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Booktrust Pori Drwy Stori Evaluation
Overview: This was an evaluation of Pori Drwy Stori, a bilingual reading intervention designed to raise educational outcomes for young children by increasing the quality and quantity of adult-child interactions around reading in the home learning environment (HLE). This
Research Team:
Alex Morgan, Kate Moles (Cardiff University)
Children and young people’s rights: formal and informal constructions of citizenship
Children and young people’s rights: formal and informal constructions of citizenship utilises an international comparison of the civic expansion of children’s rights in four Western countries (including Wales), and how this can rebalance the civic deficits associated with
Research Team:
Esther Muddiman (Cardiff University), Sally Power (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University)
Current Implementation of Computational Thinking in Welsh Primary Schools
Research Questions To evaluate how schools are implementing computational thinking in the classroom. What classroom tools do practitioners use to develop computer coding. Evaluate any differences in provision that might exist between different schools, such as internet speed
Research Team:
Owen Davies (Bangor University)
Development of the new curriculum in Pioneer schools
Research Questions How are Pioneer Schools developing the new curriculum in a way which benefits all learners? What are Pioneer Schools doing to ensure that the implementation of the new curriculum benefits all learners, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds? What
Research Team:
Sally Power (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Nigel Newton (Cardiff University)
Education, Language & Identity
Overview The project used interviews and questionnaires to investigate the types of civic participation and conceptions of language and identity promoted within the statutory education system, and within civil society organisations working with young people, in both Wales
Research Team:
Rhys Jones (Aberystwyth University), Elin Royles (Aberystwyth University), Lindsay Paterson (University of Edinburgh), Fiona O'Hanlon (University of Edinburgh), Kirstie Macleod (University of Edinburgh)
Evaluating the Foundation Phase
WISERD undertook an independent evaluation of the Foundation Phase early years education policy for the Welsh Government. The Foundation Phase (FP) is an early intervention approach to learning for all children aged three to seven years in Wales. It is based on principles of
Research Team:
Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Trisha Maynard, David Blackaby (Swansea University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Laurence Moore, Ian Plewis, Sally Power (Cardiff University), Samuel Waldron, Mirain Rhys (Cardiff Metropolitan University)
Evaluation of Foundation Phase Flexibility Pilots
Overview Supporting children in their early years is seen as central to reforms to improve educational standards and raise the educational achievement of children in Wales, particularly amongst children from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The distinct and
Research Team:
Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Mirain Rhys (Cardiff Metropolitan University), Samuel Waldron, Daniel Evans (Cardiff University)
Evaluation of the Pupil Deprivation Grant
Overview The Pupil Deprivation Grant was introduced in 2012-13 and provides schools with additional resource to raise levels of achievement of a particular group of economically disadvantaged learners. This two-year evaluation looked at how schools have used this new grant
Research Team:
Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Gareth Rees (Cardiff University), Sally Power (Cardiff University), Samuel Waldron, Mirain Rhys (Cardiff Metropolitan University)
Graduate Employability and Skills
The overall aim of the project was to provide an analytical review of the research literature on graduate employability and skills, with due attention to the diversity of the approaches that have been adopted. In particular, the review was designed to draw out the
Research Team:
WISERD
Growing Up in 21st Century Britain
Overview Professor Chris Taylor was awarded an ESRC Mid-Career Development Fellowship to carry out an analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). The Economic and Social Research Centre (ESRC) awards only 10 to 15 Mid-Career Development Fellowships each year. They are
Research Team:
Chris Taylor (Cardiff University)
Higher Education and Civil Society
Overview This project explored the relationships between participation in higher education and engagement in civil society, especially at the local level. Do university graduates play a distinctive role in the institutions of civil society? More specifically, it examined the
Research Team:
Gareth Rees (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Ceryn Evans (Cardiff University), Stuart Fox (Brunel University London)
Impact and Effectiveness of Widening Access to Higher Education
The overall aim of the proposed research was to demonstrate the effectiveness of the secondary analysis of administrative data-sets to delineate patterns of participation in higher education (HE) and, thereby, to contribute to the development of policy and professional
Research Team:
Gareth Rees (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Stephen Drinkwater (University of Roehampton), Ceryn Evans (Cardiff University), Caroline Wright
Independent Review of the Implications of the Educational Reform Programme for the future role of Estyn – Call for Evidence
Significant changes are happening in Wales through the development of a new curriculum together with a wide range of enabling education reforms. These are set out in the Welsh Government’s action plan ‘Education in Wales: Our National Mission 2017-2021. In recognition of the
Research Team:
Chris Taylor (Cardiff University)
Investigating the implementation of a ‘Mindfulness’ approach in a pioneer primary school
Research Questions How can a mindfulness approach contribute to the development of the Health and Wellbeing AoLE in a pioneer primary school? What processes support such an intervention? What are the perceptions of pupils, teachers and parents regarding the approach? What is
Research Team:
Helen Lewis (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
LINK-Wales: The Learning in Wales Network
Overview This project focused on increasing the engagement between local authorities and the higher education research community in Wales by reviewing current local authority education research capacity and activity in Wales and identifying factors that had an impact on
Research Team:
Sally Power (Cardiff University), Jamie Lewis, Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Mark Connolly, Gerran Thomas, Susan Wyn Jones
SF4All in rural schools
Research Questions Primary question: What are the organisational implications for leaders in rural schools of the way the new curriculum is being developed? Secondary aims: Identification of challenges and opportunities in respect of teacher recruitment and retention
Research Team:
Susan Chapman (Aberystwyth University)
Successful Futures for all
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Research Team:
Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Sally Power (Cardiff University), Nigel Newton (Cardiff University)
Supporting Playful Learning with Information and Communications Technology in the Early Years
Overview This study, funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation (£295,915) examined the extent to which an ICT intervention to enhance sustained shared thinking impacted on young children’s cognitive and linguistic outcomes. The project aimed to maximise the benefits of
Research Team:
Sarah Oerton, Anita Naoko Pilgrim
The art of connecting: A study of how the Expressive Arts area of learning and experience (AoLE) is being constructed by Pioneer schools and teachers
Research Questions How are pioneer schools and teachers are building and shaping the Expressive Arts AoLE? What are the implications for disadvantaged learners and schools? How does impact vary between primary and secondary teachers? Aim This study aims to provide insight
Research Team:
Judith Kneen (Cardiff Metropolitan University), Sian Davies-Barnes (Cardiff Metropolitan University), Viv John (Cardiff Metropolitan University), Emma Thayer (Cardiff Metropolitan University)
The changing frontiers of the state and civil society in education: a comparative analysis of France and Wales
This project, facilitated through WISERD and the Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, is exploring the contrasting relationship between education, the state and civil society in Wales and France. France and the UK provide two important contexts in which to explore these issues as
Research Team:
Sally Power (Cardiff University), Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), Daniel Frandji (TRIANGLE), Philippe Vitale (LAMES-MMSH, AMU)
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