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Professor Steven Higgins' Outputs (79)

Reconceptualising emotion dysregulation in the context of middle childhood: A scoping review of reviews (2024)
Journal Article
Antony, E., Beckmann, N., & Higgins, S. (online). Reconceptualising emotion dysregulation in the context of middle childhood: A scoping review of reviews. JCPP Advances, Article e12296. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12296

Background: Recent research has suggested that emotion dysregulation (ED) is a key mechanism which explains the associations between mental health illnesses, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and internalising problems, among youth.... Read More about Reconceptualising emotion dysregulation in the context of middle childhood: A scoping review of reviews.

Uncovering individualised treatment effects for educational trials (2024)
Journal Article
Xiao, Z., Hauser, O., Kirkwood, C., Li, D. Z., Ford, T., & Higgins, S. (2024). Uncovering individualised treatment effects for educational trials. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 22606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73714-z

Large-scale Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are widely regarded as “the gold standard” for testing the causal effects of school-based interventions. RCTs typically present the statistical significance of the average treatment effect (ATE), which... Read More about Uncovering individualised treatment effects for educational trials.

The effectiveness and acceptability of multimedia information when recruiting children and young people to trials: the TRECA meta-analysis of SWATs (2023)
Journal Article
Knapp, P., Martin-Kerry, J., Moe-Byrne, T., Sheridan, R., Coleman, E., Roche, J., …Stones, C. (2023). The effectiveness and acceptability of multimedia information when recruiting children and young people to trials: the TRECA meta-analysis of SWATs. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 11(24), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.3310/HTPM3841

The information provided to potential trial participants plays a crucial role in their decision-making. Printed participant information sheets for trials have received recurrent criticism as being too long and technical, unappealing and hard to navig... Read More about The effectiveness and acceptability of multimedia information when recruiting children and young people to trials: the TRECA meta-analysis of SWATs.

Providing multimedia information to children and young people increases recruitment to trials: pre-planned meta-analysis of SWATs (2023)
Journal Article
Knapp, P., Moe-Byrne, T., Martin-Kerry, J., Sheridan, R., Roche, J., Coleman, E., …Ainsworth, J. (2023). Providing multimedia information to children and young people increases recruitment to trials: pre-planned meta-analysis of SWATs. BMC Medicine, 21(1), Article 244. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-02936-1

Background
Randomised controlled trials are often beset by problems with poor recruitment and retention. Information to support decisions on trial participation is usually provided as printed participant information sheets (PIS), which are often lon... Read More about Providing multimedia information to children and young people increases recruitment to trials: pre-planned meta-analysis of SWATs.

Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Peart, M., Higgins, S., Gutiérrez-Esteban, P., & Cubo Delgado, S. (online). Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979231170232

Digital Citizenship is an emerging field of research but there is still a lack of knowledge into what works and how to implement educational practices to develop digital citizenship. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the relationship between... Read More about Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK.

Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English (2022)
Journal Article
Oliver, M., & Higgins, S. (2023). Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 47, Article 101230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2022.101230

This paper draws upon a growing body of research emphasising the importance and prevalence of domain-specific practices in teaching and learning. Different disciplines have their own reasoning practices, conceptualised as reasoning styles, which are... Read More about Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English.

Does digital, multimedia information increase recruitment and retention in a children’s wrist fracture treatment trial, and what do people think of it? A randomised controlled Study Within A Trial (SWAT) (2022)
Journal Article
Moe-Byrne, T., Knapp, P., Perry, D., Achten, J., Spoors, L., Appelbe, D., Roche, J., Martin-Kerry, J. M., Sheridan, R., & Higgins, S. (2022). Does digital, multimedia information increase recruitment and retention in a children’s wrist fracture treatment trial, and what do people think of it? A randomised controlled Study Within A Trial (SWAT). BMJ Open, 12(7), Article e057508. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057508

Objectives To evaluate digital, multimedia information (MMI) for its effects on trial recruitment, retention, decisions about participation and acceptability by patients, compared with printed information. Design Study Within A Trial using random clu... Read More about Does digital, multimedia information increase recruitment and retention in a children’s wrist fracture treatment trial, and what do people think of it? A randomised controlled Study Within A Trial (SWAT).

Engaging children, young people, parents and health professionals in interviews: Using an interactive ranking exercise within the co-design of multimedia websites (2022)
Journal Article
Martin-Kerry, J., Higgins, S., Knapp, P., Liabo, K., & Young, B. (2024). Engaging children, young people, parents and health professionals in interviews: Using an interactive ranking exercise within the co-design of multimedia websites. Journal of Child Health Care, 28(1), 181-195. https://doi.org/10.1177/13674935221109684

When planning paediatric trials, it is important to consider how best to communicate with children and young people (CYP) so they understand what they are taking part in. It is also important to consider what information they need. Involving CYP as r... Read More about Engaging children, young people, parents and health professionals in interviews: Using an interactive ranking exercise within the co-design of multimedia websites.

