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Facilitating collaborative reflective inquiry amongst teachers: what do we currently know? (2020)
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Collaborative teacher learning is thought to improve teaching practice and student outcomes. Key to such learning is Reflective Professional Inquiry (RPI); seen as vital if practitioners are to engage effectively with new knowledge and ideas. Yet RPI... Read More about Facilitating collaborative reflective inquiry amongst teachers: what do we currently know?.

The Gender Pain Gap: gender inequalities in pain across 19 European countries (2021)
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Aims: Chronic pain is increasingly considered to be an international public health issue – but gender differences in chronic pain in Europe are under-examined. This work aimed to examine gender inequalities in pain across Europe. Methods: Data for 27... Read More about The Gender Pain Gap: gender inequalities in pain across 19 European countries.

Application of Bayesian posterior probabilistic inference in educational trials (2020)
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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.

The Misreporting Trade-off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries (2021)
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To reduce strategic misreporting on sensitive topics, survey researchers increasingly use list experiments rather than direct questions. However, the complexity of list experiments may increase non-strategic misreporting. We provide the first empiric... Read More about The Misreporting Trade-off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries.

Understanding the complexity of Chinese rural parents’ roles in their children’s access to Chinese elite universities (2021)
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Chinese rural students are less privileged than their urban counterparts in accessing Chinese elite universities. Existing studies widely follow a Bourdieusian explanation for this discrepancy in access, focusing on rural parents’ capital deficit in... Read More about Understanding the complexity of Chinese rural parents’ roles in their children’s access to Chinese elite universities.

How Will Technology Change the Face of Chinese Justice? (2020)
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The People’s Republic of China is embarking on an ambitious program to revolutionize its judicial institutions through information technology. Millions of cases have been published online as part of a move towards greater transparency. Courts are pil... Read More about How Will Technology Change the Face of Chinese Justice?.

Objective and subjective measurement of sedentary behavior in human adults: A toolkit (2020)
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Objectives: Human biologists are increasingly interested in measuring and comparing physical activities in different societies. Sedentary behavior, which refers to time spent sitting or lying down while awake, is a large component of daily 24 hours m... Read More about Objective and subjective measurement of sedentary behavior in human adults: A toolkit.

Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals (2021)
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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.

Initial teacher education in England and the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges and opportunities (2020)
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A COVID-19 descriptive study of life after lockdown in Wuhan, China (2020)
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On 8 April 2020, the Chinese government lifted the lockdown and opened up public transportation in Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. After 76 days in lockdown, Wuhan residents were allowed to travel outside of the city and go back... Read More about A COVID-19 descriptive study of life after lockdown in Wuhan, China.

Pupils' views about their learning in writing: a qualitative study of a primary school in the North East of England (2021)
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This study aims to explore pupils’ views on writing in primary school through focus group interviews conducted in the North East of England with children aged 7–11 years old. Pupils’ views templates were used to stimulate children’s ideas about their... Read More about Pupils' views about their learning in writing: a qualitative study of a primary school in the North East of England.

Conventional and Postqualitative Research: An Invitation to Dialogue (2020)
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This article explores a question that was left mostly unanswered in a recent special issue of Qualitative Inquiry surveying the field of postqualitative research: How can conventional and post qualitative research coexist within the qualitative commu... Read More about Conventional and Postqualitative Research: An Invitation to Dialogue.

School-to-school collaboration in England: A configurative review of the empirical evidence (2020)
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In recent years school‐to‐school collaboration in the English context has been promoted by a myriad of policy initiatives. Many of these initiatives have been directed at structural reforms seeking to facilitate a 'self‐improving system' in which sch... Read More about School-to-school collaboration in England: A configurative review of the empirical evidence.

Using working memory performance to predict mathematics performance 2 years on (2020)
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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.

Effects of maternal mental health on fetal visual preference for face-like compared to non-face like light stimulation (2020)
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The question of whether humans react differentially to face-like versus non face-like light stimulation in the prenatal period has been much discussed, but to date has remained unresolved. In this feasibility study we have come closer to understandin... Read More about Effects of maternal mental health on fetal visual preference for face-like compared to non-face like light stimulation.

What has contributed to the large sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy in South Korea? (2020)
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To date, research on sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy has mainly been conducted in Western countries and there is a dearth of data from South Korea. This study aimed to further the understanding of mortality transition and... Read More about What has contributed to the large sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy in South Korea?.

The ordering of future observations from multiple groups (2020)
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There are many situations where comparison of different groups is of great interest. Considering the ordering of the efficiency of some treatments is an example. We present nonparametric predictive inference (NPI) for the ordering of real-valued futu... Read More about The ordering of future observations from multiple groups.

Improving the accuracy of dose estimates from automatically scored dicentric chromosomes by accounting for chromosome number (2020)
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Purpose: The traditional workflow for biological dosimetry based on manual scoring of dicentric chromosomes is very time consuming. Especially for large-scale scenarios or for low-dose exposures, high cell numbers have to be analysed, requiring alter... Read More about Improving the accuracy of dose estimates from automatically scored dicentric chromosomes by accounting for chromosome number.

Teacher recruitment and retention: A critical review of international evidence of most promising interventions (2020)
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Background: A raft of initiatives and reforms have been introduced in many countries to attract and recruit school teachers, many of which do not have a clear evidence base, so their effectiveness remains unclear. Prior research has been largely corr... Read More about Teacher recruitment and retention: A critical review of international evidence of most promising interventions.

A practical reliability design method considering the compound weight and load-sharing (2020)
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Reliability design is an important work in the early design stage of offshore wind turbines. Due to the incomplete considerations and poor feasibility of the drawbacks for existing methods, a set of the practical reliability design method is proposed... Read More about A practical reliability design method considering the compound weight and load-sharing.