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A recipe for disappointment: policy, effect size and the winner’s curse (2022)
Journal Article
Simpson, A. (2023). A recipe for disappointment: policy, effect size and the winner’s curse. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 16(4), 643-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2022.2066588

Evidence-based education aims to support policy makers choosing between potential interventions. This rarely involves considering each in isolation; instead, sets of evidence regarding many potential policy interventions are considered. Filtering a s... Read More about A recipe for disappointment: policy, effect size and the winner’s curse.

Making sense of ‘mastery’: Understandings of a policy term among a sample of teachers in England (2022)
Journal Article
Simpson, A., & Wang, Y. (2023). Making sense of ‘mastery’: Understandings of a policy term among a sample of teachers in England. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 21(2), 581-600. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-021-10178-x

This paper considers the term ‘mastery’ as used in mathematics education across different times and locations. A case study from England is offered to show how these pedagogical approaches morph as they move from one territory to another, in the cont... Read More about Making sense of ‘mastery’: Understandings of a policy term among a sample of teachers in England.