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Reducing language barriers for Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Teachers' workshops
The data collection includes: (1) teachers' feedback on the workshops, (2) teachers feedback on NGO-developed computer-based tasks including guidance for the development of new... -
Reducing language barriers for Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Students' interviews
The data was collected in May 2017 visits to a private school and a learning centre Valley in Lebanon serving deprived communities and receiving Syrian refugee children in the... -
Survey of copyright officers in the UK 2017-2018
Survey data providing information about copyright officers or similar specialists in UK libraries, educational and cultural institutions and also details of the training they... -
How parents can help babies learn to talk with picture books 2016-2018
Children from disadvantaged families tend to have limited language skills compared to their advantaged peers. While many factors contribute to language ability, two aspects of... -
Survey of financial capability of Indonesian undergraduates 2015
This data comes from doctoral research carried out by Irni Johan at the University of Birmingham as part of a study to measure the financial capability of Indonesian... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of education in zoos 2013-2017
This data was collected at a single zoo site in the UK. The site was a combined theme park and zoo. Data was collected to investigate the effectiveness of education in zoos. The... -
Imagine project south east: Building resilience for wellness and recovery, in...
This data set comprises of 12 transcribed interviews, which were conducted to gather the perspectives of mental health recovery college tutors and ‘learners’ regarding the... -
Supporting children's school readiness 2015-2018
Language comprehension relies on the ability to make local and global inferences (e.g., inferring what a pronoun refers to, or inferring why a protagonist in a story did... -
The role of automatic letter-speech sound integration in reading development ...
Six data sets are included in this collection: (1)Cross-sectional data for a representative sample of 155 children (aged 5-7 years). Measures include performance on a... -
Cluster randomised trial of the Ready to Learn programme for children startin...
Almost one in six children in Northern Ireland (NI) leaves primary school without achieving the expected level in English and Maths. In 2010-11, around 9,000 pupils in NI failed... -
Pathways to inclusion 2016-2018
The ‘Pathways to inclusion’ project used existing secondary data sources to study the influence of ‘family capital’ (e.g. aggregated measures of resources at the family/parental... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of a shared book reading intervention, a randomi...
In a pre-registered cluster randomised controlled trial, 85 lower SES families and their 3- to 4-year old children from 10 different preschools were randomly allocated to take... -
Skills underlying mathematics: Working memory capacity in mathematics and hum...
This data collection contains data from three experiments with 156 undergraduate students of mathematics and humanities. The data collection includes standardised assessments of... -
Promoting language development in young children through shared reading, a ra...
This is a randomised controlled trial of shared book reading with 150 children aged 2;6 to 3;0 which follows CONSORT guidelines. Dyads were randomly allocated to an intervention... -
Refugee resettlement and long term integration 2006-2018
This data comes from a survey completed with refugees resettled to the UK and resident (at the time of the survey) in Manchester, Sheffield, Norwich or Brighton and Hove.... -
Brazilian young people's engagements with food, water and energy 2016-2018
This project explored young Brazilians' (aged 10-24) experiences of, and learning about, the food-water-energy nexus in Brazil. It collected a range of quantitative and... -
Shared book reading and the development of phonological awareness 2016-2018
Shared book reading has been demonstrated to be an effective way to promote children’s language including preparation for literacy: children who are read to regularly, on... -
Monitoring practical science in schools and colleges, school data 2016-2017
The Monitoring Practical Science in Schools and Colleges study ran from 2015 to 2017. Data were collected in year 1 of the study in 2015, during reforms to the Scottish National... -
Monitoring practical science in schools and colleges, higher education data 2...
The Monitoring Practical Science in Schools and Colleges study ran from 2015 to 2017. Data were collected in year 1 of the study in 2015, during reforms to the Scottish National... -
Testing the validity of subjective and objective indicators to predict future...
The data was collected through face to face interviews following a panel of respondents across three time points in three villages in Kyrgyzstan. Approximately 200 households...