ReflectED Evaluation Report
(2022)
Report
All Outputs (105)
Dyslexia in higher education: a systematic review of interventions used to promote learning (2020)
Journal Article
This systematic review assessed the effectiveness of published inventions, of an experimental design, used to promote learning for learners with dyslexia on HE programmes. Historical observations suggest that a notable number of learners with dyslexi... Read More about Dyslexia in higher education: a systematic review of interventions used to promote learning.
EasyPeasy: Learning through play. Evaluation Report (2019)
Report
Patterns and predictors of e-cigarette, cigarette and dual use uptake in UK adolescents: Evidence from a 24-month Prospective Study (2019)
Journal Article
Background and Aims: To assess prevalence and predictors of e‐cigarettes/cigarettes patterns of use in adolescents in England. Design: Prospective study with 24‐month follow‐up of e‐cigarette/cigarette ever/regular use with data from an intervention... Read More about Patterns and predictors of e-cigarette, cigarette and dual use uptake in UK adolescents: Evidence from a 24-month Prospective Study.
Evidence that an intervention weakens the relationship between adolescent electronic cigarette use and tobacco smoking: a 24-month prospective study (2019)
Journal Article
Background: The electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use to subsequent smoking relationship in adolescents has received much attention. Whether an intervention to reduce smoking initiation attenuated this relationship was assessed. Method: Data were fr... Read More about Evidence that an intervention weakens the relationship between adolescent electronic cigarette use and tobacco smoking: a 24-month prospective study.
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of repeated implementation intention formation on adolescent smoking initiation: A cluster randomized controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article
Objective: Forming implementation intentions (if–then plans) about how to refuse cigarette offers plus antismoking messages was tested for reducing adolescent smoking. Method: Cluster randomized controlled trial with schools randomized (1:1) to recei... Read More about Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of repeated implementation intention formation on adolescent smoking initiation: A cluster randomized controlled trial.
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in education research –methodological debates, questions, challenges (2018)
Journal Article
This Special Issue of Educational Research shines a spotlight on a key research design in the 21st Century in the field of education research: the randomised controlled trial (RCT) or ‘true’ experiment. The six papers included here explore the histor... Read More about Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in education research –methodological debates, questions, challenges.
Maths Champions: Evaluation Report and Executive Summary (2018)
Report
A systematic review of evidence on the effectiveness of interventions and strategies for widening participation in higher education (2018)
Journal Article
Widening participation (WP) in higher education (HE) is an increasingly important policy issue, with interventions to increase participation from minority ethnic, low-income and other under-represented groups undertaken in HE sectors in many countrie... Read More about A systematic review of evidence on the effectiveness of interventions and strategies for widening participation in higher education.
Phonics: reading policy and the evidence of effectiveness from a systematic ‘tertiary’ review (2018)
Journal Article
Ten years after publication of two reviews of the evidence on phonics, a number of British policy initiatives have firmly embedded phonics in the curriculum for early reading development. However, uncertainty about the most effective approaches to te... Read More about Phonics: reading policy and the evidence of effectiveness from a systematic ‘tertiary’ review.
True experimental designs (2017)
Book Chapter
Experimental trials and ‘what works?’ in education: The case of grammar for writing (2017)
Journal Article
The place of evidence to inform educational effectiveness has received increasing attention internationally in the last two decades. An important contribution to evidence-informed policy has been greater attention to experimental trials including ran... Read More about Experimental trials and ‘what works?’ in education: The case of grammar for writing.
Do Electronic Cigarettes Increase Cigarette Smoking in UK Adolescents? Evidence from a 12-month Prospective Study (2017)
Journal Article
Background In cross-sectional surveys, increasing numbers of adolescents report using both electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and cigarettes. This study assessed whether adolescent e-cigarette use was associated prospectively with initiation or esc... Read More about Do Electronic Cigarettes Increase Cigarette Smoking in UK Adolescents? Evidence from a 12-month Prospective Study.
Are we failing young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs)? A systematic review and meta-analysis of re-engagement interventions (2017)
Journal Article
Background: Youth comprise 40% of the world’s unemployed, a status associated with adverse wellbeing and social, health, and economic costs. This systematic review and meta-analysis review synthesises the literature on the effectiveness of interventi... Read More about Are we failing young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs)? A systematic review and meta-analysis of re-engagement interventions.
A systematic review of the effective continuing professional development training of welfare professionals (2017)
Report
The quality of the professional development of education and welfare professionals working with children and young people (for example, pre-school teachers or ‘pedagogues’, school teachers, teaching assistants, social workers, psychologists, police o... Read More about A systematic review of the effective continuing professional development training of welfare professionals.