Professor Steven Higgins' Outputs (7)

Supporting the attainment of disadvantaged pupils: articulating success and good practice: Research report November 2015 (2015)
Report
Macleod, S., Sharp, C., Bernardinelli, D., Skipp, A., & Higgins, S. (2015). Supporting the attainment of disadvantaged pupils: articulating success and good practice: Research report November 2015. [No known commissioning body]

The performance gap between pupils from more and less advantaged backgrounds in England is one of the largest among OECD countries (OECD, 2014). The pupil premium was introduced by the coalition government in 2011 to increase social mobility and redu... Read More about Supporting the attainment of disadvantaged pupils: articulating success and good practice: Research report November 2015.

Evidence from meta-analysis about parental involvement in education which supports their children’s learning (2015)
Journal Article
Higgins, S., & Katsipataki, M. (2015). Evidence from meta-analysis about parental involvement in education which supports their children’s learning. Journal of Children's Services, 10(3), 280-290. https://doi.org/10.1108/jcs-02-2015-0009

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to understanding of different ways that parents and schools develop and maintain working partnerships to improve outcomes for children by focusing on quantitative evidence about parental involvemen... Read More about Evidence from meta-analysis about parental involvement in education which supports their children’s learning.

Student interactions and the development of ideas in multi-touch and paper-based collaborative mathematical problem solving (2015)
Journal Article
Mercier, E., Vourloumi, G., & Higgins, S. (2017). Student interactions and the development of ideas in multi-touch and paper-based collaborative mathematical problem solving. British Journal of Educational Technology, 48(1), 162-175. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12351

Multi-touch technology is increasingly being used to support collaborative learning activities. However, to know how this technology can be used most effectively, we need to understand if collaborative interactions differ when groups are using multi-... Read More about Student interactions and the development of ideas in multi-touch and paper-based collaborative mathematical problem solving.

Learners’ use of communication strategies in text-based and video-based synchronous computer-mediated communication environments: opportunities for language learning (2015)
Journal Article
Hung, Y., & Higgins, S. (2016). Learners’ use of communication strategies in text-based and video-based synchronous computer-mediated communication environments: opportunities for language learning. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 29(5), 901-924. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2015.1074589

This study investigates the different learning opportunities enabled by text-based and video-based synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) from an interactionist perspective. Six Chinese-speaking learners of English and six English-speakin... Read More about Learners’ use of communication strategies in text-based and video-based synchronous computer-mediated communication environments: opportunities for language learning.

Developing Great Teaching: Lessons from the international reviews into effective professional development (2015)
Report
Cordingley, P., Higgins, S., Greany, T., Buckler, N., Coles-Jordan, D., Crisp, B., …Coe, R. (2015). Developing Great Teaching: Lessons from the international reviews into effective professional development. [No known commissioning body]

The 2014 DfE consultation on A world-class teaching profession stated that “Feedback from the profession has consistently indicated that too many of the development opportunities on offer are of variable quality”.1 “Too often ‘CPD’ is viewed narrowly... Read More about Developing Great Teaching: Lessons from the international reviews into effective professional development.

A Recent History of Teaching Thinking (2015)
Book Chapter
Higgins, S. (2015). A Recent History of Teaching Thinking. In R. Wegerif, L. Li, & J. Kaufman (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of research on teaching thinking (19-28). Routledge

This chapter describes the development of teaching thinking and its uptake in schools over the last sixty years. The influence of key individuals, research and projects, as well as developments in other fields such as neuroscience, can all be identif... Read More about A Recent History of Teaching Thinking.

Obstacles facing Faculty Members in the Effective Implementation of e-learning at Some Universities in Saudi Arabia (2015)
Journal Article
Al-Shammari, M., & Higgins, S. (2015). Obstacles facing Faculty Members in the Effective Implementation of e-learning at Some Universities in Saudi Arabia. International journal of information technology & computer science (Kathmandu), 19(1), 1-12

Higher education institutions in many countries around the world are facing serious challenges from expansion, leading to a number of developments in the process of integrating information and communication technologies into university practices. In... Read More about Obstacles facing Faculty Members in the Effective Implementation of e-learning at Some Universities in Saudi Arabia.