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How can we trust research?

By Dr Gary Jones A major challenge for anyone interested in the use of research within both schools and the wider education system is to try and make some kind of judgment about the trustworthiness and quality of research. Indeed, this is a real...

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Celebrating World Teachers Day

‘Teaching is far and away the most important of all professions. Teachers make more difference to more people’s lives, in a way that more people feel...

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Is it time to ditch ‘Differentiation’?

By Greg Ashman I suspect I would struggle to find a teacher who has never heard of ‘differentiation’. Exhortations to differentiate are ubiquitous in...

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Systematic Reviews and Weather Forecasts – how purpose shapes the significance of systematic reviews for different education stakeholders

Philippa Cordingley – Chief Executive CUREE Paul Crisp – Managing Director CUREE Steve Higgins – Professor of Education, Durham University We are...

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What should we do about meta-analysis and effect size?

By Rob Coe In part 1 of this series of blog posts, I set out some of the recent criticisms that have been made by researchers such as Wiliam, Simpson...

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Serious critiques of meta-analysis and effect size: researchED 2018

By Rob Coe Since I became a researcher in the late 1990s, I have been an advocate of using effect size and meta-analysis for summarising and...

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The results are in… so what next?

By Sue Holt The GCSE and IGCSE results have been published so no doubt there have been celebrations, commiserations and, in some cases,...

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The importance of looking at value-added on results day

By Mark S. Steed, Director, JESS, Dubai This week sees thousands of students receiving their GCSE results. Now is also the time when many anxious...

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Signs of progress: what can we learn from results?

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” - Benjamin Franklin.

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Spotlight on Research – getting to grips with what’s available

“We need to make sure that research findings get into the hands of teachers in ways that are most likely to have an impact. We know how challenging...

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