Research Summaries Database

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Title	Author	Category	Publisher
Room at the top: inclusive education for high performance April 2011	Professor Deborah Eyre	Education theory	Policy Exchange
The best foot forward project: substituting teacher-collected video for in-person classroom observations October 2015	Professor Thomas J. Kane, Professor Hunter Gehlbach, Miriam Greenberg, David Quinn and Daniel Thal	Assessment Education theory Performance and accountability +3 more	University of Harvard - Center for Educational Policy Research
Retrieval-based learning: active retrieval promotes meaningful learning 2012	Dr Jeffrey D. Karpicke	Education theory	Current Directions in Psychological Science
Un/Satisfactory? Enhancing life chances by improving “satisfactory” schools 2011	Dr Becky Francis	Education theory	Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
Informing practice in English: a review of recent research in literacy and the teaching of English 2005	Professor Debra Myhill and Dr Ros Fisher	Education theory View all	Ofsted
Developing great teaching: lessons from the international reviews into effective professional development 2015	Professor Steven Higgins, Philippa Cordingley, Professor Toby Greany and Professor Robert Coe	Curriculum planning Education research Education theory +7 more	Teacher Development Trust (TDT) and TES Global
To the next level: improving secondary teaching to outstanding 2013	Peter Daw and Professor Carol Robinson	Education theory View all	Education Development Trust (formerly CfBT Education Trust)
Talent is overrated: what really separates world class performers from everybody else 2008	Geoff Colvin	Education theory View all	Penguin Books
Frames of mind 1983	Professor Howard Gardner	Education theory View all	Oxford Education Press
The global achievement gap 2008	Dr Tony Wagner	Education theory	Basic Books
Academies and maintained schools: oversight and intervention October 2014	National Audit Office (NAO)	Education theory	National Audit Office (NAO)
An RCT evaluation of the Numeracy and Literacy Project July 2015	Jack Worth, Juliet Sizmur, Rob Ager and Dr Ben Styles	Education theory	Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
Redesigning schooling: a vision for education beyond five-year policy cycles April 2015	Professor Stephen Tierney and Kevin Bartle	Education theory	Schools, Students and Teachers Network (SSAT)
Interesting cities: five approaches to urban school reform November 2015	CfBT Education Trust / Education Development Trust (EDT)	Education theory	Education Development Trust (formerly CfBT Education Trust)
Teaching critical thinking August 2015	Dr Natasha Holmes, Professor Carl Wieman and Professor Doug Bonn	Education theory View all	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS)
Joining the dots: driver youth trust report on SEND reforms October 2015	Eleanor Bernardes	Education theory	LKMco
Understanding the improved performance of disadvantaged pupils in London September 2015	Dr Jo Blanden, Ellen Greaves and Professor Paul Gregg	Education theory Social mobility / closing the gap Supporting social mobility	Council for Advancement and Support in Education (CASE) and London School of Economics (LSE)
Lessons from London schools June 2014	Dr Sam Baars, Eleanor Bernardes and Dr Alex Elwick	Education theory	Education Development Trust (formerly CfBT Education Trust) and Centre for London with LKMco
The three-ring conception of giftedness: a developmental model for promoting creative productivity May 2005	Dr Joseph S. Renzulli	Education theory	Cambridge University Press
What works for gifted and talented pupils 2003	Dr Felicity Fletcher-Campbell, Kate Ridley and Kerensa White	Education theory	National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and Local Government Association (LGA)

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