Current research
This section is about research in progress or just completed. The research resources section gives detailed information about finding completed research reports, articles, texts and relevant websites.
Has your school addressed all the five components of personalised learning? A DfES-funded research project has investigated how schools approach personalised learning and invited schools to take part. Follow this link for more information.
Are you keen to find out what other teachers really think about pupil behaviour? Curious to know what LAs think about secondary schools? The DCSF Stakeholder Tracking Study is an ongoing research project investigating opinions on these and many other aspects of education. To see the results from the first year of the project, published in February 2003, download the full tracking study.
Each year the General Teaching Council for England (GTC) commissions a large-scale national survey of teachers' aspirations for the future, their major challenges and their views on certain aspects of work. You can find out about this year's survey and catch up on past surveys.
The National Foundation for Educational Research contains all UK educational research at PhD level. Institutions are contacted regularly to ensure the database is up to date. Items may be submitted by filling in the form on the site.
practical research for education, the NFER's bi-annual journal, keeps teachers aware of the latest research and its classroom relevance.
TDA Teacher Research summaries cover topical issues and reports from teachers' international professional development visits can be also be consulted. Further databases of teacher research and research articles of particular relevance to schools are being developed and will be made available here when they are ready.
Last updated: 15 July 2007
