Research into Practice

Further Education and Skills

Recent research in the sector

CUREE was commissioned by the Education & Training Foundation to research the key issues in the teaching of maths and English in the sector. Conducted very rapidly and in partnership with EmCETT we interviewed policy makers and experts, reviewed the international research evidence and consulted leaders and practitioners across the sector. We think the report provides a fascinating window into how maths and English teachers and their leaders are thinking about the new level 2 challenges.

Bringing Research Resources to Practitioner Users via Web Technology: Lessons Learned to date.

Summary Web resources for education , what's the problem?

Over the past few years there has been growing interest in making educational research more relevant to the concerns of consumers outside universities - in particular teachers. More and more schools and individual teachers are seeking to engage in and with research to inform their practice in a range of contexts, from classroom teaching strategies to leadership. Nowadays there is much more educational research on the web but is it accessible to teachers' What are the problems in finding relevant research through educational databases? Drawing on their experience of searching educational databases and on the results of a small scale informal survey of titles and abstracts a CUREE team explored a number of problems practitioners faced when trying to access educational research.

Teaching and Learning Research Programme - Research Tasters

These short articles link research findings to suggestions for collecting classroom data for reflection and future planning. They cover a range of topics including parental involvement and behaviour. One taster suggests how teachers can collect, then build on evidence about pupils’ contacts with literacy at home to create ideas parents can use with their children. 180 tasters can be accessed now at http://www.tlrp.org/pa/ with many more forthcoming.