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Educational attainment of East European pupils in primary schools in England (2019)
Journal Article
Demie, F. (2019). Educational attainment of East European pupils in primary schools in England. London Review of Education, 17(2), 159-177. https://doi.org/10.18546/lre.17.2.05

The aim of this article is to explore the attainment of Eastern European children in primary schools in England. The research draws on detailed National Pupil Database and school census data for 586,181 pupils who completed Key Stage 2 in England in... Read More about Educational attainment of East European pupils in primary schools in England.

Dynamic testing: Can a robot as tutor be of help in assessing children's potential for learning? (2019)
Journal Article
Resing, W. C., Bakker, M., Elliott, J. G., & Vogelaar, B. (2019). Dynamic testing: Can a robot as tutor be of help in assessing children's potential for learning?. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 35(4), 540-554. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12358

This study examined whether computerized dynamic testing by utilizing a robot would lead to different patterns in children's (aged 6–9 years) potential for learning and strategy use when solving series‐completion tasks. The robot, in a “Wizard of Oz”... Read More about Dynamic testing: Can a robot as tutor be of help in assessing children's potential for learning?.

What's in a word? Practices associated with 'feedforward' in higher education (2019)
Journal Article
Reimann, A., Sadler, I., & Sambell, K. (2019). What's in a word? Practices associated with 'feedforward' in higher education. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 44(8), 1279-1290. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2019.1600655

The term ‘feedforward’ is increasingly employed in higher education, and this paper focuses on the way in which it fits into contemporary debates about feedback and its impact on practitioners. Semi-structured interviews were used to investigate the... Read More about What's in a word? Practices associated with 'feedforward' in higher education.

The knowledge gap between intended and attained curriculum in Ethiopian teacher education: identifying challenges for future development (2019)
Journal Article
Alemu, M., Kind, V., Tadesse, M., Michael, K., Kind, P., & Rajab, T. (2021). The knowledge gap between intended and attained curriculum in Ethiopian teacher education: identifying challenges for future development. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 51(1), 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2019.1593107

This investigation of physics teacher education in Ethiopia reveals a significant gap between the physics knowledge of pre-service teachers (PSTs) attained during training and that of the intended curriculum setting out expectations for their knowled... Read More about The knowledge gap between intended and attained curriculum in Ethiopian teacher education: identifying challenges for future development.

Using the concept of relational justice to apply fairness in schools (2019)
Journal Article
Laing, K., Mazzoli Smith, L., & Todd, L. (2019). Using the concept of relational justice to apply fairness in schools. International education journal (Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society. Print), 18(1), 128-142

This paper makes the case for fairness as a driver towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of equitable quality education. We outline a dialogic fairness framework attending to the principles of relational justice in both the service... Read More about Using the concept of relational justice to apply fairness in schools.

Resolving the amalgam: connecting pedagogical content knowledge, content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge (2019)
Journal Article
Kind, V., & Chan, K. (2019). Resolving the amalgam: connecting pedagogical content knowledge, content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge. International Journal of Science Education, 41(7), 964-978. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2019.1584931

This paper concludes the Special Issue (SI) ‘Probing the Amalgam: the relationship between science teachers’ content, pedagogical and pedagogical content knowledge’. We review the five papers (Sorge et al; Gess-Newsome et al; Kind; Pitjeng-Mosabala a... Read More about Resolving the amalgam: connecting pedagogical content knowledge, content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge.

Ethnicity, temporality and educational mobilities: comparing the ethnic identity constructions of Mongolian and Tibetan students in China (2019)
Journal Article
Xu, C. L., & Yang, M. (2019). Ethnicity, temporality and educational mobilities: comparing the ethnic identity constructions of Mongolian and Tibetan students in China. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(5), 631-646. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1576121

This article explores the impact of educational mobilities on the ethnic identity construction of minority students in China. Adopting ‘temporality’ as an analytical tool, the article highlights the dynamic temporal multiplicity in ethnic identity co... Read More about Ethnicity, temporality and educational mobilities: comparing the ethnic identity constructions of Mongolian and Tibetan students in China.

Can learning beyond the classroom impact on social responsibility and academic attainment? An evaluation of the Children’s University youth social action programme (2019)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N., Gorard, S., & See, B. (2019). Can learning beyond the classroom impact on social responsibility and academic attainment? An evaluation of the Children’s University youth social action programme. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 61, 74-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2019.03.004

Disadvantaged pupils in England tend to have lower average attainment than their peers. They are also less likely to be involved in wider learning and opportunities for experience beyond the classroom walls. Approaches which support learning activiti... Read More about Can learning beyond the classroom impact on social responsibility and academic attainment? An evaluation of the Children’s University youth social action programme.

Primary school pupils? emotional experiences of synchronous audio-led online one-to-one tuition (2019)
Journal Article
Humphry, D., & Hampden-Thompson, G. (2019). Primary school pupils? emotional experiences of synchronous audio-led online one-to-one tuition. Computers & Education, 135, 100--112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2019.03.003

Understanding the emotional aspects of pedagogical approaches for primary-aged school children engaged in synchronous audio-led one-to-one online tuition is the focus of this qualitative research study. Data are drawn from the process evaluation elem... Read More about Primary school pupils? emotional experiences of synchronous audio-led online one-to-one tuition.

