Improving science achievement by raising self-esteem
Aim: To assess whether students' performance in science could be improved by increasing their self-esteem and generating positive support and feedback from their follow students.
The Evidence People
Motivation
Multiple intelligences (MI) in the classroom: An evaluation of the effectiveness of an 'MI approach' through the teaching and learning of History
Aim: The aims of the project were:
1. To establish, from a review of the literature, an MI approach to teaching and learning.
2. To evaluate the effectiveness of using an MI approach in the classroom on pupils learning.
3. To compare the relative impact of three different MI strategies.
Motivation of sixth-form students
Aim:
To find out what motivates students in the sixth form. What stimulates them in lessons?
What motivates them to complete homework?
What features of their relationships with teachers and fellow students motivate them?
Which types of teaching motivate and demotivate them?"
Using Thinking Tools to enhance childrens ability to think and improve national test results
Aim: To discover the extent to which selected thinking tools could enhance childrens ability to think from a viewpoint other than their own and thus help improve their optional Year 4 reading and writing national test scores.
Can observation improve PE teaching
Aim: To see whether an increased awareness of observational strategies enhances effective teaching of physical education at Key Stage 2.
Is there truly a shirt of happiness or not? Developing thinking through a Community of Enquiry approach.
Aim: To consider whether a Community of Enquiry approach would improve the ability of Y5 and 6 pupils to discuss issues arising from texts by asking relevant questions. Individual teachers were keen to:
Develop written responses to comprehension texts; or
Improve the quality of questioning and discussion.
How does involving the children in classroom planning affect their learning?
Aim: We were aware of a number of children who were coasting or dipping in English in Key Stage 2. We wanted to find out whether we could motivate them, using innovative classroom strategies.
Boys will be boys? Raising boys motivation and achievement in Key Stage Three Design Technology
Aim:
Decrease the gap between boys and girls achievement at Key Stage Three.
Increase the number of level 5 and level 6 achieved by boys in DT in their Key Stage Three Standard Aptitude Tests (SATs).
Improve the behaviour and effort of boys during DT lessons.
Increase the number of boys opting for DT - possibly within food and textiles.
What are leaders, teachers and students learning from collaborative approaches to personalisation?
Aim: This research project set out to explore a collaborative learning journey towards what may now be recognised as the partnership-based component of personalisation. Specifically it explored the following key questions in relation to the development of partnership-based approaches to the delivery of personalised learning:
What has been the impact of the experience of partnership on the leaders' leadership?
What has been the impact of the experience of partnership on the teachers' teaching?
What has been the impact of the experience of partnership on the students' learning?
Developing students as independent learners through research and presentation activities in A/S Chemistry
Aim: We believed that students were over-reliant on teachers in meeting the AS Chemistry syllabus requirements and that this restricted the range of learning styles and methodologies that students used.