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January 29, 2022
Family composition and mathematics

Dr Christian Bokhove has published a new article “Country and school family compositionā€™s effects on mathematics achievement” with Professor Gillian Hampden-Thompson from from the University of Sussex: Family structures are associated with achievement outcomes, but the percentage of children residing in different family structures has changed over time. In this paper, we revisit data from […]

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January 8, 2022
Teenagers and covid-19 question

In a new article “ā€˜I already know about it, Iā€™ve been watching the Daily News and updatesā€™: Teenagersā€™ questions about the scientific and social aspects of COVID-19” Dr Jenny Byrne, Mrs Alison Marston and Professor Marcus Grace explored what questions teenagers want answered about Covid-19. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been […]

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December 6, 2021
New public engagement project funded

Members from our research centre have been succesful securing funding by the Universityā€™s Public & Community Engagement (PCE) Development Fund through the Public Engagement with Research Unit in order to develop a new approach for engaging young children with nature and the environment. The project, Wild Citizens! – enabling children to become active environmental citizens, […]

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November 30, 2021
Family science engagement

Recently, our colleague Dr Neta Shaby presented to the Education School on her work on family science learning and engagement. Among other things, Neta highlighted work with Dr. Dana Vedder-Weiss (Ben Gurion University), from her recent ESERA 2021 presentation: Accumulating evidence suggests that much of what people come to know about the world, including the […]

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November 18, 2021
Maths colleagues present on mastery

Maths colleagues, including MSHE member Ros Hyde presented their work at the last BSRLM day conference. Hyde, Rosalyn; Archer, Rosa; Bamber, Sally [PRESENTATION] Understandings and perceptions of mastery approaches to mathematics: The case of beginning secondary teachers This study reports on the perceptions and understanding of beginning teachers regarding mastery approaches to secondary mathematics teaching […]

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November 4, 2021
New open access article on SSI-based education

  Dr Andri Christodoulou and Prof Marcus Grace have a new open access article published in International Journal of Science Education. The article focuses on the use of cartography of controversy as an approach to supporting and enabling secondary school students to engage in socioscientific reasoning, and is a collaboration with colleagues from UCL Institute […]

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October 14, 2021
Roundtable evidence-informed teaching

Ros Hyde and Lucy Hoyes‘ PGCE mathematics trainees recently joined a Roundtable event ā€˜How to enhance student teachers evidence-based decision competenciesā€™, co-chaired by Christian Bokhove as part of the Erasmus+ RiTE project. Delegates were presented with a series of thought-provoking statements and had the opportunity to discuss how these related to using evidence with trainees […]

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