Subject specific projects
This section includes research that relates to teaching, learning, and assessment within specific areas of the curriculum. In some cases the research is focused on wider issues (e.g. literacy) within a particular subject (e.g. extended writing in science); in others the subject dimension is central (e.g. teaching fractions).
Action Research Fellowships
Year 10 students' perceptions of the role of ‘mistakes’ in GCSE Product Design
Improving inference and comprehension skills of students with literacy difficulties
Developing history students' understanding of question demands
Developing students' reading in A-level history
Promoting students' confidence in the use of mathematical language
Anxiety in the sixth-form MFL classroom
Extended written explanations in science
Gender issues in Computing
Increasing students’ engagement and progress in English through exploration of its ‘real world’ application
The impact of the school's English curriculum on students' reading habit
Enhanced Masters
Metacognition: How can it impact learning?
Inclusion in drama
The impact of an extra-curricular programme on HPA students' engagement
Teachers and students' views of single-sex classes
Pupils' perceptions of Geography
The impact of group average feedback on students' views of groupwork
Developing primary teachers' teaching of fractions
Mindset and Reading Strategy Intervention for MFL
Thinking about thinking in Year 8 PRE
Questioning that promotes learning in science
Raising the attainment of lower ability pupil premium boys in geography
Strategies to support long-term retention of learning in science
Making the Philosophy and Religious Education GCSE relevant to secular sceptics
Being a historian: Using online source banks to research experience of historians in the A-level classroom
Boys’ motivation in the MFL classroom
Perceptions of using target language in MFL classrooms
Improving low-attaining students’ outcomes in mathematics at Key Stage 3
Using goal-free problems to improve students’ capacity to work with goal-specific problems in secondary mathematics classroom
To what extent does the use of authentic prompts stimulate spontaneous communication in Key Stage 3 Modern Foreign Languages students?
Investigating Talk Moves in Key Stage 3 Mathematics Classrooms
A study into how to engage parents/carers in language learning in order to motivate young linguistics without causing undue workload for practitioners
Using videos as stimuli to increase students’ confidence in speaking in the Germen language classroom
Deanery Collaborations
Analysing the relationship between teachers collaboration patterns, teaching practices, and student learning and engagement
Developing appropriate assessments of English language fluency for children with English as an Additional Language
Developing teacher-student-talk in the secondary maths classroom
Assessment, Teaching and Learning in MFL: investigating and developing practice at Key Stage 3
Supporting new teachers' diagnosis of students' difficulties with Tricky Topics