Best Evidence in Brief - January 2020

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Jonathan Haslam Editor of Best Evidence in Brief
Webinar 11min

In partnership with the Institute for Effective Education (IEE) Every month The National College provide the Institute for Effective Education’s ‘Best Evidence in Brief’ roundup in video format; focusing on stories with practical implications for schools and policy makers, including only high quality research from around the world.

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Webinar Runtime: 11 Minutes

Research covered in this video:

Effectiveness of continuing professional development training of welfare professionals on outcomes for children and young people: A systematic review (November 2019), Campbell Systematic Reviews
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cl2.1060

Reducing the number of pupils in French first-grade classes: Is there evidence of contemporaneous and carryover effects? (November 2018), International Journal of Educational Research, Volume 96
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883035518315027

Experimental effects of Word Generation on vocabulary, academic language, perspective taking and reading comprehension in high-poverty schools (August 2019), Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 12:3
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19345747.2019.1615155

Randomized control trial of Tools of the Mind: Marked benefits to kindergarten children and their teachers (September 2019), PLoS One
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0222447

Association between screen media use and academic performance among children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis (September 2019), JAMA Pediatrics
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2751330

Best Evidence in Brief
http://www.beib.org.uk/