Tutor Trust: Affordable primary tuition. Evaluation report and executive summary
(2018)
Report
Torgerson, C., Bell, K., Coleman, E., Elliott, L., Fairhurst, C., Gascoine, L., …Torgerson, D. (2018). Tutor Trust: Affordable primary tuition. Evaluation report and executive summary. [No known commissioning body]
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Calderdale Excellence Partnership: IPEELL. Evaluation and Executive Summary (2018)
Report
Torgerson, C., Torgerson, D., Ainsworth, H., Hewitt, C., Kasim, A., Kokotsaki, D., …Gascoine, L. (2018). Calderdale Excellence Partnership: IPEELL. Evaluation and Executive Summary. [No known commissioning body]
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in education research –methodological debates, questions, challenges (2018)
Journal Article
Styles, B., & Torgerson, C. (2018). Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in education research –methodological debates, questions, challenges. Educational Research, 60(3), 255-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131881.2018.1500194This Special Issue of Educational Research shines a spotlight on a key research design in the 21st Century in the field of education research: the randomised controlled trial (RCT) or ‘true’ experiment. The six papers included here explore the histor... Read More about Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in education research –methodological debates, questions, challenges.
Maths Champions: Evaluation Report and Executive Summary (2018)
Report
Robinson-Smith, L., Fairhurst, C., Stone, G., Bell, K., Elliott, L., Gascoine, L., …Ainsworth, H. (2018). Maths Champions: Evaluation Report and Executive Summary. [No known commissioning body]
A systematic review of evidence on the effectiveness of interventions and strategies for widening participation in higher education (2018)
Journal Article
Younger, K., Gascoine, L., Menzies, V., & Torgerson, C. (2019). A systematic review of evidence on the effectiveness of interventions and strategies for widening participation in higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 43(6), 742-773. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2017.1404558Widening participation (WP) in higher education (HE) is an increasingly important policy issue, with interventions to increase participation from minority ethnic, low-income and other under-represented groups undertaken in HE sectors in many countrie... Read More about A systematic review of evidence on the effectiveness of interventions and strategies for widening participation in higher education.
Phonics: reading policy and the evidence of effectiveness from a systematic ‘tertiary’ review (2018)
Journal Article
Torgerson, C., Brooks, G., Gascoine, L., & Higgins, S. (2019). Phonics: reading policy and the evidence of effectiveness from a systematic ‘tertiary’ review. Research Papers in Education, 34(2), 208-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2017.1420816Ten years after publication of two reviews of the evidence on phonics, a number of British policy initiatives have firmly embedded phonics in the curriculum for early reading development. However, uncertainty about the most effective approaches to te... Read More about Phonics: reading policy and the evidence of effectiveness from a systematic ‘tertiary’ review.