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The disproportionality of ethnic minority teachers in England: trends, patterns, and problems (2023)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Chen, W., Tan, Y., Gazmuri, C., See, B., Tereshchenko, A., …Siddiqui, N. (2023). The disproportionality of ethnic minority teachers in England: trends, patterns, and problems. Routledge Open Research, 2(13), https://doi.org/10.12688/routledgeopenres.17798.1

Background: England has an ethnically diverse population; reflected in the teacher workforce, and the student body in schools. However, it is not clear that these figures are in proportion to each other. This paper examines the ethnic profile of stud... Read More about The disproportionality of ethnic minority teachers in England: trends, patterns, and problems.

The difficulty of making claims to knowledge in social science (2022)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., & Tan, Y. (2022). The difficulty of making claims to knowledge in social science. Technium Social Sciences Journal, 28(1), 170-202. https://doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v28i1.5822

This paper considers three common types of claim to research knowledge, and the relative difficulty of making each type of claim in an empirically and logically justified manner. Before this, the paper looks at some more general issues often raised w... Read More about The difficulty of making claims to knowledge in social science.

Contextualised Admission: Does Province-Based Quota Policy Improve Geographical HE Equity in China? (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Tan, Y. (2021). Contextualised Admission: Does Province-Based Quota Policy Improve Geographical HE Equity in China?. In S. Riddle, & P. Bhatia (Eds.), Imagining Better Education: Conference Proceedings 2020 (151-180)

HE geographical equity is a significant societal problem in China. As the primary admission policy, Province-based Quota Policy has been implemented to ameliorate geographical disparity in HE admission. However, the contribution of this improvement i... Read More about Contextualised Admission: Does Province-Based Quota Policy Improve Geographical HE Equity in China?.

Reviewing the logic of social scientific claims (2021)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., & Tan, Y. (2021). Reviewing the logic of social scientific claims. Technium Social Sciences Journal, 24(1), 113-124. https://doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v24i1.4781

This paper considers three different claims to knowledge, namely, “fully descriptive”, “generally descriptive” and causal claims. These are all common in social science, and each type of claim requires more assumptions than the previous one. After di... Read More about Reviewing the logic of social scientific claims.