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'E-stablishing a Learning Society': the Use of the Internet to Attract Adults to Lifelong Learning in Wales

'They don't give us our marks': The role of formative feedback in student progress

'Well. That about wraps it up for school choice research': A state of the art review

article

(Mis)Understanding underachievement: a response to Connolly

A Cautionary Note on Measuring the Pupil Premium Attainment Gap in England

article

A Randomised Controlled Trial (or ‘Fair Test’): Evaluating an Educational Innovation

article

A dictionary of bookplates of Irish medical doctors. With short biographies

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

A randomised controlled trial of the use of a piece of commercial software for the acquisition of reading skills

scholarly article by Muhammad Ahmad Khan & Stephen Gorard published February 2012 in Educational Review

A re‐consideration of rates of ‘social mobility’ in Britain: or why research impact is not always a good thing

article

Accelerated Reader as a literacy catch-up intervention during primary to secondary school transition phase

Accounting for the Differential Attainment of Boys and Girls at School

article by Jane Salisbury et al published November 1999 in School Leadership and Management

Adult learners in wales: trajectories and technologies

Adults' use of ICTs for learning: reducing or increasing educational inequalities?

All evidence is equal: the flaw in statistical reasoning

article

An Absolute Deviation Approach to Assessing Correlation

article published in 2015

An evaluation of Fresh Start as a catch-up intervention: a trial conducted by teachers

scientific article

An evaluation of the ‘Switch-on Reading’ literacy catch-up programme

article published in 2014

BOOK REVIEWS

Best practice in conducting RCTs: Lessons learnt from an independent evaluation of the Response-to-Intervention programme

Beyond the ‘learning society’: what have we learnt from widening participation research?

article published in 2006

Book reviews

Book reviews

Book reviews

CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION AND CHARACTER EDUCATION: SIMILARITIES AND CONTRASTS

Can programmes like Philosophy for Children help schools to look beyond academic attainment?

Can we overcome the methodological schism? Four models for combining qualitative and quantitative evidence

article

Changing patterns of coeliac serology requests

scientific article published on 23 February 2009

Combining Numbers with Narratives

Commentary

article published in 2011

Concerning: Generic outpatient referrals

scientific article published on 19 December 2006

Context and Implications Document for: Rethinking ‘quantitative’ methods and the development of new researchers

article

Current Contexts for Research in Educational Leadership and Management

article published in 2005

Damaging Real Lives through Obstinacy: Re-Emphasising Why Significance Testing is Wrong

Death of mixed methods? Or the rebirth of research as a craft

Digital Divide or Digital Opportunity? The Role of Technology in Overcoming Social Exclusion in U.S. Education

Diversity, specialisation and equity in education

Do barriers get in the way? A review of the determinants of post‐16 participation

article

Do we really need confidence intervals in the new statistics?

article published in 2018

Does intervening to enhance parental involvement in education lead to better academic results for children? An extended review

article

Does policy matter in education?

Does school choice lead to 'spirals of decline'?

article by Stephen Gorard et al published June 2002 in Journal of Education Policy

Does the index of segregation matter? The composition of secondary schools in England since 1996

article

Education and social justice : the changing composition of schools and its implications

book; published in 2000

EducationCanCompensate for Society – a Bit

Educational Attainment and Society- by Nigel Kettley

Effort thrombosis in an American football player.

scientific article published on March 1990

Equity and its Relationship to Citizenship Education

Equity in Education

Escalating polypharmacy.

scientific article published on 09 October 2006

Evaluation of the impact of Maths Counts delivered by teaching assistants on primary school pupils’ attainment in maths

scientific article published in 2019

Experiencing fairness at school: An international study

Explaining the number of counterfactual cases needed to disturb a finding: a reply to Kuha and Sturgis

Exploring Modeling Aspects of Design Experiments

Exploring the role of ICT in facilitating adult informal learning

Exploring the ‘new’ imperatives of technology-based lifelong learning

Factors that promote high post‐16 participation of some minority ethnic groups in England: a systematic review of the UK‐based literature

article

Fee‐paying Schools in Britain—a peculiarly English phenomenon

Fostering Scepticism: The Importance of Warranting Claims

Four Errors ... and a Conspiracy? The effectiveness of schools in Wales

Grammar schools in England: a new analysis of social segregation and academic outcomes

article

Helping August's child

article by Stephen Gorard published October 2015 in New Scientist

Here we go again: a reply to ‘What's in a number?’ by Gibson and Asthana

History, place and the learning society: towards a sociology of lifetime learning

article

How Unstable are ‘School Effects’ Assessed by a Value-Added Technique?

