Professor Joe Elliott's Outputs (109)

Special Educational Needs and Disability tribunals: Dyslexia, scientific validity and equity (2024)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., Stanbridge, J., & Branigan, K. (online). Special Educational Needs and Disability tribunals: Dyslexia, scientific validity and equity. British Educational Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4070

This paper examines the operation of the English Special Educational Needs and Disability tribunal system in relation to children who present with a dyslexia diagnosis. It identifies a number of significant weaknesses; in particular, the absence of c... Read More about Special Educational Needs and Disability tribunals: Dyslexia, scientific validity and equity.

Psychometric Evaluation of Aurora-a: An Augmented Assessment of Analytical, Practical, and Creative Abilities in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence (2024)
Journal Article
Hein, S., Tan, M., Ahmed, Y., Elliot, J. . G., Bolden, D. . S., Sternberg, R. . J., & Grigorenko, E. . L. (in press). Psychometric Evaluation of Aurora-a: An Augmented Assessment of Analytical, Practical, and Creative Abilities in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology,

The Theory of Successful Intelligence defines intelligence as the integrated set of abilities and competencies in specific domains needed to attain success in life. Informed by this theory, we examined the dimensionality, reliability, and validity of... Read More about Psychometric Evaluation of Aurora-a: An Augmented Assessment of Analytical, Practical, and Creative Abilities in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence.

Dyslexia in the twenty-first century: a commentary on the IDA definition of dyslexia. (2024)
Journal Article
Elliott, J. G., & Grigorenko, E. L. (online). Dyslexia in the twenty-first century: a commentary on the IDA definition of dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-024-00311-0

In offering a commentary upon the IDA definition, we address its main components in turn. While each is technically accurate, we argue that, when taken together, the definition, or more accurately, the use to which it is often put, becomes problemati... Read More about Dyslexia in the twenty-first century: a commentary on the IDA definition of dyslexia..

Children in Difficulty: A Guide to Understanding and Helping Fourth Edition (2021)
Book
Elliott, J., & Place, M. (2021). Children in Difficulty: A Guide to Understanding and Helping Fourth Edition. (6th). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003083603

It’s Time to Be Scientific About Dyslexia (2020)
Journal Article
Elliott, J. (2020). It’s Time to Be Scientific About Dyslexia. Reading Research Quarterly, 55(51), 561-575. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.333

The author argues that despite the vast proliferation of scientific research, our understanding of dyslexia is marked by serious weaknesses of conceptualization, definition, and operationalization that are not only unscientific but also result in imp... Read More about It’s Time to Be Scientific About Dyslexia.

The dyslexia debate: life without the label (2020)
Journal Article
Gibbs, S., & Elliott, J. (2020). The dyslexia debate: life without the label. Oxford Review of Education, 46(4), 487-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2020.1747419

In this paper, we discuss the problematic use of the term dyslexia. Noting that there are no unambiguous objective diagnostic criteria for ‘dyslexia’, in part because this term is understood in multiple ways, we discuss its relevance for informing ed... Read More about The dyslexia debate: life without the label.

Research studies on dyslexia: participant inclusion and exclusion criteria (2020)
Journal Article
Lopes, J., Gomes, C., Oliveira, C., & Elliott, J. (2020). Research studies on dyslexia: participant inclusion and exclusion criteria. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 35(5), 587-602. https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2020.1732108

Dyslexia is a term widely used to describe reading characterised by problems with the fluent and accurate letter or word recognition. Nevertheless, there is no consensus about the definition, origin, and diagnosis of dyslexia and the term is often us... Read More about Research studies on dyslexia: participant inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Dynamic testing: Can a robot as tutor be of help in assessing children's potential for learning? (2019)
Journal Article
Resing, W. C., Bakker, M., Elliott, J. G., & Vogelaar, B. (2019). Dynamic testing: Can a robot as tutor be of help in assessing children's potential for learning?. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 35(4), 540-554. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12358

This study examined whether computerized dynamic testing by utilizing a robot would lead to different patterns in children's (aged 6–9 years) potential for learning and strategy use when solving series‐completion tasks. The robot, in a “Wizard of Oz”... Read More about Dynamic testing: Can a robot as tutor be of help in assessing children's potential for learning?.

What did PISA and TIMSS ever do for us?: the potential of large scale datasets for understanding and improving educational practice (2018)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., Stankov, L., Lee, J., & Beckmann, J. (2019). What did PISA and TIMSS ever do for us?: the potential of large scale datasets for understanding and improving educational practice. Comparative Education, 55(1), 133-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2018.1545386

There appears to be something of an intellectual and philosophical gulf between education researchers who seek insights from statistical analyses of complex data-sets such as those provided by the OECD (PISA), and others who seek to develop rich, con... Read More about What did PISA and TIMSS ever do for us?: the potential of large scale datasets for understanding and improving educational practice.

