Plus: maximising impact, fairer ability grouping, and where to find our podcasts. View this email in your browser. Did someone forward you this? You can sign up here. A word from our Director, Professor Becky Francis Welcome to a new academic year and the latest edition of IOE Research News. The IOE’s roots are of course in supporting excellence in teaching and learning, and you’ll see that this issue covers topics as diverse as the benefits of reading, leading edge edtech, human rights education, and new efforts to support mental health at home and school. I hope you enjoy this update.
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IOE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Reassessing 'Ability' Grouping: Improving Practice for Equity and Attainment Setting is unlikely to boost learning for all pupils, and some are at risk of being misallocated to the wrong set - if they're girls, or black, for example.
Acknowledging that mixed ability grouping is wholly unfamiliar to many teachers, the authors give recommendations for achievable, incremental ways grouping practices can be improved so that change is not overwhelming, while practice becomes both socially just and effective. Professor Becky Francis discusses ability grouping at UCL Lunch Hour Lectures on 15 October. Stream it live or book your place. Adults Aloud Enabling school middle leadership to lead Typically, middle leaders are strong teachers with good command of their own classrooms. This doesn't always leave them feeling prepared for some of the challenges their roles hold. This case study with the Alpha Plus Group of schools trained pastoral and curriculum leaders with immediate impact. Mind the gender pay gap Woman might spend more time in low-paying firms than men. It might be the proportion of male or female decision-makers and the ways they share resources. Many mechanisms lie behind gender wage inequalities, and linked employee-employer data will be a key tool for deciding which policies to pursue in efforts to close the gap.
Something for you Parents, teachers and researchers can access our Shine Research Lab's free resources for helping children with anxiety and behaviour problems.
"Our work is designed to inform practitioners how to best support adults who children most rely on for their social and emotional wellbeing: their parents and their teachers."
IOE NEWS UCL’s ‘most promising startup’ Virtual Reality (VR) improves knowledge retention, helps with attention spans and can help children to understand and relate to a subject better. Mobile VR games developer Musemio are ones to watch. Get your goggles on. Linked datasets open up the possibilities in education research The already extensive survey data collected by the Millennium Cohort Study has been linked to records from the National Pupil Database (NPD) and the Local Education Authority School Information Service (LEASIS). The linked data will allow even more accurate and nuanced insights into the lives of a generation of England's young people. International Research Network on Human Rights Education "Human Rights Education is a field of interdisciplinary research that by definition requires a global or cosmopolitan perspective and lends itself naturally to international research collaboration." The new WERA-backed network connects leading scholars from 10 countries to advance human rights education on specialised topics including law, children’s rights, and minority perspectives.
IOE OPINION Podcasts straight from the IOE to your ears We're now featuring lectures, debates, insights and other sounds from the IOE community on more platforms than ever before. Stream or download the latest from our academics, alumni, students and thinkers. Inequalities in education and society: the home, the school and the power of reading Advantage and disadvantage are passed down from one generation to the next through cultural capital, home life and school life. Digest the messages in Professor Alice Sullivan's professorial lecture at your leisure on the IOE blog. Rules of engagement: 5 takeaways for research impact Ensuring your research makes authentic impact is like having good communication in a relationship: you have to work on it. Here are five things you should consider if you want to build a successful impact strategy from an award-winning research project.
*What's this? This issue's banner features a snippet of a self-learning Pachinko Machine created by Professor Brigitta Zics.This digital version of the machine improves its own performance of the pinball game through machine-learning algorithms, but is hindered by a second set of algorithms. |