Every year the editors of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) celebrate success by presenting the annual Editor’s Choice Award to an outstanding paper published in BERJ in the previous year.
The recipient of the BERJ 2015 Editor’s Choice Award is:

• Lindsay Paterson, ‘Competitive opportunity and liberal culture: the significance of Scottish education in the twentieth century’ 40, 2, 397-416.

The paper can be found here

Shortlisted papers:

• Tammy Campbell, ‘Stratified at seven: in-class ability grouping and the relative age effect’ 40, 5, 749-771.
• Kirsten Hansen, Moving House for education in the pre-school years 40, 3, 483-500.
• Lindsay Paterson, ‘Competitive opportunity and liberal culture: the significance of Scottish education in the twentieth century’ 40, 2, 397-416.
• Sam Sellar and Bob Lingard, The OECD and the expansion of PISA: new global modes of governance in education 40, 6, 917-936.

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