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Critical Thinking Assessments in Three African Countries, 2015-2019
The study adopted a mixed methods design, comprising a longitudinal study of student outcomes and a qualitative investigation of how institutions are able to encourage processes... -
Education systems, aspiration and learning in remote rural settings 2016-2019
Qualitative interviews and survey undertaken as part of a wider ethnographic project focused on the relationships between aspirations and education. In each country, a... -
Verb generalization of preschool-aged children, experimental data 2018-2019
This study investigated whether seeing iconic gestures depicting verb referents promotes two types of generalization. We taught 3-4-year-olds novel locomotion verbs. Children... -
The development of lexical flexibility, behavioural data 2016-2019
These are behavioural data from experiments on children's word learning. The experiments typically assessed children from age 2 to age 4 or 5. Specifically, the projects herein... -
Education in Emergencies: Evidence for Action: Niger Year 2, 2017-2019
Children in crisis-affected countries (CACs) experience profound constraints on their academic learning and socioemotional well-being. The 3EA initiative (Education in... -
The Transformative Potential of MOOCs and Contrasting Online Pedagogies, 2017...
This data collection relates to project 3.4 of the Centre for Global Higher Education: The transformative potential of MOOCs and contrasting online pedagogies. The response of... -
End Line Evaluation of the Project Sister for Sister's Education-II, 2021
Sisters for Sisters' Education II (SfSE-II) project is funded by Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s Girls’ Education Challenge Transition Window (GEC T) and builds on... -
Learning Cue Combination, 2016-2020
This collection includes data from a series of laboratory behavioural experiments. The experiments investigate aspects of perception, action and decision-making. The experiments... -
Using Perceptual Learning to Understand and Influence Face Recognition, 2018-...
Data corresponding to publications from the ESRC new investigator grant project. The project focuses on the development of perceptual learning as a key factor to our ability to... -
Subjective Confidence Influences Word Learning in a Cross-situational Statist...
Learning is often accompanied by a subjective sense of confidence in one's knowledge, a feeling of knowing what you know and how well you know it. Subjective confidence has been... -
Competition and Symmetry in an Artificial Word Learning Task, 2016-2019
Natural language involves competition. The sentences we choose to utter activate alternative sentences (those we chose not to utter), which hearers typically infer to be false.... -
Connecting Content and Logical Words, 2016-2019
Content words (e.g. nouns and adjectives) are generally connected: there are no gaps in their denotations; no noun means ‘table or shoe’ or ‘animal or house’. We explore a... -
Learning from Total Failure: Why Do Impossible Tests Boost Learning? 2017-2021
The project concerns the effect of an unsuccessful pre-test (effectively a guess), on the subsequent learning of information, relative to studying that information with... -
Flexible and Habitual Mechanisms of Human Navigation, 2016-2019
The project concerns both the psychological and neural mechanisms involved in flexible and habitual forms of spatial learning. Traditionally it has been thought that flexible... -
Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production in the Struggle for Peace w...
Data collected for this project included in-depth interviews, workshops and focus groups with social movement leaders and activists in 4 Conflict Affected Contexts: Turkey,... -
Learning Outcomes and Teacher Effectiveness for Children Facing Multiple Disa...
The quantitative data from the TEACh project allows us to identify the characteristics of children not learning, and factors associated with disparities in educational outcomes... -
Methodological Learning and Lessons from Young Lives, 2019-2021
Semi-structured interview data from current and former Young Lives staff who were invited to share their knowledge and experience as a contribution to the collective Young Lives... -
Correlation Analysis to Investigate Unconscious Mental Processes, 2018-2021
Data and code for Malejka et al. (2021), "Correlation analysis to investigate unconscious mental processes". The present project focused on a particular domain of this... -
Improving Learning: Developing Measures of Accountability and Evaluating thei...
The student survey data include measures of students’ background, knowledge, aspirations, satisfaction, and perception of classroom environment and teaching quality. The student... -
Girls' Access To Education - Girls' Education Challenge Endline Evaluation Qu...
The transcripts are from the endline evaluation data collection of the Girls’ Access to Education – Girls’ Educaiton Challenge (GATE-GEC). GATE-GEC was an FCDO-funded Girls’...