Dr Louise Gascoine, MA (honours), PGCert, PGCE, MEd, PhD

(email at louise.gascoine@durham.ac.uk)

Affiliate of the Durham University Evidence Centre for Education

Biography

Louise has a mixed method research background and her interests focus on metacognition, pupil views of learning and wellbeing in education. She is also interested in systematic reviewing and the evaluation of educational interventions, in particular the process and implementation of interventions and the importance of participant voice within this. Louise is currently Principal Investigator on an EEF funded evaluation of ReflectED being jointly conducted by the University of York and Durham University. Louise teaches on the BA Education Studies and on the MA in Education, on the MA she convenes a practitioner enquiry based module (Education Enquiry). 

Louise is a Geographer originally, completing her undergraduate studies at the University of St Andrews. After working as a Teaching Assistant and completing a Certificate in Psychology, she trained to teach secondary Geography at Newcastle University (QTS, 2008). She completed her M.Ed in Practitioner Enquiry (part-time), whilst teaching in a wide variety of school settings in North East England. Louise was awarded a Durham Doctoral Studentship for PhD study in the School of Education (completed 2016), her PhD focussed on developmental trends in metacognitive awareness using Pupil Views Templates (PVTs) and included a systematic review of methods used to measure or assess metacognition.

Indicators of Esteem

• Peer reviewing :

  Journals: Review of Education, British Educational Research Journal, Systematic Reviews, Impact (Chartered College of Teaching)

  EEF: Systematic Reviews and Rapid Evidence Assessments

• Professional memberships: British Educational Research Association (BERA)
• Scholarship: Durham Doctoral Studentship for PhD study in the School of Education, Durham University (2011 - 2014)

Research Interests

• Implementation and process evaluation in educational interventions
• Metacognition
• Voice in learning
• Wellbeing

Research Groups

• Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness
• Durham University Evidence Centre for Education (DECE)

Research Projects

• A systematic review of the international literature on effective professional development interventions for groups of welfare professionals
• Development of the Teaching and Learning Toolkit , the EEF Database and NPD Analysis and Data Archive 2018-2021
• Evaluation of ABRA
• Evaluation of ReflectED

Publications

Journal Article

• Younger, K., Gascoine, L., Menzies, V. & Torgerson, C. (2019). A systematic review of evidence on the effectiveness of interventions and strategies for widening participation in higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education 43(6): 742-773.
• Filges, T., Torgerson, C., Gascoine, L. & Dietrichson, J (2019). Effectiveness of continuing professional development training of welfare professionals on outcomes for children and young people: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews 15(4): e1060.
• Torgerson, Carole, Brooks, Greg, Gascoine, Louise & Higgins, Steve (2019). Phonics: reading policy and the evidence of effectiveness from a systematic ‘tertiary’ review. Research Papers in Education 34(2): 208-238.
• Gascoine, L., Higgins, S. & Wall, K. (2017). The Assessment of Metacognition in Children Aged 4–16 years: A Systematic Review. Review of Education 5(1): 3-57.
• Gascoine, L. (2010). Case Study: Pupil Perceptions of PLTS. Learning and Teaching Update 36: 9-10.

Chapter in book

• Wall,K., Higgins,s., Hall,E. & Gascoine, L. (2018). What does learning look like? A mixed methods approach to the analysis of cartoon story boards to investigate student perceptions of learning something new. In Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. Emme,M. & Kiova,A The Canadian Society for Education through Art. 211-228.

Book review

• Mitchell, C. (2012). Doing Visual Research. International Journal of Research & Method in Education 35: 326-328.

Conference Paper

• Gascoine, L., Higgins, S. & Wall, K. (2014), A systematic review of methods to assess metacognition in school‐aged children. Paper presented at symposium entitled Metacognition, executive functioning and self‐regulation: measurement tools from infancy to adolescence, 6th biennial meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group 16 – Metacognition. Istanbul.

Report

• Elliott, L., Gascoine, L., Fairhurst, C., Mithcell, A., Fountain, I., Bell, K. & Torgerson, D. (2019). Sci-napse: Uncertain rewards Evaluation Report. Education Endowment Foundation/Universityof York.
• Torgerson, C.J., Torgerson, D.J., Ainsworth, H., Hewitt, C.E., Kasim, A., Kokotsaki, D., Bell, K., Elliott, L. & Gascoine, L. (2018). Calderdale Excellence Partnership: IPEELL. Evaluation and Executive Summary. School of Education. Education Endowment Foundation (EEF).
• Robinson-Smith,L., Fairhurst,C., Stone,G., Bell,K., Elliott, L., Gascoine,L., Hallett,S., Hewitt,C., Hugill,J., Torgerson,C., Torgerson,D., Menzies,V. & Ainsworth,H. (2018). Maths Champions: Evaluation Report and Executive Summary. Education Endowment Foundation.
• Torgerson, C., Bell, K., Coleman, E., Elliott, L., Fairhurst, C., Gascoine, L., Hewitt, C. & Torgerson, D. (2018). Tutor Trust: Affordable primary tuition. Evaluation report and executive summary. School of Education. Education Endowment Foundation.
• Torgerson, C., Nielsen, C., Gascoine, L., Filges, T., Moore, I., Nielsen, B. & Jørgensen, F. (2017). A systematic review of the effective continuing professional development training of welfare professionals. København, VIVE The Danish Centre for Social Science Research.
• Torgerson, C., Gascoine, L., Heaps, C., Menzies, V. & Younger, Kirsty (2014). Higher Education access: Evidence of effectiveness of university access strategies and approaches. Sutton Trust.