The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education (2022)
Journal Article
Higgins, S., Katsipataki, M., Villanueva Aguilera, A., Alaidde, B., Dobson, E., Gascoine, L., Rajab, T., Reardon, J., Stafford, J., & Uwimpuhwe, G. (2022). The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education. Review of Education, 10(1), Article e3327. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3327

This article compares and contrasts two versions of the Education Endowment Foundation's (EEF) Teaching and Learning Toolkit (‘Toolkit’), a web-based summary of international evidence on teaching 3–18 year-olds. The Toolkit has localised versions in... Read More about The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education.

Meta-analysis examining the effects of electronic storybooks on language and literacy outcomes for children in grades Pre-K to grade 2 (2021)
Journal Article
Savva, M., Higgins, S., & Beckmann, N. (2022). Meta-analysis examining the effects of electronic storybooks on language and literacy outcomes for children in grades Pre-K to grade 2. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 38(2), 526-564. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12623

Background The array of availability of diverse digital reading applications, the mixed results emerging from small-scale experimental studies, as well as the long-standing tradition and range of known positive developmental outcomes gained from adul... Read More about Meta-analysis examining the effects of electronic storybooks on language and literacy outcomes for children in grades Pre-K to grade 2.

Of Young People and Internet Cafés (2021)
Journal Article
Xiao, Z., & Higgins, S. (2021). Of Young People and Internet Cafés. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 603992. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.603992

This study examines how adolescent experience in Internet cafés (known as wangba in Chinese) relates to academic attainment in urban, rural, and Tibetan schools of China. By documenting the frustrations teenagers express in their negotiations with ad... Read More about Of Young People and Internet Cafés.

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.

Evaluating the use of multimedia information when recruiting adolescents to orthodontics research: a randomised controlled trial (2021)
Journal Article
Knapp, P., Mandall, N., Hulse, W., Roche, J., Moe-Byrne, T., Martin-Kerry, J., Sheridan, R., & Higgins, S. (2021). Evaluating the use of multimedia information when recruiting adolescents to orthodontics research: a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Orthodontics, 48(4), 343-351. https://doi.org/10.1177/14653125211024250

Objective: The study aim was to compare two methods of providing information about the BAMP (Bone Anchored Maxillary Protraction) trial: standard printed information and multimedia websites, for their quality and ease of understanding, and impact on... Read More about Evaluating the use of multimedia information when recruiting adolescents to orthodontics research: a randomised controlled trial.

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.

Application of Bayesian posterior probabilistic inference in educational trials (2020)
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Uwimpuhwe, G., Singh, A., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2021). Application of Bayesian posterior probabilistic inference in educational trials. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 44(5), 533-554. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2020.1856067

Educational researchers advocate the use of an effect size and its confidence interval to assess the effectiveness of interventions instead of relying on a p-value, which has been blamed for lack of reproducibility of research findings and the misuse... Read More about Application of Bayesian posterior probabilistic inference in educational trials.

Using working memory performance to predict mathematics performance 2 years on (2020)
Journal Article
Allen, K., Giofrè, D., Higgins, S., & Adams, J. (2020). Using working memory performance to predict mathematics performance 2 years on. Psychological Research, 85(5), 1986-1996. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01382-5

A number of previous studies have used working memory components to predict mathematical performance in a variety of ways; however, there is no consideration of the contributions of the subcomponents of visuospatial working memory to this prediction.... Read More about Using working memory performance to predict mathematics performance 2 years on.

Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention? (2020)
Journal Article
Uwimpuhwe, G., Singh, A., Higgins, S., Coux, M., Xiao, Z., Shkedy, Z., & Kasim, A. (2022). Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention?. The Journal of Experimental Education, 90(2), 404-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2020.1767021

Educational stakeholders are keen to know the magnitude and importance of different interventions. However, the way evidence is communicated to support understanding of the effectiveness of an intervention is controversial. Typically studies in educa... Read More about Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention?.

Children and young people’s concerns and needs relating to their use of health technology to self-manage long-term conditions: a scoping review (2020)
Journal Article
Blower, S., Swallow, V., Maturana, C., Stones, S., Phillips, R., Dimitri, P., Marshman, Z., Knapp, P., Dean, A., Higgins, S., Kellar, I., Curtis, P., Mills, N., & Martin-Kerry, J. (2020). Children and young people’s concerns and needs relating to their use of health technology to self-manage long-term conditions: a scoping review. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 105(11), 1093-1104. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-319103

Background: The use of patient-facing health technologies to manage long-term conditions is increasing; however, children and young people may have particular concerns or needs before deciding to use different health technologies. Aims: To identify c... Read More about Children and young people’s concerns and needs relating to their use of health technology to self-manage long-term conditions: a scoping review.

Translating laboratory evidence into classroom practice with teacher-led randomised controlled trials - a perspective and meta-analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Churches, R., Dommett, E., Devonshire, I., Hall, R., Higgins, S., & Korin, A. (2020). Translating laboratory evidence into classroom practice with teacher-led randomised controlled trials - a perspective and meta-analysis. Mind, Brain, and Education, 14(3), 292-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12243

We initiated and structured a single program that supervised teachers, some with neuroscience or psychology degrees, to collaborate and explore the effects of science of learning‐translated pedagogy. This article reports on the 34 findings from teach... Read More about Translating laboratory evidence into classroom practice with teacher-led randomised controlled trials - a perspective and meta-analysis.