Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (20)

How to recruit and retain teachers in hard-to-staff areas: A systematic review of the empirical evidence (2020)
Book Chapter
See, B., Gorard, S., Morris, R., & el-Soufi, N. (2020). How to recruit and retain teachers in hard-to-staff areas: A systematic review of the empirical evidence. In T. Ovenden-Hope, & R. Passy (Eds.), Exploring teacher recruitment and retention (148-162). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429021824-14

Attracting and retaining qualified teachers in some subjects, schools and geographical areas is a common challenge facing school staffing policies in many developed countries. Chapter 13 summarises a systematic review of international research lookin... Read More about How to recruit and retain teachers in hard-to-staff areas: A systematic review of the empirical evidence.

Teacher recruitment and retention: A critical review of international evidence of most promising interventions (2020)
Journal Article
See, B., Morris, R., Gorard, S., Kokotsaki, D., & Abdi, S. (2020). Teacher recruitment and retention: A critical review of international evidence of most promising interventions. Education Sciences, 10(10), Article 262. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci10100262

Background: A raft of initiatives and reforms have been introduced in many countries to attract and recruit school teachers, many of which do not have a clear evidence base, so their effectiveness remains unclear. Prior research has been largely corr... Read More about Teacher recruitment and retention: A critical review of international evidence of most promising interventions.

Interim project report on ECE project in India and Pakistan (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Siddiqui, N., Bulsari, S., Gorard, S., Saeed, S., Saeed, S., See, B. H., …Pandya, K. (2020). Interim project report on ECE project in India and Pakistan

We are pleased to report that the project has been successfully launched in the State of Gujarat, India and the province of Punjab, Pakistan under most unfortunate and critical circumstance due to the Covid 19 crisis. Before the global pandemic hit t... Read More about Interim project report on ECE project in India and Pakistan.

What works in attracting and retaining teachers in challenging schools and areas? (2020)
Journal Article
See, B. H., Morris, R., Gorard, S., & El Soufi, N. (2020). What works in attracting and retaining teachers in challenging schools and areas?. Oxford Review of Education, 46(6), 678-697. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2020.1775566

This paper describes a systematic review of international research evidence identifying the most promising approaches to attracting and retaining teachers in hard-to-staff areas. Only empirical studies that employed a causal or suitable comparative d... Read More about What works in attracting and retaining teachers in challenging schools and areas?.

Teachers’ responses to the school reopening strategy (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
See, B., Wardle, L., & Collie, P. (2020). Teachers’ responses to the school reopening strategy

This report is the first of a series of reports that focus on how schools and colleges in England are responding to the current coronavirus pandemic. The surveys on which these reports are based were developed in collaboration with Schoolzone. The fi... Read More about Teachers’ responses to the school reopening strategy.

What is the evidence on the best way to get evidence into use in education? (2020)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N,, B., & See, B. (2020). What is the evidence on the best way to get evidence into use in education?. Review of Education, 8(2), 570-610. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3200

For decades there have been calls by concerned stakeholders to improve the quality of education research, and some progress has been made towards creating a more secure evidence base in some areas. More programmes and approaches that have a reasonabl... Read More about What is the evidence on the best way to get evidence into use in education?.

Why is it difficult to get evidence into use? (2020)
Book Chapter
See, B. (2020). Why is it difficult to get evidence into use?. In S. Gorard (Ed.), Getting evidence into education : evaluating the routes into policy and practice (84-99). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290343

An increasingly large body of research has been generated in the last two to three decades, many claiming to offer new insights and new evidence on how to improve education. With the push for evidence-informed policy and practice, schools and policy... Read More about Why is it difficult to get evidence into use?.

Pilot study report 2020 : Assessing Early Years Schooling, Access and Student Outcomes (AESAS): Establishing routes for sustainable education in Pakistan and India (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Siddiqui, N., Bulsari, S., Gorard, S., See, B. H., Dixon, P., Pandya, K., …Saeed, S. (2020). Pilot study report 2020 : Assessing Early Years Schooling, Access and Student Outcomes (AESAS): Establishing routes for sustainable education in Pakistan and India

AESAS project is an opportunity for us to investigate the importance and function of school in children’s lives in the two largest regions of Punjab, Pakistan and State of Gujarat, India. AESAS is a comparative study of children’s learning outcomes i... Read More about Pilot study report 2020 : Assessing Early Years Schooling, Access and Student Outcomes (AESAS): Establishing routes for sustainable education in Pakistan and India.

Teachers' wellbeing and workload during Covid-19 lockdown (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
See, B., Wardle, L., & Collie, P. (2020). Teachers' wellbeing and workload during Covid-19 lockdown

This report is the second in a series of reports looking at how teachers have responded to the current coronavirus pandemic. The first focused on teachers’ thoughts about the government’s reopening strategy and how they felt about returning to school... Read More about Teachers' wellbeing and workload during Covid-19 lockdown.

Effective classroom instructions for primary literacy? A critical review of causal evidence (2020)
Journal Article
See, B., & Gorard, S. (2020). Effective classroom instructions for primary literacy? A critical review of causal evidence. International Journal of Educational Research, 102, Article 101577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101577

In the last two decades there has been a proliferation of proposals for instructional practices, all promising to improve pupils’ academic attainment. Many of these approaches have not been robustly or independently evaluated. Schools, enthusiastic t... Read More about Effective classroom instructions for primary literacy? A critical review of causal evidence.