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Ian Schagen explains that there is a place for quite sophisticated analysis to obtain a truer understanding of data by school and LEA staff. He takes the reader through a worked example on year 5 pupils’ reading skills and shows how simple exploratory data analysis helps us to gain a fuller understanding of the reality behind the data, and that more complex models may result in overturning earlier ‘truths’ to arrive at a fit enabling insights that can be transferred to the real world. |
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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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