Emeritus Professor at Durham Uni, digital tech enthusiast, research evidence and meta-analysis geek. Any views tweeted my own.
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19 Nov 2024
I'm fundraising for Prostate Cancer Research. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/fundraising/S…
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11 Sep 2024
Thank you again for your chapter @lou_gascoine @kate_wall98 @profstig have already been recommending your chapter & will be on my module reading lists 🤩😊
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11 Jul 2024
We have recently released a free short course for ITT and ECF teachers. This provides an introduction to research and design to help teachers to engage critically with research and use evidence to critique practice (Standard 8).
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10 Jul 2024
Looking forward to presenting @researchEDChesh on Saturday. At WhatWorked, we have developed a model for teacher led micro RCTs with @profstig. We had initially only thought about the UK for the MVP, but now have teacher trials requested in 15 countries in six weeks.
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2 Nov 2023
In Why Don't Students Like School? I said stories are "psychologically privileged." Much work since, confirming robustness of the effect--stories are easier to understand and remember. (Usual comparison = expository essay.) Here's a recent meta-analysis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3341…
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6 Oct 2023
A newsletter listing some of the research and success of DECE (Durham Evidence Centre for Education) over this summer.
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25 Sep 2023
New paper just out. Free open access. Summarises our work on how best to use "additional" funding for schools to improve outcomes and reduce the poverty outcome gap.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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20 Jul 2023
Who would like to be the new Head of School of Education, Durham University? In our nice new building. 2nd nationally in REF (1st for research outputs). Home to DECE research centre.
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13 Jul 2023
£7-per-pupil 'Maths Champions' scheme saw pupils make three months of additional progress in both maths and language development, finds new @EducEndowFoundn evaluation
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6 Jul 2023
Our new research on post-16 GCSE resits funded by @EducEndowFoundn and written in collaboration with @uniofwarwick has been brilliantly summarised in this post by @FEWeek - Read more below 👇🏽
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6 Jul 2023
TRECA main results paper now in BMC Medicine: rdcu.be/df4lR . Using multimedia instead of printed sheets increased trial recruitment in children & teens. Pooled data, 3 SWATs: OR 1.54 (1.05, 2.28) p=0.03. Overall, mutlimedia recruitment rate 69%, printed sheet rate 64%.
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As part of our major initiative, Education: The State of the Discipline, BERA has brought together 16 case studies to demonstrate the outstanding impact of educational research across a broad spectrum of settings.
View the full report here: bera.ac.uk/publication/educa…
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Steve Higgins retweeted
19 Mar 2023
"..the shorthand of saying it ‘works’…'airbrushes the teacher, the learners & their interactions from the picture & obscures the actions they need to take for the use of reciprocal teaching to be successful. Who is it that is doing the 'work'?' " Perry & Morris, 'Impact', 2/2
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19 Mar 2023
"We shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that professional learning is about people – their knowledge, skills, habits & values. There is a danger of a ‘de-peopled’ description of what interventions entail. As @profstig observes (2018), using the example of reciprocal teaching..." 1/2
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22 Feb 2023
NEW: Today we’re opening recruitment for two new trials, in partnership with @YouthEndowFund!
These trials will test the effectiveness of programmes designed to improve attendance and reduce exclusions in secondary schools.
Find out more: eef.li/5t4e9p
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15 Feb 2023
Betthäuser, B. A., Bach-Mortensen, A. M., & Engzell, P. (2023). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-11. nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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Steve Higgins retweeted
8 Feb 2023
🚨 NEW: Today, we’ve launched new resources designed to support early years professionals in using evidence to their advantage:
The updated Early Years Toolkit
The Early Years Evidence store
Explore now: eef.li/early-years
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