Practical Research for Education website index
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD): clues and strategies for coping at school

Adolescents as active readers: improving attainment and motivation with classic poetry

A school–home liaison project: supporting and involving parents; reducing truancy and exclusion

A survey of the use of assessment information to support teaching and learning

Admission and exclusion policies: how are students with SEN affected?

Assessment 5–14: what do pupils and parents think?

Aren’t we all researchers already?

An NQT speaks out about her experience of research

A burning issue: what is the impact of school fires?

Assessment for Learning in science

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Boys’ underachievement is a problem, but it is not their fault! Current perceptions and practical strategies

Beacon Schools: what have they to offer? Findings from the evaluation of pilot Beacon Schools

Boys and literacy: exploring the issues

Baseline assessment – developments in Scotland

Boring botany? Rethinking teaching about plants in schools

Becoming a research engaged school

Behaviour in Scottish schools

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Citizenship education: some lessons from other countries

Curiosity Kits: the impact of non-fiction book bags on boys’ reading at home

Classroom practice: new approaches supported by ICT

Calculating mentally: Is there a best way?

Classroom organisation in primary mathematics teaching: The challenges of diversity

Confessions of a research addict

Cognitive ability and school improvement

Comments on ‘Cognitive ability and school improvement’

Citizenship education: maintaining the momentum

Children’s reading – the picture in England within a global setting

Can interactive classroom newsletters foster authentic home–school communication?

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Developing emotional intelligence in the classroom

Drama as a framework for the development of literacy

Developing Inclusive Schools

Developing children’s skills in mathematical explanation

Do pupils with learning difficulties need teaching?

Developing individual education plan targets within whole-school assessment procedures

Developing debriefing skills: the gateway to metacognition and transfer

Dyspraxia – addressing the development of motor skills within one mainstream infant school

Data – does it really speak for itself? Or why do a complicated analysis when you can get it wrong much more easily with a simple analysis?

Developing young children’s creativity: what can we learn from research?

Difficult concept or difficult assessment?

Developing social, emotional and behavioural skills in secondary schools

Dylan Wiliam - Profile interview

Doing participative practitioner-based research

Do they get the picture? Feedback in primary classrooms

Does peer support improve students’ motivation?

Do groupings for group work matter?

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Evaluating school self-evaluation

Environmental education: recent research on learners and learning

Evidence-based teaching in primary school science: the Nottingham EBT project

Environmental education: roots in the past, visions of the future, opportunities in the present

Edward de Bono - Interviewed by Gail Goodwin

Education welfare: at the crossroads?

Estimation exposed

Early years education [perspectives from a review of the international literature]

E-assessment and the i-nfer plan

Embracing the power of texting

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Flexible assessment: English tasks for children working below the levels of the national curriculum assessment at key stage 2

Feedback – does it have any bite?

Free online database of current research: CERUK plus

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Home-based education: not ‘does it work?’ but ‘why does it work so well’?

Handwriting, achievement and school policy

How do you know if it’s bullying? Common mistakes and their consequences

How schools use their non-contact days

Homework: enhancing learning and raising achievement

How can homework help learning?

How to develop citizenship education in schools: England’s results from the IEA Citizenship Education Study

How good are our educational statistics?

How do young people make chemistry-careers decisions?

How can the needs of advanced bilingual learners be met in primary schools?

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Implementing the national literacy strategy: How are teachers managing?

Improving school effectiveness

Is teacher confidence a factor in the effective teaching of data handling?

IQEA in Nottinghamshire: a special project

Is floor target policy fair? Opinion piece

I’m not the enemy… I’m a teacher, too! Research on the front line

Improving secondary school grounds

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LEA views about the failure of mainstream education placements for pupils with Down’s syndrome

Learning from Beacon Schools: findings from the evaluation of pilot Beacon Schools

Leading for improvement in challenging circumstances

Learning from coursework: student voices, teacher choices

Lessons from inspection reports on primary school attendance

Literature review of educational provision for pupils with additional support needs

Letter from the chalkface: research inspires a new professionalism

Letter from the chalk-face: why would an already busy teacher consider getting involved in research?

Letter from the chalk-face: What is the attraction of practice-based research?

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Marking and feedback

Mentoring young people: benefits and considerations

Meeting the educational needs of children with Down syndrome: keys to successful inclusion

Meeting the needs of children from birth to three: research evidence and implications for out-of-home provision

Moving citizenship education forward: key considerations for schools and colleges

Making a successful transition to year 1

Mainstreaming pupils with special educational needs

Motivating learners around the world

Making a difference through enquiry [Topic conference, 12 July 2006]

Motivation techniques for encouraging reading at A level

Managing education provision for secondary pupils at risk of exclusion, or excluded from school

Maths, science and gender: messages from TIMSS

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New ways of thinking about raising boys’ achievement

Negotiating the transition to secondary school

New roles for local authorities in education: opportunities and challenges

Nature of Experience: engaging special needs learners through the natural world

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Optimising challenge to young children: action research in a nursery school

Once upon a time… Telling stories to build children’s vocabulary

Online learning: the impact on students' self-esteem and academic progress

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Personal learning plans: supporting pupil learning

Protecting children in the primary school

Pupils’ knowledge and understanding of food hygiene

Pupil participation in target setting procedures

Problem solving in school chemistry: an exploratory study

Profile: John MacBeath

Profile: Howard Gardner

Profile Kathy Sylva

Pupils’ views of the curriculum: are you ‘in the know’?

