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SUMMARY:Closing the Gap: issues\, challenges and impact of the implementat
 ion of a national experiment in educational research - Dr Ann Childs (Depa
 rtment of Education\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Nigel Fancourt (Departmen
 t of Education\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Roger Firth (Department of Edu
 cation\, University of Oxford)\, Emeritus Professor Ian Menter (Department
  of Education\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Ian Thompson (Department of Edu
 cation\, University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:During 2012\, the National College for Teaching and Leadership
 \, working in collaboration with a number of partners\, designed a major r
 esearch and development initiative entitled Closing the Gap - Test and Lea
 rn.  The contract to run the project was awarded to CfBT who worked in par
 tnership with CUREE and the Universities of Durham and Oxford to deliver t
 he scheme from 2012-2015.\n\nThey invited lead teaching schools in teachin
 g school alliances to apply to take part in a national trial of seven part
 icular intervention programmes\, each of which had been identified as havi
 ng significant potential in 'closing the attainment gap'.  That is\, they 
 were programmes designed to improve the attainment of children who were lo
 w achievers.  A total of more than 700 Schools joined the programme in its
  first year and bid to work with one or more of the interventions.  Half o
 f the schools went into the trial group and commenced the programme during
  2014.  The other half of the schools went into a control group and waited
  until the next academic year to undertake the programme.  In all schools 
 a sample of pupils was identified for participation in the scheme and were
  given pre- and post-tests before and at the end of the Year 1 trial perio
 d.  The scheme was thus designated as a form of Randomised Control Trial.\
 n\nIn this seminar the Oxford team offer an analysis of the project as a w
 hole\, drawing not only on data gathered during its implementation but als
 o on additional data derived from interviews with a number of participants
 .\n\nIn particular we look at:\n•	the 'policy origins' of the entire sch
 eme\, the ways in which it emerged out of: the development of teaching sch
 ools\, the 'closing the gap' objective of the Coalition government\; the d
 esire to increase research capacity within the teaching workforce\; as wel
 l as other elements\;  \n•	the extent to which the overall methodology c
 an indeed be described as a Randomised Control Trial.  Although this was a
  very large scale initiative\, the actual interventions were each carried 
 out with relatively small numbers of pupils in a very diverse range of con
 texts\; \n•	the extent to which evidence emerged from the project to sug
 gest that teachers in schools were becoming increasingly research-literate
  and that the 'school-led system' was developing research capacity through
  engagement in a scheme such as this\;\n•	the research ethics issues rai
 sed by such a large scale randomised controlled trial\, and in particular 
 the decisions around which interventions to include and continue\, which l
 eads on to an argument for a principle of educational equipoise.\nSpeakers
 :\nDr Ann Childs (Department of Education\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Nig
 el Fancourt (Department of Education\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Roger Fi
 rth (Department of Education\, University of Oxford)\, Emeritus Professor 
 Ian Menter (Department of Education\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Ian Thomp
 son (Department of Education\, University of Oxford)
LOCATION:15 Norham Gardens (Seminar Room (call at Reception on arrival))\,
  15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/10a50d4e-ce5a-4dc8-9be1-1e32f323c92d/
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DESCRIPTION:Talk:Closing the Gap: issues\, challenges and impact of the im
 plementation of a national experiment in educational research - Dr Ann Chi
 lds (Department of Education\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Nigel Fancourt (
 Department of Education\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Roger Firth (Departme
 nt of Education\, University of Oxford)\, Emeritus Professor Ian Menter (D
 epartment of Education\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Ian Thompson (Departme
 nt of Education\, University of Oxford)
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