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BERJ Editors’ Choice Award

2019 BERJ Editor’s Choice Award
Joint winners:
- Neil Harrison & Richard Waller, for ,BERJ, 44(5), 914–938.
- George Koutsouris & Brahm Norwich, for ,BERJ, 44(6), 939–959.
2018鴳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. (open access)
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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.
Allen R and Allnutt J (2017) ‘The impact of Teach First on pupil attainment at age 16’, BERJ 43(4): 627–646.
2017鴳Editors’ Choice Award
Winner:
- Jones I, Wheadon C, Humphries S and Inglis M (2016) ‘Fifty Years of A-level mathematics’, 鴳42(4): 543–560.
Commended:
- Spratt J (2016) ‘Childhood wellbeing: what role for education?’,鴳42(2): 223–239.
- Ianelli C, Smyth E and Klein M (2016) ‘Curriculum differentiation and social inequality in higher education entry in Scotland and Ireland’,鴳42(4): 561–581.
- Pratt N (2016) ‘Neoliberalism and the (internal) marketisation of primary school assessment’,BERJ 42(5): 890–905.
- Symonds J, Schoon I and Salmela-Aro K (2016) ‘Developmental trajectories of emotional disengagement from schoolwork and their longtitudinal associations in England’,鴳42(6): 993–1022.
- 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.
- Hansen K (2016) ‘The relationship between teacher perceptions of pupil attractiveness and academic ability’,鴳42(3): 376–398.
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.
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’, 鴳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.