Research Summaries Database

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Title	Author	Category	Publisher
The link between academies in England, pupil outcomes and local patterns of socio-economic segregation between schools 2014	Professor Stephen Gorard	Education policy Education research Performance and accountability +5 more	Durham University
The most able students: are they doing as well as they should in our non-selective secondary schools? June 2013	Ofsted	Education theory Social mobility / closing the gap Spiritual, moral, social and cultural education (SMSC) +1 more	Ofsted
Analysis of academy school performance in 2015 June 2016	Jack Worth	Education policy Leadership and governance Schools, teaching and management +3 more	National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and Local Government Association (LGA)
School performance in multi-academy trusts and local authorities (2015) July 2016	Jon Andrews	Education policy Regional / location differences Schools, teaching and management +3 more	Education Policy Institute
Metrics, practice, and implications: lessons from academy schools in the UK April 2016	Dr Alex Hill, Dr Benjamin Laker, Richard Cuthbertson and Terry Hill	Leadership and governance System improvement and collaboration View all	Said Business School
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) December 2016	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)	International policy Performance and accountability Science/(STEM) +1 more	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Multi-academy trusts February 2017	Members of the Education Select Committee	Education policy Inter-school collaboration System improvement and collaboration +2 more	House of Commons - Education Select Committee
What’s in a name? Expectations, heuristics and choice during a period of radical school reform April 2017	Professor Marco Bertoni, Professor Stephen Gibbons and Doctor Olmo Silva	Education policy View all	Centre for Economic Performance
The impact of academies on educational outcomes July 2017	Jon Andrews, et al	Schools, teaching and management UK policy View all	Education Policy Institute
Much promise: Successful schools in England April 2017	Barnaby Lenon	Education policy	John Catt
The schools we need - and why we don't have them 1996	Dr Eric D. Hirsch, Jr	Education theory View all	Doubleday - Penguin Random House
Cultural literacy: what every American needs to know 1987	Dr Eric D. Hirsch, Jr	Education theory View all	Vintage Books
How to run an Academy school 2014	Katie Paxton-Doggett	Education theory	Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: a revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives December 2000 (Abridged updated version, 2013)	Professor Lorin W. Anderson, David R. Krathwohl and Peter W. Airasian	Education theory Learning styles and cognitive development Pupil development and support +1 more	Oxford Education Press