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Cordingley, Philippa – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
This paper summarises findings from several systematic research reviews about the contribution of research to effective continuing professional development and learning (CPDL) activities and their impact on pupils and teachers. It starts with a review of how teachers engage in and with research as part of CPDL, how teachers and researchers shape…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Teacher Education, Professional Continuing Education
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See, Beng Huat; Torgerson, Carole; Gorard, Stephen; Ainsworth, Hannah; Low, Graham; Wright, Kath – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2011
The aim of the article is to identify those factors that drive the high participation in immediate post-16 and higher education of some minority ethnic groups in the UK. What could we learn from these examples to encourage higher aspirations more generally? The article reports a summary of a formal and systematic review of 1678 studies dated 1997…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Literature Reviews
Smith, Jim; Spurling, Andrea – 2001
This book, which synthesizes research from psychology, sociology, and economics in Great Britain and elsewhere, maps the factors influencing motivation and introduces a long-term motivation strategy to help develop a lifelong learning society for the United Kingdom (UK). Eight chapters cover these topics: motivation to learn; different faces of…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Attitude Change, Context Effect, Education Work Relationship