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Understanding the student: consortium research on PGT access and motivations (2015)
Book Chapter
Wakeling, P., Hancock, S., Hampden-Thompson, G., & Coxhead, A. (2015). Understanding the student: consortium research on PGT access and motivations. In T. Srike, & J. Toyne (Eds.), Widening Access to Postgraduate Study and Fair Access to the Professions: working together to ensure fair access to postgraduate taught education (56-74). University of Sheffield

Preface (2015)
Book Chapter
Land, R. (2015). Preface. In L. Adler-Kassner, & E. Wardle (Eds.), Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado & Logan, UT: Utah State University Press

Systematic review of the impact of arts education on the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of school-aged children. (2015)
Report
See, B., & Kokotsaki, D. (2015). Systematic review of the impact of arts education on the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of school-aged children. [No known commissioning body]

The aim of this review was to examine empirical evidence to establish whether arts participation could lead to improvements in children’s attainment at school and their wider outcomes, and to identify the arts activities with the best evidence of suc... Read More about Systematic review of the impact of arts education on the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of school-aged children..

Equity-related challenges in education and training, existing measures, assessment, proposals for future measures, Report to the EU Commission (2015)
Report
Gorard, S. (2015). Equity-related challenges in education and training, existing measures, assessment, proposals for future measures, Report to the EU Commission. [No known commissioning body]

This is a report on the main challenges to equity in provision and outcomes, as faced by the education and training (ET) systems of Europe, based on a synthesis of individual reports on each of the 28 countries supplemented by other available evidenc... Read More about Equity-related challenges in education and training, existing measures, assessment, proposals for future measures, Report to the EU Commission.

The Education System of the United Kingdom (2015)
Book Chapter
Harris, N., & Gorard, S. (2015). The Education System of the United Kingdom. In W. Hörner, H. Döbert, L. Reuter, & B. von Kopp (Eds.), Education systems of Europe (Updated Second Edition). (Updated second edition). Springer Dordrecht, Netherlands

Evaluation of the Curriculum Centre Word and World Reading programme. (2015)
Report
See, B., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2015). Evaluation of the Curriculum Centre Word and World Reading programme. [No known commissioning body]

The Word and World Reading programmeintended to improve the reading comprehension and wider literacy skills of children aged 7-9 in primary schools from low income families in England. The programme was implemented with 659 of 1,340 pupils (in 8 out... Read More about Evaluation of the Curriculum Centre Word and World Reading programme..

Evaluation of the Fresh Start: an aggregated trial. (2015)
Report
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & See, B. (2015). Evaluation of the Fresh Start: an aggregated trial. [No known commissioning body]

We evaluated the impact and feasibility of Fresh Start as an intervention to help new entrants with low prior literacy, based on a randomised controlled trial conducted with 10 secondary schools in England. Fresh Start is a synthetic phonics programm... Read More about Evaluation of the Fresh Start: an aggregated trial..