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Initial estimates of teacher value‐added in English primary schools

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract A sizeable literature investigating teacher test score value‐added—the extent to which pupils make different rates of progress under different teachers—has emerged in the United States. While there is much interest in estimating teacher value‐added in other countries such as England, progress has been limited by the lack of datasets linking ...
John Jerrim, Rebecca Allen, Maria Palma Carvajal, Raj Chande, Rob Coe, Calum Davey, Shaun Dillon, Claire Maud, Sam Sims, Ourania Ventista   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the role of Arabic language in sustaining socio-cultural identity and family values in Emirati society. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Zakarneh B, Mahmoud DAM.
europepmc   +1 more source

“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
wiley   +1 more source

"This was never about a virus": Perceptions of Vaccination Hazards and Pandemic Risk in #Covid19NZ Tweets. [PDF]

J Med Humanit
Long M, Calude A, Burnette J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Empowering young people: Powerful knowledge in economics

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Powerful knowledge in school economics is conceptualised as the blending of economics knowledge arising from grasping threshold concepts with expressions of disciplinary thinking in terms of the powers or capabilities that this knowledge can provide to students who possess it.
Emanuel Mizzi
wiley   +1 more source

Semantic change in adults is not primarily a generational phenomenon. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Kamath G, Yang M, Reddy S, Sonderegger M, Card D.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Catching them young! A comparative study of teacher retention among beginning teachers in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract It is widely reported that teachers in their first 5 years of entering the profession are highly likely to leave their teaching positions. There have been many discussions on how to keep beginning teachers in the profession, mainly in Western countries.
Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Ghadah Morshedi, Negmeldin Alsheikh, Bernadette M. Guirguis, Ashraf Mustafa, Enas Mohamed Abdullah, Fatima Alrashdi, Ahmed El‐Laithy   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The social and neural bases of creative movement: workshop overview. [PDF]

BMC Neurosci
Shamma S, Contreras-Vidal J, Fritz J, Lim SS, Tuller B, Edwards E, Iyengar S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A systematic review on multi‐criteria decision‐making methods in educational research

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this study is to obtain an overview of the literature on multi‐criteria decision‐making (MCDM) methods in educational research, to map the literature, to identify existing knowledge and application areas, to reveal the methods used and their purposes of use, and to reveal the thematic structure of the field.
Muammer Maral, Ali Özdemir
wiley   +1 more source

GCSE attainment in alternative provision (AP): A comparison of AP Free Schools and AP Academies

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Alternative provision (AP), in particular Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), have been criticised as a forgotten part of the education system, side‐lined and stigmatised as somewhere only the very worst behaved pupils go. In response to this criticism, PRUs have now been academised to become AP Academies and new AP schools have been set up—AP Free ...
Stephen Hills, Matthew Walker, James Guinn, Aubrey Kent   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source