Call for reviewers for landmark BERA & BCF publication
BERA and the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) are currently editing an exciting landmark publication, Curriculum in a changing world: 50 think pieces on education policy, practice, innovation &...
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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...
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Educators’ approach to ‘silence’ and ‘listening differently’
Introduction Educators, at times, encounter situations when they ask students questions after teaching, only to be met with silence, or when they assign group exercises or activities and students...
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Reconstructing student teachers’ classroom management learning processes
It is widely known that early career teachers experience problems caused by the gap between the focus on theory in teacher education and the practical orientation at internship schools and in...
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Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and pedagogic quality
Do satisfied teachers teach more effectively than their less satisfied colleagues? Although previous research has investigated the factors which lead to teachers being more satisfied with their...
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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.
Elaine Sharpling
I am currently the Director of Education Research and Enquiry at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. The move to this relatively new position was made after being the Director of Initial...
Summer 2023
Research Intelligence issue 155: Practitioner research: Development, collaboration & dissemination
The teacher recruitment freefall: Opening the parachute requires us to understand our prospective teachers better
In their BERA Blog post ‘Dropping off a cliff’ Innes et al. (2023) break down four areas of policy which they suggest are the ‘real driver’ of frighteningly low teacher training...
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Beyond performance: Increasing teacher capabilities through a distributed leadership coaching model
When academics talk about coaching in schools, often the focus is on teachers’ and pupils’ performance (Knight, 2007; Bresser & Wilson, 2010). While there are laudable achievements of peer...
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Teacher Education and Development SIG Vacancies 2023-2026
Call for SIG Convenor The group covers research in initial teacher education, continuing professional development and teachers' careers. The aims of the Teacher Education and Development SIG...
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...
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