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A Test of the Big Fish in a Little Pond Hypothesis: An Investigation into the Feelings of Seven-Year-Old Pupils in School (2001)
Journal Article
Tymms, P. (2001). A Test of the Big Fish in a Little Pond Hypothesis: An Investigation into the Feelings of Seven-Year-Old Pupils in School. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 12(2), 161-181. https://doi.org/10.1076/sesi.12.2.161.3452

The feelings (self-concepts and attitudes) toward maths, reading and school of 21,000 seven-year-olds in England were investigated using multi-variate multi-level models. The most important explanatory variables were the teacher and the academic leve... Read More about A Test of the Big Fish in a Little Pond Hypothesis: An Investigation into the Feelings of Seven-Year-Old Pupils in School.

Do Children Have Privacy Rights in the Classroom? (2001)
Journal Article
Davis, A. (2001). Do Children Have Privacy Rights in the Classroom?. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 20(3), 245-54. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1010306811944

Argues that, while students should have the right to privacy in the classroom, there are instances when that right must be waived. Contends, however, that learners cannot acquire a proper understanding of factual material, or the justification for be... Read More about Do Children Have Privacy Rights in the Classroom?.

Changing the way people manage Type 1 Diabetes. (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roberts, S., Amiel, S., Beveridge, S., Bradley, C., Gianfransesco, C., Heller, J., …Wright, F. (2001). Changing the way people manage Type 1 Diabetes.

Educational Research and Intertextual Forms of (Re)Presentation: The case for Dancing the Data (2001)
Journal Article
Bagley, C., & Cancienne, M. (2001). Educational Research and Intertextual Forms of (Re)Presentation: The case for Dancing the Data. Qualitative Inquiry, 7(2), 221-237. https://doi.org/10.1177/107780040100700205

Contemporary dialogues concerning qualitative methodology focus increasingly on alternative forms of data (re)presentation. This article explores the use of dance as a medium for such (re)presentation. The article contextualizes, describes, and refle... Read More about Educational Research and Intertextual Forms of (Re)Presentation: The case for Dancing the Data.

Motivation in the junior years: international perspectives on children's attitudes, expectations and behaviour and their relationship to educational achievement (2001)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., Hufton, N., Illushin, L., & Lauchlan, F. (2001). Motivation in the junior years: international perspectives on children's attitudes, expectations and behaviour and their relationship to educational achievement. Oxford Review of Education, 27(1), 37-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054980123436

This paper reports findings from a large-scale international investigation of a number of factors that are considered to impact upon educational motivation and achievement. Following on from an earlier investigation of adolescent attitudes, the prese... Read More about Motivation in the junior years: international perspectives on children's attitudes, expectations and behaviour and their relationship to educational achievement.

Inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness: Their impact on academic achievement and progress (2001)
Journal Article
Merrell, C., & Tymms, P. (2001). Inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness: Their impact on academic achievement and progress. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 71(1), 43-56. https://doi.org/10.1348/000709901158389

Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have been found to achieve lower grades at school than their peers. Does this extend to pupils who are apparently exceptionally inattentive, hyperactive or impulsive, but have not been dia... Read More about Inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness: Their impact on academic achievement and progress.

Dimensions of Evidence, the Public Understanding of Science and Science Education (2001)
Journal Article
Tytler, R., Duggan, S., & Gott, R. (2001). Dimensions of Evidence, the Public Understanding of Science and Science Education. International Journal of Science Education, 23(8), 815-832. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500690010016058

This paper explores the nature and type of evidence employed by participants in an issue of public concern. By examining documents and interviewing members of the public involved in the debate, the way in which evidence was used in the arguments for... Read More about Dimensions of Evidence, the Public Understanding of Science and Science Education.

Language Learners as Ethnographers (2001)
Book
Roberts, C., Byram, M., Barro, A., Jordan, S., & Street, B. (2001). Language Learners as Ethnographers. Multilingual Matters

This book describes a new approach to teaching and learning cultural studies. Borrowing the idea of ethnography from anthropologists, it argues that language students can be taught methods for investigating the cultural and social patterns of interac... Read More about Language Learners as Ethnographers.