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Absolute effects of schooling as a reference for the interpretation of educational intervention effects (2020)
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Luyten, J., Merrell, C., & Tymms, P. (2020). Absolute effects of schooling as a reference for the interpretation of educational intervention effects. Studies in Educational Evaluation, Article 100939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2020.100939

Knowledge of the absolute effects of schooling provides a useful reference for the interpretation of the effectiveness of educational interventions. We use discontinuities in test scores between the oldest pupils in one birth cohort and the youngest... Read More about Absolute effects of schooling as a reference for the interpretation of educational intervention effects.

Is distributed leadership an effective approach for mobilising professional capital across Professional Learning Networks? Exploring a case from England (2020)
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Brown, C., Flood, J., Armstrong, P., MacGregor, S., & Chinas, C. (2021). Is distributed leadership an effective approach for mobilising professional capital across Professional Learning Networks? Exploring a case from England. Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 6(1), 64-78. https://doi.org/10.1108/jpcc-02-2020-0010

Purpose: There is currently a focus on using networks to drive school and school system improvement. To achieve such benefits, however, requires school leaders actively support the mobilisation of networked-driven innovations. One promising yet under... Read More about Is distributed leadership an effective approach for mobilising professional capital across Professional Learning Networks? Exploring a case from England.

Family-mediated migration infrastructure: Chinese international students and parents navigating (im)mobilities during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
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Hu, Y., Xu, C. L., & Tu, M. (2022). Family-mediated migration infrastructure: Chinese international students and parents navigating (im)mobilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinese Sociological Review, 54(1), 62-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2020.1838271

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated responses such as border closure, lockdown measures and flight controls have severely disrupted transnational infrastructures that sustain, channel, organize, and condition international migration.... Read More about Family-mediated migration infrastructure: Chinese international students and parents navigating (im)mobilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Facilitating collaborative reflective inquiry amongst teachers: what do we currently know? (2020)
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Brown, C., Poortman, C., Gray, H., Gross-Ophoff, J., & Wharf, M. (2021). Facilitating collaborative reflective inquiry amongst teachers: what do we currently know?. International Journal of Educational Research, 105, Article 101695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101695

Collaborative teacher learning is thought to improve teaching practice and student outcomes. Key to such learning is Reflective Professional Inquiry (RPI); seen as vital if practitioners are to engage effectively with new knowledge and ideas. Yet RPI... Read More about Facilitating collaborative reflective inquiry amongst teachers: what do we currently know?.

The stochastic enrichment of Population II stars (2020)
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Welsh, L., Cooke, R., & Fumagalli, M. (2021). The stochastic enrichment of Population II stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500(4), 5214-5228. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3342

We investigate the intrinsic scatter in the chemical abundances of a sample of metal-poor ([Fe/H] < −2.5) Milky Way halo stars. We draw our sample from four historic surveys and focus our attention on the stellar Mg, Ca, Ni, and Fe abundances. Using... Read More about The stochastic enrichment of Population II stars.

Overcoming Equity-Related Challenges for the Education and Training Systems of Europe (2020)
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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.

Wittgenstein, Pesquisa Educacional e a Captura da Ciência (Wittgenstein, educational research and the capture of science) (2020)
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Smith, R. (2020). Wittgenstein, Pesquisa Educacional e a Captura da Ciência (Wittgenstein, educational research and the capture of science). Educação & Realidade, 45(3), Article e106764. https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-6236106764

The author discusses the importance of Wittgenstein’s thinking for the relativization of the scientific attitude in the philosophy of education, particularly when the social sciences tend to follow the model of the hard sciences in their research act... Read More about Wittgenstein, Pesquisa Educacional e a Captura da Ciência (Wittgenstein, educational research and the capture of science).

Neurotype-Matching, but Not Being Autistic, Influences Self and Observer Ratings of Interpersonal Rapport (2020)
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Crompton, C. J., Sharp, M., Axbey, H., Fletcher-Watson, S., Flynn, E. G., & Ropar, D. (2020). Neurotype-Matching, but Not Being Autistic, Influences Self and Observer Ratings of Interpersonal Rapport. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 586171. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586171

The Double Empathy Problem suggests that communicative difficulties between autistic and non-autistic people are due to bi-directional differences in communicative style and a reciprocal lack of understanding. If true, there should be increased simil... Read More about Neurotype-Matching, but Not Being Autistic, Influences Self and Observer Ratings of Interpersonal Rapport.

