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Do value-added measures of school and teacher performance reflect genetic differences between students?

Metrics of school and teacher performance are increasingly used by policymakers and in the UK education systems to determine, for example, performance-related pay and positions in school league...

Tea and the Queen? Researching the enactment of the British values policy in schools

This presentation seeks to make both theoretical and empirical contributions. With regard to the former, I consider issues of citizenship, belonging and values in relation to contemporary...

BERA Conference 2018

Newcastle

The BERA Conference 2018 was held on the 9th-12th September 2018 at Northumbria University. Keynote speakers included: Professor Carol Vincent, Professor Paul Miller, Professor Sue Dockett, and...

Blended learning: more than just equal access

When I first came across the term ‘blended learning’, I (like others) was confused as to what it referred to. The term is being used with increased frequency in academic journals and...

BERA Bites

The BERA Bites series collates selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...

BERA Bites, issue 1: Early childhood

BERA Bites

The BERA Bites series presents selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...

BERA Bites, issue 2: Educational leadership: Are our schools fit for the future?

BERA Bites

The BERA Bites series presents selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...

DfE and NFER on baseline testing: Do they know what they do?

On 4 July 2018, the British Educational Research Association (BERA) expert panel on assessment published the report A baseline without basis (Goldstein et al 2018), in response to the Department...

ECER 2018: Inclusion and Exclusion, Resources for Educational Research

Conference Dates & Venue Emerging Researchers' Conference 21 - 22 Aug Mon 9:00 - Tue 17:30 ECER Conference 22 - 25 Aug Tue 12:30 - Fri 17:30 University College...

Grammar and creativity in the English national curriculum

In November 2017 the Times Educational Supplement (TES) published an article under the headline ‘Teaching grammar does not improve children's writing ability, research finds’ (Bloom 2017)....

Connecting the dots: painting, thesis and writing

I am a newly minted PhD from the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of Huddersfield. Two months after graduation, I am still coming to terms with the ‘what...

Investigating classroom contexts for learning for pupils with special educational needs: Class size, groupings and interactions

Many countries follow policies of inclusion in which pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are, as far as possible, educated in mainstream settings. For the most part this...