Practical Research for Education Issue 41

National Foundation for Educational Research

01 May 2009

Practical Research for Education was a journal originally published twice a year and included the following regular features: Profile interviews with well-known researchers and theorists, Tool-kit articles that equip people to do their own research and Letter from the chalk-face, which offered readers the opportunity to write about their own experiences of doing or using research.

Issue 41's profile interview is with Judy Sebba and the tool-kit article offers advice on using audience response systems in your research. Other articles include telling stories to improve children's vocabulary learning and the use of peer support to improve students' motivation

Contents:

Profile: Judy Sebba
Gail Goodwin

Tool-kit 8: Using audience response systems in research with children
Claire Easton

Once upon a time… Telling stories to build children’s vocabulary
Kathryn Wilkinson

E-assessment and the i-nfer plan
Hazel Griffin

Letter from the chalk-face: why would an already busy teacher consider getting involved in research?
Steven Rhodes

Do they get the picture? Feedback in primary classrooms
Black, Harrison, Lee, Marshall, & Wiliam

Students’ research on healthy eating
Marian Smyth

Reaching disengaged students through media skills
Cathy Poole

The Education Maintenance Allowance: motivation and moral judgement from a practitioner’s perspective
Sue Child

Does peer support improve students’ motivation?
Gabi Reigh