An example of good practitioner research
PREP is best illustrated with an example of good research into how to strengthen English and Maths learning within vocational programmes from Shipley College. Shipley College colleagues have lots to be proud of. Their work:
- is a carefully constructed enquiry with a control group
- pays attention to the detailed process of moving practice forwards
- focusses on capturing and communicating enough evidence about the practicalities for others to be able to build on it
- offers clear thinking about what people not involved might want to know about the underpinning rationale so they can adapt what has been learned for their context. (See, for example the table in the power point summary which describes high level activities, what was actually involved and other options that might have been pursued)
If you already knew about this work, you could search for it directly (by name or title) - but you probably don’t. The Portal helps you find it by major and minor category and by browsing a short list of resources with a useful summary (*) of the contents of each. In this case the category is Teaching and Learning >> Curriculum-Design and Development. These look like this
And the list and summary pages look like this:
