Research abstracts

Learning and Teaching

Browse research titles like 'How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School', 'Classrooms: goals, structures and student motivation' and 'Getting it right - distance marking as accessible and effective feedback in the primary classroom'.

Vision and Leadership

Highlights research such as 'Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and their Effects on Children', 'Successful Secondary Schools', 'Transformational Leadership' and 'School Matters: The Junior Years'.

Partnership

Research titles for this area include 'Attainment in Secondary School', 'Homework: a Review of Recent Research', 'Progress in International Reading Literacy Study', 'Families and education' and 'School, family and community partnership, Preparing Educators and Improving Schools'.

People

Explore research covering the 'The Learning School', 'The New Meaning of Educational Change', 'Student Achievement through Staff Development' and 'Freedom’s Orphans: Raising Youth in a Changing World'.

Culture and Ethos

Excerpts from 'Self-concept and School Achievement', 'Caution: Praise can be Dangerous', 'Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal Relations' and 'Onward to Excellence: Effective Schooling Practices - a research synthesis'.