Steve Higgins

Emeritus Professor at Durham Uni, digital tech enthusiast, research evidence and meta-analysis geek. Any views tweeted my own.

[Steve Higgins @profstig]

I'm fundraising for Prostate Cancer Research. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving https://t.co/7727Kp1t1v

[Professor Dawn Mannay @dawnmannay]

@lou_gascoine @kate_wall98 @profstig Thank you again for your chapter @lou_gascoine @kate_wall98 @profstig have already been recommending your chapter & will be on my module reading lists 🤩😊

[WhatWorkedEducation @WhatWorked]

We have recently released a free short course for ITT and ECF teachers. This provides an introduction to research and design to help teachers to engage critically with research and use evidence to critique practice (Standard 8).

https://t.co/0Z5jPUVnJ7

[Dr Wayne Harrison @W_D_Harrison]

Looking forward to presenting @researchEDChesh on Saturday. At WhatWorked, we have developed a model for teacher led micro RCTs with @profstig. We had initially only thought about the UK for the MVP, but now have teacher trials requested in 15 countries in six weeks.

[Steve Higgins @profstig]

@PhilippaCcuree @paulcrisp So sorry to hear this. He was a lovely man, great to work with and always good company. Sending my love.

[BERA @BERANews]

🏆Congratulations to the Educational Research Book of the year winner:

Making Schools Better for Disadvantaged Students
Routledge
Stephen Gorard (@SGorard), Beng Huat See (@beng_see) & Nadia Siddiqui

[Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham]

In Why Don't Students Like School? I said stories are "psychologically privileged." Much work since, confirming robustness of the effect--stories are easier to understand and remember. (Usual comparison = expository essay.) Here's a recent meta-analysis https://t.co/Za0rRy2lWy

[Stephen Gorard @SGorard]

A newsletter listing some of the research and success of DECE (Durham Evidence Centre for Education) over this summer.
https://t.co/RT2quyAoHe

[Stephen Gorard @SGorard]

New paper just out. Free open access. Summarises our work on how best to use "additional" funding for schools to improve outcomes and reduce the poverty outcome gap.
https://t.co/OSsBEjOa2K

[Steve Higgins @profstig]

@EPPIReviewer Woohoo, geekily excited …

[Stephen Gorard @SGorard]

Who would like to be the new Head of School of Education, Durham University? In our nice new building. 2nd nationally in REF (1st for research outputs). Home to DECE research centre.
https://t.co/j9fJGvJdED

[Steve Higgins @profstig]

@Martell_Tom This is based on the CAT4 post-test scores, which the Toolkit usually selects in an RCT. The evaluation report figure is based on gain scores and gain SDs.

[Tes magazine @tes]

£7-per-pupil 'Maths Champions' scheme saw pupils make three months of additional progress in both maths and language development, finds new @EducEndowFoundn evaluation
https://t.co/77P2A4UuCG

[The Centre for Education and Youth @TheCfEY]

Our new research on post-16 GCSE resits funded by @EducEndowFoundn and written in collaboration with @uniofwarwick has been brilliantly summarised in this post by @FEWeek - Read more below 👇🏽
https://t.co/xQoH6I1aET

[TRECA @TRECAStudy]

TRECA main results paper now in BMC Medicine: https://t.co/6cgaD4vqds . Using multimedia instead of printed sheets increased trial recruitment in children & teens. Pooled data, 3 SWATs: OR 1.54 (1.05, 2.28) p=0.03. Overall, mutlimedia recruitment rate 69%, printed sheet rate 64%.

[BERA @BERANews]

As part of our major initiative, Education: The State of the Discipline, BERA has brought together 16 case studies to demonstrate the outstanding impact of educational research across a broad spectrum of settings.

View the full report here: https://t.co/E6D8pdipMA

[Steve Higgins @profstig]

@Martell_Tom @SGorard @MatthewAKraft And there are meta-analyses of the specific tier approaches …

[Steve Higgins @profstig]

@Martell_Tom @SGorard @MatthewAKraft