Education research. Associate Professor @CEPEO_UCL. Research Lead @Ambition_Inst.
London, England
Joined April 2009
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So what?
1.Starting salary matters for recruitment. This complements evidence on importance of pay for retention.
2. Recruitment campaigns should emphasise extrinsic rewards, alongside meaningful aspects. Great 2015 example here - watch to the end!
youtube.com/watch?v=vTzzZaaJ…
Thanks to Gatsby for supporting this and to my brilliant co-author Clare Routledge
Full paper here, including a discussion of the limitations of our approach: repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow…
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Thank you, @LairaGreenSch! Please do join us for the webinar “Becoming a Reader” on November 26th. 📚
👀 “An excellent, excellent webinar!
🧡 Hear from Claire Jones, Headteacher at Champion School @LairaGreenSch on why you don’t want to miss Professor @Kathy_Rastle's myth-busting 'Becoming a Reader' webinar on Wednesday 26th November.
🎟️ It's free for members, so book now via Ongoing CPD - perfect to watch on your own or with colleagues in a staff meeting.
Do you like the kind of research that we do at @CEPEO_UCL? 📈
Want to learn more about education policy and analysis? 🏫
Then why not come and do our new MSc this September? 🧑🎓
Be warned - the module on teachers and teaching will be taught by me!
ucl.ac.uk/prospective-studen…
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The link is here! nature.com/articles/s41539-0…
My friend Natasha Raheem @Dixons_OS is writing an important book about schools that support student and teacher belonging. She is looking for case studies of schools doing great work in this area. If you know of good examples, please DM me. Thanks!
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AMAZING EDU RESEARCH JOB ALERT: Help design/implement nationwide RCT of improvements to teacher development. ~£51k + London weighting + Teacher pension (~25% of gross salary). Work with me, @DrSamSims @profbeckyallen @ProfCoe @JohnPeterJerrim More info: niot.org.uk/careers/senior-r…
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📊 New Research on Teaching for Near Transfer
@JohnPeterJerrim @DrSamSims @odmarcenaro used data on 280,000 students from the 2019 TIMMS study, no link was found between teaching methods aimed at transferring knowledge & students’ ability to solve unfamiliar maths problems.
Key findings:
🔍 Approaches like linking new content to prior knowledge, solving problems independently and applying lessons to real-life didn’t improve performance on unfamiliar problems.
📖 Even “near transfer” (applying knowledge to similar situations) proved difficult for primary students.
📈 The study used data from TIMSS, focusing on non-curriculum questions to test knowledge application.
These findings challenge assumptions about teaching for transfer and highlight the complexity of helping students apply their learning in new contexts. Further research is needed to uncover better strategies.
🔓Full article
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