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The misdirection of public policy: comparing and combining standardised effect sizes (2017)
Journal Article
Simpson, A. (2017). The misdirection of public policy: comparing and combining standardised effect sizes. Journal of Education Policy, 32(4), 450-466. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2017.1280183

Increased attention on ‘what works’ in education has led to an emphasis on developing policy from evidence based on comparing and combining a particular statistical summary of intervention studies: the standardised effect size. It is assumed that thi... Read More about The misdirection of public policy: comparing and combining standardised effect sizes.

Socio-economic segregation of disadvantaged children between schools in Pakistan: comparing the state and private sector (2017)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N. (2017). Socio-economic segregation of disadvantaged children between schools in Pakistan: comparing the state and private sector. Educational Studies, 43(4), 391-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2016.1277139

The distribution of children in different school-types and regions in Pakistan suggests that access and opportunities in education are not evenly accessible for many children. Segregation at school level is an important concern for equity and social... Read More about Socio-economic segregation of disadvantaged children between schools in Pakistan: comparing the state and private sector.

An analysis of contextual and other indicators of HE students for possible use in widening participation (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & Boliver, V. (2017). An analysis of contextual and other indicators of HE students for possible use in widening participation

This paper looks at the HESA statistics for all students at university at HEIs in England from 2008/9 to 2011/12, linked to the National Pupil Database (NPD), with records for all pupils in England who ended Key Stage 4 (KS4) in 2006.This limits the... Read More about An analysis of contextual and other indicators of HE students for possible use in widening participation.

ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research (2017)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2017). ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research. Acta paedagogica Vilnensia (Spausdinta), 39, 132-143. https://doi.org/10.15388/actpaed.2017.39.11488

In this article, I offer a reflexive account drawing on my role as co-investigator based on a three-year institutional ethnography: Medical Education in a Digital Age. Three problematic issues are discussed: first, the ways by which a reliance on dig... Read More about ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research.

A systematic review of the effective continuing professional development training of welfare professionals (2017)
Report
Torgerson, C., Nielsen, C., Gascoine, L., Filges, T., Moore, I., Nielsen, B., & Jørgensen, F. (2017). A systematic review of the effective continuing professional development training of welfare professionals. [No known commissioning body]

The quality of the professional development of education and welfare professionals working with children and young people (for example, pre-school teachers or ‘pedagogues’, school teachers, teaching assistants, social workers, psychologists, police o... Read More about A systematic review of the effective continuing professional development training of welfare professionals.

Non-cognitive impacts of Philosophy for Children (2017)
Report
Siddiqui, N., Gorard, S., & See, B. (2017). Non-cognitive impacts of Philosophy for Children. [No known commissioning body]

Schools are places where children can learn behaviour, skills and attitudes that have lifelong relevance, in addition to the formal curriculum of subjects. In England, despite a continuing emphasis on attainment, there are clear moves to consider als... Read More about Non-cognitive impacts of Philosophy for Children.

An introduction to the importance of research design (2017)
Book Chapter
Gorard, S. (2017). An introduction to the importance of research design. In D. Wyse, N. Selwyn, E. Smith, & L. Suter (Eds.), The BERA/SAGE handbook of educational research (203-212). SAGE Publications

Understanding Monitoring in the United Kingdom Context (2017)
Book Chapter
Merrell, C. (2017). Understanding Monitoring in the United Kingdom Context. In V. Scherman, R. Bosker, & S. Howie (Eds.), Monitoring the quality of education in schools : examples of feedback into systems from developed and emerging economies (93-106). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-453-4_7

This chapter provides an overview of the recent and current policies for assessing and monitoring pupils’ academic progress across the four countries of the UK; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It gives examples of the uses of the data... Read More about Understanding Monitoring in the United Kingdom Context.

Enhancing quality to address frailty (2017)
Book Chapter
Land, R. (2017). Enhancing quality to address frailty. In I. Kinchin, & N. Winstone (Eds.), Pedagogic Frailty and the University (179-194). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-983-6_13

In preparing to face a globalised society characterised by uncertainty, complexity, risk and speed, academics and their students, it will be argued here, need to encounter a certain strangeness, dealing with knowledge that is uncomfortable, challengi... Read More about Enhancing quality to address frailty.

Enhancing intercultural communicative competence through online foreign language exchange: Taiwanese students’ experiences (2017)
Book Chapter
Lin, W., Shie, J., & Holmes, P. (2017). Enhancing intercultural communicative competence through online foreign language exchange: Taiwanese students’ experiences. . Centre for Applied English Studies, The University of Hong Kong

From cross-cultural and comparative perspectives, this paper reports on a study which investigated students’ experiences of intercultural and foreign language learning through a six-month online language exchange project involving 30 Taiwanese second... Read More about Enhancing intercultural communicative competence through online foreign language exchange: Taiwanese students’ experiences.

How should numeric data be analysed? (2017)
Book Chapter
Gorard, S. (2017). How should numeric data be analysed?. In D. Wyse, N. Selwyn, E. Smith, & L. Suter (Eds.), The BERA/SAGE handbook of educational research (753-768). SAGE Publications