Dynamic assessment: a case of unfulfilled potential? (2018)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., Resing, W., & Beckmann, J. (2018). Dynamic assessment: a case of unfulfilled potential?. Educational Review, 70(1), 7-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2018.1396806

This paper updates a review of dynamic assessment in education by the first author, published in this journal in 2003. It notes that the original review failed to examine the important conceptual distinction between dynamic testing (DT) and dynamic a... Read More about Dynamic assessment: a case of unfulfilled potential?.

Practitioner Review: School refusal: developments in conceptualisation and treatment since 2000 (2017)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., & Place, M. (2019). Practitioner Review: School refusal: developments in conceptualisation and treatment since 2000. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 60(1), 4-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12848

Background A generation has passed since the literature on the conceptualisation, assessment and treatment of school refusal was reviewed in this journal (Elliott, 1999). In the light of considerable gaps in the literature, identified at that time, a... Read More about Practitioner Review: School refusal: developments in conceptualisation and treatment since 2000.

Social problems in schools (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, P., & Elliott, J. (2017). Social problems in schools. In A. Slater, & J. Bremner (Eds.), Introduction to Developmental Psychology. (3rd). Wiley

Understanding Child and Adolescent Behaviour in the Classroom: Research and Practice for Teachers (2016)
Book
Armstrong, D., Hallett, F., Elliott, J., & Hallett, G. (2016). Understanding Child and Adolescent Behaviour in the Classroom: Research and Practice for Teachers. Cambridge University Press

Dyslexia: Developing the Debate (2016)
Book
Elliott, J., Nicholson, R., & Winch, C. (2016). Dyslexia: Developing the Debate. Bloomsbury Academic

Dynamic testing and test anxiety amongst gifted and average-ability children (2016)
Journal Article
Vogelaar, B., Bakker, M., Elliott, J., & Resing, W. (2017). Dynamic testing and test anxiety amongst gifted and average-ability children. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 87(1), 75-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12136

Background Dynamic testing has been proposed as a testing approach that is less disadvantageous for children who may be potentially subject to bias when undertaking conventional assessments. For example, those who encounter high levels of test anxiet... Read More about Dynamic testing and test anxiety amongst gifted and average-ability children.

Progression paths in children’s problem solving: The influence of dynamic testing, initial variability, and working memory (2016)
Journal Article
Resing, W., Bakker, M., Pronk, C., & Elliott, J. (2017). Progression paths in children’s problem solving: The influence of dynamic testing, initial variability, and working memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 153, 83-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.09.004

The current study investigated developmental trajectories of analogical reasoning performance of 104 7- and 8-year-old children. We employed a microgenetic research method and multilevel analysis to examine the influence of several background variabl... Read More about Progression paths in children’s problem solving: The influence of dynamic testing, initial variability, and working memory.

Selecting participants for dyslexia studies : Complexities and challenges (2016)
Book Chapter
Lopes, S., Gomes, C., Oliveira, C., & Elliott, J. (2016). Selecting participants for dyslexia studies : Complexities and challenges. In M. Frazier (Ed.), Dyslexia: Perspectives, Challenges and Treatment Options. Nova Science Publishers

Dynamic testing and transfer: An examination of children's problem-solving strategies (2016)
Journal Article
Resing, W., Bakker, M., Pronk, C., & Elliott, J. (2016). Dynamic testing and transfer: An examination of children's problem-solving strategies. Learning and Individual Differences, 49, 110-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2016.05.011

This study examined the problem-solving behaviour of 104 children (aged 7–8 years) when tackling construction-analogy tasks. Children were allocated to one of two conditions: either a form of unguided practice alone or this in combination with traini... Read More about Dynamic testing and transfer: An examination of children's problem-solving strategies.

Progress in the inductive strategy-use of children from different ethnic backgrounds: a study employing dynamic testing (2016)
Journal Article
Resing, W., Touw, K., Veerbeek, J., & Elliott, J. (2017). Progress in the inductive strategy-use of children from different ethnic backgrounds: a study employing dynamic testing. Educational Psychology, 37(2), 173-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2016.1164300

This study investigated potential differences in inductive behavioural and verbal strategy-use between children (aged 6–8 years) from indigenous and non-indigenous backgrounds. This was effected by the use of an electronic device that could present a... Read More about Progress in the inductive strategy-use of children from different ethnic backgrounds: a study employing dynamic testing.

Leaders’ smiles reflect cultural differences in ideal affect (2016)
Journal Article
Tsai, J., Ang, J., Blevins, E., Goernandt, J., Fung, H., Jiang, D., …Haddouk, L. (2016). Leaders’ smiles reflect cultural differences in ideal affect. Emotion, 16(2), 183-195. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000133

Cultures differ in the emotions they teach their members to value (“ideal affect”). We conducted 3 studies to examine whether leaders’ smiles reflect these cultural differences in ideal affect. In Study 1, we compared the smiles of top-ranked America... Read More about Leaders’ smiles reflect cultural differences in ideal affect.