Developing as a Student Peer Reviewer: Enhancing students’ graduate attributes of producing evaluative judgements and oral feedback communication (2019)
Journal Article
Simpson, R., & Reading, C. (2019). Developing as a Student Peer Reviewer: Enhancing students’ graduate attributes of producing evaluative judgements and oral feedback communication. Practitioner research in higher education, 12(1), 38-49

This research paper explores the processes and outcomes of a peer review system which was introduced to first-year students on a BA Education programme in 2016-17. Students completed a series of tasks linked to both their academic work and profession... Read More about Developing as a Student Peer Reviewer: Enhancing students’ graduate attributes of producing evaluative judgements and oral feedback communication.

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of repeated implementation intention formation on adolescent smoking initiation: A cluster randomized controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article
Conner, M., Grogan, S., West, R., Simms-Ellis, R., Scholtens, K., Sykes-Muskett, B., …Siddiqi, K. (2019). Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of repeated implementation intention formation on adolescent smoking initiation: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87(5), 422-432. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000387

Objective: Forming implementation intentions (if–then plans) about how to refuse cigarette offers plus antismoking messages was tested for reducing adolescent smoking. Method: Cluster randomized controlled trial with schools randomized (1:1) to recei... Read More about Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of repeated implementation intention formation on adolescent smoking initiation: A cluster randomized controlled trial.

Education as a mode of existence: a Latourian inquiry into assessment validity in higher education (2019)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2020). Education as a mode of existence: a Latourian inquiry into assessment validity in higher education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(1), 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1586530

Within professional higher education, the construct of assessment validity is used to make assumptions about the extent to which students are able to replicate in professional practice what they have learned during their studies through the provision... Read More about Education as a mode of existence: a Latourian inquiry into assessment validity in higher education.

Adult education and migration in Cyprus: A critical analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Gravani, M., Hatzopoulos, P., & Chinas, C. (2021). Adult education and migration in Cyprus: A critical analysis. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 27(1), 25-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477971419832896

Migration as a political process and migrants as political subjects or as active participants in the educational process are largely absent from the adult education system in the Cypriot context. This article attempts to inquire on this absence by of... Read More about Adult education and migration in Cyprus: A critical analysis.

ASTEROID: A New Clinical Stereotest on an Autostereo 3D Tablet (2019)
Journal Article
Vancleef, K., Serrano-Pedraza, I., Sharp, C., Slack, G., Black, C., Casanova, T., …Read, J. C. (2019). ASTEROID: A New Clinical Stereotest on an Autostereo 3D Tablet. Translational Vision Science & Technology, 8(1), 25-25. https://doi.org/10.1167/tvst.8.1.25

Purpose: To describe a new stereotest in the form of a game on an autostereoscopic tablet computer designed to be suitable for use in the eye clinic and present data on its reliability and the distribution of stereo thresholds in adults. Methods: Tes... Read More about ASTEROID: A New Clinical Stereotest on an Autostereo 3D Tablet.

The relation between mathematics students' discipline-based epistemological beliefs and their summative assessment preferences (2019)
Journal Article
Simpson, A. (2019). The relation between mathematics students' discipline-based epistemological beliefs and their summative assessment preferences. International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 5(2), 147-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40753-019-00086-5

Existing research posits a relationship between undergraduate mathematics students’ mathematics-related epistemological beliefs and their perceptions of summative assessment. This paper reports a study investigating whether there is indeed such a rel... Read More about The relation between mathematics students' discipline-based epistemological beliefs and their summative assessment preferences.

Using an ANN-based computational model to simulate and evaluate Chinese students’ individualized cognitive abilities important in their English acquisition (2019)
Journal Article
Yang, J., Thomas, M., Qi, X., & Liu, X. (2019). Using an ANN-based computational model to simulate and evaluate Chinese students’ individualized cognitive abilities important in their English acquisition. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 32(4), 366-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2018.1517125

From a psycholinguistic perspective of view, there are many cognitive differences that matter to individuals’ second language acquisition (SLA). Although many computer-assisted tools have been developed to capture and narrow the differences among lea... Read More about Using an ANN-based computational model to simulate and evaluate Chinese students’ individualized cognitive abilities important in their English acquisition.

Surfacing ‘Southern’ perspectives on student engagement with internationalisation: doctoral theses as alternative forms of knowledge (2019)
Journal Article
Montgomery, C. (2019). Surfacing ‘Southern’ perspectives on student engagement with internationalisation: doctoral theses as alternative forms of knowledge. Journal of Studies in International Education, 23(1), 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315318803743

This article explores how knowledge represented in doctoral theses exploring internationalization may be constructed as a source of “Southern” knowledge on international education. The article aims to surface some of the ways in which the knowledge g... Read More about Surfacing ‘Southern’ perspectives on student engagement with internationalisation: doctoral theses as alternative forms of knowledge.

'Ask a question!’ Using speaking and listening skills to think deeply about science (2019)
Journal Article
Simpson, R., Ramshaw, J., Lewis, S., & Hoggarth, A. (2019). 'Ask a question!’ Using speaking and listening skills to think deeply about science. Primary science review, 156, 28-30

Rachel and three primary science leaders describe how they have raised the profile of science in schools through an alliance between science and literacy.