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What do we know about children’s access to school and learning outcomes in Pakistan? Analysis of the risk factors to children’s proficiency in literacy and numeracy assessments (2019)
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Siddiqui, N. (2019). What do we know about children’s access to school and learning outcomes in Pakistan? Analysis of the risk factors to children’s proficiency in literacy and numeracy assessments. Journal of International Development, 31(8), 752-763. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3435

This paper discusses the research feasibility of Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), volunteering citizen-led social survey conducted in Pakistan. The paper presents a detailed commentary on the process of ASER data collection, discussing the s... Read More about What do we know about children’s access to school and learning outcomes in Pakistan? Analysis of the risk factors to children’s proficiency in literacy and numeracy assessments.

What’s in a name: the effect of category labels on teachers’ beliefs (2019)
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Gibbs, S., Beckmann, J. F., Elliott, J., Metsäpelto, R., Vehkakoski, T., & Aro, M. (2020). What’s in a name: the effect of category labels on teachers’ beliefs. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 35(1), 115--127. https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2019.1652441

In this paper, we report an investigation of the possible influence on teachers’ essentialist thinking and efficacy beliefs of category labels used to describe children’s educational difficulties. A 2x2x2 counterbalanced design was employed in which... Read More about What’s in a name: the effect of category labels on teachers’ beliefs.

Constructing sustainable international partnerships in Higher Education: Linking the strategic and contingent through interpersonal relationships in the UK and China (2019)
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Ma, J., & Montgomery, C. (2021). Constructing sustainable international partnerships in Higher Education: Linking the strategic and contingent through interpersonal relationships in the UK and China. Journal of Studies in International Education, 25(1), 19-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315319865784

This article explores how sustainable international partnerships in higher education might be constructed by linking the strategic and contingent through interpersonal relationships. It aims to foreground the role of individuals in developing and sus... Read More about Constructing sustainable international partnerships in Higher Education: Linking the strategic and contingent through interpersonal relationships in the UK and China.

The Community of Inquiry framework as learning design model: a case study in postgraduate online education (2019)
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Nolan-Grant, C. R. (2019). The Community of Inquiry framework as learning design model: a case study in postgraduate online education. Research in Learning Technology, 27, Article 2240. https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v27.2240

Interaction within online educational environments has long been advocated as conducive to learning, whether interaction between the learner and their teacher, the learner and online resources or the learner and their peers. The relationship among th... Read More about The Community of Inquiry framework as learning design model: a case study in postgraduate online education.

Whose Prior is it Anyway? A Note on 'Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs are Often Uninformative' (2019)
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Simpson, A. (2019). Whose Prior is it Anyway? A Note on 'Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs are Often Uninformative'. Educational Researcher, 48(6), 382-384. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189x19855076

A recent paper uses Bayes factors to argue a large minority of rigorous, large-scale education RCTs are ‘uninformative’. The definition of ‘uninformative’ depends on the authors’ hypothesis choices for calculating Bayes factors. These arguably over-a... Read More about Whose Prior is it Anyway? A Note on 'Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs are Often Uninformative'.

Patterns and predictors of e-cigarette, cigarette and dual use uptake in UK adolescents: Evidence from a 24-month Prospective Study (2019)
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Conner, M., Grogan, S., Simms-Ellis, R., Scholtens, K., Sykes-Muskett, B., Cowap, L., …Siddiqi, K. (2019). Patterns and predictors of e-cigarette, cigarette and dual use uptake in UK adolescents: Evidence from a 24-month Prospective Study. Addiction, 114(11), 2048-2055. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14723

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.

Bounded decision-making, teachers’ reflection, and organisational learning: how research can inform teachers and teaching (2019)
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Cain, T., Brindley, S., Brown, C., Jones, G., & Riga, F. (2019). Bounded decision-making, teachers’ reflection, and organisational learning: how research can inform teachers and teaching. British Educational Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3551

Despite numerous efforts to align educational practice more closely with findings from educational research, there is little clarity about how educational practitioners can, in principle, use research. We propose a conceptualisation based on how rese... Read More about Bounded decision-making, teachers’ reflection, and organisational learning: how research can inform teachers and teaching.

Evidence that an intervention weakens the relationship between adolescent electronic cigarette use and tobacco smoking: a 24-month prospective study (2019)
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Conner, M., Grogan, S., Simms-Ellis, R., Flett, K., Sykes-Muskett1, B., Cowap, L., …Siddiqi, K. (2020). Evidence that an intervention weakens the relationship between adolescent electronic cigarette use and tobacco smoking: a 24-month prospective study. Tobacco Control, 29(4), 425-431. https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054905

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.

