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4 November 2025: Balancing Global Standards and Cultural Relevance: Methodological Lessons from Researching Preschool Children’s Development in Pakistan

Speaker: Dr Anushay Mazhar (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

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14 October 2025: Intraindividual educational research 

Speaker: Professor Lars-Erik Malmberg (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

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28 February 2025: A brief history of scenario-based assessment and other innovations stemming from the Reading for Understanding Initiative: From elementary to secondary applications and beyond
Speaker: Dr John Sabatini (Department of Psychology, the Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, USA)
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18 February 2025: Trusting trusted evidence: Exploring the impact of flooring effects on large-scale assessments of learning
Speaker: Dr Heather Kayton (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
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11 February 2025: Can Generative AI improve social science?
Speaker: Professor Christopher Bail (Department of Sociology, Department of Political Science, Department of Public Policy, Duke University, USA)
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