NEW PROTOCOL KLAXON ‘Definitions and interpretation of service-learning as evidenced in programmes in International Baccalaureate settings in Asia: protocol for a systematic review’ idesr.org/article/IDESR0…

NEW PROTOCOL KLAXON ‘The impact of asynchronous accelerated online-only courses on post-graduate student learning performance and satisfaction: A mixed methods systematic review protocol’ idesr.org/article/IDESR0…

NEW PROTOCOL KLAXON ‘Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: A protocol for a systematic review.’ idesr.org/article/IDESR0…

NEWS: IDESR is now accepting registrations for protocols for systematic reviews in all fields of education. IDESR.org

Who is publishing systematic review in language education? We’ve been playing around with visualising the contents of IDESR. This word cloud shows where SRs in language education have been published. The bigger the text, the more reviews that journal has published.

I will be giving a keynote tomorrow afternoon at the online BAAL synthesis SIG, on what we have learned from analysing the contents of IDESR.org Registration closes tonight at midnight. researchsynthesis.weebly.com/events.html

We'll never forget, thanks Liz x

Slides for my presentation at the BAAL synthesis SIG available here: dropbox.com/s/1pdp36vwwjm6…

Last Friday’s BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics synthesis SIG meeting, with contributions from SIG convener Sin-Wang Chong, IDESR’s Hamish Chalmers and Northern Arizona U’s Luke Plonksy is available to view here researchsynthesis.weebly.com/events.html

This was great, if anyone is interested in meta research and research synthesis in education or #appliedlinguistics

At a seminar at Department of Education, University of Oxford learning about ASReview, machine learning for title and abstract screening. Game changer asreview.nl

COI: I am a co-author on this paper. Nonetheless, it is an excellent illustration of why we must consider study quality when trying to conclude anything about what a body of literature tells us. 1/5

The first article of a special issue of Applied Linguistics Review (on evidence synthesis in applied linguistics) guest edited by Sin-Wang Chong, Dr Mel Bond MCCT and me is out. More to come.

‘Topics, publication patterns, and reporting quality in systematic reviews in language education. Lessons from the international database of education systematic reviews (IDESR).’ doi.org/10.1515/applir… by Hamish Chalmers (@hwc001.bsky.social) Jess Pilgrim-Brown and Anastasia Koryakina of @EPPIReviewer

1/ In this paper we report an audit of systematic reviews in language education over 4 decades. As well as describing the topics covered and publication patterns, we looked at reporting and (by implication) methodological quality of this body of research. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Our #SpecialIssue on #ResearchSynthesis in Language Education is slowly coming together. Here’s our editorial (with Sin-Wang Chong & Hamish Chalmers (@hwc001.bsky.social)), which discusses developments in #EvidenceSynthesis methods. degruyter.com/document/doi/1… It will be #OpenAccess soon! #AppliedLinguistics

I'm very excited to announce the first #CallForPapers for the new #OpenAccess Nordic Journal of #SystematicReviews in Education, as part of the Editorial Board. No APC, accepting English, Norwegian, Danish or Swedish articles. ℹ️ uis.no/nb/fakultet-fo… #EvidenceSynthesis #CfP

MUST READ Synthesis methods other than meta-analysis were commonly used but seldom specified: survey of systematic reviews doi.org/10.1016/j.jcli… by @mirandacumpston Sue Brennan Rebecca Ryan & Jo McKenzie #SystematicReviews #SynthesisMethods #MetaAnalysis

We’re looking for a user-friendly guide to writing a systematic review protocol that we can point users of IDESR too. PRISMA-P based, ideally. Please let us know if you know of one.

We’ve just uploaded a big update to the records of published systematic reviews on IDESR.org. The site now has bibliographic information for 567 systematic reviews in Language Education. Nearly double the previous iteration. If we’ve missed any, please let us know.