How can we enhance enjoyment of secondary school? The student view

article by Stephen Gorard & Beng Huat See published August 2011 in British Educational Research Journal

How effective is a summer school for catch-up attainment in English and maths?

article

Improving teacher quality: lessons from America'sNo Child Left Behind

In Defence of Local Comprehensive Schools. Part II

In Defence of a Middle Way: A Reply to Plewis and Fielding

Integration in an age of choice

International Comparisons of School Effectiveness: The second component of the 'crisis account' in England?

article

International Comparisons of School Effectiveness: the second component of the 'crisis account' in England?

article

International Equity Indicators in Education: defending comprehensive schools III

Intestinal motor function in irritable bowel syndrome.

scientific article published on March 1994

Introducing the mean absolute deviation ‘effect’ size

Investigating the Patterns of Differential Attainment of Boys and Girls at School

article by Stephen Gorard et al published April 2001 in British Educational Research Journal

Investigating the determinants of segregation between schools

article

Is a Summer School Programme a Promising Intervention in Preparation for Transition from Primary to Secondary School?

article

Is science a middle‐class phenomenon? The SES determinants of 16–19 participation

Is there a school mix effect?

article by Stephen Gorard published February 2006 in Educational Review

Is there a shortage of scientists? A re-analysis of supply for the UK

article

Justice et équité à l’école

scholarly article published 1 April 2007

Keeping a Sense of Proportion: The ‘Politician’s Error’ in Analysing School Outcomes

Learning trajectories

Learning trajectories: travelling towards a learning society?1

article

Lifelong learning trajectories: some voices of those 'in transit'

Lifelong learning trajectories: some voices of those ‘in transit’

Local education authorities and the regulation of educational markets: four case studies

Logged on to learning? assessing the impact of technology on participation in lifelong learning

article published in 2003

Market Forces and Standards in Education: A preliminary consideration

article

Market Forces, Choice and Diversity in Education: The Early Impact

article

Market Frustration?

article

Markets and Stratification: A View from England and Wales

article

Markets in public policy: The case of the United Kingdom education reform act 1988

scholarly article by Stephen Gorard published in March 2002

Measuring is More Than Assigning Numbers

Misunderstanding and misrepresentation: a reply to Hutchison and Schagen

article published in 2009

Must Try Harder! Problems Facing Technological Solutions to Non-participation in Adult Learning

article

Narrowing Down the Determinants of Between-School Segregation: An Analysis of the Intake to All Schools in England, 1989–2011

article

Now You See it, Now You don't: School Effectiveness as Conjuring?

Older adults' use of information and communications technology in everyday life

article

One of Us Cannot Be Wrong: The paradox of achievement gaps

scholarly article

Patterns of Participation in Lifelong Learning: do families make a difference?

Patterns of work-based learning

Planning Ahead in a 'Market' for Schools: Predicting Patterns of School Choice

article by Stephen Gorard published 30 November 1999 in Evaluation and Research in Education

Political Control: A Way Forward for Educational Research?

Progress Towards a Learning Society? Patterns of Lifelong Learning

article published in 1998

Promoting post-16 participation of ethnic minority students from disadvantaged backgrounds: a systematic review of the most promising interventions

article

Pupil clustering in English secondary schools: one pattern or several?

Pupils' views on equity in schools

Quality in education research

Quantitative Research in Education

article

Querying the Causal Role of Attitudes in Educational Attainment

article published in 2012

Questioning the crisis account: a review of evidence for increasing polarization in schools

article

REVISITING A 90-YEAR-OLD DEBATE: THE ADVANTAGES OF THE MEAN DEVIATION

article by Stephen Gorard published December 2005 in British Journal of Educational Studies

Reality bytes: examining the rhetoric of widening educational participation via ICT

Reappraising the Apparent Underachievement of Boys at School

article by Stephen Gorard et al published December 1999 in Gender and Education

Regional and Local Differences in Admission Arrangements for Schools

article

Regional and Local Differences in Admission Arrangements for Schools

Research Design, as Independent of Methods

scholarly article

Rethinking ‘quantitative’ methods and the development of new researchers

article

Review Symposium:Educational Research and Evidence-based Practice- Edited by Martyn Hammersley

article

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: resolving the contradiction of lifelong learning

article published in 2002

School Choice Impacts: What Do We Know?

article

School choice in an established market : families and fee-paying schools in South Wales

doctoral thesis

School experience as a potential determinant of post-compulsory participation

Segregation by poverty in secondary schools in England 2006–2009: a research note

article

Serious doubts about school effectiveness

article by Stephen Gorard published October 2010 in British Educational Research Journal

Short Notices

Social Movement in Undeveloped Markets: an apparent contradiction

Social exclusion and public policy: the relationship between local school admission arrangements and segregation by poverty

Society is not built by education alone: alternative routes to a learning society