Getting Ahead While Retaining Ethnic Salience: Educational Mobilities, Class, and Empowerment of a Tibetan Student in China (2020)
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Yang, M., & Xu, C. L. (2022). Getting Ahead While Retaining Ethnic Salience: Educational Mobilities, Class, and Empowerment of a Tibetan Student in China. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 42(2), 335-349. https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2020.1833835

Adopting empowerment as a theoretical lens, this paper examines how a combination of structural (particularly class background) and individual factors (particularly empowering agents and a strong personal will to achieve) have contributed to school s... Read More about Getting Ahead While Retaining Ethnic Salience: Educational Mobilities, Class, and Empowerment of a Tibetan Student in China.

Longitudinal Study of Socioeconomic Segregation Between Schools in the UK (2020)
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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)
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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.

Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station (2020)
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Hillyard, S., Tummons, J., & Winnard, S. (2021). Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station. Symbolic Interaction, 44(3), 533-554. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.513

The article explores the interactional management of class relations using atrocity stories as a conceptual device vis‐à‐vis new case study data. We argue that interactionist ideas are well placed to comment on the hidden injuries of class in the hig... Read More about Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station.

World-wide barriers and enablers to achieving evidence-informed practice in education: what can be learnt from Spain, England, the United States, and Germany? (2020)
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Brown, C., Malin, J., Ion, G., van Ackeren, I., Bremm, N., Luzmore, R., …Rind, G. (2020). World-wide barriers and enablers to achieving evidence-informed practice in education: what can be learnt from Spain, England, the United States, and Germany?. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7, Article 99. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00587-8

A global push exists to bolster the connections between research and practice in education. However, fostering evidence-informed practice (EIP) has proven challenging. Indeed, this ‘problem’ requires simultaneously attending to multiple aspects/level... Read More about World-wide barriers and enablers to achieving evidence-informed practice in education: what can be learnt from Spain, England, the United States, and Germany?.

More than meets the ear: Individual differences in trait and state willingness to communicate as predictors of language learning performance in a Chinese EFL context (2020)
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Zhang, J., Beckmann, N., & Beckmann, J. (2023). More than meets the ear: Individual differences in trait and state willingness to communicate as predictors of language learning performance in a Chinese EFL context. Language Teaching Research, 27(3), 593-620. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168820951931

Chinese students are frequently seen as passive learners because of their apparent reluctance to speak, particularly in English classrooms. However, this impression seems to reflect a stereotype which is likely to confound willingness to communicate... Read More about More than meets the ear: Individual differences in trait and state willingness to communicate as predictors of language learning performance in a Chinese EFL context.

Students as ‘Animal Laborans’? Tracing Student Politics in a Marketised Higher Education Setting (2020)
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Raaper, R. (2021). Students as ‘Animal Laborans’? Tracing Student Politics in a Marketised Higher Education Setting. Sociological Research Online, 26(1), 130-146. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780420952810

This article examines the widespread policy discourses that have constructed the notion of student as consumer in English higher education, and it questions the implications of such fabrications on students’ political engagement. In particular, it ex... Read More about Students as ‘Animal Laborans’? Tracing Student Politics in a Marketised Higher Education Setting.

The Making of Transnational Distinction: An Embodied Cultural Capital Perspective on Chinese Women Students’ Mobility (2020)
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Zhang, S., & Xu, C. L. (2020). The Making of Transnational Distinction: An Embodied Cultural Capital Perspective on Chinese Women Students’ Mobility. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41(8), 1251-1267. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2020.1804836

Transnational distinction is highly relevant in an age when western degree inflation intersects with harsh gender expectations for Chinese women student migrants, a significant group of players in the scene of UK higher education. Drawing on particip... Read More about The Making of Transnational Distinction: An Embodied Cultural Capital Perspective on Chinese Women Students’ Mobility.