The word “research” is often associated with high-level investigative processes involving the construction of samples according to well-established principles, the systematic collection of data, and analysis of the gathered material through the application of rigorous statistical tests.
This is, however, only a partial picture of what research embraces and several tasks in the later phases of a project are equally important – for example, the dissemination of study findings in ways that will inform practice, both within the organisation where the work has been carried out and beyond, and personal reflection on what has been done.
The challenges of providing the most effective means of delivering the first part of the former, especially, have exercised our minds at Whitley Bay High School. This article is devoted to a strategy that has been implemented at the school and which may be successfully adopted in other places.
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