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Role models, school improvement and the 'gender gap' - do men bring out the best in boys and women bring out the best in girls? (2008)
Journal Article
Carrington, B., Tymms, P., & Merrell, C. (2008). Role models, school improvement and the 'gender gap' - do men bring out the best in boys and women bring out the best in girls?. British Educational Research Journal, 34(3), 315-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411920701532202

A number of countries are running role model recruitment drives under the assumption that like is good for like: ethnic minority teachers should teach ethnic minority children, women should teach girls, and so on. The empirical basis for this would a... Read More about Role models, school improvement and the 'gender gap' - do men bring out the best in boys and women bring out the best in girls?.

How has Educational Expansion changed the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Achieving Professional, Managerial and Technical Class Positions in Britain? A Configurational Analysis. (2008)
Journal Article
Cooper, B., & Glaesser, J. (2008). How has Educational Expansion changed the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Achieving Professional, Managerial and Technical Class Positions in Britain? A Configurational Analysis. Sociological Research Online, 13(3), 1-22

This paper, whose purpose is both substantive and methodological, focuses on changes over a nine year period, drawing on data from two British birth cohorts (individuals born in 1958 and 1970), and, substantively, employs set theoretic methods to exp... Read More about How has Educational Expansion changed the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Achieving Professional, Managerial and Technical Class Positions in Britain? A Configurational Analysis..

Representing multiplication. (2008)
Journal Article
Harries, A., & Barmby, P. (2008). Representing multiplication. Mathematics teaching, 206, 37-41

The Importance of Districts. (2008)
Journal Article
Tymms, P., Merrell, C., Heron, T., Jones, P., Albone, S., & Henderson, B. (2008). The Importance of Districts. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 19(3), 261-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/09243450802332069

Effectiveness studies have largely concentrated on the school as the unit of analysis, although an increasing number have directed their attention to the teacher as the main unit of interest. But policy is often directed through organisations at the... Read More about The Importance of Districts..