Becky Francis

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Becky Francis is affiliated with the following schools: University College London, University of Oxford, University of Roehampton, University of Greenwich, London Metropolitan University, UCL Institute of Education, King's College London

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According to Wikipedia, Rebecca Jane Francis, is a British educationalist and academic, who specialises in educational inequalities. Since January 2020, she has been Chief Executive of the Education Endowment Foundation . Before joining the EEF, she was Director of the UCL Institute of Education at University College London. She has also taught and researched at the University of Greenwich, London Metropolitan University, Roehampton University, and King's College London. She has also been Director of Education at the Royal Society of Arts and an advisor to the Education Select Committee of the House of Commons since 2015.

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Boys, Girls and Achievement: Addressing the Classroom Issues (2000) (347)
The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education (2006) (245)
Reassessing Gender and Achievement: Questioning Contemporary Key Debates (2005) (237)
Lads, Lasses and (New) Labour: 14-16-year-old students' responses to the 'laddish behaviour and boys' underachievement' debate (1999) (186)
The Gendered Subject: Students' subject preferences and discussions of gender and subject ability (2000) (179)
Understanding Minority Ethnic Achievement: Race, Gender, Class and 'Success' (2006) (179)
British—Chinese pupils' and parents' constructions of the value of education (2005) (168)
Reassessing gender and achievement (2005) (159)
Re/theorising gender: female masculinity and male femininity in the classroom? (2010) (150)
Is the Future Really Female? The Impact and Implications of Gender for 14-16 Year Olds' Career Choices (2002) (149)
Men Teachers and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity in the Classroom (2001) (144)
Heroes or zeroes? The discursive positioning of ‘underachieving boys’ in English neo‐liberal education policy (2006) (137)
Investigating Gender: Contemporary Perspectives in Education (2002) (127)
The simultaneous production of educational achievement and popularity: how do some pupils accomplish it? (2010) (126)
Exploring the relative lack of impact of research on ‘ability grouping’ in England: a discourse analytic account (2017) (124)
Challenging Classes? (2006) (121)
Modernist Reductionism or Post-structuralist Relativism: Can we move on? An Evaluation of the Arguments in Relation to Feminist Educational Research (1999) (113)
Teaching manfully? Exploring gendered subjectivities and power via analysis of men teachers’ gender performance (2008) (109)
Language as capital, or language as identity? Chinese complementary school pupils' perspectives on the purposes and benefits of complementary schools (2009) (108)
Does the gender of the teacher really matter? Seven‐ to eight‐year‐olds’ accounts of their interactions with their teachers (2007) (103)
‘They never go off the rails like other ethnic groups’: teachers’ constructions of British Chinese pupils’ gender identities and approaches to learning (2005) (96)
A perfect match? Pupils’ and teachers’ views of the impact of matching educators and learners by gender (2008) (94)
'Playing Safe': Undergraduate essay writing and the presentation of the student 'voice' (2001) (85)
Gender, ‘bias’, assessment and feedback: analyzing the written assessment of undergraduate history essays (2005) (81)
Gender ‘matters’ in the primary classroom: pupils' and teachers' perspectives (2009) (79)
An Analysis of Undergraduate Writing Styles in the Context of Gender and Achievement (2001) (74)
Relativism, Realism, and Feminism: An analysis of some theoretical tensions in research on gender identity (2002) (70)
The “Exceptional” Physics Girl (2017) (70)
The Construction of Physics as a Quintessentially Masculine Subject: Young People’s Perceptions of Gender Issues in Access to Physics (2016) (70)
Gender, toys and learning (2010) (68)
Power Plays: Primary School Children’s Constructions of Gender, Power and Adult Work (1998) (68)
Subject Choice and Occupational Aspirations among Pupils at Girls' Schools (2003) (67)
Schools as damaging organisations: instigating a dialogue concerning alternative models of schooling (2012) (66)
Nice and kind, smart and funny: what children like and want to emulate in their teachers (2008) (66)
The Role of the Boffin as Abject other in Gendered Performances of School Achievement (2009) (65)
“Brains before ‘beauty’?” High achieving girls, school and gender identities (2010) (64)
Unleashing Greatness? : Getting the best from an academised system : The report of the Academies Commission (2013) (63)
Gender monoglossia, gender heteroglossia: the potential of Bakhtin's work for re-conceptualising gender (2012) (62)
ThE social class gaP For EDucaTional achiEvEmEnT : a review of the literature (2010) (62)
Towards social justice in education: contradictions and dilemmas (2017) (62)
Attainment Grouping as self-fulfilling prophesy? A mixed methods exploration of self confidence and set level among Year 7 students (2017) (60)
The problem of gender categorisation: addressing dilemmas past and present in gender and education research (2015) (58)
Parents’ and teachers’ constructions of the purposes of Chinese complementary schooling: ‘culture’, identity and power (2010) (56)
