Aim: The aim of this project was to create a community of enquiry across a network of schools which would engage with research to inform school improvement. The project also set out to establish ways of working with an external specialist to maximise the research capacity of the network.
Aim: The overall aim of the project is to examine the ways in which new technologies can be used in educational settings to enhance teaching and learning.
Aim: The focus of this teacher-led action research was to construct a programme of multi-sensory teaching activities to develop mental arithmetic capability in children from Nursery through KS1.
Aim: To examine the problems children encounter in arithmetic and to decide whether a programme of activities using visual images developed by Catherine Stern in the 1940s could be used by teachers to improve pupils' mental arithmetic.
Aim: To explore pupils perceptions of creativity across the curriculum, to show that being a scientist and an artist aren't mutually exclusive and to measure the impact of the project on pupils perceptions of creativity in Science and Mathematics.
Aim: The project evolved as an investigation into whether peer assessment could be used to improve students independent learning skills in the lifelong learning sector.
Aim: To investigate the role of active listening in sustaining appropriate behaviour among young children in a primary school for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD).