Thomas Perry 🤔

Out today!: 📣 A Critical Guide to Evidence-Informed Education📖. A book on the challenges of using evidence to improve education policy and practice by @RE_Morris1 and me. 🎉 amzn.eu/d/1Iv9dae

📝 NEW BLOG POST Twenty years of methods use in education research: Are we moving in the right direction? Emma Smith, @RE_Morris1 @TWPerry1 @uniofwarwick @Warwick_Edu @SGorard @DUSofE @JessBrown_UK @SOEBristol @BristolUni Read here: bera.ac.uk/blog/twenty-ye…

We’ve published our final report Sustainable School Leadership Final Report Published sustainableschoolleadership.uk/2026/02/27/sus…

@C_Hendrick @johngelis I’d certainly agree that the family of approaches we label spaced retrieval practice r a gd bet and should b widely used. Also that we r getting better at codifying the nuance. But there's still a lot that needs an expert eye to get right which eludes even well controlled studies

@C_Hendrick @johngelis I think part of the difficulty is that it isn’t really an “it”. “Spaced”, “retrieval”, and even “practice” can each mean quite different things in classrooms; and if course “works” depends on what outcome, for which pupils, with what prior knowledge, content and design etc etc

Does spaced retrieval practice work in all subjects? New study suggests the honest answer is sometimes, and we do not yet fully know when. 🧵⬇️

Interested in edu inequalities, education policy, & quantitative methods? We’re advertising an ESRC-funded PhD (Warwick & B'ham) on pupil school mobility and educational and labour-market trajectories in England. Deadline: 20 Feb 2026. Details here ⬇️ jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE686/esr…

NOW PUBLISHED! 🚨#openaccess ‘Inhabiting uncertain terrain’: inequalities of access, experience, and outcomes for university education researchers in the UK @JessBrown_UK @RE_Morris1 , Emma Smith, @TWPerry1 #highereducation #diversity #inclusion #workforce #ResPapersInEduc

@olicav @C_Hendrick As well as just trying to figure out replication (attempt/success) rates, we also found some of the difficulties of definition and what counts as direct/conceptual replication gave us food for thought and how slippery it is in more applied and complex research spaces like edu.

If you were interested (maybe even shocked) in @C_Hendrick's latest post then this metastudy of replication studies is critically important. Thanks for sharing it, Thomas.

@cbokhove Yes, some really heavy hitters and great papers in that one! 😉

That's a good special issue. 😇

@C_Hendrick @teacherhead @BradleyKBusch Replication is unfortunately very rare in education tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I'm saying that there is not nearly enough of this kind of empirical examination of core ideas that go unquestioned in teacher training. This is the only replication of the original scaffolding study in 50 years. To me that's shocking and frankly not good enough. Also I think we should be constantly evaluating/re-evaluating practice using the best available evidence. There is far too little of this in education.

The most influential study on scaffolding timing just failed replication. My latest on why this matters and what the evidence actually shows. Link in reply 👇

We launched our UK Survey report from the #esrc Sustainable School Leadership research project today. Important findings on leaders' work (& workloads), wellbeing, career journeys & plans, professional learning, views on school contexts/ cultures & more! nottingham.ac.uk/research/group…

Good morning 🌅 It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for another #Edujobs bulletin. An hour of the latest jobs in education but not in school classrooms. Shout if you land one of these, people do! Share if I miss one you know of Wave if you’re watching.

We are looking for a Research Statistician and Data Analyst, working with me and the @EvidenceInEdu team. evidencebased.education/work-with-ebe-…

Matt Horton, @TWPerry1, & Tracy Whatmore offer a validated Toolkit for Access and Participation Evaluation (TAPE). Learn how it can improve higher education access for under-represented groups 🗝️🎓 #HigherEd #SocialMobility #Research doi.org/10.1080/001319…

5/5 We know of over 100 HEIs and third sector organisations already using TAPE to strengthen their evaluation. If you’d like to join them or find out more, feel free to get in touch! #evaluation #wideningparticipation #highereducation #schools #education #university

4/5 💡 Why use TAPE? - Free to use - Accurately measures the impact of WP activities on pupil AABs - The first toolkit to demonstrate predictive validity - Provides a meaningful baseline to understand pupils’ strengths and barriers - Supports targeted, preventative interventions

New paper validating the Toolkit for Access and Participation Evaluation (TAPE) now out! May be of interest to those working in widening participation and HE evaluation: 📄 You can access the full validation results in Educational Review Journal here: doi.org/10.1080/001319…