0k
Paul Orsmond United Kingdom	15	1.8k 1.0×	348 1.2×	166 1.0×	101 0.8×	69 0.6×	30	2.0k
Maddalena Taras United Kingdom	14	1.3k 0.8×	220 0.8×	132 0.8×	116 0.9×	92 0.8×	31	1.6k
Liz McDowell United Kingdom	16	1.2k 0.7×	201 0.7×	84 0.5×	82 0.7×	122 1.0×	43	1.6k
Lin Norton United Kingdom	18	1.0k 0.6×	185 0.6×	104 0.7×	51 0.4×	60 0.5×	44	1.4k
Sarah Gielen Belgium	17	1.2k 0.7×	359 1.3×	68 0.4×	97 0.8×	46 0.4×	38	1.4k
Alan Skelton United Kingdom	14	1.2k 0.7×	159 0.6×	78 0.5×	63 0.5×	60 0.5×	23	1.5k
Nancy Van Note Chism United States	12	1.4k 0.8×	274 1.0×	91 0.6×	93 0.8×	281 2.3×	40	1.8k
Tony Harland New Zealand	23	1.1k 0.6×	178 0.6×	161 1.0×	66 0.5×	72 0.6×	70	1.5k
Derek Rowntree United Kingdom	11	893 0.5×	236 0.8×	121 0.8×	129 1.0×	75 0.6×	23	1.3k
Judy Goldfinch United Kingdom	11	1.2k 0.7×	257 0.9×	110 0.7×	137 1.1×	182 1.5×	15	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Berry O’Donovan

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All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

O’Donovan, Berry, et al.. (2024). Social moderation and calibration versus codification: a way forward for academic standards in higher education?. Studies in Higher Education. 49(12). 2693–2706. 1 indexed citations

O’Donovan, Berry, et al.. (2019). What makes good feedback good?. Studies in Higher Education. 46(2). 318–329. 30 indexed citations

O’Donovan, Berry. (2018). Patchwork quilt or woven cloth? The student experience of coping with assessment across disciplines. Studies in Higher Education. 44(9). 1579–1590. 8 indexed citations

O’Donovan, Berry. (2016). How student beliefs about knowledge and knowing influence their satisfaction with assessment and feedback. Higher Education. 74(4). 617–633. 48 indexed citations

O’Donovan, Berry, Chris Rust, & Margaret Price. (2015). A scholarly approach to solving the feedback dilemma in practice. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. 41(6). 938–949. 88 indexed citations

Price, Margaret, et al.. (2012). Assessment Literacy: The Foundation for Improving Student Learning. 28 indexed citations

Price, Margaret, Jude Carroll, Berry O’Donovan, & Chris Rust. (2010). If I was going there I wouldn’t start from here: a critical commentary on current assessment practice. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. 36(4). 479–492. 130 indexed citations

Moroşanu, Laura, Karen Handley, & Berry O’Donovan. (2010). Seeking support: researching first‐year students’ experiences of coping with academic life. Higher Education Research & Development. 29(6). 665–678. 68 indexed citations

Price, Margaret, Karen Handley, Jill Millar, & Berry O’Donovan. (2010). Feedback : all that effort, but what is the effect?. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. 35(3). 277–289. 483 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Donovan, Berry. (2010). Filling a pail or lighting a fire? The intellectual development of managment undergraduates. The International Journal of Management Education. 9(1). 1–10. 6 indexed citations

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O’Donovan, Berry, Margaret Price, & Chris Rust. (2008). Developing student understanding of assessment standards: a nested hierarchy of approaches. Teaching in Higher Education. 13(2). 205–217. 97 indexed citations

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Price, Margaret, Berry O’Donovan, & Chris Rust. (2007). Putting a social‐constructivist assessment process model into practice: building the feedback loop into the assessment process through peer review. Innovations in Education and Teaching International. 44(2). 143–152. 45 indexed citations

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Rust, Chris, Berry O’Donovan, & Margaret Price. (2005). A social constructivist assessment process model: how the research literature shows us this could be best practice. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. 30(3). 231–240. 256 indexed citations

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O’Donovan, Berry, Margaret Price, & Chris Rust. (2004). Know what I mean? Enhancing student understanding of assessment standards and criteria. Teaching in Higher Education. 9(3). 325–335. 209 indexed citations

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Rust, Chris, Margaret Price, & Berry O’Donovan. (2003). Improving Students' Learning by Developing their Understanding of Assessment Criteria and Processes. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. 28(2). 147–164. 448 indexed citations

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O’Donovan, Berry, Margaret Price, & Chris Rust. (2001). The Student Experience of Criterion-Referenced Assessment (Through the Introduction of a Common Criteria Assessment Grid). Innovations in Education and Teaching International. 38(1). 74–85. 86 indexed citations

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