How mentoring can raise standards of achievement
Aim: To increase the level of achievement among Year 7 and Year 12 pupils in a girls comprehensive school through regular mentoring interviews between pupils and teachers.
The Evidence People
Secondary
Developing Individual Education Plan Targets within Whole School Assessment Procedures
Aim: To investigate the nature of the demands arising from the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators' (SENCO) involvement in setting, communicating and reviewing Individual Education Plan (IEP) targets in a High School, and to consider possible ways in which effective target setting for students with IEPs in a High School can help to maximise achievement through becoming an integral part of school assessment procedures.
Communication between Students and their Teachers about Learning
Aim: The aim of this study was to identify and explore actions teachers can take to improve communication with students about their learning.
The teaching of reading in Years 6 & 7
Aim: To describe and evaluate methods used in the teaching of reading in a primary Year 6 Literacy Hour
and a secondary Year 7 English lesson.
Effective questioning: stepping-stones to meta-cognition?'
Aim: There were two main, linked, aims of this project. The primary aim was to investigate the role of effective questioning by the teacher in a History class. The second aim explored the usefulness of this meta-cognitive strategy in enhancing higher-order thinking skills in the classroom. These are the skills that characterise higher achievement at Key Stages 3 and 4 (11-16 years of age).
The use of ICT in Music Composing
Aim: To raise awareness of the potential of ICT in music composition by investigating strategies teachers can use to raise pupil performance.
Making the strange familiar: emphasising the role of mathematics across the curriculum
Aim: By working collaboratively with other departments and concentrating on the language and processes used in the teaching and learning process, the Knowledge Network aims to enable learners to better apply their mathematics to unfamiliar situations.
Learning-centred leadership project: A study of middle leadership in 21 secondary schools
Aim: The main aims of the project were:
To investigate the nature of effective learning-centred leadership and its contribution to the creation of teaching and learning schools;
To analyse and describe the practice of learning-centred leadership and its influence upon aspects of the professional practice of others;
To explore school leaders understandings of instructional and interpersonal learning-centred leadership;
To examine the processes involved in creating learning and teaching schools in which such leadership can be developed, supported and sustained;
To investigate and learn from the
Habitats for teacher research
Aim: The report of the survey of practitioner use of research carried out in England in 2011 by the NTRP.
Students As Researchers: How does being a student researcher affect learning?
Aim: From 1996 the school had tried to establish a Students as Researchers (SaRs) initiative to enable students to investigate, analyse and present student perspectives on aspects of school life and learning. This study records the attempts to evaluate the impact of participating in such research projects on the students learning. The aim of the research was to evaluate the impact of participating in such research projects on the students themselves in terms of:
Their attitude to the SaRs initiative;
Their social skills; and
Their academic skills.