We publish research across the whole spectrum of education. You can discover research relevant to your particular area below:
As practitionerss working with children you may be interested in Deb McGregor's work into use of drama in science, as well as her work in reflective approaches in primary science. On the technological side, our work on introducing netbooks into schools and project on the introduction of ICT for the TDA are two handy resources.
Reflective practice and action research are very popular areas and have tremendous potential for improving how you work. Deb McGregor's book on developing reflective practice for teachers is a very useful resource, as are our action research materials to support school and teacher networks arising from research for QCDA on building an evidence base for the curriculum.
Rob Smith has done great research into professional learning communities and communities of practice, whilst Julie Hughes is creating poignant resources and examples of blended learning and e-portfolio. Work by Chris Hockings and Glynis Cousin on the development of more inclusive approaches to higher education based on research into effective practices and the achievement of BME students may also be of interest.
As teacher educators and organisers of training oportunities you may be interested in Karl Royle's frameworks and materials to support the design of impact evaluations in initial teacher education based on research for Becta and the TDA.
Our ICT in ITE work prompted changes to project evaluation systems by the TDA based. You can access the full resources from this project at the CeDARE Reports website. Michael Jopling's work with Professor Mark Hadfield on leadership and networks has resulted in many publications. View them along with mre of our research in this area in our Collaborative Leadership and Learning Research Strand.
You may be interested in our analysis of the pedagogical quality of the LearnDirect learning model for England and also the evaluation of postgraduate professional development quality assurance strand undertaken with CUREE for the TDA.
As local government and policy influencers you may be interested in the following research. Our Longitudinal Study of valuation of Early Years Professional Status for the Department for Education is based on two national surveys into the experiences of EYPs funded by CWDC. This research has impacted on government policy and a set of multimedia case studies have been produced.
Our recent research into the quality of teaching and learning within post-1994 universities by Jas Dhillon underpinned the report and campaign commissioned Million+ around government policy in HE entitled Teaching That Matters.
The QCDA submission to the Rose review of the curriculum was informed by research into the curriculum evidence base (Jopling & Hadfield). Neil Duncan's research into girls bullying has formed the basis of changes to local authorities policy and training around how to deal with bullying in schools.
