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  • HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF STATISTICS
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    HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF STATISTICS
    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 ...

    $729.87

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  • GETTING EVIDENCE INTO EDUCATION
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    GETTING EVIDENCE INTO EDUCATION
    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 o...

    $999.00

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  • THE TRIALS OF EVIDENCE-BASED EDUCATION
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    THE TRIALS OF EVIDENCE-BASED EDUCATION
    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 ...

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  • OVERCOMING DISADVANTAGE IN EDUCATION
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    OVERCOMING DISADVANTAGE IN EDUCATION
    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, consi...

    $1,099.00

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  • RESEARCH DESIGN
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    RESEARCH DESIGN
    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 numbe...

    $941.10

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  • ADULT LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
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    ADULT LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
    NEIL SELWYN / STEPHEN GORARD / JOHN FURLONG
    This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society. They invite debate on: why IC...

    $1,139.00

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  • SCHOOLS, MARKETS AND CHOICE POLICIES
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    SCHOOLS, MARKETS AND CHOICE POLICIES
    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 implic...

    $1,299.00

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  • SCHOOL CHOICE IN AN ESTABLISHED MARKET
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    SCHOOL CHOICE IN AN ESTABLISHED MARKET
    STEPHEN GORARD
    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 ...

    $859.00

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