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The unintended consequences of school inspection: the prevalence of inspection side-effects in Austria, the Czech Republic, England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, K. L., Tymms, P., Kemethofer, D., O’Hara, J., McNamara, G., Huber, S., Myrberg, E., Skedsmo, G., & Greger, D. (2017). The unintended consequences of school inspection: the prevalence of inspection side-effects in Austria, the Czech Republic, England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. Oxford Review of Education, 43(6), 805-822. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2017.1352499

It has been widely documented that accountability systems, including school inspections, bring with them unintended side effects. These unintended effects are often negative and have the potential to undo the intended positive effects. However the em... Read More about The unintended consequences of school inspection: the prevalence of inspection side-effects in Austria, the Czech Republic, England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Are researchers in Europe European researchers? A study of doctoral researchers at the University of Luxembourg (2017)
Journal Article
Byram, M., Hu, A., & Rahman, M. (2019). Are researchers in Europe European researchers? A study of doctoral researchers at the University of Luxembourg. Studies in Higher Education, 44(3), 486-498. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1378634

How doctoral researchers (and their supervisors) experience and conceptualise the process of becoming a researcher and the identifications that are enacted during the process has hitherto been researched only in terms of disciplinary and professional... Read More about Are researchers in Europe European researchers? A study of doctoral researchers at the University of Luxembourg.

Learning about assessment: the impact of two courses for higher education staff (2017)
Journal Article
Reimann, N. (2018). Learning about assessment: the impact of two courses for higher education staff. International Journal for Academic Development, 23(2), 86-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144x.2017.1375413

This interview-based study investigated the impact of two academic development courses about assessment. Participants learnt concepts and terminology that enabled them to better understand and communicate about assessment. The courses also stimulated... Read More about Learning about assessment: the impact of two courses for higher education staff.

Emotional intelligence and individual differences in affective processes underlying task-contingent conscientiousness (2017)
Journal Article
Minbashian, A., Beckmann, N., & Wood, R. (2018). Emotional intelligence and individual differences in affective processes underlying task-contingent conscientiousness. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(9), 1182-1196. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2233

Organisational researchers have recently begun to focus on the more dynamic aspects of personality in the workplace. The present study examines individual differences in the affective processes that underlie one such dynamic construct, task-contingen... Read More about Emotional intelligence and individual differences in affective processes underlying task-contingent conscientiousness.

What does learning look like? Using cartoon story boards to investigate student perceptions (from 4 to 15) of learning something new (2017)
Book Chapter
Wall, K., Higgins, S., Hall, E., & Gascoine, L. (2017). What does learning look like? Using cartoon story boards to investigate student perceptions (from 4 to 15) of learning something new. In M. Emme, & A. Kirova (Eds.), Good question : arts-based approaches to collaborative research with children and youth (211-227). The Canadian Society for Education through Art

Editorial: Dynamic personality science: Integrating between-person stability and within-person change (2017)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., & Wood, R. (2017). Editorial: Dynamic personality science: Integrating between-person stability and within-person change. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 1486. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01486

Trait theorists and social-cognitive theorists have begun to integrate their respective descriptions and explanations of personality. The new framing of personality accommodates both between-person stability and within-person variability in personali... Read More about Editorial: Dynamic personality science: Integrating between-person stability and within-person change.

'Peacekeepers’ and ‘machine factories’: tracing Graduate Teaching Assistant subjectivity in a neoliberalised university (2017)
Journal Article
Raaper, R. (2018). 'Peacekeepers’ and ‘machine factories’: tracing Graduate Teaching Assistant subjectivity in a neoliberalised university. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39(4), 421-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2017.1367269

Guided by a Foucauldian theorisation, this article explores Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) experiences of their work and subjectivity in a neoliberalised higher education environment. By drawing on a research project with GTAs from one UK universi... Read More about 'Peacekeepers’ and ‘machine factories’: tracing Graduate Teaching Assistant subjectivity in a neoliberalised university.

‘My language … I don’t know how to talk about it’: children’s views on language diversity in primary schools in France and England (2017)
Journal Article
Welply, O. (2017). ‘My language … I don’t know how to talk about it’: children’s views on language diversity in primary schools in France and England. Language and Intercultural Communication, 17(4), 437-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2017.1368145

This article investigates the ways in which children from immigrant backgrounds view the place of ‘other’ languages in primary schools in France and England. This article draws on findings from a cross-national ethnographic study, which investigated... Read More about ‘My language … I don’t know how to talk about it’: children’s views on language diversity in primary schools in France and England.

Using a Moot to Develop Students’ Understanding of Human Cloning and Statutory Interpretation (2017)
Journal Article
Pattinson, S. D., & Kind, V. (2017). Using a Moot to Develop Students’ Understanding of Human Cloning and Statutory Interpretation. Medical Law International, 17(3), 111-133. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968533217726350

This article reports and analyses the method and findings from a 3-year interdisciplinary project investigating how the medium of law can support understanding of socio-scientific issues. Law represents one of the most important means by which societ... Read More about Using a Moot to Develop Students’ Understanding of Human Cloning and Statutory Interpretation.

