Kerry Jane Fox

TL;DR: This study investigates whether self-affirmation writing exercises can help close the SES attainment gap in England by increasing the academic performance of low-SES (but not higher-S ES) school students and compares favourably with those of other interventions targeting the S ES academic attainment gap.

TL;DR: The Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Teaching (FORRT) community presents a crowdsourced glossary of open scholarship terms to facilitate education and effective communication between experts and newcomers as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: Self-affirmation can promote behavior change following exposure to health information, even when presented in narrative form, and boosts message acceptance by increasing narrative engagement.

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether identity compatibility contributes to the socioeconomic attainment gap, and whether the association between socioeconomic status and identity compatibility is moderated by school context, finding that students who are eligible for reduced or free school meals (FSM) have lower academic attainment than their peers.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe an independently evaluated randomised controlled trial of a self-affirmation intervention, replicating earlier studies, mostly conducted in the US with ethnic minority students.