PRE Partners

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
ACER is one of the world's leading educational research centres, committed to creating and distributing research-based knowledge, products and services to improve learning across the lifespan in both formal and informal settings. The latest on professional development, curriculum development and educational research in Australia is in their monthly magazine, Teacher, and the quarterly Professional Educator..

Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE)
has been supporting Scottish education through research since 1928. In broad terms, the Scottish Council for Research in Education's functions are to conduct educational research of the highest quality and to support the use of research outcomes through the dissemination of findings. SCRE publishes Spotlight briefing papers. A Spotlight article is included in each issue of Topic.

Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED)
The Scottish Executive Education Department Research Unit provides research-based advice and research programme development and management. Insight is a published by the Research, Economic and Corporate Strategy (RECS) Unit, part of SEED. An Insight article is included with each issue of Topic.

New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER)
The New Zealand Council for Educational Research is an independent educational research organisation with an international reputation for producing quality educational research and research-based resources. The NZCER publishes set, a journal concentrating on research information for teachers. An article from set is included with each issue of Topic. For direct link to set click here.

British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta)
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency is the Government's key partner in the strategic development and delivery of its information and communications technology and e-learning strategy for the schools and the learning and skills sectors. The Becta website includes a section on practitioner research, including advice about how to go about doing research and about ethics. http://www.becta.org.uk

Actionresearch.net
Actionresearch.net is a free online resource for all those doing their own action research. The site contains writings by Jack Whitehead and a large number of articles, assignments and dissertations from Education Masters students.


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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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