Successful transition to secondary school in Tanzania: What are the barriers? (2017)
Journal Article
Joyce-Gibbons, A., Galloway, D., Mollel, A., Mgoma, S., Pima, M., & Deogratias, E. (2018). Successful transition to secondary school in Tanzania: What are the barriers?. Journal of International Development, 30(7), 1142-1165. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3304

Transition to secondary school is a problem internationally. Tanzanian students face an additional challenge as the medium of instruction changes from Kiswahili to English. An 18-item questionnaire (N = 383) and focus groups (primary standard 7, seco... Read More about Successful transition to secondary school in Tanzania: What are the barriers?.

PISA trends, social changes, and education reforms (2017)
Journal Article
Aloisi, C., & Tymms, P. (2017). PISA trends, social changes, and education reforms. Educational Research and Evaluation, 23(5-6), 180-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2017.1455290

The stability of educational test results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) over 15 years was examined, and the influence of demographics and social capital was assessed, as was the impact of educational reforms. The test... Read More about PISA trends, social changes, and education reforms.

Parental education as a determinant of school choice: A comparative study of school types in Pakistan (2017)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N. (2017). Parental education as a determinant of school choice: A comparative study of school types in Pakistan. Research in Education, 99(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/0034523717725862

In Pakistan, school education is not compulsory for children and, therefore, sending a child to school is a matter of choice for parents. For those parents who choose school education for their children the options are government schools, private fee... Read More about Parental education as a determinant of school choice: A comparative study of school types in Pakistan.

Multi-Trait Multi-Method Matrices for the Validation of Creativity and Critical Thinking Assessments for Secondary School Students in England and Greece (2017)
Journal Article
Ventista, O. (2018). Multi-Trait Multi-Method Matrices for the Validation of Creativity and Critical Thinking Assessments for Secondary School Students in England and Greece. International journal of assessment tools in education, 5(1), 15-32. https://doi.org/10.21449/ijate.335167

The aim of this paper is the validation of measurement tools which assess critical thinking and creativity as general constructs instead of subject-specific skills. Specifically, this research examined whether there is convergent and discriminant (or... Read More about Multi-Trait Multi-Method Matrices for the Validation of Creativity and Critical Thinking Assessments for Secondary School Students in England and Greece.

Do Electronic Cigarettes Increase Cigarette Smoking in UK Adolescents? Evidence from a 12-month Prospective Study (2017)
Journal Article
Conner, M., Grogan, S., Simms-Ellis, R., Flett, K., Sykes-Muskett, B., Cowap, L., …Siddiqi, K. (2018). Do Electronic Cigarettes Increase Cigarette Smoking in UK Adolescents? Evidence from a 12-month Prospective Study. Tobacco Control, 27(4), 365-372. https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053539

Background In cross-sectional surveys, increasing numbers of adolescents report using both electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and cigarettes. This study assessed whether adolescent e-cigarette use was associated prospectively with initiation or esc... Read More about Do Electronic Cigarettes Increase Cigarette Smoking in UK Adolescents? Evidence from a 12-month Prospective Study.

It worked there. Will it work here? Researching teaching methods (2017)
Journal Article
Davis, A. (2017). It worked there. Will it work here? Researching teaching methods. Ethics and Education, 12(3), 289-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449642.2017.1361267

‘It worked there. Will it work here?’ We have to be able to identify the ‘it’ in that aphoristic question. Classifications of teaching methods belong in the social realm, where human intentions play a fundamental role in how phenomena are categorized... Read More about It worked there. Will it work here? Researching teaching methods.

How can we widen participation in higher education? The promise of contextualised admissions (2017)
Book Chapter
Boliver, V., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2017). How can we widen participation in higher education? The promise of contextualised admissions. In R. Deem, & H. Eggins (Eds.), The university as a critical institution? (95-110). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-116-2_6

Widening participation in higher education has been on the UK policy agenda for more than fifty years. Yet, despite some progress across the UK higher education sector overall (DfE, 2016), students from less socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds r... Read More about How can we widen participation in higher education? The promise of contextualised admissions.

Does participation in uniformed group activities in school improve young people’s non-cognitive outcomes? (2017)
Journal Article
See, B., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2017). Does participation in uniformed group activities in school improve young people’s non-cognitive outcomes?. International Journal of Educational Research, 85, 109-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2017.07.002

Recent concerns about extremism, and young people’s vulnerability to exposure of radicalisation and such negative influences, have increased interest in young people’s participation in civic activities. There is some evidence that such activities at... Read More about Does participation in uniformed group activities in school improve young people’s non-cognitive outcomes?.

How can the understanding of analysis of sonata form movements be deepened by the use of graphic representation? (2017)
Journal Article
Ferrari, D., Kokotsaki, D., Newton, D., & Newton, L. (2017). How can the understanding of analysis of sonata form movements be deepened by the use of graphic representation?. The journal of music and meaning, 14, 1-20

The aim of the study presented in this paper is to explore the nature of understanding when learning music through the use of ‘graphic representations’ trialled in a learning conversation with a ten-year old flautist. It is argued that the powerful v... Read More about How can the understanding of analysis of sonata form movements be deepened by the use of graphic representation?.