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Using data to ensure gifted and talented students achieve their full potential in Design and Technology

Aim: The research set out to look into the provision for Gifted and Talented pupils within Design and Technology at Key Stage 3 in a Hartlepool school, which was currently using a standardised ability test known as Middle Years Information System (MidYIS). Two questions were considered: Are test results from MidYIS a reliable indicator for technology GAT pupils? and Does a more creative delivery encourage GAT pupils to produce higher-level ideas and to be more satisfied with their projects?"

Two different approaches to teaching within PE

Aim: To compare the effectiveness of two approaches to teaching games in physical education: the skills approach and the Games for Understanding approach.

From Prague to Nottingham: Building on Best Practice Internationally

Aim: To adopt and adapt the best practice in mathematics teaching from the Czech Republic within classrooms in the City of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Education Authorities.

Effectively Teaching Infants Mental Arithmetic

Aim: To examine the problems children encounter in arithmetic and to decide whether a programme of activities using visual images developed by Catherine Stern in the 1940s could be used by teachers to improve pupils' mental arithmetic.