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Teaching without a blackboard and chalk: conflicting attitudes towards using ICTs in higher education teaching and learning (2016)
Journal Article
Tummons, J., Fournier, C., Kits, O., & Macleod, A. (2016). Teaching without a blackboard and chalk: conflicting attitudes towards using ICTs in higher education teaching and learning. Higher Education Research & Development, 35(4), 829-840. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2015.1137882

This article, derived from a three-year ethnography of distributed medical education provision in a Canadian university, explores the ways in which information and communication technologies are used by teachers and students in their everyday work wi... Read More about Teaching without a blackboard and chalk: conflicting attitudes towards using ICTs in higher education teaching and learning.

Robust retention and transfer of tool construction techniques in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2016)
Journal Article
Vale, G., Flynn, E., Pender, L., Price, E., Whiten, A., Lambeth, P., …Kendal, R. (2016). Robust retention and transfer of tool construction techniques in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130(1), 24-35. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0040000

Long-term memory can be critical to a species’ survival in environments with seasonal and even longer-term cycles of resource availability. The present, longitudinal study investigated whether complex tool behaviors used to gain an out-of-reach rewar... Read More about Robust retention and transfer of tool construction techniques in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Meta-synthesis and comparative meta-analysis of education research findings: some risks and benefits (2016)
Journal Article
Higgins, S. (2016). Meta-synthesis and comparative meta-analysis of education research findings: some risks and benefits. Review of Education, 4(1), 31-53. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3067

Meta-analysis, or quantitative synthesis, is the statistical combination of research findings. It can identify whether an intervention or approach, on balance, is effective or not, and can explain variation in findings by identifying patterns associa... Read More about Meta-synthesis and comparative meta-analysis of education research findings: some risks and benefits.

How to identify research questions (2016)
Book Chapter
Hua, Z., Holmes, P., Young, T., & Angouri, J. (2016). How to identify research questions. In Z. Hua (Ed.), Research methods in intercultural communication: a practical guide (73-87). Wiley

Understanding the validity of data: a knowledge-based network underlying research expertise in scientific disciplines (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, R. (2016). Understanding the validity of data: a knowledge-based network underlying research expertise in scientific disciplines. Higher Education, 72(5), 651-668. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-015-9969-4

This article considers what might be taught to meet a widely held curriculum aim of students being able to understand research in a discipline. Expertise, which may appear as a ‘chain of practice’, is widely held to be underpinned by networks of unde... Read More about Understanding the validity of data: a knowledge-based network underlying research expertise in scientific disciplines.

A cautionary note on measuring the pupil premium attainment gap in England (2016)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2016). A cautionary note on measuring the pupil premium attainment gap in England. British journal of education, society & behavioural science, 14(2), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.9734/bjesbs/2016/23618

This exploratory paper uses figures from the National Pupil Database for England to assess the known characteristics of three categories of pupils – those never eligible for free school meals, those who have been eligible but are not now, and those e... Read More about A cautionary note on measuring the pupil premium attainment gap in England.

Clustered randomised controlled trial of two education interventions designed to increase physical activity and well-being of secondary school students: The MOVE Project (2016)
Journal Article
Tymms, P., Curtis, S. E., Routen, A. C., Thomson, K. H., Bolden, D. S., Bock, S., Dunn, C. E., Cooper, A. R., Elliott, J. G., Moore, H. J., Summerbell, C. D., Tiffin, P. A., & Kasim Adetayo, S. (2016). Clustered randomised controlled trial of two education interventions designed to increase physical activity and well-being of secondary school students: The MOVE Project. BMJ Open, 6(1), Article e009318. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009318

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of two interventions in improving the physical activity and wellbeing of secondary school children. Design: A clustered randomised controlled trial; classes, one per school, were assigned to one of three interve... Read More about Clustered randomised controlled trial of two education interventions designed to increase physical activity and well-being of secondary school students: The MOVE Project.

Improving Trust, Improving Schools: Findings from a Social Network Analysis of 43 Primary Schools in England (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, C., Daly, A., & Liou, Y. (2016). Improving Trust, Improving Schools: Findings from a Social Network Analysis of 43 Primary Schools in England. Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 1(1), 69-91. https://doi.org/10.1108/jpcc-09-2015-0004

Purpose: Many governments worldwide are now promoting the importance of research-informed efforts at improvement. At the same time research is yet to make sustained impact on the practices of teachers. Given the importance of the issue and the lack o... Read More about Improving Trust, Improving Schools: Findings from a Social Network Analysis of 43 Primary Schools in England.

An international consensus definition of the wish to hasten death and its related factors (2016)
Journal Article
Balaguer, A., Monforte-Royo, C., Porta-Sales, J., Alonso-Babarro, A., Altisent, R., Aradilla-Herrero, A., …Voltz, R. (2016). An international consensus definition of the wish to hasten death and its related factors. PLoS ONE, 11(1), Article e0146184. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146184

Background The desire for hastened death or wish to hasten death (WTHD) that is experienced by some patients with advanced illness is a complex phenomenon for which no widely accepted definition exists. This lack of a common conceptualization hinders... Read More about An international consensus definition of the wish to hasten death and its related factors.