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Professor Steven Higgins' Outputs (5)

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.