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Wendee White; Paul Gault; Jill Shimi; Kristi Herd; Gaye Manwaring – Discover Education, 2025
This study explores the effectiveness and design value of 'Resilience Education Supports Students in Life' (RESSIL), an adventure-based digital game for developing resilience capacities in undergraduate students at one UK University. RESSIL was designed in response to the increasing wellbeing needs of undergraduate students and in recognition of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Computer Games, Educational Games
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Pallett, Helen – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2020
Background: Debates about evidence-based policy (EBP) were revived in the UK in the 2010s in the context of civil service reform and changing practices of policy making, including institutionalisation of public participation in science policy making. Aims and objectives: This paper aims to explore this revival of interest in EBP in the context of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, Citizen Participation, Policy Formation
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Lim, Miguel Antonio – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2020
The UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) introduced impact as an indicator in the evaluation of higher education research quality in 2014. Impact case studies (ICS) are the basis of this evaluation. ICS use "narrative" explanations of how research causes 'benefits to society'. This article analyses the evolving roles of the ICS and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Higher Education, Educational Research
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Clarkson, Suzy; Charles, Joanna M.; Saville, Christopher W. N.; Bjornstad, Gretchen J.; Hutchings, Judy – School Psychology International, 2019
Bullying is an internationally recognized problem and school-based bullying is particularly pervasive. KiVa is a robustly evidenced school-based antibullying programme developed and evaluated at Turku University, Finland, and subsequently disseminated across Finland. Following a positive UK trial of Unit 2 (for 10- to 12-year-olds), further UK…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prevention, Intervention, Bullying
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Spowart, Lucy; Winter, Jennie; Turner, Rebecca; Muneer, Reema; McKenna, Colleen; Kneale, Pauline – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
In this paper we report the outcomes of a national survey of academic development staff in a range of UK HE Institutions to consider the approaches adopted to evaluate teaching-related continual professional development (CPD). Despite the increasing drive towards accountability, the majority of respondents undertook no benchmarking to establish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development
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Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2016
In May 2014 Michael Gove Secretary of State for Education announced that there would be a review into Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in the UK. The report was led by Andrew Carter OBE, the Headteacher of a school-centred ITT provider and ITT lead on the Teaching Schools Council. The report was published in January 2015 and one of the principle…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries
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McCluskey, Gillean – Improving Schools, 2017
While mainstream schools have seen an increasing focus on performance and attainment in recent years, this focus has often been resisted by special and alternative educational provision in the United Kingdom. However, concern is now growing about the low levels of achievement for children and young people educated outside mainstream schools. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Academic Achievement, Special Schools
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Nichol, Jon; Andrews, Katherine – Education 3-13, 2018
Advocates of Oracy-Dialogics argue that it should play the major role in teaching and learning, yet it has also been argued that it plays little part in many teachers' pedagogic repertoire. This paper considers what is meant by Oracy-Dialogics. Then it describes research in a Cambridge Primary Review flagship school; it analyses the whole school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Policy, Instructional Leadership, School Culture
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Martin, Graham P.; Ward, Vicky; Hendy, Jane; Rowley, Emma; Nancarrow, Susan; Heaton, Janet; Britten, Nicky; Fielden, Sandra; Ariss, Steven – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2011
The limited extent to which research evidence is utilised in healthcare and other public services is widely acknowledged. The United Kingdom government has attempted to address this gap by funding nine Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs). CLAHRCs aim to carry out health research, implement research findings…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evidence Based Practice, Research Utilization, Health Services