Literacy for Life - An interim evaluation report
(2016)
Report
Gorard, S., See, B., & Morris, R. (2016). Literacy for Life - An interim evaluation report. [No known commissioning body]
Outputs (12)
Youth Social Actions Trials: Youth United Evaluation report and executive summary (2016)
Report
Evaluation report and executive summary. [No known commissioning body]
Can ‘Philosophy for Children’ improve primary school attainment? (2016)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & See, B. (2017). Can ‘Philosophy for Children’ improve primary school attainment?. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 51(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12227There are tensions within formal education between imparting knowledge and the development of skills for handling that knowledge. In the primary school sector, the latter can also be squeezed out of the curriculum by a focus on basic skills such as l... Read More about Can ‘Philosophy for Children’ improve primary school attainment?.
An investigation into the teaching and learning of argumentation in first year undergraduate courses: A pilot study (2016)
Journal Article
See, B. (2016). An investigation into the teaching and learning of argumentation in first year undergraduate courses: A pilot study. British journal of education, society & behavioural science, 18(4), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.9734/bjesbs/2016/29659A fundamental role of universities is to develop independent and critical thinkers. An effective strategy to do this is a good command of argumentative skills. This paper presents the results of a one-year pilot study examining the teaching and learn... Read More about An investigation into the teaching and learning of argumentation in first year undergraduate courses: A pilot study.
Teacher Review of effective teaching approaches in primary schools (2016)
Report
Gorard, S., See, B., & Morris, R. (2016). Teacher Review of effective teaching approaches in primary schools. Department for Education
The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching (2016)
Book
Gorard, S., See, B., & Morris, R. (2016). The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching. LAP LAMBERT Academic PublishingThis is a wide-ranging review of the evidence on effective teaching approaches for primary age children. It evaluates the evidence carefully, leading to summaries of what is known to work, what is not known to work, and what is known to be harmful. T... Read More about The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching.
Review of effective teaching approaches in primary schools – Overview, conclusions and implications (2016)
Report
Gorard, S., & See, B. (2016). Review of effective teaching approaches in primary schools – Overview, conclusions and implications. Department for Education
Understanding the moral values of young people and the key influences on their character development (2016)
Journal Article
See, B. (2018). Understanding the moral values of young people and the key influences on their character development. Interdisciplinary education and psychology, 2(2), Article 1The aim of the paper is to explore young people’s perceptions of moral values and the kind of influences that shape their behaviour. The study is based on the perceptions of 1,997 children in England at the point of transition from primary to seconda... Read More about Understanding the moral values of young people and the key influences on their character development.
What works and what fails? Evidence from seven popular literacy ‘catch-up’ schemes for the transition to secondary school in England (2016)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & See, B. (2017). What works and what fails? Evidence from seven popular literacy ‘catch-up’ schemes for the transition to secondary school in England. Research Papers in Education, 32(5), 626-648. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2016.1225811There are concerns that too many young people, from disadvantaged backgrounds, are moving into secondary education in the UK, and elsewhere, without the necessary literacy skills to make progress with the wider secondary school curriculum. A large nu... Read More about What works and what fails? Evidence from seven popular literacy ‘catch-up’ schemes for the transition to secondary school in England.
Context and Implications Document for: Impact of arts education on children's learning and wider outcomes (2016)
Journal Article
See, B., & Kokotsaki, D. (2016). Context and Implications Document for: Impact of arts education on children's learning and wider outcomes. Review of Education, 4(3), 263-265. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3074This guide accompanies the following article: Beng Huat See and Dimitra Kokotsaki, Impact of arts education on children's learning and wider outcomes, Review of Education, DOI: 10.1002/rev3.3070