The Influence of Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness on Attributions (2019)
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Lichtenfeld, S., Maier, M., Buechner, V., & Fernández Capo, M. (2019). The Influence of Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness on Attributions. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1425. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01425

Research on forgiveness suggests that forgiveness is an emotion-focused coping process important for clinical settings as it can promote both physical and mental health [1, 2]. Investigating antecedents of forgiveness, empirical studies and theoretic... Read More about The Influence of Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness on Attributions.

Facial blushing influences perceived embarrassment and related social functional evaluations (2019)
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Thorstenson, C., Pazda, A., & Lichtenfeld, S. (2020). Facial blushing influences perceived embarrassment and related social functional evaluations. Cognition and Emotion, 34(3), 413-426. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1634004

Facial blushing involves a reddening of the face elicited in situations involving unwanted social attention. Such situations include being caught committing a social transgression, which is typically considered embarrassing. While recent research has... Read More about Facial blushing influences perceived embarrassment and related social functional evaluations.

Maintenance and non-maintenance of community language in immigrant families: the case of Polish parents in the UK (2019)
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Gruszczyńska, A. (2019). Maintenance and non-maintenance of community language in immigrant families: the case of Polish parents in the UK. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 17(5), 574-592. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2019.1628637

This paper examines Polish immigrant parents’ perceptions of their community language value, the factors that shape their approaches to children’s language education, and the different outcomes on the spectrum of language maintenance/non-maintenance... Read More about Maintenance and non-maintenance of community language in immigrant families: the case of Polish parents in the UK.

A phenomenographic approach to understanding some Taiwanese music teachers' experiences of creativity in the classroom (2019)
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Wiles, M. A., & Kokotsaki, D. (2021). A phenomenographic approach to understanding some Taiwanese music teachers' experiences of creativity in the classroom. Musicae Scientiae, 25(1), 111-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864919852137

This study examines what creativity means to a group of Taiwanese music teachers and how it relates to their classroom experiences and teaching practices. The research followed a qualitative, interpretative approach. Interviews were used to gather da... Read More about A phenomenographic approach to understanding some Taiwanese music teachers' experiences of creativity in the classroom.

Modelling the chemical enrichment of Population III supernovae: The origin of the metals in near-pristine gas clouds (2019)
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Welsh, L., Cooke, R., & Fumagalli, M. (2019). Modelling the chemical enrichment of Population III supernovae: The origin of the metals in near-pristine gas clouds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(3), 3363-3376. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1526

The most metal-poor, high redshift damped Lyman-α systems (DLAs) provide a window to study some of the first few generations of stars. In this paper, we present a novel model to investigate the chemical enrichment of the near-pristine DLA population.... Read More about Modelling the chemical enrichment of Population III supernovae: The origin of the metals in near-pristine gas clouds.

Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education (2019)
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MacLeod, A., Cameron, P., Ajjawi, R., Kits, O., & Tummons, J. (2019). Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education. Perspectives on Medical Education, 8(3), 177-186. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-019-0513-6

Medical education is a messy tangle of social and material elements. These material entities include tools, like curriculum guides, stethoscopes, cell phones, accreditation standards, and mannequins; natural elements, like weather systems, disease ve... Read More about Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education.

Separating arguments from conclusions: The mistaken role of effect size in educational policy research (2019)
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Simpson, A. (2019). Separating arguments from conclusions: The mistaken role of effect size in educational policy research. Educational Research and Evaluation, 25(1-2), 99-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2019.1617170

Effect size is the basis of much evidence-based education policymaking. In particular, it is assumed to measure the educational effectiveness of interventions. Policy is being driven by the influential work of John Hattie, the Education Endowment Fou... Read More about Separating arguments from conclusions: The mistaken role of effect size in educational policy research.

Constructing Political Subjectivity: The Perspectives of Sabbatical Officers from English Students’ Unions (2019)
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Raaper, R. (2020). Constructing Political Subjectivity: The Perspectives of Sabbatical Officers from English Students’ Unions. Higher Education, 79(1), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00400-9

Informed by policy sociology and a Foucauldian theorisation, this article explores how a selection of sabbatical officers from English students’ unions formed their political subjectivity during the policy consultation processes leading to the Higher... Read More about Constructing Political Subjectivity: The Perspectives of Sabbatical Officers from English Students’ Unions.