Posted in Research Papers on Dec 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
I still haven’t received my copy of the The OECD report of Quality and Equity of Education in Scotland but I accessed the read only version as advised by John Connell.
I’ve had to type up the following - as I couldn’t cut and paste - apologies for any errors.
As I suspected it’s much more positive than [...]
Posted in Research Papers on Dec 11th, 2007 2 Comments »
Apologies if I seem to be obsessed by OECD reports at the mooment but the recently published OECD Review of National Policies for Education - Quality and Equity of Schooling in Scotland is too important to ignore.
It’s very disappointing that the actual report is not freely available. I’ve sent off for a copy and will review its [...]
Posted in Research Papers, Using data on Dec 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
It must be just the time of year but a plethora of international acheivement data is being made available in matter of a few weeks.
The most recent of these is the Progress in International Literacy Study 2006 PIRLS you can download the entire report from here but beware it’s 63mb and takes along time to download.
I’ve taken [...]
Posted in Culture change, Ideas, Parental Involvement, Partnerships, Public Services, Research Papers on Nov 11th, 2007 8 Comments »
I’ve been reading the Demos paper “Journey to the Interface” which I referred to in the recent leadership dilemma. It’s a long document but a remarkably easy read and very thought provoking.
The paper’s focus is the development of “customer-centred services”. There a huge range of issues emerging from the paper which would be worthy of further [...]
Posted in Research Papers on Oct 28th, 2007 7 Comments »
I came across this critical finding from the unesco research report I’ve been reviewing:
“One way to consider these results is that there is a critical transition from “learning-to-read” to “reading-to-learn”. For most students this happens at about age 8 or 9, typically by the end of the third grade. If children are not able to [...]
Posted in Learning Intentions, Learning and teaching, Research Papers on Oct 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
Up until last week I’d been using teacher intention and learning intention as interchangable terms.
However, when I was took part in a discussion with our newly qualified teachers last week I began to wonder if they might actually be different - or at least one being a sub-set of the other?
Ann McLanachan made very useful [...]
Posted in Policy, Research Papers on Oct 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve been reviewing a Research paper from UNESCO “Learning Divides: ten policy questions about the performance and equity of school and schooling systems”
The paper uses results from Wilms and Somers, 2001, which explored the relationship between results from Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and socioeconomic status.
Not surprisingly, in every country [...]
Posted in Leadership, Research Papers on Oct 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
One of the things I’m going to try to keep up over the next few months is to regularly review educational research papers. Hopefully the reviews will build up into a useful resource to inform my own practice. The research papers will be derived from resource links on my blogroll (not really too comfortable with that word [...]
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