Research Summaries Database

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Title	Author	Category	Publisher
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
What is effective schooling? A review of current thought and practice May 2013	Professor Jaap Scheerens	System improvement and collaboration View all	International Baccalaureate Organisation
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
Evaluation of the impact and implementation of Inspire Maths January 2015	Dr James Hall, Ariel Lindorff and Professor Pam Sammons	Curriculum/subject related International policy Literacy and numeracy +4 more	Oxford University Press
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)
Organising instruction and study to improve student learning: a practice guide September 2007	Dr Harold Pashler	Education research Exam techniques Learning styles and cognitive development +3 more	Institute of Education Sciences
Overlearning hyperstabilizes a skill by rapidly making neurochemical processing inhibitory-dominant January 2017	Kazuhisa Shibata et al.	Education research Exam techniques Learning styles and cognitive development +1 more	Nature Neuroscience
The effect of prequestions on learning from video presentations 2016	Doctor Shana K. Carpenter and Alexander R. Toftness	Education research Learning styles and cognitive development View all	Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Principled assessment design July 2014	Professor Dylan Wiliam	Assessment View all	SSAT
Teacher merit pay and student test scores: a meta-analysis April 2017	Lam Pham, Tuan D. Nguyen, and Professor Matthew G. Springer	Education research Performance and accountability Schools, teaching and management +1 more	Vanderbilt University
Refocusing assessment March 2017	Dr. Sarah Jenkins	Assessment View all	National Foundation for Educational Research
Strengthening the student toolbox: study strategies to boost learning January 2013	Professor John Dunlosky	Learning styles and cognitive development View all	American Educator
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
Mind-set interventions are a scalable treatment for academic underachievement April 2015	Doctor David Paunesku, et al.	Pupil development and support View all	Association of Psychological Science
Assessment in education: principles, policy & practice July 2017	Professor Dylan Wiliam et al	Assessment	Routledge, Taylor and Frances
What does this look like in the classroom? Bridging the gap between research and practice September 2017	Carl Hendrick, Robin Macpherson	Teaching/classroom practice	John Catt Bookshop
Children, their world, their education: final report and recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review October 2009	Professor Robin Alexander	Assessment Early years and foundation stage Education policy +3 more	Routledge
How we learn: the surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens 2014	Benedict Carey	Education theory	Random House
Why school children can't read March 1997	Dr Bonnie Macmillan	Education theory	Institute of Economic Affairs
How to change 5000 schools: a practical and positive approach for leading change at every level 2008	Professor Ben Levin	Education theory	Harvard Education Publishing Group

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