Professor Stephen Gorard's Outputs (14)

Research Design: Robust approaches for the social sciences. (2013)
Book
Gorard, S. (2013). Research Design: Robust approaches for the social sciences. SAGE Publications

A Randomised Controlled Trial (or ‘Fair Test’): Evaluating an Educational Innovation. (2013)
Digital Artefact
Gorard, S., See, B., & Siddiqui, N. (2013). A Randomised Controlled Trial (or ‘Fair Test’): Evaluating an Educational Innovation. [[Media unknown]]

This case describes a current evaluation of an educational intervention to help disadvantaged children catch up in literacy at around the time they transfer to their senior school. The evaluation is based on a randomised controlled trial design, whic... Read More about A Randomised Controlled Trial (or ‘Fair Test’): Evaluating an Educational Innovation..

What is the evidence on overcoming educational disadvantage in schools? (2013)
Report
Gorard, S. (2013). What is the evidence on overcoming educational disadvantage in schools?. [No known commissioning body]

Living and learning in Castle Vale: the educational trajectories and outcomes of young poeple at school in one area of Birmingham. (2013)
Report
Gorard, S., & See, B. (2013). Living and learning in Castle Vale: the educational trajectories and outcomes of young poeple at school in one area of Birmingham. [No known commissioning body]

An argument concerning overcoming inequalities in Higher Education (2013)
Book Chapter
Gorard, S. (2013). An argument concerning overcoming inequalities in Higher Education. In N. Murray, & C. Klinger (Eds.), Aspirations, Access and attainment n Widening Participation: International Perspectives and an Agenda for Change. Routledge

Overcoming disadvantage in education (2013)
Book
Gorard, S., & See, B. (2013). Overcoming disadvantage in education. Routledge

Governments, local authorities, school leaders, and teachers all over the world want to improve the educational attainment and participation of all students, and to minimise any systematic differences in outcomes for social and economic groups. A par... Read More about Overcoming disadvantage in education.

Narrowing down the determinants of between-school segregation : an analysis of the intake to all schools in England, 1989–2011 (2013)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Hordosy, R., & See, B. (2013). Narrowing down the determinants of between-school segregation : an analysis of the intake to all schools in England, 1989–2011. Journal of School Choice, 7(2), 182-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2013.791182

This article describes the social and economic “segregation” of students between schools in England, and the likely causes of its levels and changes over time. It involves a re-analysis of the intakes to all schools in England 1989–2011, and shows ho... Read More about Narrowing down the determinants of between-school segregation : an analysis of the intake to all schools in England, 1989–2011.

What do rigorous evaluations tell us about the most promising parental involvement interventions? A critical review of what works for disadvantaged children in different age groups (2013)
Report
See, B., & Gorard, S. (2013). What do rigorous evaluations tell us about the most promising parental involvement interventions? A critical review of what works for disadvantaged children in different age groups. [No known commissioning body]

Do parental involvement interventions increase attainment? A review of the evidence (2013)
Report
Gorard, S., & See, B. (2013). Do parental involvement interventions increase attainment? A review of the evidence. [No known commissioning body]

This briefing paper summarises a review of the evidence linking interventions to improve parental engagement in their children’s education with improved attainment. The review illustrates that there is not yet enough evidence that any intervention wi... Read More about Do parental involvement interventions increase attainment? A review of the evidence.

What difference do teachers make? A consideration of the wider outcomes of schooling (2013)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2013). What difference do teachers make? A consideration of the wider outcomes of schooling. Irish Educational Studies, 32(1), 69-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/03323315.2013.773231

This paper is based on a series of previous research studies looking at the impact and development of teachers in the UK and internationally. It suggests that there is no convincing evidence, in terms of test outcomes, that some teachers are more or... Read More about What difference do teachers make? A consideration of the wider outcomes of schooling.

The limitations of widening participation (2013)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2013). The limitations of widening participation. Adults learning, 25(Winter), 20-21

Limitations to the number of marginal applicants and the number of places combine to make widening participation, as currently conceived, just about impossible. Increasing the pool of potential students is possible but efforts to do so are seriously... Read More about The limitations of widening participation.

How stable are 'school effects' assessed by a value-added technique? (2013)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Hordosy, R., & Siddiqui, N. (2013). How stable are 'school effects' assessed by a value-added technique?. International Education Studies, 6(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v6n1p1

This paper re-considers the widespread use of value-added approaches to estimate school ‘effects’, and shows the results to be very unstable over time. The paper uses as an example the contextualised value-added scores of all secondary schools in Eng... Read More about How stable are 'school effects' assessed by a value-added technique?.

The possible advantages of the mean absolute deviation 'effect' size (2013)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2013). The possible advantages of the mean absolute deviation 'effect' size. Social research update, 65(Winter 2013), 1-4

A range of ‘effect’ sizes already exists, for presenting a relatively easy to interpret estimate of a difference or change between two sets of observations. All are based on use of the standard deviation of the observations, involving squaring and th... Read More about The possible advantages of the mean absolute deviation 'effect' size.

The propagation of errors in experimental data analysis: a comparison of pre- and post-test designs (2013)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2013). The propagation of errors in experimental data analysis: a comparison of pre- and post-test designs. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 36(4), 372-385. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2012.741117

Experimental designs involving the randomization of cases to treatment and control groups are powerful and under-used in many areas of social science and social policy. This paper reminds readers of the pre- and post-test, and the post-test only, des... Read More about The propagation of errors in experimental data analysis: a comparison of pre- and post-test designs.