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Can users judge what is ‘promising’ evidence in education? (2020)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N., & Wardle, L. (2020). Can users judge what is ‘promising’ evidence in education?. Research intelligence, 144, 20-21

Evidence can be used to inform decision-making by reducing uncertainty about the impact of programmes, policies and interventions (Raphael, 2000), and can yield better educational outcomes. Evidence can be confusing, however, as it varies in term... Read More about Can users judge what is ‘promising’ evidence in education?.

Overcoming Equity-Related Challenges for the Education and Training Systems of Europe (2020)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2020). Overcoming Equity-Related Challenges for the Education and Training Systems of Europe. Education Sciences, 10(11), Article 305. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci10110305

This paper is a discussion of the challenges to equity faced by the education and training systems of the 28 EU countries (at time of writing), based on secondary sources and official reports by individual countries. The data are descriptive and simp... Read More about Overcoming Equity-Related Challenges for the Education and Training Systems of Europe.

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.

Longitudinal Study of Socioeconomic Segregation Between Schools in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Martínez-Garrido, C., Siddiqui, N., & Gorard, S. (2020). Longitudinal Study of Socioeconomic Segregation Between Schools in the UK. Revista electrónica iberoamericana sobre calidad, eficacia y cambio en educación, 18(4), 123-141. https://doi.org/10.15366/reice2020.18.4.005

he aim of this study is to understand the behavior of school segregation by socioeconomic level in the UK. To do this, all data from the United Kingdom are analyzed in the PISA Assessment from 2000 to 2015 and the Gorard index, Dissimilarity index, a... Read More about Longitudinal Study of Socioeconomic Segregation Between Schools in the UK.

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?.

Who judges the evidence for evidence-led teaching? (2020)
Book Chapter
Gorard, S. (2020). Who judges the evidence for evidence-led teaching?. In C. Brown, J. Flood, & G. Handscomb (Eds.), The research-informed teaching revolution. Ipswich: John Catt

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?.

Handling missing data in numeric analyses (2020)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2020). Handling missing data in numeric analyses. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(6), 651-660. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1729974

Social science datasets usually have missing cases, and missing values. All such missing data has the potential to bias future research findings. However, many research reports ignore the issue of missing data, only consider some aspects of it, or do... Read More about Handling missing data in numeric analyses.

The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities (2020)
Journal Article
Boliver, V., Gorard, S., Powell, M., & Moreira, T. (2020). The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities. Scottish Affairs, 29(1), 82-97. https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0307

The Scottish Government has set ambitious targets for widening access to full-time undergraduate degree programmes. Meeting these targets will be a real challenge, not least because young people from socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts continue... Read More about The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities.

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.