New term, new research, new experience - high profile press coverage for a tiny sliver of the large scale research we carried out in the field in the last years of the noughties and which we presented at the BERA (British Educational Research Association) September 2011 conference in Londoni. It's true the research contains worrying statistics about students' experience of challenge -but it also contains very cheering and impressive evidence about
a) the changes pupils felt their teachers were making in relation to involving them more actively in their learning,
b) the ways group work was being used for problem solving; and
c) the extent to which teachers were taking care to find out what they knew and could do already to plan learning.
These are all approaches that our extensive reviews of the international evidence highlight as being important in securing appropriately challenging curriculum experiences and managing curriculum change effectively. Seasoned CUREE web site users will have seen the international research and results from earlier years - but click here for the new reports
This work was the feature of one of our four separate presenations at BERA this year. For more information click here