Professional development through teacher enquiry

Profile: Louise Stoll

Profile: Shirley Clarke

Profile: Tim Brighouse

Profile: Lesley Saunders

Profile: Andrew Pollard

practical research for education conference 2008

Profile: Judy Sebba

Profile: Andrew Morris

practical research for education conference 2009

Peer coaching and mentoring to improve teaching and learning

Profile: Caroline Sharp

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Research is important because… Report on the practical research for education conference 2007

Reading – a pleasure or a pain? Attitudes to reading in years 4 and 6

Reaching disengaged students through media skills

Response to 'What is the truth and what can we do with it?'

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Strategies for school improvement

Self-assessment for students with learning difficulties

School bullying: issues for teachers

Strategies for raising achievement at key stage 2: a process of educational change

Study support – an ideal vehicle for the work of pupil mentors

Secondary school pupils’ views of health education within PSHE

Setting Individual Targets with Children in Key stage 2

Should schools set homework?

School-based mentoring in initial teacher training (ITT): what the student teachers think

School councils: their role in citizenship and social education

Second time around – better or worse? Stress amongst secondary school teachers: a case study of inspection

School breakfast clubs, social background and nutritional status

Strategies for promoting values education through the curriculum

Supporting schools in difficult circumstances: the role of school-to-school cooperation

Strategies to support school phobics and school refusers

School art – what’s in it? Exploring visual arts in secondary schools

School GCSE/GNVQ performance and pupil backgrounds

Students’ experiences of ‘researching’ in different subjects

School council research: student researchers help inform spending decisions

Scaling new heights: a six-step guide for HLTA deployment

Switching on the light – some reflections on staff development to support inclusive learning

Students’ research on healthy eating

Student perceptions of Aimhigher learning mentors and post-16 pastoral support

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The role of calendar innovation in improving learning in schools

The implementation of the Literacy Hour in small rural schools

The use of new learning methods to boost GCSE grades in a French class

The LEA contribution to school improvement

The effectiveness of multi-age grouping: an Australian study

The impact of OFSTED Inspections: the experience of special measures schools

Test development research: a short guide

The effective teaching of writing

The education of pupils with autistic spectrum disorders up to the end of key stage one

The impact of selection on pupil performance

Teachers’ views on the use of performance data

Tracking the progress of investors in people in schools

The gifted and talented: who are they and does it matter who they are?

The foundation stage profile

Taking control: how teachers use research

Theatre and open-ended play in the early years – combining to promote opportunities for creativity

The NFER’s Annual Survey of Trends ten years on – some reflections

Teachers’ advice to potential new entrants

The benefits of a forest school experience for children in their early years

The employment and deployment of teaching assistants

Tool-kit 1: planning your research project

Time to change the perspective on self-esteem? Circle Time and beyond

Teaching gifted and talented students in all classrooms

Tool-kit 2: an introduction to sampling

Topic revisited: over fifteen years of practical implications of educational research

The experiences of black and minority ethnic young people following the transition to secondary school

Tool-kit 3: are you asking the right questions?

Thinking skills in the early years: a literature review

Tool-kit 4: searching for literature

The good, the bad and the ugly – secondary pupils’ views of good and bad practice in MFL teaching

Top ten research websites for teachers

Tool-kit 5: What to do with the results of your literature search

Tool-kit 6: Collecting evidence of pupil work

Tailor-made science for key stage 1 – using pupil profiles to help personalise learning

The value of social care professionals in schools

Tool-kit 7: Using appreciative inquiry in research

Teaching inference skills in reading

Thinking outside the box: learning from a school research project

Tool-kit 8: Using audience response systems in research with children

The Education Maintenance Allowance: motivation and moral judgement from a practitioner’s perspective

Tool-kit 9: using focus groups

Teaching originality and flair

Tool-kit 10: Using the internet to find educational research

The benefits of practitioner research in further education

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Understanding the apostrophe at key stage 2

ultiple intelligences: fashionable or foundational?

Using letters in research: a novel methodology for reflective practice

Using national data for self-evaluation and school improvement

Using research expertise abroad

Using support groups to improve behaviour

Understanding Fischer Family Trust output

Using wikis to improve students' learning

Using supported experiments to improve teaching and learning

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Words matter – thinking and talking about writing in the classroom

When should children start school and what should we teach them?

Working out well: effective provision for excluded pupils

Whole-class interactive teaching

What’s important in early years education? Some messages from research

What do pupils think about ICT?

Working it out - remodelling and what it means for schools

White children’s perspectives on interethnic relations following the move from primary to secondary school

What – no grades? An action research project in assessment for learning

What's new in CERUKplus

What is the 'truth' and what can we do with it?

Working successfully across agencies: a practical model for the future

What drives development in learning mathematics?

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Young people and bereavement

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