How to overcome the stratification of higher education
(2018)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2018). How to overcome the stratification of higher education
All Outputs (17)
How can contextualised admissions widen participation? (2018)
Book Chapter
Gorard, S., Boliver, V., & Siddiqui, N. (2018). How can contextualised admissions widen participation?. In M. Shah, & J. McKay (Eds.), Achieving Equity and Quality in Higher Education (307-326). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78316-1
Refining measures of poverty and their impact on student progress in England (2018)
Book Chapter
Gorard, S. A., & Siddiqui, N. (2018). Refining measures of poverty and their impact on student progress in England. In X. Bonal, & C. Bellei (Eds.), Understanding school segregation (85-102). Bloomsbury
Is £50m to expand grammar schools a good use of public money? (2018)
Other
Gorard, S. (2018). Is £50m to expand grammar schools a good use of public money?
Grammar schools damage social cohesion and make no difference to exam grades (2018)
Digital Artefact
Gorard, S. (2018). Grammar schools damage social cohesion and make no difference to exam grades. [[Media unknown]]
Children's University and Youth Social Action, Evaluation Report and Executive Summary December 2017 (2018)
Report
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., See, B., Smith, E., & White, P. (2018). Children's University and Youth Social Action, Evaluation Report and Executive Summary December 2017. [No known commissioning body]
Do the benefits of grammar schools outweigh the damage caused by selection? (2018)
Other
Gorard, S. (2018). Do the benefits of grammar schools outweigh the damage caused by selection?
Equity in Education: an international comparison of pupil perspectives, Chinese translation (2018)
Book
Gorard, S., & Smith, E. (2018). Equity in Education: an international comparison of pupil perspectives, Chinese translation. East China Normal University
Significance testing with incompletely randomised cases cannot possibly work (2018)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2018). Significance testing with incompletely randomised cases cannot possibly work. International journal of science and research methodology, 11(2), 42-51This brief paper illustrates why the use of significance testing cannot possibly work with incompletely randomised cases. The first section reminds readers of the logical argument of “denying the consequence”, and the fallacy of trying to affirm the... Read More about Significance testing with incompletely randomised cases cannot possibly work.
Do we really need Confidence Intervals in the new statistics? (2018)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2019). Do we really need Confidence Intervals in the new statistics?. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 22(3), 281-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2018.1525064This paper compares the use of confidence intervals (CIs) and a sensitivity analysis called the number needed to disturb (NNTD), in the analysis of research findings expressed as ‘effect’ sizes. Using 1,000 simulations of randomised trials with up to... Read More about Do we really need Confidence Intervals in the new statistics?.
Education policy: Evidence of Equity and Effectiveness (2018)
Book
Gorard, S. (2018). Education policy: Evidence of Equity and Effectiveness. Bristol University Press
There is only research: the liberating impact of just doing research (2018)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2018). There is only research: the liberating impact of just doing research. International journal of multiple research approaches, 10(1), 328-333. https://doi.org/10.29034/ijmra.v10n1a21Based on reading a very large number of research reports, and conducting a wide range of different projects, this article illustrates a simple yet inclusive model of research. Research is considered as a cyclical activity with various designs and met... Read More about There is only research: the liberating impact of just doing research.
Some basic observations on conducting a systematic review: A brief reply to Goldstein, Vatalaro and Yair (2018)
Journal Article
See, B., & Gorard, S. (2018). Some basic observations on conducting a systematic review: A brief reply to Goldstein, Vatalaro and Yair. Journal of Children's Services, 13(2), 57-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/jcs-11-2017-0051Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a response to Goldstein et al.’s (2017) attempted rebuttal of the authors’ prior paper in this journal (See and Gorard 2015). Design/methodology/approach: The prior paper reported a systematic review o... Read More about Some basic observations on conducting a systematic review: A brief reply to Goldstein, Vatalaro and Yair.
The importance of process evaluation for randomised control trials in education (2018)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N., Gorard, S., & See, B. (2018). The importance of process evaluation for randomised control trials in education. Educational Research, 60(3), 357-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131881.2018.1493349Background: Educational interventions are often complex, and their outcomes could be due to factors not focused on in the impact evaluation. Therefore, educational evaluations using a randomised control trial (RCT) design approach need to go beyond o... Read More about The importance of process evaluation for randomised control trials in education.
Different kinds of disadvantage and school attainment (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2018). Different kinds of disadvantage and school attainmentThis paper uses “effect” sizes, correlations, and a regression model to illustrate the links between different ways of assessing disadvantage at school and subsequent qualification outcomes at age 16 in England. Previous work has compared variables t... Read More about Different kinds of disadvantage and school attainment.
The increasing availability of official datasets (Japanese translation) (2018)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2018). The increasing availability of official datasets (Japanese translation)
Grammar schools in England: a new analysis of social segregation and academic outcomes (2018)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2018). Grammar schools in England: a new analysis of social segregation and academic outcomes. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39(7), 909-924. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2018.1443432The UK government is planning to increase the number of pupils attending state-funded selective grammar schools, claiming that this will assist overall standards, reduce the poverty attainment gap and so aid social mobility. Using the full 2015 cohor... Read More about Grammar schools in England: a new analysis of social segregation and academic outcomes.