Award
BERJ Editors’ Choice Award
2019 BERJ Editor’s Choice Award
Joint winners:
- Neil Harrison & Richard Waller, for ‘Challenging discourses of aspiration: The role of expectations and attainment in access to higher education’, BERJ, 44(5), 914–938.
- George Koutsouris & Brahm Norwich, for ‘What exactly do RCT findings tell us in education research?’, BERJ, 44(6), 939–959.
2018 BERJ Editor’s Choice Award
Winner:
- Leckie G and Goldstein H (2017) ‘The evolution of school league tables in England 1992–2016: “Contextual value‐added”, “expected progress” and “progress 8”’, BERJ, 43(2): 193–212. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/berj.3264 (open access)
Commended:
Finn K (2017) ‘Multiple, relational and emotional mobilities: Understanding student mobilities in higher education as more than “staying local” and “going away”’, BERJ43(4): 743–758.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3287
Allen R and Allnutt J (2017) ‘The impact of Teach First on pupil attainment at age 16’, BERJ 43(4): 627–646. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3288
2017 BERJ Editors’ Choice Award
Winner:
- Jones I, Wheadon C, Humphries S and Inglis M (2016) ‘Fifty Years of A-level mathematics’, BERJ 42(4): 543–560.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3224
Commended:
- Spratt J (2016) ‘Childhood wellbeing: what role for education?’, BERJ 42(2): 223–239.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3211 - Ianelli C, Smyth E and Klein M (2016) ‘Curriculum differentiation and social inequality in higher education entry in Scotland and Ireland’, BERJ 42(4): 561–581.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3217 - Pratt N (2016) ‘Neoliberalism and the (internal) marketisation of primary school assessment’, BERJ 42(5): 890–905. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3233
- Symonds J, Schoon I and Salmela-Aro K (2016) ‘Developmental trajectories of emotional disengagement from schoolwork and their longtitudinal associations in England’, BERJ 42(6): 993–1022.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3243 - Sanders J, Munford R and Thurnasarn-Anwar T (2016) ‘Staying on track despite the odds: factors that assist young people in adversity to continue their education’, BERJ 42(1): 56–73.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/berj.3202 - Hansen K (2016) ‘The relationship between teacher perceptions of pupil attractiveness and academic ability’, BERJ 42(3): 376–398.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3227
2015 BERJ Editor’s Choice Award
Winner:
- Lindsay Paterson, ‘Competitive opportunity and liberal culture: the significance of Scottish education in the twentieth century’ BERJ 40, 2, 397-416. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/berj.3089/abstract
Shortlisted papers:
- Tammy Campbell, ‘Stratified at seven: in-class ability grouping and the relative age effect’ BERJ 40, 5, 749-771.
- Kirsten Hansen, Moving House for education in the pre-school years, BERJ 40, 3, 483-500.
- Lindsay Paterson, ‘Competitive opportunity and liberal culture: the significance of Scottish education in the twentieth century’, BERJ 40, 2, 397-416.
- Sam Sellar and Bob Lingard, The OECD and the expansion of PISA: new global modes of governance in education, BERJ 40, 6, 917-936.
2014 BERJ Editor’s Choice Award
The BERJ 2014 Editor’s Choice Award recipients are:
- Ruth Lupton and Martin Thrupp, ‘Headteachers’ reading of and responses to disadvantaged contexts: evidence from English primary schools’ 39 (4) 769-788.
Shortlisted papers:
- Peter Davies, Jean Mangan, Amanda Hughes and Kim Slack, ‘Labour market motivation and undergraduate’s choice of degree subject’ 39 (2) 320-382.
- Susan Hallam and Samantha Parsons ‘Prevalence of streaming in UK primary schools: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study’ 39 (3) 514-544.