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Boal, Theatre in Education and the Promotion of Fundamental British Values (2018)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2018). Boal, Theatre in Education and the Promotion of Fundamental British Values. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 16(3), 38-67

This paper offers a critical analysis of the imposition of Fundamental British Values (FBVs) in schools and nurseries as part of Prevent, the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy, and compares the rationale of this policy with the motivation for Theatre i... Read More about Boal, Theatre in Education and the Promotion of Fundamental British Values.

What did PISA and TIMSS ever do for us?: the potential of large scale datasets for understanding and improving educational practice (2018)
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Elliott, J., Stankov, L., Lee, J., & Beckmann, J. (2019). What did PISA and TIMSS ever do for us?: the potential of large scale datasets for understanding and improving educational practice. Comparative Education, 55(1), 133-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2018.1545386

There appears to be something of an intellectual and philosophical gulf between education researchers who seek insights from statistical analyses of complex data-sets such as those provided by the OECD (PISA), and others who seek to develop rich, con... Read More about What did PISA and TIMSS ever do for us?: the potential of large scale datasets for understanding and improving educational practice.

Technologies of Exposure: Videoconferenced Distributed Medical Education as a Sociomaterial Practice (2018)
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MacLeod, A., Cameron, P., Kits, O., & Tummons, J. (2019). Technologies of Exposure: Videoconferenced Distributed Medical Education as a Sociomaterial Practice. Academic Medicine, 94(3), 412-418. https://doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000002536

Purpose: Videoconferencing—a network of buttons, screens, microphones, cameras, and speakers—is one way to ensure that undergraduate medical curricula are comparably delivered across distributed medical education (DME) sites, a common requirement for... Read More about Technologies of Exposure: Videoconferenced Distributed Medical Education as a Sociomaterial Practice.

Science Education Trajectories: Charting the Course for Teachers, Educators, Researchers, and Policymakers (2018)
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Luft, J., Whitworth, B., Berry, A., Navy, S., & Kind, V. (2019). Science Education Trajectories: Charting the Course for Teachers, Educators, Researchers, and Policymakers. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 30(1), 63-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/1046560x.2018.1535226

Science teacher professional development is complex. Phases in a teacher’s career necessitate different professional learning opportunities. Furthermore, knowledge bases, practices, and attributes need to be cultivated during these times. For science... Read More about Science Education Trajectories: Charting the Course for Teachers, Educators, Researchers, and Policymakers.

Fun and games in higher education: an analysis of UK student perspectives (2018)
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Whitton, N., & Langan, M. (2019). Fun and games in higher education: an analysis of UK student perspectives. Teaching in Higher Education, 24(8), 1000-1013. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2018.1541885

In an increasingly neoliberal Higher Education sector, there is increased pressure on institutions to enhance learner engagement and student satisfaction. Many academics believe that students expect their university learning experiences to be enjoyab... Read More about Fun and games in higher education: an analysis of UK student perspectives.

User testing digital, multimedia information to inform children, adolescents and their parents about healthcare trials (2018)
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Sheridan, R., Martin-Kerry, J., Watt, I., Higgins, S., Stones, S., Horton-Taylor, D., & Knapp, P. (2019). User testing digital, multimedia information to inform children, adolescents and their parents about healthcare trials. Journal of Child Health Care, 23(3), 468-482. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367493518807325

Digital, multimedia information resources (MMIs) containing text, video, animation and pictures are a promising alternative to written participant information materials designed to inform children, adolescents and parents about healthcare trials, but... Read More about User testing digital, multimedia information to inform children, adolescents and their parents about healthcare trials.

Number Identification: A Unique Developmental Pathway in Mathematics? (2018)
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Cramman, H., Gott, S., Little, J., Merrell, C., Tymms, P., & Copping, L. (2020). Number Identification: A Unique Developmental Pathway in Mathematics?. Research Papers in Education, 35(2), 117-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2018.1536890

We make a prima facie case for identifying a single pathway in the learning of Hindu-Arabic numerical symbols and discuss why this ability may be a critical gateway concept in developing mathematical competencies. A representative sample of English a... Read More about Number Identification: A Unique Developmental Pathway in Mathematics?.

Why do Christian churches, and not universities, facilitate intercultural engagement for Chinese international students? (2018)
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Yu, Y., & Moskal, M. (2019). Why do Christian churches, and not universities, facilitate intercultural engagement for Chinese international students?. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 68, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2018.10.006

The paper offers new, significant insights into the Church engagement experiences of Chinese international students in the UK. Based on a mixed-method research and focusing on a group of international Chinese students participating in local Christian... Read More about Why do Christian churches, and not universities, facilitate intercultural engagement for Chinese international students?.

The ancient quarrel and the dream of writing (2018)
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Smith, R. (2018). The ancient quarrel and the dream of writing. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 52(4), 592-608. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12324

The main purpose of this article is to question and finally reject the tendency to see philosophy and literature (especially poetry) as essentially distinct forms of language, a tendency which sometimes extends to regarding them as mutually exclusive... Read More about The ancient quarrel and the dream of writing.

In Search of Progress: Female Academics after Jane Eyre (2018)
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Ward, S. (2018). In Search of Progress: Female Academics after Jane Eyre. Other Education, 7(2), 55-74

Charlotte Brontë’s novel about a female educator, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. This current paper asks: what progress has been enjoyed by female academics since Charlotte’s day? Although women are no longer disbarred from academia, there is inte... Read More about In Search of Progress: Female Academics after Jane Eyre.

