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Higher-order versus lower-order thinking skills: How much does the hierarchy matter?

Bloom’s Taxonomy categorises educational objectives and provides a structured framework for teaching and assessing. Anderson and colleagues (2001) Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (RBT) introduced two...

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Anna Beck

Anna is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow (Dumfries Campus). She teaches across the MA Primary Education, PGDE Primary...

Enabling a research-informed approach to mentoring beginner teachers

The practice of mentoring beginner teachers needs to be underpinned by a ‘deep understanding of the curriculum, the relevant research base which informs it and their role in supporting its...

BERA and the Kusuma Trust: Neurodiversity in mainstream schools grant programme

BERA is partnering with the Kusuma Trust to deliver several research projects with the aim to improve the school experience and academic attainment of young people who are neurodivergent. The...

Reading Rita and saving Arthur Seaton: Exploring mature students’ scholarly ‘becoming’ and the failures of working-class education

I was thrilled to present my research at the BERA ECR Journey: At Crossroads of Becoming Conference at the University of Leeds in June 2024. This event gave me the opportunity to discuss the...

What is STEAM?

Kerry Chappell, University of Exeter

The perceptions and challenges of East Asian students in UK higher education

Over the past two decades, the total enrolments in UK higher education (HE) from China, Hong Kong, Japan and other East Asian countries have risen from fewer than 100,000 in 2002/03 to a record...

BERA announces 2024 BERA Educational Research Book of the Year Shortlist

The BERA Educational Research Book of the Year award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and...

Jemima Davey

Jemima Davey is Subject Lead for Education Partnerships and a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, teaching across both undergraduate and postgraduate...

Jane Chambers

Jane Chambers is associate professor and the Head of the School of Education at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. She is responsible for initial teacher education, the school’s undergraduate...