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Professor Steven Higgins' Outputs (5)

Improving power calculations in educational trials (2023)
Report
Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Vallis, D., Akhter, N., Coolen-Maturi, T., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., Culliney, M., & Demack, S. (2023). Improving power calculations in educational trials. Education Endowment Foundation

The aim of this study was to investigate and empirically derive parameters commonly used for statistical power and sample size calculations to better inform future trial design. Towards achieving this aim, the research project leveraged the richness... Read More about Improving power calculations in educational trials.

Individual participant data meta-analysis: pooled effect of EEF funded educational trials on low baseline attaining group (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uwimpuhwe, G., Singh, A., Akhter, N., Ashraf, B., Coolen-Maturi, T., Robinson, T., Higgins, S., & Einbeck, J. (2023, July). Individual participant data meta-analysis: pooled effect of EEF funded educational trials on low baseline attaining group. Presented at International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Dortmund

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), a charity aiming to break the link between socioeconomic disadvantage and pupil attainment, has commissioned over 200 randomised controlled trials. The collection of data from these trials, the `EEF Data Arch... Read More about Individual participant data meta-analysis: pooled effect of EEF funded educational trials on low baseline attaining group.

Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals (2021)
Journal Article
Ashraf, B., Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2021). Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals. British Educational Research Journal, 47(6), 1675-1699. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3749

Meta-analysis is the synthesis of findings from research projects, which enables an estimate of the average or pooled effect across various studies. This study presents findings from the intention to treat analysis for a series of educational evaluat... Read More about Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals.

Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals (2021)
Journal Article
Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Li, M., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2022). Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 45(1), 18-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2021.1882416

In education, multisite trials involve randomisation of pupils into intervention and comparison groups within schools. Most analytical models in multisite educational trials ignore that the impact of an intervention may be school dependent. This stud... Read More about Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals.