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Does school matter for children's cognitive and non‐cognitive learning? Findings from a natural experiment in Pakistan and India

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on the findings of a natural experiment based on a sample of 1123 children aged 4–8 from the provinces of Punjab in Pakistan, and Gujarat in India. It looks at the impact of attendance (or not) in early schooling on the cognitive and social–emotional development of young children.
Nadia Siddiqui, Stephen Gorard, Smruti Bulsari, Beng See, Pauline Dixon, Saba Saeed, Hamza Safaraz, Kiran Pandya   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nociones necesarias para pensar el objeto de la profesión médica Needed Notions in order to think about the target of medical profession

Humanidades Médicas, 2004
Cada uno de los cuatro epígrafes que contiene la estructura lógica este artículo, pretenden esclarecer primero, desde el punto de vista conceptual e histórico, la imagen desacertada que identifica a la ciencia con la profesión médica, imagen que no entra
Jorge Luis Quintana Torres, Augusto Jorge Álvarez Vázquez, Jorge Luis Flores Rodríguez   +2 more
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From silence to academic engagement: How refugee children with disabilities access learning through inclusive ‘artful’ schools in Canada

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many newcomer children spend a ‘silent year’ in elementary school classrooms while they adjust to a new culture and language. This often delays inclusion in learning and forming friendships with peers. For refugee children with disabilities (RCDs) this phase may last for 3 years or more, impacting their mental health and sense of belonging ...
Susan Barber
wiley   +1 more source

Teacher self‐efficacy: Validating a new measurement scale to capture the elusive construct

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Teachers’ beliefs in their ability to positively impact students’ learning outcomes has become a strong indicator of teachers’ motivation and behaviour towards the instructional strategies they employ. However, measuring the broader concept of teacher self‐efficacy is still somewhat problematic as current scales are dated, have measurement ...
Stuart Woodcock, Nelly Tournaki, John Ehrich   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Special school staff perspectives on how careers guidance is provided to their autistic young people

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Careers guidance has long been positioned as a tool to improve young people's transition from education to employment. In addition, schools and colleges in England have a statutory requirement to provide careers guidance to their students. Yet limited research has investigated how careers guidance is provided in special schools for autistic ...
Sam Dexter, Anna Remington, Roan McAuley, Alice Willans, Joshua Gross, Katherine Culmer, Nimthiriel Littlebury, Laura Crane   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A rights‐informed and respecting approach to more inclusive schools: Based on a Citizens' Panel pilot project

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is about how a rights perspective, both children's and others' rights, can be used to make sense of schooling which is more inclusive of children and young people with special educational needs/disabilities (SEN/D). It is based on a project that used deliberative democratic approaches, in the form of a Citizens' Panel, to address ...
Brahm Norwich
wiley   +1 more source

A QALY is [still] a QALY is [still] a QALY?

BMC Medical Ethics
Despite clinical evidence of drug superiority, therapeutic modalities, like combination immunotherapy, are mostly considered cost-ineffective due to their high costs per life year(s) gained.
Hamideh Mahdiani, Nikolai Münch, Norbert W. Paul   +2 more
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Crafting agency in a host community: Accessing and participating in the English higher education sector by Ukrainian refugees

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Following Russia's launch of a full‐scale war against Ukraine in 2022, scholarship has not yet addressed how Ukrainian refugees in England have been navigating the challenges of developing their agency in pursuing opportunities to participate in the higher education (HE) sector.
Iryna Kushnir, Ellis Richards
wiley   +1 more source

Then and now: Twenty years of education research methods use in the United Kingdom

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There have been debates about the quality and usefulness of education research for a long time, with opinion often dividing along methodological lines. Those on different sides of an apparent methodological schism often bemoan the lack of recognition and resources afforded to their chosen approach.
Emma Smith, Stephen Gorard, Rebecca Morris, Thomas Perry, Jess Pilgrim‐Brown   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Curious Concept That Almost Nobody Seemed to Care About at First: Virtual Particles in the Post‐War Period**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
Abstract Short‐lived, unobservable, and not subject to the usual rules of conservation of energy and momentum, virtual particles—an integral part of the conceptual framework of quantum field theory (QFT)—exhibit a number of curious characteristics which, in recent decades, have in part fueled important discussions about their ontological status ...
Jean‐Philippe Martinez
wiley   +1 more source