Making Your Doctoral Research Project Ambitious

This book presents the doctoral dissertation process as not just a way of getting a qualification or even a method of learning how to do research better, but as a substantial and significant piece of research in its own right.

Auteur

Nadia Siddiqui is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Durham University Evidence Centre for Education (DECE), UK.

Stephen Gorard is Professor and Director of the Durham University Evidence Centre for Education (DECE), UK and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Contenu

Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION Thinking bigger: The importance of an ambitious doctoral research project
*Nadia Siddiqui and Stephen Gorard

• Part 1 EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

*Chapter 2 - School value-added measures: Undertaking policy- and practice-relevant methodological research
*Thomas Perry

Chapter 3 - Is Progress 8 a valid and reliable measure of school effectiveness?
Mark Ledger

Chapter 4 - The stability problem in using value-added measurements for teacher performance evaluation
Ismail Aslantas

Chapter 5 - Does academic selection promote effectiveness and equity? Evaluating a classic topic using a new approach
Bin Wei Lu

**Chapter 6 - Does instructional leadership make schools more effective? Evidence from the Maldives
*Ismail Shafeeu

• Part 2 EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT

*Chapter 7 - Can co-operative learning and group-work help English language learners in Thailand?
*Phanatdao Chantarasiri

Chapter 8 - The role of metacognition in the learning of English as a foreign language
*Meechai Wongdaeng

• Chapter 9 - Can Philosophy for Children improve critical thinking and attainment for Chinese secondary students?
  *Cai Wei Wu

• Chapter 10 - *Evaluating the impact of instruction on the critical thinking skills of English language learners in higher education
  Nada el-Soufi

Chapter 11 - Can improving the 'academic buoyancy' of secondary school students improve their school attendance?
*Sophie Anderson

• Chapter 12 - Understanding the moral values of primary school children: a comparative study
  *Shi Pian

• Part 3 EVALUATING EDUCATION POLICY

Chapter 13 - Free Schools in England: researching a (controversial) new policy reform using a mixed methods approach
*Rebecca Morris

• Chapter 14 - Does absence from school influence attainment, and what is the best way to handle it?
  *Haifaa Alabbad

• Chapter 15 - Do expensive STEM enrichment activities make any difference to science and maths outcomes at school?
  *Pallavi Banerjee

Chapter 16 - How fair are the indicators used in contextualised admission policies in China?
*Yiyi Tan

• Chapter 17 - International comparisons at the crossroads of policy, practice and research: the case of school leavers' and graduates' information systems
  *Rita Hordósy

Chapter 18 - Evidence translation strategies to promote the use of research results in schools: What works best?
*Caner Erkan

• Chapter 19 - CONCLUSION The implications of these studies for new researchers
  Stephen Gorard and Nadia Siddiqui