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Developing and evaluating multimedia information resources to improve engagement of children, adolescents and their parents with trials (TRECA study): Study Protocol for a series of linked randomised controlled trials (2017)
Journal Article
Martin-Kerry, J., Bower, P., Young, B., Graffy, J., Sheridan, R., Watt, I., …Knapp, P. (2017). Developing and evaluating multimedia information resources to improve engagement of children, adolescents and their parents with trials (TRECA study): Study Protocol for a series of linked randomised controlled trials. Trials, 18, Article 265. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-1962-z

Background: Randomised controlled trials are widely established as the best method for testing health interventions whilst minimising bias. However, recruitment and subsequent retention of children and adolescents in healthcare trials is challenging.... Read More about Developing and evaluating multimedia information resources to improve engagement of children, adolescents and their parents with trials (TRECA study): Study Protocol for a series of linked randomised controlled trials.

The implementation of object-centred learning through the visual arts: Engaging students in creative, problem-based learning (2017)
Journal Article
Parton, A., Newton, D., & Newton, L. (2017). The implementation of object-centred learning through the visual arts: Engaging students in creative, problem-based learning. International Journal of Education through Art, 13(2), 147-162. https://doi.org/10.1386/eta.13.2.147_1

Many museums now allow more opportunities for students to interact with their artefacts, often in store. At the same time, digital technologies now make it easier for those students to access information about those artefacts, interpret it, and const... Read More about The implementation of object-centred learning through the visual arts: Engaging students in creative, problem-based learning.

Significance testing is still wrong, and damages real lives: a brief reply to Spreckelsen and van der Horst, and Nicholson and McCusker (2017)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2017). Significance testing is still wrong, and damages real lives: a brief reply to Spreckelsen and van der Horst, and Nicholson and McCusker. Sociological Research Online, 22(2), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.4281

This paper is a brief reply to two responses to a paper I published previously in this journal. In that first paper I presented a summary of part of the long-standing literature critical of the use of significance testing in real-life research, and r... Read More about Significance testing is still wrong, and damages real lives: a brief reply to Spreckelsen and van der Horst, and Nicholson and McCusker.

An Analysis of School-Based Contextual Indicators for Possible Use in Widening Participation (2017)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & Boliver, V. (2017). An Analysis of School-Based Contextual Indicators for Possible Use in Widening Participation. Higher Education Studies, 7(2), Article 79. https://doi.org/10.5539/hes.v7n2p79

This paper looks at the National Pupil Database for England in terms of variables that could be used by universities to help them assess undergraduate applications. Where a young person is obviously disadvantaged, this can be taken into account in co... Read More about An Analysis of School-Based Contextual Indicators for Possible Use in Widening Participation.

Online instructional videos as a complimentary method of teaching practical rehabilitation skills for groups and individuals (2017)
Journal Article
Cooper, D., Higgins, S., & Beckmann, N. (2017). Online instructional videos as a complimentary method of teaching practical rehabilitation skills for groups and individuals. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 45(4), 546-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047239516669104

Online instructional videos are becoming increasingly common within education. This study adopts a quasi-experimental 2 × 2 crossover design (control and experimental groups) to evaluate the efficacy of instructional videos to teach practical rehabil... Read More about Online instructional videos as a complimentary method of teaching practical rehabilitation skills for groups and individuals.

Slow learning and the multiplicity of meaning (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, R. (2017). Slow learning and the multiplicity of meaning. In M. Peters, & J. Stickney (Eds.), A companion to Wittgenstein on education : pedagogical investigations (101-113). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3136-6_6

A major theme both in Wittgenstein’s early work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , and in his later work, especially the Philosophical Investigations , is the question of how language can be meaningful. Although there are major differences in the... Read More about Slow learning and the multiplicity of meaning.

Interculturality in Chinese Language Education. (2017)
Book
Jin, T., & Dervin, F. (Eds.). (2017). Interculturality in Chinese Language Education. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58322-2

This book calls for a change in the way interculturality is introduced in Chinese language education, while the demand for Chinese language teaching increases around the world. The concept of culture – as in the phrase ‘Chinese culture’ – has often b... Read More about Interculturality in Chinese Language Education..

Development of evidence-based, student-learning-oriented rubrics for pre-service science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (2017)
Journal Article
Kind, V. (2017). Development of evidence-based, student-learning-oriented rubrics for pre-service science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge. International Journal of Science Education, 41(7), 911-943. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2017.1311049

This paper offers pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) rubrics, that is, guides providing criteria for grading that are potentially applicable to a range of science topics and levels of teacher experience. Grading criteria applied in the rubrics are b... Read More about Development of evidence-based, student-learning-oriented rubrics for pre-service science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge.

Identifying and contextualising the key issues (2017)
Book Chapter
Jin, T., & Dervin, F. (2017). Identifying and contextualising the key issues. In T. Jin, & F. Dervin (Eds.), Interculturality in Chinese language education (1-22). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58322-2_1

This chapter reviews current research on the intercultural component of language education and discusses its relevance for Chinese language teaching and learning. Basic concepts such as culture, identity and the very word ‘intercultural’ are problema... Read More about Identifying and contextualising the key issues.

UK Space Agency Principia Education Programme Report: The reach and spread of its projects (2017)
Report
See, B., Morris, R., Gorard, S., & Griffin, N. (2017). UK Space Agency Principia Education Programme Report: The reach and spread of its projects. UK Space Agency

Increasing the number of pupils and young people studying STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) has been a concern for successive UK governments in the last two decades. In 2014 the Prime Minister claimed that maths, science and... Read More about UK Space Agency Principia Education Programme Report: The reach and spread of its projects.

Against Inferential Statistics: How and why current statistics teaching gets it wrong (2017)
Journal Article
White, P., & Gorard, S. (2017). Against Inferential Statistics: How and why current statistics teaching gets it wrong. Statistics Education Research Journal, 16(1), 55-65

Recent concerns about a shortage of capacity for statistical and numerical analysis skills among social science students and researchers have prompted a range of initiatives aiming to improve teaching in this area. However, these projects have rarely... Read More about Against Inferential Statistics: How and why current statistics teaching gets it wrong.

Interactive visualisations and statistical literacy (2017)
Journal Article
Sutherland, S., & Ridgway, J. (2017). Interactive visualisations and statistical literacy. Statistics Education Research Journal, 16(1), 26-30

Statistical literacy involves engagement with the data one encounters. New forms of data and new ways to engage with data – notably via interactive data visualisations – are emerging. Some of the skills required to work effectively with these new vis... Read More about Interactive visualisations and statistical literacy.

A response to White and Gorard: Against inferential statistics: How and why current statistics teaching gets it wrong (2017)
Journal Article
Nicholson, J., & Ridgway, J. (2017). A response to White and Gorard: Against inferential statistics: How and why current statistics teaching gets it wrong. Statistics Education Research Journal, 16(1), 66-73

White and Gorard make important and relevant criticisms of some of the methods commonly used in social science research, but go further by criticising the logical basis for inferential statistical tests. This paper comments briefly on matters we broa... Read More about A response to White and Gorard: Against inferential statistics: How and why current statistics teaching gets it wrong.