@profstig

Emeritus Professor at Durham Uni, digital tech enthusiast, research evidence and meta-analysis geek. Any views tweeted my own.

 Durham University
durham.ac.uk/staff/s-e-higgins/
Joined February 2011
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I'm fundraising for Prostate Cancer Research. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/fundraising/S…

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Thank you again for your chapter @lou_gascoine @kate_wall98 @profstig have already been recommending your chapter & will be on my module reading lists 🤩😊
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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.edu…
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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.
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BERA@BERANews8 Nov 2023
🏆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
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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/3341…
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Stephen Gorard@SGorard6 Oct 2023
A newsletter listing some of the research and success of DECE (Durham Evidence Centre for Education) over this summer. durham.ac.uk/media/durham-un…
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Stephen Gorard@SGorard25 Sep 2023
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.…

Lessons for addressing educational disadvantage from a range of studies

Governments and education systems worldwide have tried using additional cash transfers to encourage school enrolment and attendance, and to reduce the attainment gap between disadvantaged students ...

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Stephen Gorard@SGorard20 Jul 2023
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/careersecti…
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Tes magazine@tes13 Jul 2023
£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/early-…

Early years: Maths Champions ‘could help close attainment gap’

£7-per-pupil ‘Maths Champions’ scheme saw pupils make three months of additional progress in both maths and language development, finds analysis

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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-n…

More research needed into GCSE resit teaching methods, charity says

Alternative methods of teaching GCSE resit students need to be explored and tested to improve pass rates, an education charity has said.

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TRECA@TRECAStudy6 Jul 2023
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%.
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BERA@BERANews6 Jul 2023
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/educa…
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"..the shorthand of saying it ‘works’…'airbrushes the teacher, the learners & their interactions from the picture & obscures the actions they need to take for the use of reciprocal teaching to be successful. Who is it that is doing the 'work'?' " Perry & Morris, 'Impact', 2/2
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"We shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that professional learning is about people – their knowledge, skills, habits & values. There is a danger of a ‘de-peopled’ description of what interventions entail. As @profstig observes (2018), using the example of reciprocal teaching..." 1/2
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EEF@EducEndowFoundn22 Feb 2023
NEW: Today we’re opening recruitment for two new trials, in partnership with @YouthEndowFund! These trials will test the effectiveness of programmes designed to improve attendance and reduce exclusions in secondary schools. Find out more: eef.li/5t4e9p 1/6
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Betthäuser, B. A., Bach-Mortensen, A. M., & Engzell, P. (2023). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-11. nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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EEF@EducEndowFoundn8 Feb 2023
🚨 NEW: Today, we’ve launched new resources designed to support early years professionals in using evidence to their advantage: The updated Early Years Toolkit The Early Years Evidence store Explore now: eef.li/early-years 1/2
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EEF@EducEndowFoundn24 Jan 2023
🧒 Early years educators! If you’re keen to keep up with our latest early years research and resources, don’t forget to join our mailing list! Subscribe here: ow.ly/CJUl50Mx880
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