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Co-Producing Ethics Guidelines Together with People with Learning Disabilities
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Mary Bottomley; Jodie Bradley; Lisa Clark; Bryan Collis; Bojana Daw Srdanovic; Victoria Farnsworth; Annie Ferguson; Dan Goodley; Andrew Fox; Nikita K. Hayden; Charlotte Lawthom; Rebecca Lawthom; Claudia Magwood; Robert McLean; Ian Middleton; Alison Owen; Matty Prothero; Simon Rice; Simon Richards; Katherine Runswick-Cole; Kelly Scargill; Rohit Shankar; Toni Ann Wood – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: We are a research team of clinical, academic and advocacy-based researchers with and without learning disabilities, working on the "Humanising Healthcare" (for people with learning disabilities) project. The project is dedicated to finding and sharing healthcare practices that enhance the lives of people with learning…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Disabilities, Guidelines, Researchers
Serious Doubts about School Effectiveness
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Gorard, Stephen – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
This paper considers the model of school effectiveness (SE) currently dominant in research, policy and practice in England (although the concerns it raises are international). It shows, principally through consideration of initial and propagated error, that SE results cannot be relied upon. By considering the residual difference between the…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Scores, Educational Policy
Educational Performance or Educational Inequality: What Can We Learn from PISA about France and England?
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Doyle, Ann – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2008
This article evaluates PISA 2000 as a resource for providing information on educational attainment and inequality, focusing on France and England. Going beyond pupils' performance, it assesses levels of educational inequality by examining distributions of scores and the relationship between socio-economic status and performance. This review raises…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education
A Further Report of Investigations into the Reliability of Marking of GCE Examinations.
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Murphy, R.J.L. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
The grading reliability of the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Examinations in England was investigated by correlating GCE grades awarded to examination papers during the normal grading period and grades awarded to the same papers by a senior GCE examiner after completion of the normal GCE grading procedure. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Examiners, Experimenter Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Grading
Does the Gender of Examiners Influence Their Marking?
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Greatorex, Jackie; Bell, John – Research in Education, 2004
For many years there has been concern about whether sex bias exists in various assessments. A literature review reveals little if any sex bias in UK national assessments at GCSE. Oxford, Cambridge and RSA examiners, for three case study subjects, completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory, a self-report inventory that measures the extent to which…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Examiners, Sex Fairness, Gender Bias