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
Can personality traits and intelligence compensate for background disadvantage? Predicting status attainment in adulthood November 2014	Dr Rodica Damian, Professor Rong Su, Dr Michael J. Shanahan, Professor Ulrich Trautwein and Professor Brent W. Roberts	Education theory	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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
How the world's best performing school systems come out on top 2007	Sir Michael Barber and Dr Mona Mourshed	Education theory	McKinsey and Company
Talent is overrated: what really separates world class performers from everybody else 2008	Geoff Colvin	Education theory View all	Penguin Books
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)
Improving the impact of teachers on pupil achievement in the UK – interim findings 2011	Professor Richard Murpy, Professor Stephen Machin and Professor Eric Hanushek	Education theory	Sutton Trust
What really works in gifted and talented education June 2008	Professor Deborah Eyre	Learning styles and cognitive development Pastoral care and wellbeing Pupil development and support +1 more	Department for Education (DfE)
School and college-level strategies to raise aspirations of high-achieving, disadvantaged pupils to pursue higher education January 2014	Professor Carole Leathwood et al	Careers education Post 16 & Apprenticeships Social mobility / closing the gap +3 more	Department for Education (DfE)
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
Building pathways: how to develop the next generation of transformational school leaders December 2013	Chris Bierly and Eileen Shy	Leadership and governance Teacher CPD View all	Bain and Company
Deliberate practice and performance in music, games, sports, education and professions: a meta-analysis July 2014	Brooke N Macnamara, David Z Hambrick, Frederick L Oswald	Arts and humanities Curriculum/subject related Sport and physical education	Sage Publications
Bounce: the myth of talent and the power of practice April 2010	Matthew Syed	Character and non-cognitive development Education theory Spiritual, moral, social and cultural education (SMSC) +1 more	Harper Collins Publishing
The smartest kids in the world: and how they got that way October 2013	Amanda Ripley	Education theory	Simon and Schuster
Mindset: the new psychology of success 2006	Professor Carol Dweck	Character and non-cognitive development Education theory Learning styles and cognitive development +3 more	Oxford Education Press
Best practices in gifted education: an evidence based guide 2006	Professor Ann Robinson, Professor Bruce M. Shore and Dr Donna Enersen	Education research Pupil development and support Using education research +1 more	Prufrock Press
Gifted and talented: major themes in education 2009	Professor Deborah Eyre	Education research Learning styles and cognitive development Pupil development and support +3 more	Routledge
Acceleration strategies for teaching gifted learners: the practical strategies series in gifted education 2005	Dr Joyce VanTassel-Baska	Pupil development and support Teaching/classroom practice View all	Prufrock Press
High performance learning January 2016	Professor Deborah Eyre	Education theory Social mobility / closing the gap Spiritual, moral, social and cultural education (SMSC) +2 more	Routledge