Aim: To increase the record of achievement among Year 7 and Year 12 pupils in a girls comprehensive school through regular mentoring interviews between pupils and teachers.
Aim: To find out what 8-9 year old children understand about writing and the writing process in order to:
Improve standards in the teaching and learning of writing;
Inform assessment procedures in writing; and
Engage all children as enthusiastic writers.
Aim: To discover what makes formative marking an effective learning tool, by investigating the patterns of teachers' feedback and children's perceptions of that feedback.
Aim: The aims of the project were to improve our whole school lesson planning, classroom delivery and pupils activities, personalise learning with pupils developing their skills of self-evaluation and self-monitoring and focus on developing their problem-solving and thinking skills.
Aim: To identify ways in which teachers can enhance student learning through homework, by examining homework, perceptions of it in Year 7, and support systems both in school and at home.
Aim: We believed that students were over-reliant on teachers in meeting the AS Chemistry syllabus requirements and that this restricted the range of learning styles and methodologies that students used.
Aim: The main aim of the project was to explore how to establish practitioner research as an effective and sustainable form of continuing professional development both for participating researchers and, through their research work, for colleagues within the schools and network.
Aim: To investigate the link between language and competence in algebra, highlight the problems experienced by pupils when learning algebra, and suggest some strategies for teachers.