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In the age of word processing, does handwriting really matter that much? Research by teachers at one secondary school suggests it does. Pupils who were quicker writers, for example, were likely to be better readers and spellers. Another intriguing finding from their survey of 1,273 writing scripts from pupils in Years 7 to 11 was the lingering problem of illegibility. Rather than decreasing, this problem grew among the older age groups. The school identified the need for a handwriting policy to cover this skill that is often thought to be an issue only for the primary phase. |
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| pre conference resources |
 Video clips and presentation slides from our previous pre conferences, are now available online.
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CERUKplus is the only free database of current education and children’s service research projects in the UK. CERUKplus would like to include practitioner research undertaken as part of masters degree courses or levels 3 + 4 of the Teacher Learning Academy in 2010, and would like to hear from practitioners interested in doing so. We are committed to supporting teachers and lecturers in their research work and building connections between communities of practice. |
| research engaged schools |
 The contribution of research to school improvement has been a matter of considerable debate. It is widely argued that educational practice should be more evidence based, but it is acknowledged that this is not easy to achieve. |
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