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Developing key stage three assessment and feedback policy and practice: Recommendations for English secondary schools and teachers

Introduction Research on the importance of ‘feedback literacy’ (helping learners to understand and use their teachers’ feedback to improve their learning) and ‘student agency’ (where...

The teaching of problem solving in the school mathematics curriculum

Introduction School mathematics curricula across the world give ‘problem solving’ a high profile, but what exactly does ‘problem solving’ mean? Can it be taught; and, if it can, how can...

Household curricula during the Covid-19 pandemic: A collective biography

The lessons learned through Covid-19 school disruptions have amplified calls to envision education in ways that respond to unpredictable crises and finally redress educational inequities that have...

The easy option: How the Ruskin Speech has become a cipher for change in British education

When compared with educational systems around the world, Britain is notable for directing a high degree of ‘policy churn’ (that is, new initiatives emerging from central government) towards...

Call for papers. New perspectives on curriculum: Rethinking collaborative enquiry and teachers’ professional learning

A special issue of the Curriculum Journal to celebrate the 50th anniversary of BERA and the work of the British Curriculum Forum

BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

Singing from the same hymn sheet? The Irish primary curriculum framework and convergences with global curricular trends

A significant milestone in Irish education history was achieved by the launching of the primary curriculum framework on 9 March 2023. Curriculum policy has been influenced by the prevailing...

Exploring open approaches to digital literacy

The notion of open educational resources (OER) was set out in the ‘Cape Town Open Education Declaration’ (2007), calling on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their...

The future of the artificially intelligent examination

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

In education, it is common for people to talk about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in assessment as something in the future, but it’s not – it’s here, and it’s been working away...

Preparing children for the future: Robot programming in early childhood education

The field of early childhood education (ECE) has seen a rise in the use of programmable robotics to introduce coding, computational thinking (CT), and sequencing ability to young learners. While...

BERA Bites, issue 8: Toward a digital future of curriculum, pedagogy & assessment

BERA Bites

In the last three decades, digital technologies have become an integral part of our lives, societies and education systems worldwide. The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns since early...

To read, or not to read?

How diverse practices, perspectives and experiences shape our reading engagement