Background: A raft of initiatives and reforms have been introduced in many countries to
attract and recruit school teachers, many of which do not have a clear evidence base, so …

Using real effort to implement costly activities increases the likelihood that the motivations
that drive effort provision in real life carry over to the laboratory. However, unobserved …

In this note, we present a novel computerized real effort task based on moving sliders across
a screen which overcomes many of the drawbacks of existing real effort tasks. The task was …

This paper presents the results of a large-scale survey of undergraduates in England,
concerning their envisaged career choices and how they made them. This gives a more …

Understanding people's perceptions of teaching as an occupation, and their motivation or
otherwise to teach, can help identify which initiatives/policies are most promising in …

ABSTRACT Primary teaching Initial Teacher Training courses across the UK have been
under pressure from central government, Ofsted and the media to recruit more male students …

As the gold standard for programme evaluation, experimentation is gaining increasing
attention from education researchers and policy-makers. In this article I discuss how …

Substantial productivity increases have been reported when incentives are framed as losses
rather than gains. Loss-framed contracts have also been reported to be preferred by …

Recurrent teacher shortages have been a long-standing problem for many countries.
Popular strategies to attract and retain teachers, used over several decades across the …

Scholars across the globe agree that instructional leadership plays second fiddle only to
teaching in improving students' achievement. Extant literature heralds the instructional …