Research

Outstanding Teaching Training Intervention Evaluation

CUREE was pleased to support Osiris develop an approach to evaluating its Outstanding Teachers Intervention (OTI). The tools created for this project will help Osiris collect ‘hard’ data, such as student progress and observation outcomes, to evaluate the impact of teacher participation in the Intervention. In addition, CUREE produced activities to capture soft outcomes, which we know are important elements of effective CPD. These included participants engagement in collaborative professional learning, use of evidence, and developing a growth mindset.

Using evidence to promote staff and student learning

Philippa Cordingley, Rebecca Raybould and Karen Manuel presented Using the evidence to promote staff and student learning workshop at Birmingham Metropolitan College on 13th March 2013. This workshop explored how schools and colleges can improve outcomes, and develop practice and teacher enquiry through the use of accessible research and evidence. You can see the presentation here

 

Understanding What Enables High Quality Professional Learning

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This report draws on a range of published research and other evidence to address the question “what are the characteristics of high quality professional learning for practitioners in education?”  Our main interest is in the features of professional learning, for teachers and their leaders, which lead to benefits for their pupils and students but we also looked at the quality of the experiences for the teachers and leaders themselves. In addition, we examined the literature for evidence about the relative merits of professional learning delivered by direct, face-to-face methods in comparison to distance/online learning approaches

Wroxham Primary School QCDA

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Click on the link above to read this short report, which was written following a half day visit to Wroxham Primary School in Potter’s Bar, Hertfordshire.

 

The visit was completed as part of a curriculum research probe commissioned by QCDA in year 3 of the Building the Evidence Base for a C21st Curriculum project. Wroxham is a Creative Partnerships School of Creativity and the headteacher has been an active member of the Curriculum Evidence Advisory Panel (CEAP), an influential group that coordinates evidence gathering processes and identifies areas for partnership working. The visit was intended to answer the question: In schools that are successfully developing the curriculum, how are the changes required by curriculum innovation being managed by school leaders?  During the visit, interviews were held with the headteacher and the deputy headteacher and a year 3 teacher who is also the lead for science. 

 

 

FILMCLUB Cymru

CUREE are working with FILMCLUB Cymru to evaluate their schools programme in Wales. FILMCLUB provides a motivating context in which children and young people develop collaborative, oracy and literacy skills, among others. Our work through survey and schools visits assessed FILMCLUB Cymru's progress against its 14 aims including:

  • supporting young people to develop literacy skills