Gender and Lifelong Learning (2006) (55)
Factors deterring schools from mixed attainment teaching practice (2017) (50)
University Lecturers' Perceptions of Gender and Undergraduate Writing (2003) (49)
Femininity, science, and the denigration of the girly girl (2017) (46)
Successful Boys and Literacy: Are “Literate Boys” Challenging or Repackaging Hegemonic Masculinity? (2011) (44)
Enrolled nurses and the professionalisation of nursing: a comparison of nurse education and skill-mix in Australia and the UK. (1999) (44)
Boffin and geek identities: abject or privileged? (2012) (44)
Engendering debate: how to formulate a political account of the divide between genetic bodies and discursive gender? (2008) (44)
Negotiating the Dichotomy of Boffin and Triad: British-Chinese Pupils' Constructions of ‘Laddism’ (2005) (41)
The Culture Project: diasporic negotiations of ethnicity, identity and culture among teachers, pupils and parents in Chinese language schools (2010) (40)
Feminism and 'The Schooling Scandal' (2009) (40)
The symbolic violence of setting: A Bourdieusian analysis of mixed methods data on secondary students’ views about setting (2018) (39)
Gender, popularity and notions of in/authenticity amongst 12‐year‐old to 13‐year‐old school girls (2011) (38)
‘Boring and stressful’ or ‘ideal’ learning spaces? Pupils’ constructions of teaching and learning in Chinese supplementary schools (2009) (35)
Boys and Girls in the Primary Classroom (2003) (35)
Power Plays: Children's constructions of gender and power in role plays (1997) (35)
An Investigation of the Discourses Children Draw on Their Constructions of Gender (1999) (33)
Breaking down the stereotypes: gender and achievement in schools (2007) (33)
The Identities and Practices of High Achieving Pupils: Negotiating Achievement and Peer Cultures (2012) (32)
Talking back to power: snowballs in hell and the imperative of insisting on structural explanations (2009) (32)
The submergence and re-emergence of gender in undergraduate accounts of university experience (2014) (32)
Chain Effects: The impact of academy chains on low income students (2014) (32)
Nurturing learning or encouraging dependency? Teacher constructions of students in lower attainment groups in English secondary schools (2019) (32)
Gender, student confidence and communicative styles at university: the views of lecturers in history and psychology (2004) (31)
British‐Chinese pupils’ constructions of gender and learning (2005) (31)
Constructions of racism by British Chinese pupils and parents (2005) (31)
Gendered identities and work placement: why don't boys care? (2006) (31)
Parent Power? Using money and information to boost children’s chances of educational success (2013) (30)
Learners’ attitudes to mixed-attainment grouping: examining the views of students of high, middle and low attainment (2019) (30)
Poststructuralism and nursing: uncomfortable bedfellows? (2000) (30)
Mapping politics and pedagogy: understanding the population and practices of Chinese complementary schools in England (2009) (28)
Commonality AND difference? Attempts to escape from theoretical dualisms in emancipatory research in education (2001) (27)
Rationalisation and Professionalisation: A Comparison of the Transfer of Registered Nurse Education to Higher Education in Australia and the UK. (1999) (27)
Teacher ‘quality’ and attainment grouping: The role of within-school teacher deployment in social and educational inequality (2019) (26)
‘The self-made self’: analysing the potential contribution to the field of gender and education of theories that disembed selfhood (2008) (26)
Oppositional positions: children's construction of gender in talk and role plays based on adult occupation (1998) (25)
Why is it difficult for schools to establish equitable practices in allocating students to attainment ‘sets’? (2019) (25)
Not/Knowing their place: Girls’ classroom behaviour (2005) (24)
Doctor/Nurse, Teacher/Caretaker: Children's Gendered Choice of Adult Occupation in Interviews and Role Plays (1996) (24)
The misallocation of students to academic sets in maths: A study of secondary schools in England (2019) (22)
Gender equality in work experience placements for young people (2005) (22)
Writes of Passage: Stylistic features of male and female undergraduate history essays (2002) (22)
The impact of tracking by attainment on pupil self-confidence over time: demonstrating the accumulative impact of self-fulfilling prophecy (2020) (21)
Discussing Discrimination: children's construction of sexism between pupils in primary school (1997) (20)
The Nature of Gender (2006) (20)
Professional education as a structural barrier to lifelong learning in the NHS (2000) (20)
ITT Core Content Framework (2019) (20)
Chain Effects 2015: The Impact of Academy Chains on Low-Income Students. (2015) (20)
Impacting policy discourse? An analysis of discourses and rhetorical devices deployed in the case of the Academies Commission (2015) (19)
The ‘Renaissance Child’: high achievement and gender in late modernity (2012) (18)
What would a socially just education system look like? (2012) (18)
Reassessing ‘Ability’ Grouping (2019) (18)
Increasing Impact? An analysis of issues raised by the impact agenda in educational research (2011) (18)
Risk, Choice and Social Disadvantage: Young People's Decision-Making in a Marketised Higher Education System (2015) (17)
The construction of British Chinese educational success: exploring the shifting discourses in educational debate, and their effects (2017) (17)
( UN ) SATISFACTORY ? ENHANCING LIFE CHANCES BY IMPROVING ‘ SATISFACTORY ’ SCHOOLS (2011) (16)
Understanding Minority Ethnic Achievement: race, class, gender and 'success' (2006) (13)
A feminist critique of education : 15 years of gender education (2011) (13)
Stratifying science: a Bourdieusian analysis of student views and experiences of school selective practices in relation to ‘Triple Science’ at KS4 in England (2017) (12)
Gender policies in Australia and the United Kingdom: The construction of "new" boys and girls (2009) (12)
‘You can never get too much education’: the discourses used by secondary school students in their discussion of post-compulsory (1999) (11)
The state of medical education research: what can we learn from the outcomes of the UK Research Excellence Framework? (2015) (10)
Re-viewing undergraduate writing: tutors' perceptions of essay qualities according to gender (2004) (10)
The commissioning of nurse education by consortia in England: a quasi-market analysis. (1998) (10)
Regulating non-nursing healthcare workers. (1998) (9)
Gendered Patterns in Writing and Degree Award (2019) (9)
Personal and political: feminisms, sociology and family lives (2004) (9)
Devolution or centralization? Differences in the development of nurse education commissioning policy among the UK nations. (1998) (9)
Commissioning nurse education. (1998) (8)
'Who am I to question all these established writers?' Gender and confidence in student essay writing (2002) (8)
Science in girls' schools: Factors that contribute to girls' engagement and attainment (2004) (6)
Feminist Critique of Education : Fifteen Years of Gender Development (2005) (6)
Examining assessment in higher education: assessment as a socially situated practice (2005) (5)
Combined education for nurses and doctors. (1999) (5)
A Feminist Critique of Education: 15 years of gender development (2005) (5)
A Feminist Critique of Education (2005) (5)
Nursing the statistics: a demonstration study of nurse turnover and retention. (1989) (5)
Students’ university aspirations and attainment grouping in secondary schools (2019) (5)
ThE social class gaP For EDuca Tional achiEvEmEnT (2010) (4)
Introduction to special issue on teacher identities (2008) (4)
University lecturers’ constructions of undergraduate writing : a gender analysis (2003) (4)
Gender and Achievement in the UK and Hong Kong (2012) (3)
Speaking of identity?: British-Chinese young people’s perspectives on language and ethnic identity (2014) (3)
Health Educational Research (2015) (1)
Girls on top? Girls, career aspiration, and achievement at school (2000) (1)
The Effects of Grouping Students by Academic Attainment on Educational Outcomes in Secondary Schools (Title Registration) (2017) (1)
Reasons for not/choosing chemistry: Why advanced level chemistry students in England do/not pursue chemistry undergraduate degrees (2022) (1)
Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities (2014) (1)
‘Ability grouping’ – what is it, and why do we do it? (2019) (0)
Doing mixed attainment grouping well (2019) (0)
The construction of gender and achievement in education policy (2005) (0)
Perspectives on gender and achievement (2005) (0)
Thanks to our reviewers (2011) (0)
The impact of attainment grouping on pupil outcomes (2019) (0)
Making an Impact (2013) (0)
An Examination of Three Theories of Sex Role Development in a Sample of Adoptive Parents. (1976) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Why is good practice in setting so difficult to achieve? (2019) (0)
List of reviewers (2014) (0)
Children's Talk in Interviews about Gender Discrimination in Adult Occupation (1996) (0)
‘Race’ and achievement: The policy context (2006) (0)
Students’ university aspirations and attainment grouping in secondary schools (2019) (0)
Re-theorising gender: Bakhtin's notions of monoglossia and heteroglossia as applied to gender productions in classroom environments (2010) (0)
Pupils’ experiences of different grouping practices (2019) (0)
Explaining gender differences in achievement (2005) (0)
DISCOURSE THANKS REVIEWERS, 2009–2011 (2011) (0)
Chapter 10. Speaking of identity? (2014) (0)
The achievement gap: The impact of between‐class attainment grouping on pupil attainment and educational equity over time (2022) (0)
The Construction of Physics as a Quintessentially Masculine Subject: Young People’s Perceptions of Gender Issues in Access to Physics (2016) (0)
Regulating non-nursing healthcare workers. (1998) (0)
The future for boys and girls?: (Re)constructions of gender and achievement (2005) (0)
What has happened to the girls (2005) (0)
The impact of attainment grouping on pedagogy and practice (2019) (0)
List of Reviewers (2015) (0)
The Best Practice in Grouping Students study (2019) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Sex Role Ideology and Socialization Experiences as They Relate to the Motivation for Parenthood. (1976) (0)
Gendered Classroom Culture (2002) (0)
Perspectives on gender and achievement Ideological perspectives: the durability of the nature versus (2005) (0)
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM (2008) (0)
Raising achievement: what ‘works in the classroom’? (2005) (0)
Reflections (2019) (0)
Commissioning nurse education. (1998) (0)
Recommendations (2019) (0)
Evaluating ‘boys’ underachievement’ (2005) (0)

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