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Can users judge what is ‘promising’ evidence in education? (2020)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N., & Wardle, L. (2020). Can users judge what is ‘promising’ evidence in education?. Research intelligence, 144, 20-21

Evidence can be used to inform decision-making by reducing uncertainty about the impact of programmes, policies and interventions (Raphael, 2000), and can yield better educational outcomes. Evidence can be confusing, however, as it varies in term... Read More about Can users judge what is ‘promising’ evidence in education?.

Overcoming Equity-Related Challenges for the Education and Training Systems of Europe (2020)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2020). Overcoming Equity-Related Challenges for the Education and Training Systems of Europe. Education Sciences, 10(11), Article 305. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci10110305

This paper is a discussion of the challenges to equity faced by the education and training systems of the 28 EU countries (at time of writing), based on secondary sources and official reports by individual countries. The data are descriptive and simp... Read More about Overcoming Equity-Related Challenges for the Education and Training Systems of Europe.

How to recruit and retain teachers in hard-to-staff areas: A systematic review of the empirical evidence (2020)
Book Chapter
See, B., Gorard, S., Morris, R., & el-Soufi, N. (2020). How to recruit and retain teachers in hard-to-staff areas: A systematic review of the empirical evidence. In T. Ovenden-Hope, & R. Passy (Eds.), Exploring teacher recruitment and retention (148-162). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429021824-14

Attracting and retaining qualified teachers in some subjects, schools and geographical areas is a common challenge facing school staffing policies in many developed countries. Chapter 13 summarises a systematic review of international research lookin... Read More about How to recruit and retain teachers in hard-to-staff areas: A systematic review of the empirical evidence.

Longitudinal Study of Socioeconomic Segregation Between Schools in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Martínez-Garrido, C., Siddiqui, N., & Gorard, S. (2020). Longitudinal Study of Socioeconomic Segregation Between Schools in the UK. Revista electrónica iberoamericana sobre calidad, eficacia y cambio en educación, 18(4), 123-141. https://doi.org/10.15366/reice2020.18.4.005

he aim of this study is to understand the behavior of school segregation by socioeconomic level in the UK. To do this, all data from the United Kingdom are analyzed in the PISA Assessment from 2000 to 2015 and the Gorard index, Dissimilarity index, a... Read More about Longitudinal Study of Socioeconomic Segregation Between Schools in the UK.

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.