The National Teacher Research Panel was set up about 15 years ago by CUREE supported by a group of national education agencies most of which no longer exist. It had three main goals:
- To ensure that all research in education takes account of the teacher perspective
- To ensure a higher profile for research and evidence informed practice in government, academic and practitioner communities
- To increase the number of teachers engaged in and with the full spectrum of research activity.
Over the several years of its existence, the Panel, supported by its expert advisers in CUREE, has helped and encouraged dozens of teachers and school leaders to do high quality but practical research. The Panel also helped them report their findings succinctly, in plain English and focused on relevance to other practitioners. This is one such example of that work.
For this TLA research summary we selected, appraised and summarised a research and development study which has given teachers real insights into raising standards through teaching thinking skills. The study summarised here is widely known as 'CASE' (Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education).The questions have been devised to bring out those aspects of the study we think are most useful to teachers. We have also included examples from other studies to illustrate the key characteristics of this work.
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