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Investigating the Role of Technology in Widening Participation in Lifelong Learning. Final Report

Broadening Participation in Computing AND Program Evaluation

Gorard S, Selwyn N.
GSID: daQ-SjTruWYJ
S Gorard, N Selwyn - 2000 - ERIC

This small-grant funded project was intended to act as a pilot study looking at the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in adult education. In particular, the project aimed to investigate the use of ICT in extending patterns...

Quantitative methods in educational research: The role of numbers made easy

educational research

Gorard S.
GSID: uUBfDzeJipoJ
S Gorard - 2001 - books.google.com

… A changing climate for educational research WHY WE ALL NEED NUMBERS I have encountered books on all forms of educational research, some … There is not, to my knowledge, another practical book of advice for students on carrying...

Exploring modeling aspects of design experiments

quasi-experiments

Gorard S.
GSID: Y1E9J7_8uxMJ
FC Sloane, S Gorard - Educational Researcher, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com

In this article the authors use the process of model building (model formulation, fit, and validation) in applied settings to raise pertinent questions about design experiment (DE) methodology. We argue that the DE work presented in this issue highlights...

Patterns of participation in lifelong learning: do families make a difference?

informal learning

Fevre R, Gorard S.
GSID: Ovp5CPZ3V50J
S Gorard, G Rees, R Fevre - British educational research …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library

This article draws on the results of a large‐scale study of lifetime participation in education and training. Focusing on the datasets relating to parents and children in the same family, it …

Combining methods in educational and social research

educational research

Gorard S, Taylor C.
GSID: K-dydRAgSxYJ
S Gorard, C Taylor - 2004 - books.google.com

This book argues the case for combining multiple research methods, and provides much-needed practical guidance for researchers who want to use this mixed-methods approach. The authors believe that all research has an over-arching logic and that, within this, the...

The trials of evidence-based education: The promises, opportunities and problems of trials in education

Educational trials

Gorard S, See BH, Siddiqui N.
GSID: jnSZKziKXMQJ
S Gorard, BH See, N Siddiqui - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com

… robust evaluations like educational trials. The book describes the promise, the problems and the new opportunities as the attention of funders moves from only being interested in attainment outcomes to political concern about character-building and wider educational impacts....

The importance of process evaluation for randomised control trials in education

Educational trials

Siddiqui N, Gorard S, See BH.
GSID: aff6uTMgvVUJ
N Siddiqui, S Gorard, BH See - Educational Research, 2018 - Taylor & Francis

… on two RCTs in which school staff led the trials themselves in their schools – in an aggregated … Our main findings on the feasibility of aggregated trials led by schools are informed by our … Results: The...

Exploring the role of ICT in facilitating adult informal learning

informal learning

Selwyn N, Gorard S.
GSID: -TT9-99TUskJ
N Selwyn, S Gorard - Education, Communication & Information, 2004 - Taylor & Francis

… As we go on to discuss, informal learning garnered through leisure … learning with its influence on informal learning activity. In doing so the paper highlights the variety of technology-based informal learning taking place, and how ICT both...

Do parental involvement interventions increase attainment

Stem education interventions

Gorard S, See BH.
GSID: 6lOc2jk2AGIJ
S Gorard, BH See - A review of the evidence, 2013 - nuffieldfoundation.org

Dr Beng Huat See is a Research Associate in the School of Education at Durham University. Previously she was a researcher at the University of Birmingham, where she was involved …

Necessary and unnecessary learning: The acquisition of knowledge and 'skills' in and outside employment in South Wales in the 20th century

informal learning

Fevre R, Gorard S.
GSID: LXFvqaV46lEJ
R Fevre, S Gorard, G Rees - The necessity of informal learning, 2000 - books.google.com

There has been little research into learning that does not take the form of institutionalised, accredited participation in formal education or training. The sociology of education tradition …

Two dimensions of time: the changing social context of lifelong learning

informal learning

Fevre R, Gorard S.
GSID: CuCUX9eA5qcJ
S Gorard, G Rees, R Fevre - Studies in the Education of Adults, 1999 - Taylor & Francis

Using survey data from a study of individual patterns of participation in adult education and training, this paper reports evidence emphasising the importance of social background as a …

The apparent decline of informal learning

informal learning

Gorard S, Fevre R.
GSID: 9JxNysfPrakJ
S Gorard, R Fevre, G Rees - Oxford Review of Education, 1999 - Taylor & Francis

… the term `learning’ to activities outside work, and so to rescue informal learning from the dominant educational discourse relating only to human capital (Marginson, 1993). This paper uses a fairly broad de®nition of informal learning, such that it...

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