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Teacher recruitment and retention: A critical review of international evidence of most promising interventions (2020)
Journal Article
See, B., Morris, R., Gorard, S., Kokotsaki, D., & Abdi, S. (2020). Teacher recruitment and retention: A critical review of international evidence of most promising interventions. Education Sciences, 10(10), Article 262. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci10100262

Background: A raft of initiatives and reforms have been introduced in many countries to attract and recruit school teachers, many of which do not have a clear evidence base, so their effectiveness remains unclear. Prior research has been largely corr... Read More about Teacher recruitment and retention: A critical review of international evidence of most promising interventions.

What works in attracting and retaining teachers in challenging schools and areas? (2020)
Journal Article
See, B. H., Morris, R., Gorard, S., & El Soufi, N. (2020). What works in attracting and retaining teachers in challenging schools and areas?. Oxford Review of Education, 46(6), 678-697. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2020.1775566

This paper describes a systematic review of international research evidence identifying the most promising approaches to attracting and retaining teachers in hard-to-staff areas. Only empirical studies that employed a causal or suitable comparative d... Read More about What works in attracting and retaining teachers in challenging schools and areas?.

What is the evidence on the best way to get evidence into use in education? (2020)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N,, B., & See, B. (2020). What is the evidence on the best way to get evidence into use in education?. Review of Education, 8(2), 570-610. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3200

For decades there have been calls by concerned stakeholders to improve the quality of education research, and some progress has been made towards creating a more secure evidence base in some areas. More programmes and approaches that have a reasonabl... Read More about What is the evidence on the best way to get evidence into use in education?.

Effective classroom instructions for primary literacy? A critical review of causal evidence (2020)
Journal Article
See, B., & Gorard, S. (2020). Effective classroom instructions for primary literacy? A critical review of causal evidence. International Journal of Educational Research, 102, Article 101577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101577

In the last two decades there has been a proliferation of proposals for instructional practices, all promising to improve pupils’ academic attainment. Many of these approaches have not been robustly or independently evaluated. Schools, enthusiastic t... Read More about Effective classroom instructions for primary literacy? A critical review of causal evidence.