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School Improvement: Reality and Illusion (2009)
Journal Article
Coe, R. (2009). School Improvement: Reality and Illusion. British Journal of Educational Studies, 57(4), 363-379. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8527.2009.00444.x

School improvement is much sought and often claimed. However, it is questionable whether overall achievement in countries such as the USA or England has improved by any significant amount over thirty years. Several school improvement programmes have... Read More about School Improvement: Reality and Illusion.

Unobserved but not unimportant: The effects of unmeasured variables on causal attributions (2009)
Journal Article
Coe, R. (2009). Unobserved but not unimportant: The effects of unmeasured variables on causal attributions. Effective education, 1(2), 101-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/19415530903522519

The objective of the present study was to estimate how much difference the inclusion of plausibly important but unmeasured variables could make to estimates of the effects of educational programmes. Two examples of policy-relevant research in educati... Read More about Unobserved but not unimportant: The effects of unmeasured variables on causal attributions.

Choosing in schools: locating the benefits of specialisation (2009)
Journal Article
Davies, P., Davies, N., Hutton, D., Adnett, N., & Coe, R. (2009). Choosing in schools: locating the benefits of specialisation. Oxford Review of Education, 35(2), 147-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054980802643298

Recent policy in England has suggested that educational outcomes will be raised if schools specialise in particular subjects. In contrast, calls for the reform of 16-19 education have suggested that these outcomes will be improved if students become... Read More about Choosing in schools: locating the benefits of specialisation.