Some Sociological Alternatives to Human Capital Theory and their Implications for Research on Post‐compulsory Education and Training [1]

Students' use of Wikipedia as an academic resource — Patterns of use and perceptions of usefulness

scholarly article by Neil Selwyn & Stephen Gorard published January 2016 in Internet and Higher Education

Switching on the learning society? - questioning the role of technology in widening participation in lifelong learning

article published in 1999

Teachers’ use of research evidence in practice: a pilot study of feedback to enhance learning

article

The 'Conveyor Belt Effect': A re-assessment of the impact of National Targets for Lifelong Learning

article published in 2002

The Apparent Decline of Informal Learning

The British Educational Research Association and the future of educational research

The Composition of Specialist Schools in England: Track record and future prospect

article

The Increasing Availability of Official Datasets: Methods, Limitations and Opportunities for Studies of Education

article published in 2012

The More Things Change ... The Missing Impact of Marketisation?

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The Role of Causal Models in Evidence-informed Policy Making and Practice

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The Role of Nostalgia in School Choice

article by Stephen Gorard published November 1998 in School Leadership and Management

The Role of Residence in School Segregation: Placing the Impact of Parental Choice in Perspective

article by Chris Taylor & Stephen Gorard published October 2001 in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

The Role of Secondary Data in Combining Methodological Approaches

The complex determinants of school intake characteristics and segregation, England 1989 to 2014

article

The dubious benefits of multi‐level modeling

The impact of socio‐economic status on participation and attainment in science

The importance of process evaluation for randomised control trials in education

The information age : technology, learning and exclusion in Wales

book; published in 2002

The information age : technology, learning and exclusion in Wales

book by Neil Selwyn

The link between Academies in England, pupil outcomes and local patterns of socio-economic segregation between schools

article

The modifiable areal unit problem: Segregation between schools and levels of analysis

The potential determinants of young people's sense of justice: an international study

article by Stephen Gorard published January 2011 in British Journal of Sociology of Education

The propagation of errors in experimental data analysis: a comparison of pre- and post-test designs

The role of educational technology in establishing a "learning society"

The role of parents in young people’s education—a critical review of the causal evidence

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The role of the 'technical fix' in UK lifelong education policy

The role of the ‘technical fix’ in UK lifelong education policy

The two components of a new learning society

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The uncertain future of comprehensive schooling in England

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The value‐added of primary schools: what is it really measuring?

Theory building in educational research

Three Steps to ‘Heaven'? The family and school choice

article by Stephen Gorard published November 1996 in Educational Review

Towards a judgement‐based statistical analysis

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Under starters orders: The established market, the Cardiff study and the Smithfield project

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Underachievement is still an ugly word: reconsidering the relative effectiveness of schools in England and Wales

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Understanding Probabilities and Re-Considering Traditional Research Training

article published in 2003

United Kingdom

Value‐added is of little value

Vinorelbine and ischaemic colitis.

scientific article

What Counts and What Should Count as Evidence

article

What Makes a Lifelong Learner?

article published in 2005

What are Academies the answer to?

What are the problems with teacher supply?

What can we do to strengthen the teacher workforce?

What counts as evidence in the school choice debate?

article

What difference do teachers make? A consideration of the wider outcomes of schooling

What is Multi–level Modelling For?

What is Segregation?

What to do instead of significance testing? Calculating the ‘number of counterfactual cases needed to disturb a finding’

What works and what fails? Evidence from seven popular literacy ‘catch-up’ schemes for the transition to secondary school in England

article

Whatdoesan index of school segregation measure? A commentary on Allen and Vignoles

article by Stephen Gorard published November 2007 in Oxford Review of Education

Where Shall We Widen It? Higher Education and the Age Participation Rate in Wales

article by Stephen Gorard published January 2005 in Higher Education Quarterly

Where does good evidence come from?

article

Which are the most suitable contextual indicators for use in widening participation to HE?

Whither market forces in education?

article

Who Pays the Piper?Intergenerational aspects of school choice

article by Stephen Gorard published June 1997 in School Leadership and Management

Who is eligible for free school meals? Characterising free school meals as a measure of disadvantage in England

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Who is missing from higher education?

article

Who succeeds in teacher training?

Will the Use of Contextual Indicators Make UK Higher Education Admissions Fairer?

article published in 2015

YET ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE: A RESPONSE TO CONNOLLY

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‘Privileging the Visible’: A critique of the National Learning Targets

‘Teachers are kind to those who have good marks’: a study of Japanese young people’s views of fairness and equity in school

article by Emma Smith & Stephen Gorard published January 2012 in Compare

’Schooled to fail'? Revisiting the Welsh school‐effect

article by Stephen Gorard published January 1998 in Journal of Education Policy

“Education, education, education”: new government, new policies?