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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?.

Interim project report on ECE project in India and Pakistan (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Siddiqui, N., Bulsari, S., Gorard, S., Saeed, S., Saeed, S., See, B. H., …Pandya, K. (2020). Interim project report on ECE project in India and Pakistan

We are pleased to report that the project has been successfully launched in the State of Gujarat, India and the province of Punjab, Pakistan under most unfortunate and critical circumstance due to the Covid 19 crisis. Before the global pandemic hit t... Read More about Interim project report on ECE project in India and Pakistan.

Who judges the evidence for evidence-led teaching? (2020)
Book Chapter
Gorard, S. (2020). Who judges the evidence for evidence-led teaching?. In C. Brown, J. Flood, & G. Handscomb (Eds.), The research-informed teaching revolution. Ipswich: John Catt

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?.

Handling missing data in numeric analyses (2020)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2020). Handling missing data in numeric analyses. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(6), 651-660. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1729974

Social science datasets usually have missing cases, and missing values. All such missing data has the potential to bias future research findings. However, many research reports ignore the issue of missing data, only consider some aspects of it, or do... Read More about Handling missing data in numeric analyses.

The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities (2020)
Journal Article
Boliver, V., Gorard, S., Powell, M., & Moreira, T. (2020). The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities. Scottish Affairs, 29(1), 82-97. https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0307

The Scottish Government has set ambitious targets for widening access to full-time undergraduate degree programmes. Meeting these targets will be a real challenge, not least because young people from socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts continue... Read More about The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities.