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RESEARCH NEWS
SUMMER 2020
COVID-19 research at the IOE
Our experts are taking a prominent role in researching how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting people's lives and how societies are adapting.
From educational priorities to social trust and wellbeing, we're working to better understand the effects. Browse the studies currently underway, contribute to surveys and share with your networks.
IOE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Research for the Real World
Do you ever read news and wonder how close - or far - it is to the research it's based on?
Our podcast series brings you conversations with the researchers themselves, to hear about how their work impacts policy, practice and our everyday lives. We also explore the personal journeys that have led them here.
Season 4 launches this month - get listening!
Making research accessible to education practitioners
A new framework aims to aid the uptake of research evidence in educational practice and facilitate researcher-educator collaboration. Ultimately, the endeavour holds huge potential for children’s learning.
Drive, ambition, gender, GCSEs
Year 11 boys make more ambitious plans for their educational future than girls, with consequences on GCSE performance by as much as half a grade. While raising questions around root causes of gender differences, the study authors propose that helping all teenagers make concrete, attainable goals will make it more likely they achieve their ambitions.
Snowball effect of ability setting on children’s self-confidence
A new study followed 9,000 12-13 year olds who had been grouped into classes based on prior attainment. After two years, top set pupils had higher self confidence in the subject, but bottom sets' self-confidence worsened, and the gap in general self confidence widened over time.
IOE EVENTS
IOE Coffee Breaks virtual events
Reopening schools, online lessons, the role of teachers... education news has been particularly busy of late. Our new IOE Coffee Breaks virtual series invites you to take a short break from what you're doing, hear our expert's perspectives on current topics, share your own views, and have your questions answered.
This series, plus our whole IOE Debates series, is available to watch and re-listen to at your leisure.
FROM THE IOE BLOG
5 easy tricks for successful online teaching
Research on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offers 5 things you can put into practice tomorrow to ensure online learning is a successful, social and collaborative experience for both educator and learner.
Unravelling the evidence behind the DfE’s COVID guidance on teaching assistants
Advising schools to deploy teaching assistants to lead groups and cover lessons is at odds with what the research evidence shows works best. This researcher says: proceed with caution.
Higher education: growth after loss?
Dr Georgina Brewis charts the ways the First War War prompted an expansion of the sector. Will the past provide inspiration as we step into our 'new normal'?
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