Steve Higgins

I'm fundraising for Prostate Cancer Research. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/fundraising/St…

@lou_gascoine @kate_wall98 @profstig Thank you again for your chapter @lou_gascoine @kate_wall98 @profstig have already been recommending your chapter & will be on my module reading lists 🤩😊

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). interventions.whatworked.education/course/introdu…

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.

@PhilippaCcuree @paulcrisp So sorry to hear this. He was a lovely man, great to work with and always good company. Sending my love.

V v sad to say that my wonderful husband @paulcrisp died yesterday. He approached death& illness as everything else, pragmatically, rationally, and with dignity, style & a good deal of physics (for managing disability). I am truly blessed to have had his love 40+ years.

🏆Congratulations to the Educational Research Book of the year winner: Making Schools Better for Disadvantaged Students Routledge Stephen Gorard (@SGorard), Beng Huat See (@beng_see) & Nadia Siddiqui

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/33410100/

A newsletter listing some of the research and success of DECE (Durham Evidence Centre for Education) over this summer. durham.ac.uk/media/durham-u…

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/10.10…

@EPPIReviewer Woohoo, geekily excited …

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. durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

@Martell_Tom This is based on the CAT4 post-test scores, which the Toolkit usually selects in an RCT. The evaluation report figure is based on gain scores and gain SDs.

Looking at the Toolkit strand on oral language and can't understand why this study is coded as having a negative effect. Is it an error or am I missing something? educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evid…

£7-per-pupil 'Maths Champions' scheme saw pupils make three months of additional progress in both maths and language development, finds new @EducEndowFoundn evaluation tes.com/magazine/news/…

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 👇🏽 feweek.co.uk/more-research-…

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%.

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/ed…

@Martell_Tom @SGorard @MatthewAKraft And there are meta-analyses of the specific tier approaches …

@SGorard @MatthewAKraft Is there a good systematic review on this or any high quality trials? I’m aware of lots of small ones only…

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