Best Practice

Case study: The impact of research in schools

We hear from two schools about how research engagement is driving teachers’ professional development and raising standards. Dorothy Lepkowska reports

Pupils who are part of a selective in-take might be expected, on the face of it, to have fewer learning needs than most. But this is not necessarily the case. In one grammar school teachers have been carrying out research and their own enquiries to find out how they can address more thoroughly and expertly the learning needs of their students.

Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School in Buckinghamshire has recently been awarded the Research Mark by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) for its work into collaborative research and inquiry by staff. One example involved staff researching studies into how to support students through times when they “hit a wall” with their learning.

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