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Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English (2022)
Journal Article
Oliver, M., & Higgins, S. (2023). Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 47, Article 101230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2022.101230

This paper draws upon a growing body of research emphasising the importance and prevalence of domain-specific practices in teaching and learning. Different disciplines have their own reasoning practices, conceptualised as reasoning styles, which are... Read More about Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English.

Does digital, multimedia information increase recruitment and retention in a children’s wrist fracture treatment trial, and what do people think of it? A randomised controlled Study Within A Trial (SWAT) (2022)
Journal Article
Moe-Byrne, T., Knapp, P., Perry, D., Achten, J., Spoors, L., Appelbe, D., Roche, J., Martin-Kerry, J. M., Sheridan, R., & Higgins, S. (2022). Does digital, multimedia information increase recruitment and retention in a children’s wrist fracture treatment trial, and what do people think of it? A randomised controlled Study Within A Trial (SWAT). BMJ Open, 12(7), Article e057508. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057508

Objectives To evaluate digital, multimedia information (MMI) for its effects on trial recruitment, retention, decisions about participation and acceptability by patients, compared with printed information. Design Study Within A Trial using random clu... Read More about Does digital, multimedia information increase recruitment and retention in a children’s wrist fracture treatment trial, and what do people think of it? A randomised controlled Study Within A Trial (SWAT).

Engaging children, young people, parents and health professionals in interviews: Using an interactive ranking exercise within the co-design of multimedia websites (2022)
Journal Article
Martin-Kerry, J., Higgins, S., Knapp, P., Liabo, K., & Young, B. (2024). Engaging children, young people, parents and health professionals in interviews: Using an interactive ranking exercise within the co-design of multimedia websites. Journal of Child Health Care, 28(1), 181-195. https://doi.org/10.1177/13674935221109684

When planning paediatric trials, it is important to consider how best to communicate with children and young people (CYP) so they understand what they are taking part in. It is also important to consider what information they need. Involving CYP as r... Read More about Engaging children, young people, parents and health professionals in interviews: Using an interactive ranking exercise within the co-design of multimedia websites.

The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education (2022)
Journal Article
Higgins, S., Katsipataki, M., Villanueva Aguilera, A., Alaidde, B., Dobson, E., Gascoine, L., Rajab, T., Reardon, J., Stafford, J., & Uwimpuhwe, G. (2022). The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education. Review of Education, 10(1), Article e3327. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3327

This article compares and contrasts two versions of the Education Endowment Foundation's (EEF) Teaching and Learning Toolkit (‘Toolkit’), a web-based summary of international evidence on teaching 3–18 year-olds. The Toolkit has localised versions in... Read More about The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education.

Meta-analysis examining the effects of electronic storybooks on language and literacy outcomes for children in grades Pre-K to grade 2 (2021)
Journal Article
Savva, M., Higgins, S., & Beckmann, N. (2022). Meta-analysis examining the effects of electronic storybooks on language and literacy outcomes for children in grades Pre-K to grade 2. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 38(2), 526-564. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12623

Background The array of availability of diverse digital reading applications, the mixed results emerging from small-scale experimental studies, as well as the long-standing tradition and range of known positive developmental outcomes gained from adul... Read More about Meta-analysis examining the effects of electronic storybooks on language and literacy outcomes for children in grades Pre-K to grade 2.

Of Young People and Internet Cafés (2021)
Journal Article
Xiao, Z., & Higgins, S. (2021). Of Young People and Internet Cafés. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 603992. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.603992

This study examines how adolescent experience in Internet cafés (known as wangba in Chinese) relates to academic attainment in urban, rural, and Tibetan schools of China. By documenting the frustrations teenagers express in their negotiations with ad... Read More about Of Young People and Internet Cafés.

Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals (2021)
Journal Article
Ashraf, B., Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2021). Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals. British Educational Research Journal, 47(6), 1675-1699. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3749

Meta-analysis is the synthesis of findings from research projects, which enables an estimate of the average or pooled effect across various studies. This study presents findings from the intention to treat analysis for a series of educational evaluat... Read More about Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals.

Evaluating the use of multimedia information when recruiting adolescents to orthodontics research: a randomised controlled trial (2021)
Journal Article
Knapp, P., Mandall, N., Hulse, W., Roche, J., Moe-Byrne, T., Martin-Kerry, J., Sheridan, R., & Higgins, S. (2021). Evaluating the use of multimedia information when recruiting adolescents to orthodontics research: a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Orthodontics, 48(4), 343-351. https://doi.org/10.1177/14653125211024250

Objective: The study aim was to compare two methods of providing information about the BAMP (Bone Anchored Maxillary Protraction) trial: standard printed information and multimedia websites, for their quality and ease of understanding, and impact on... Read More about Evaluating the use of multimedia information when recruiting adolescents to orthodontics research: a randomised controlled trial.

Individual-participant-data-meta-analysis-of-the-impact-of-EEF-trials-on-the-educational-attainment-of-pupils-on-Free-School-Meals (2021)
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Ashraf, B., Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Coolen-Maturi, T., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2021). Individual-participant-data-meta-analysis-of-the-impact-of-EEF-trials-on-the-educational-attainment-of-pupils-on-Free-School-Meals. EEF

Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals (2021)
Journal Article
Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Li, M., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2022). Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 45(1), 18-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2021.1882416

In education, multisite trials involve randomisation of pupils into intervention and comparison groups within schools. Most analytical models in multisite educational trials ignore that the impact of an intervention may be school dependent. This stud... Read More about Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals.