Mark Newman

University College London | UCL · Social Science Research Unit

The challenge faced by newly graduated nurses from undergraduate study to practice is a persistent theme in nursing practice literatures. However, there is a lack of understanding about how this transition happens. This focused ethnographic study explored how newly graduated nurses (novices) interacted with experienced nurses and learnt in a hospit...

This technical report details the methods and results of a systematic review of the impact of Feedback only interventions provided by teachers , researchers or technology ion different school contexts for different learners aged between 5 and 18

This chapter explores the processes of reviewing literature as a research method. The logic of the family of research approaches called systematic review is analysed and the variation in techniques used in the different approaches explored using examples from existing reviews. The key distinctions between aggregative and configurative approaches ar...

Introduction: Faculty Development (FD) encompasses a range of learning activities undertaken to prepare clinical teachers for their various roles as educators, leaders, and scholars. This article presents the findings of a systematic rapid evidence assessment that aimed to investigate the impact of FD on clinical teachers. Methods: We searched t...

What do we want to know? What is the nature of the research on workplace-based learning for undergraduate and pre-registration healthcare professionals in the UK? How many studies are there and what do they focus on? Who wants to know? The map was funded by the Higher Education Academy, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, and the...

General practice is increasingly used as a learning environment in undergraduate medical education in the UK. The aim of this project was to identify, summarise and synthesise research about undergraduate medical education in general practice in the UK. We systematically identified studies of undergraduate medical education within a general practic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of young people’s participation in organised sport on their educational outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – Systematic review of the literature. A comprehensive search was used to identify all research evidence about engagement, impact and value in culture and sport. A combination of...

This Campbell systematic review examines the effectiveness of technical and vocational education intervention (‘TVET’) in developing countries on employment and employability outcomes of young people. The review summarises findings from 26 studies conducted in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, East Asia, South Asia and sub‐Saharan Africa. Parti...

There is a tension between conducting comprehensive systematic reviews and completing them in time to meet policy-making deadlines. The 'rapid evidence assessment' has been proposed as a solution to this; offering rigorous reviews in a condensed timescale. While used frequently in healthcare, this mode of reviewing presents considerable challenges...

What do we want to know? Persistent juvenile re-offending remains an area of concern for public policy, due to the social, economic and health impacts of such offending on victims and offenders. A large proportion of criminal offences are committed by repeat offenders. The broad purpose of this systematic review was to review the research evidence...

BACKGROUND: Meta-analysis is a statistical method for combining the results of primary studies. It is often used in systematic reviews and is increasingly a method and topic that appears in student dissertations. MetaLight is a freely available software application that runs simple meta-analyses and contains specific functionality to facilitate the...

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What do we want to know? The way that public services are organised and work has changed considerably over the last 25 years. One of the main changes has been to divide the function of public agencies into service purchasers which ?commission? or ?purchase? services on behalf of the public and service providers which provide the services. This chan...

MANY INITIATIVES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED in the U.S. to encourage young people to become more active, such as First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign. While there are clear health benefits associated with physical activity and participation in sports, less is known about the educational impacts. This article summarizes the fi ndings of a sys...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recognises that, in order to meet its strategic objectives, it is crucial to pay the right amount of benefit to the right person at the right time. During 2008/09, the DWP spent approximately £135.6 billion on benefits, of which it is estimated that about two per cent (£2.7 billion) was overpaid due to fra...

The CASE database of research evidence is a unique and comprehensive resource for those working in the field of culture and sport. The database currently holds the records of over 5,500 studies on the drivers, impact and value of engagement in culture and sport. In order to maintain the value of the CASE database, a strategy will be needed to regul...

Everyone has to make choices at different stages in their life. Some of the most crucial relate to their education, in particular what combination of subjects they decide to take for higher-level study. For most young people such choices take place between the ages of 14 and 18. In England they are likely to be asked to make selections at 14, when...

The Culture and Sport Evidence (CASE) programme was set up by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in 2008, in collaboration with the sector-leading non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs): Arts Council England (ACE), English Heritage (EH), Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and Sport England (SE). The programme aims to gene...

The Culture and Sport Evidence (CASE) programme is a three-year joint programme of research led by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in collaboration with the Arts Council England (ACE), English Heritage (EH), the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and Sport England (SE). The overall aim of the programme is to strengthen...

What do we want to know? What impact does young people's participation in the arts have on their learning, achievement and skills? / Who wants to know and why? It is widely believed that participation in the arts has a range of benefits for young people. Policy-makers wish to understand more about the nature and quantity of such benefits in order t...

Tax and welfare benefit interventions aimed at getting working poor families with children out of poverty do not appear to be having the desired effect finds a study published this month. The systematic review of research evidence which evaluated tax and welfare benefit interventions targeting in work couple families with children was carried out...

The report examines the impact of the Targeted Youth Support (TYS) initiative on outcomes for young people. IOE Research Briefings are short descriptions of significant research findings, based on the wide range of projects carried out by IOE researchers.

There is a vast body of literature on school size but comparatively few high quality empirical studies comparing outcomes in schools of different sizes. This systematic review synthesizes the results of the published research from 31 studies on the effects of secondary school size from OECD countries since 1990. Overall the directions and patterns...

Debate continues about what existing evaluations of the impact of Problem Based Learning tell us and about how future evaluations should be designed. This paper argues that establishing descriptive causation should be an important goal of such evaluations. Minimizing threats to internal validity is of key importance to establishing descriptive caus...

Applying the findings of qualitative research to practice is far from straightforward. This difficulty is often overlooked in the literature on the role of qualitative research in evidence-based practice. In this EBN notebook, we argue that current attempts to provide guidance for clinicians do not accurately capture the specific and unique contrib...

Problem Based Learning (PBL) has been adopted in educational programs in a variety of disciplines, including veterinary medicine. There is a voluminous literature on the subject, but it often remains unclear just what is being done in the name of PBL, and different accounts highlight different, often contradictory, positions on the key features of...

Improving the quality of reporting could increase the usefulness of research for readers such as parents, students, practitioners, policy-makers, systematic reviewers and other researchers. This paper first presents an analysis of the reporting of basic information about the aims, context and methods used in a sample of published empirical research...

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The advancement of research based practice has been a goal in nursing for many years. Evidence-based practice (EBP) provides a framework and process for the systematic incorporation of research evidence and patient preference into clinical decision making at the level of the individual practitioner and the healthcare organisation. Few well designed...

To compare levels of provision of contraception from general practice and family planning clinics for the populations of the 32 London Boroughs. Retrospective analysis of routine activity data, including the estimated numbers of first attendance, for 295 family planning clinics (managed by 28 NHS Trusts) and more than 1800 GP partnerships in Greate...

Rethinking Health Promotion: A Global Approach THEODORE H. MACDONALD London, Routledge, 1998, 47.50 (hbk), 15.99 (pbk)Medical Mishaps: Pieces of the Puzzle M. ROSENTHAL, L. MULCAHY & S. LLOYD-BOSTOCK, EDITORS Buckingham, Open University Press, 16.99, ISBN 0 0335 20258 6Erratum

This paper reports the findings of a study which aimed to identify the barriers to evidence-based practice in an acute National Health Service (NHS) trust. The study was carried out as part of an action research project designed to promote evidence-based practice. A rapid organizational appraisal design was used. This involved formal and informal i...

To compare the commissioning of contraception services by London health authorities with accepted models of good practice. Combined interview and postal surveys of all health authorities and National Health Service (NHS) trusts responsible for running family planning clinics in the Greater London area. Health authority commissioning was assessed on...

Commissioning of contraception and abortion services is underdeveloped. Access to family planning clinics varies greatly between health authorities. The proportion of abortions funded by the NHS varies between health authorities from 42 per cent to 72 per cent.