Special Interest Group
The Educational Effectiveness and Improvement SIG is concerned with sharing, developing and disseminating research that explores, informs and improves outcomes in education. We are interested educational effectiveness and improvement in any education sector, in any country and at a system or individual level (pupil, teacher, leader).
The aims of the SIG are to:
Professor of Education at Plymouth Marjon University
Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope is Professor of Education and strategic lead for Marjon University Cornwall. Tanya is working to develop opportunities for new partneships with sector stakeholders, both nationally and internationally. An innovative...
Director at ACER Institute
Professor Pauline Taylor-Guy is currently the Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) Institute and Centre for School and System Improvement (CSSI). The Centre provides global research and practice leadership in school...
Foundation year programmes aim to prepare ‘widening participation’ students for university-level study, and focus on developing study skills and underpinning knowledge on their chosen subject...
Continue readingPreviously on the BERA blog (Kidd, 2020a) I have drawn attention to the work of Glade Primary School, an east-London school in the borough of Redbridge, England, and their ‘agile’ adoption of...
Continue readingResearch Intelligence Issue 143 is on the theme of 'Widening participation in practice'.
On Friday 29 May 2020, ITV ran a story on the London regional news about a primary school whose pupils were reported to be ‘traveling the world’ through the adoption of video conferencing (VC)...
Continue readingChildren’s education and wellbeing are profoundly influenced by the circumstances into which they are born. Being from a wealthier family is associated with a range of positive outcomes. Poverty...
Continue readingThe current curriculum reforms in Wales (Welsh Government, 2020) represent a significant shift in thinking and organisation. As well as the introduction of the ‘four purposes’ to drive...
Continue readingA new special issue of the Curriculum Journal, published simultaneously in English and Welsh, explores the many issues that arise when a country decides to rewrite the school curriculum –...
Within this current context, the term ‘home schooling’ is often deployed in a blanket way to describe what is likely to be a plethora of activities and methods of teaching and learning largely...
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