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Evaluating the evidence in evidence-based policy and practice: Examples from systematic reviews of literature (2017)
Journal Article
See, B. (2018). Evaluating the evidence in evidence-based policy and practice: Examples from systematic reviews of literature. Review of Research in Education, 102(1), 37-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/0034523717741915

With the push for evidence-informed policy and practice, schools and policy makers are now increasingly encouraged and supported to use and enagage with research evidence. This means that consumers of research will now need to be discerning in judgin... Read More about Evaluating the evidence in evidence-based policy and practice: Examples from systematic reviews of literature.

Choosing for Yourself: A pragmatic framework for developing competence in young people’s personal decision-making (2017)
Journal Article
Newton, D. (2017). Choosing for Yourself: A pragmatic framework for developing competence in young people’s personal decision-making. Archives of psychology (Chicago, Ill. Online), 1(2), Article 16

Making personal decisions is a kind of purposeful thought that can be life-changing, so competence in it could be of long-term benefit. Competence, however, is not always well-developed. Routes to a decision are described, and a potential approach to... Read More about Choosing for Yourself: A pragmatic framework for developing competence in young people’s personal decision-making.

Which are the most suitable contextual indicators for use in widening participation to HE? (2017)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Boliver, V., Siddiqui, N., & Banerjee, P. (2019). Which are the most suitable contextual indicators for use in widening participation to HE?. Research Papers in Education, 34(1), 99-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2017.1402083

Universities are increasingly making decisions about undergraduate admissions with reference to contextual indicators to identify whether an applicant comes from a disadvantaged family, neighbourhood or school environment. However, the indicators use... Read More about Which are the most suitable contextual indicators for use in widening participation to HE?.

An Empirical Unravelling of Lord’s Paradox (2017)
Journal Article
Xiao, Z., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2019). An Empirical Unravelling of Lord’s Paradox. The Journal of Experimental Education, 87(1), 17-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2017.1380591

Lord's Paradox occurs when a continuous covariate is statistically controlled for and the relationship between a continuous outcome and group status indicator changes in both magnitude and direction. This phenomenon poses a challenge to the notion of... Read More about An Empirical Unravelling of Lord’s Paradox.

A Space for Policy Legacy: An Ethnographic Exploration of a Secondary Schools Commitment to Creativity after National Policy Priorities Have Changed (2017)
Journal Article
Moger, P., & Bagley, C. (2019). A Space for Policy Legacy: An Ethnographic Exploration of a Secondary Schools Commitment to Creativity after National Policy Priorities Have Changed. Ethnography and Education, 14(1), 101-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2017.1396544

To-date qualitative research in the field of policy enactment has tended to focus on investigating existing national policy discourse and the ways in which this discourse is creatively reconstituted in school-based contexts of practice. In this paper... Read More about A Space for Policy Legacy: An Ethnographic Exploration of a Secondary Schools Commitment to Creativity after National Policy Priorities Have Changed.

Institutional Ethnography, Theory, Methodology, and Research: Some Concerns and Some Comments. (2017)
Book Chapter
Tummons, J. (2017). Institutional Ethnography, Theory, Methodology, and Research: Some Concerns and Some Comments. In J. Reid, & L. Russell (Eds.), Perspectives on and from Institutional Ethnography (147-162). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1042-319220170000015003

In this chapter, I outline the key tenets of institutional ethnography (IE) as a framework for interpretivist social research. Through drawing not only on the key tenets of IE but also on the key findings and conclusions of the different chapters – e... Read More about Institutional Ethnography, Theory, Methodology, and Research: Some Concerns and Some Comments..

The Selection of Potential Undergraduate Students who Lack Customary Academic Qualifications: is a toolkit possible? (2017)
Journal Article
Moreton, I., Newton, D., Newton, L., & Mathias, J. (2017). The Selection of Potential Undergraduate Students who Lack Customary Academic Qualifications: is a toolkit possible?. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 19(3), 64-84. https://doi.org/10.5456/wpll.19.3.64

Widening participation in higher education is now seen as desirable in much of the West, if only for its economic benefits. It can, however, present problems for admissions tutors as applicants can vary widely in age and experience, and may lack conv... Read More about The Selection of Potential Undergraduate Students who Lack Customary Academic Qualifications: is a toolkit possible?.

The ethics of Research Excellence (2017)
Journal Article
Conroy, J., & Smith, R. (2017). The ethics of Research Excellence. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 51(4), 693-708. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12249

We here analyse the ethical dimensions of the UK's ‘Research Excellence Framework’ (REF), the latest (2014) version of an exercise which assesses the quality of university research in the UK every seven or so years. We find many of the common objecti... Read More about The ethics of Research Excellence.

Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range: From Theory to Practice. (2017)
Book
Wagner, M., Perugini, D., & Byram, M. (Eds.). (2017). Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range: From Theory to Practice. Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/wagner8903

This ground-breaking book is the first to describe in detail how teachers, supported by university educators and education advisers, might plan and implement innovative ideas based on sound theoretical foundations. Focusing on the teaching and learni... Read More about Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range: From Theory to Practice..

Learning, using and exchanging global competence in the context of international postgraduate mobility (2017)
Journal Article
Moskal, M., & Schweisfurth, M. (2018). Learning, using and exchanging global competence in the context of international postgraduate mobility. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 16(1), 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2017.1387768

The paper offers a theoretically grounded analysis of international postgraduate students’ perspectives on the importance and development of global citizenship knowledge and competences while they are studying, and how these are valued and enacted af... Read More about Learning, using and exchanging global competence in the context of international postgraduate mobility.

Exploring ‘The Thinking Behind the Doing’ in an Investigation: Students’ Understanding of Variables (2017)
Book Chapter
Oshima, R., & Roberts, R. (2017). Exploring ‘The Thinking Behind the Doing’ in an Investigation: Students’ Understanding of Variables. In J. Yeo, T. W. Teo, & K. Tang (Eds.), Science Education Research and Practice in Asia-Pacific and Beyond (69-83). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5149-4_5

Recent curriculum developments emphasise that scientific practice involves understanding about evidence. The concepts of evidence have been identified as ‘the thinking behind the doing’ and have been validated as a knowledge base underpinning this un... Read More about Exploring ‘The Thinking Behind the Doing’ in an Investigation: Students’ Understanding of Variables.

Is undergraduate debt an impediment to postgraduate enrolment in England? (2017)
Journal Article
Wakeling, P., Hampden-Thompson, G., & Hancock, S. (2017). Is undergraduate debt an impediment to postgraduate enrolment in England?. British Educational Research Journal, 43(6), 1149-1167. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3304

Changes to undergraduate student funding arrangements in England have prompted concerns that increased indebtedness will deter graduates from postgraduate study. While it is clear that student debt has increased substantially in recent years, interna... Read More about Is undergraduate debt an impediment to postgraduate enrolment in England?.

Beyond psychometrics: the difference between difficult problem solving and complex problem solving (2017)
Journal Article
Beckmann, J., Birney, D., & Goode, N. (2017). Beyond psychometrics: the difference between difficult problem solving and complex problem solving. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 1739. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01739

In this paper we argue that a synthesis of findings across the various sub-areas of research in complex problem solving and consequently progress in theory building is hampered by an insufficient differentiation of complexity and difficulty. In the p... Read More about Beyond psychometrics: the difference between difficult problem solving and complex problem solving.

Creativity as a Twenty-First-Century Competence: An Exploratory Study of Provision and Reality (2017)
Journal Article
Davies, L., Newton, D., & Newton, L. (2018). Creativity as a Twenty-First-Century Competence: An Exploratory Study of Provision and Reality. Education 3-13, 46(7), 879-891. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2017.1385641

Recently, creativity has begun to be talked about as a twenty-first-century competency [UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). 2006. The World Conference on Arts Education: Building Creative Capacities for the 21st... Read More about Creativity as a Twenty-First-Century Competence: An Exploratory Study of Provision and Reality.

Primary School Entry Assessment in New Zealand (2017)
Journal Article
Boereboom, J., & Cramman, H. (2018). Primary School Entry Assessment in New Zealand. NZ international research in early childhood education journal, 21(1), 47-61

There is a wide range of assessment tools used by schools to assess children at school entry in New Zealand. The lack of consistency of uptake and reporting of results leads to sporadic national data. This highlights a need for a national standardise... Read More about Primary School Entry Assessment in New Zealand.

Engaging the wider academic community in a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice: the issue of standards (2017)
Journal Article
Reimann, N., & Allin, L. (2018). Engaging the wider academic community in a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice: the issue of standards. International Journal for Academic Development, 23(4), 286-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144x.2017.1381966

This paper critically reflects on the challenges associated with academic standards in a postgraduate certificate in academic practice, which involved the wider academic community of the institution. It is underpinned by a socio-cultural constructivi... Read More about Engaging the wider academic community in a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice: the issue of standards.