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  • An International Approach to Developing Early Career Researchers

    A Pipeline to Robust Education Research

    Edited by Stephen Gorard, Nadia Siddiqui ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    This edited volume illustrates the idea of a successful research capacity model, critically addressing preconceived notions of early career research projects’ impact and drawing together insights and implications around the encouragement of newer researchers to conduct useful, robust studies with real-world effect.Centring on research undertaken at the UK Durham University Evidence Centre, the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Making Schools Better for Disadvantaged Students

    The International Implications of Evidence on Effective School Funding

    by Stephen Gorard, Beng Huat See, Nadia Siddiqui ...
    *2023 BERA Educational Research Book of the Year*Around the world, governments, charities, and other bodies are concerned with improving education, especially for the lowest-attaining and most disadvantaged students. Making Schools Better for Disadvantaged Students presents detailed research into how poverty affects student segregation and underachievement in schools. It contains the first ever ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Making Your Doctoral Research Project Ambitious

    Developing Large-Scale Studies with Real-World Impact

    Edited by Nadia Siddiqui, Stephen Gorard ...
    This book presents the doctoral dissertation process as not just a way of getting a qualification or even a method of learning how to do research better, but as a substantial and significant piece of research in its own right. The book will inspire current and prospective PhD scholars to take up ambitious and large-scale study projects, dedicating this most important time to a worthy piece of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • How to Make Sense of Statistics

    by Stephen Gorard ...
    In a new textbook designed for students new to statistics and social data, Stephen Gorard focuses on non-inferential statistics as a basis to ensure students have basic statistical literacy.Understanding why we have to learn statistics and seeing the links between the numbers and real life is a crucial starting point. Using engaging, friendly, approachable language this book will demystify numbers ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Schools, Markets and Choice Policies

    by John Fitz, Stephen Gorard, Chris Taylor ...
    Choice and selection are now cornerstones of education policies wherever these have been shaped by market economics. Now, as never before, schools can face uncertain futures, because their survival is determined by external factors such as admission policies and parental preferences. Because of the link between schooling, and housing and other public sector services, the implications of increasing ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Research Design

    Creating Robust Approaches for the Social Sciences

    by Stephen Gorard ...
    Research design is of critical importance in social research, despite its relative neglect in many methods resources. Early consideration of design in relation to research questions leads to the elimination or diminution of threats to eventual research claims, by encouraging internal validity and substantially reducing the number of alternative explanations for any finite number of research ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Research Design

    Creating Robust Approaches for the Social Sciences

    by Stephen Gorard ...
    Research design is of critical importance in social research, despite its relative neglect in many methods resources. Early consideration of design in relation to research questions leads to the elimination or diminution of threats to eventual research claims, by encouraging internal validity and substantially reducing the number of alternative explanations for any finite number of research ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Getting Evidence into Education

    Evaluating the Routes to Policy and Practice

    Edited by Stephen Gorard ...
    Worldwide, there has been considerable progress in the quality of research evidence generated for use in education, but not the equivalent growth in knowledge of how best to get this evidence into actual use. Yet with far-reaching implications, all of education is damaged when persuasive but poor-quality evidence has widespread influence, or good research lies unused. Focused on the work of the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Education Policy

    Evidence of Equity and Effectiveness

    by Stephen Gorard ...
    What has been done to achieve fairer and more efficient education systems, and what more can be done in the future?Stephen Gorard provides a comprehensive examination of crucial policy areas for education, such as differential outcomes, the poverty gradient, and the allocation of resources to education, to identify likely causes of educational disadvantage among students and lifelong learners. ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • School Choice in an Established Market

    by Stephen Gorard ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1997, this study examines the trend towards markets in UK schools, with a particular focus on fee-paying schools in South Wales, by outlining the varied economic and political arguments both for and against increased parental choice and exploring parents’ real reasons for using fee-paying schools. Stephen Gorard destroys the cosy myth that fee-paying schools are large, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Overcoming Disadvantage in Education

    by Stephen Gorard, Beng See ...
    Governments, local authorities, school leaders, and teachers all over the world want to improve the educational attainment and participation of all students, and to minimise any systematic differences in outcomes for social and economic groups. A particular concern is for those students from backgrounds that may objectively disadvantage them at school and beyond. However, considerable effort and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Trials of Evidence-based Education

    The Promises, Opportunities and Problems of Trials in Education

    by Stephen Gorard, Beng Huat See, Nadia Siddiqui ...
    The Trials of Evidence-based Education explores the promise, limitations and achievements of evidence-based policy and practice, as the attention of funders moves from a sole focus on attainment outcomes to political concern about character-building and wider educational impacts.Providing a detailed look at the pros, cons and areas for improvement in evidence-based policy and practice, this book ... Read more

    $54.99 USD