Unmasking the unasked: correcting the record about assessor masking as an explanation for effect size differences (2018)
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Simpson, A. (2018). Unmasking the unasked: correcting the record about assessor masking as an explanation for effect size differences. Educational Research and Evaluation, 24(1-2), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2018.1520131

Ainsworth et al.’s paper “Sources of Bias in Outcome Assessment in Randomised Controlled Trials: A Case Study” examines alternative accounts for a large difference in effect size between 2 outcomes in the same intervention evaluation. It argues that... Read More about Unmasking the unasked: correcting the record about assessor masking as an explanation for effect size differences.

Interdependent Cross-Age Peer Tutoring in Mathematics (2018)
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Zeneli, M., Tymms, P., & Bolden, D. (2018). Interdependent Cross-Age Peer Tutoring in Mathematics. International journal of psychology and educational studies, 5(3), 33-50. https://doi.org/10.17220/ijpes.2018.03.004

Peer tutoring is a form of structured peer learning technique. This study develops and tests a new form of peer tutoring technique, ‘Interdependent Cross-Age Peer Tutoring’ (ICAT). The method is informed by the ‘what works literature’ within peer tut... Read More about Interdependent Cross-Age Peer Tutoring in Mathematics.

Educating China on the Move: A Typology of Contemporary Chinese Higher Education Mobilities (2018)
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Xu, C. L., & Montgomery, C. (2019). Educating China on the Move: A Typology of Contemporary Chinese Higher Education Mobilities. Review of Education, 7(3), 598-627. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3139

The landscape of global higher education is changing rapidly in response to and alongside the geopolitical and geosocial global transformations and China and East Asia are becoming key players in higher education. As China’s economic power and strate... Read More about Educating China on the Move: A Typology of Contemporary Chinese Higher Education Mobilities.

International Doctoral Students’ Experience of Supervision: A case study in a Chinese University (2018)
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Wang, L., & Byram, M. (2019). International Doctoral Students’ Experience of Supervision: A case study in a Chinese University. Cambridge Journal of Education, 49(3), 255-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764x.2018.1518405

Internationalisation in higher education is now a worldwide phenomenon but there is little attention paid to internationalisation at doctoral level, although this phenomenon has grown exponentially in recent years. This study focuses on a university... Read More about International Doctoral Students’ Experience of Supervision: A case study in a Chinese University.

The school experiences of mixed-race white and black Caribbean children in England (2018)
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Lewis, K., & Demie, F. (2019). The school experiences of mixed-race white and black Caribbean children in England. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42(12), 2065-2083. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1519586

This research aims to explore the school experiences of mixed white/ black Caribbean children in English schools. The overarching findings of this research confirm that although the mixed-race population as a whole is achieving above the national ave... Read More about The school experiences of mixed-race white and black Caribbean children in England.

Stress experience and performance during an oral exam: the role of self-efficacy, threat appraisals, anxiety, and cortisol (2018)
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Ringeisen, T., Lichtenfeld, S., Becker, S., & Minkley, N. (2019). Stress experience and performance during an oral exam: the role of self-efficacy, threat appraisals, anxiety, and cortisol. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 32(1), 50-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2018.1528528

Background and Objectives: High self-efficacy may reduce emotional and physiological stress responses in the context of an examination. The present study investigated how these stress responses develop on an exam day, and sequential indirect effects... Read More about Stress experience and performance during an oral exam: the role of self-efficacy, threat appraisals, anxiety, and cortisol.

Do we really need Confidence Intervals in the new statistics? (2018)
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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/10.1080/13645579.2018.1525064

This 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?.

Ideologies of the Chinese language in Finland: A critical analysis of policy documents and news articles (2018)
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Lui, H., & Holmes, P. (2018). Ideologies of the Chinese language in Finland: A critical analysis of policy documents and news articles. Global Chinese, 4(2), 247-270. https://doi.org/10.1515/glochi-2018-0012

In recent years, the visibility and importance of the Chinese language (Mandarin) has been rising globally due to its emerging status as a significant global language used by native and non-native speakers and learners. This study looks into how Finl... Read More about Ideologies of the Chinese language in Finland: A critical analysis of policy documents and news articles.

Princesses are bigger than Elephants: effect size as a category error in evidence based education (2018)
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Simpson, A. (2018). Princesses are bigger than Elephants: effect size as a category error in evidence based education. British Educational Research Journal, 44(5), 897-913. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3474

Much of the evidential basis for recent policy decisions is grounded in effect size: the standardised mean difference in outcome scores between a study's intervention and comparison groups. This is interpreted as measuring educational influence, impo... Read More about Princesses are bigger than Elephants: effect size as a category error in evidence based education.

Ambient Green and Creativity (2018)
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Lichtenfeld, S., Maier, M., Buechner, V., & Elliot, A. (2018). Ambient Green and Creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 30(3), 305-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2018.1488197

This research examined an important applied question: whether viewing ambient green (relative to red) on the wall of a workspace would facilitate creativity. A methodologically sound experiment revealed no influence of green on creativity. Care must... Read More about Ambient Green and Creativity.