Lifelab
One of our flagship projects is Lifelab.LifeLab project
enGasia resources
Try out some of HTML5 geometry proof pages made for the British Academy enGasia project.
News
May 6, 2021
Health literacy RCT in journal Plosone
Colleagues from our centre, together with many other colleagues, have published their findings from a health literacy Randomized Controlled Trial in PlosOne. The abstract: Adolescence offers a window of opportunity during which improvements in health behaviours could benefit long-term health, and enable preparation for parenthood—albeit a long way off, passing on good health prospects to […]
Posted By : MSHEMarch 29, 2021
Computational Social Science
Our research centre has built up quite some expertise on innovative methods. This research seminar talks about Computational Social Science.
Posted By : MSHEJanuary 27, 2021
New Open Access paper published by Maths Education colleagues
Voutsina, C., Alderton, J., Wilson, K., Ineson, G., Donaldson, G., & Rowland, T. (2021). Preservice teachers’ expressed awarenesses: Emerging threads of retro-spection of learning and pro-spection of teaching. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 1-25. This article is free to access via this link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10857-020-09484-y The paper reports evidence from a study that examined connections between […]
Posted By : MSHEDecember 11, 2020
Saliva testing
Colleagues from the Education School have contributed to engagement work in schools. In this podcast our Vice Chancellor from 5mins talks about the saliva testing programme and our work with schools and how that is good for us as a university. You can read the first and the most recent newsletters here:
Posted By : MSHENovember 13, 2020
Presentation on largescale assessment for Indonesian audience
On the 4th of November member of the MSHE, Dr Christian Bokhove, gave a presentation about the use of international largescale assessments (ILSA) to analyse mathematics education. In a wide-ranging talk Dr Bokhove gave an overview of ILSA, how Indonesia fared in PISA and what it takes it analyse such assessments in a rigorous way. […]
Posted By : MSHEOctober 7, 2020
Wolf Award for Dr Bokhove
The nonprofit and independent organization IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) is an international cooperative of national research institutions, government research agencies, scholars, and analysts working to evaluate, understand, and improve education worldwide. They are known for studies like TIMSS and PIRLS. They have awarded a 2020 Wolf Award to Dr Bokhove. […]
Posted By : MSHESeptember 20, 2020
New paper analyses more than 17,000 Ofsted documents
Dr Bokhove and Dr Sims have published a new paper in which they demonstrate how textmining techniques can give insight in thousands of Ofsted documents. The paper is here. Abstract: Many national education systems incorporate a central inspectorate tasked with visiting, evaluating and reporting on the performance of schools. The judgements produced by inspectors often […]
Posted By : MSHE