Learning lives: learning, identity and agency in the life course
This is one of the themes currently being explored within the larger ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP).
Improving the Effectiveness of Pupil Groups in Classrooms
This website is the gateway to a range of presentations which all relate to an ESRC funded Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) project.
Pupil Voice
This is a programme screened on Teachers TV as part of the "School Matters" series. It clearly shows how a student voice in a secondary school can be generated to enable them to be involved in helping to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
Towards Evidence-Based Practice in Science Education: (2000-03)
This ESRC-funded Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) project consists of research briefings and a research summary to report the work done by the Evidence-Based Practice in Science Education (EPSE) Research Network.
Literature Review in Languages, Technology and Learning
The report, published in 2002, provides a critical review of issues relating to technology in foreign language learning and teaching. It maps the relation of several learning theories to current practice and considers implications for policy, curriculum and materials design.
The effects of co-operative learning on junior high school students during small group learning
This is a DfES (TRIPS) digest of an article about an Australian study of fourteen year old students working in groups on problem-solving activities in mathematics. Students worked in either structured groups where they were taught how to communicate and co-operate or unstructured groups without such instruction. It suggests that the benefits of teaching such skills apply to both learning and the development of social skills.
Untangling dimensions of middle school students’ beliefs about scientific knowledge and science le
This is a DfES TRIPS digest of a study, carried out in the United States, focussed on finding out whether students’ beliefs about science influence their learning in the subject. The digest is included on the theme of science within the Research Informed Practice Site on the DfES Standards Site.
5 – 14 Mathematics in Scotland: The relevance of intensive quantities
This resource is an ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) report on research into children’s understanding of intensive quantities. Intensive quantities, such as speed or density which are often expressed as fractions or ratios, are not a requirement of the Primary National Curriculum. The research aimed to establish whether it is necessary to teach intensive quantities to primary aged children in order to enhance their understanding of quantity.
Primary Management - Implementing Personalised Learning: Teaching And Learning
This is a 15-minute Teachers TV programme on personalised learning: one of a four part series. It specifically looks at teaching and learning strategies that support personalised learning in the primary school.
Interplay: Play, learning and ICT in pre-school education
This resource is a website relating to a project that is part of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP). It is a major Government Funded research programme incorporating a number of different research projects. This particular project is part of Phase II of the larger ‘InterActive Education: Teaching and Learning in the Information Age’ project. The focus of this study is to look at the educational values of the encounters of very young children with ICT. The project has been ru
Supporting E-learning Communities in ITT Series : Exeter.
As part of its response to the TDA's e-learning communities project, Exeter University has engaged with digital video as a way of capturing practice for modelling through a virtual learning environment (VLE).
Supporting E-learning Communities in ITT Series - Southampton
This report describes some of the difficulties associated with the implementation of an ambitious e-learning plan.
Supporting E-learning Communities in ITT Series - Bristol
This project allocated funds to tutors on the PGCE course at Bristol University to facilitate the building of materials to be deployed through a virtual learning environment (VLE).
Supporting E-learning Communities in ITT Series - Gloucestershire
The report describes how the partnership deployed the virtual learning environment (VLE) WebCT to support teacher education.
How do secondary school teachers choose within-class student grouping strategies?
The resource is a digest of a journal article originally entitled ‘Teachers’ understandings of the relationship between within-class (pupil) grouping and learning in secondary schools’, published in Educational Research, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2005 pp.1-24.
Information and communication technology in primary schools. The Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chie
A survey of recent trends and developments in the use of ICT in primary schools, both in terms of teaching and learning of ICT itself, and of the use of ICT in subject teaching, as reported by Ofsted in inspections of schools and colleges between 2003-5.
Raising the achievement of bilingual learners in primary schools: Evaluation of the pilot programme
This 80-page evaluation provides a clear picture of how support for pupils learning EAL currently takes place in many schools, along with useful examples of learning and teaching strategies adopted in pilot school classrooms.
Models of research impact: a cross-sector review of literature and practice
This national study forms part of the series, Building Effective Research, edited by Andrew Murray and published by the Learning and Skills Research Centre (LSRC). This was commissioned as part of its strategy to enhance the impact of research within the post-16 (or learning and skills) sector, and was conducted by the LSRC plus a consortium of three universities: Leeds Metropolitan, St Andrew’s and Queen Mary’s, London.
Should we be using learning styles? What research has to say to practice
Learning style instruments are widely used, particularly in Further Education, but are they reliable and valid? Do they have an impact on pedagogy? This research review from the Learning and Skills Reasearch Centre examines 13 models of learning style and concludes that it matters fundamentally which model is chosen. Positive recommendations are made for students, teachers and trainers, managers, researchers and inspectors.
Individual education plans Visual impairment
Individual education plans Visual impairment Please could you tell me where I could find more detailed research on IEP plans and how they help maximise learning? I have undertaken an investigation on a visually impaired year 9 pupil. the IEP Plan is great in theory but the pupil I am following does not accept the disability and wants independence so will not use any added help. I have noticed her peers are essential in her learning, more so than the plan itself. Please could you tell me whereÂ
