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Research problems linked to this topic
- How effective are attendance interventions in improving outcomes for pupils?
- How can we best support and promote mental health and wellbeing in schools, colleges and higher education?
- How do we create a SEND and AP system that better meets the needs of children and their families? Building on the SEND and AP improvement plan, we would like to better understand local delivery, partnership working in the system, cost and financial stability. What does good provision look like and how can we share best practice?
- What are the drivers of pupil attendance and absence?
- What are the features of high-quality tutoring? Applied research might demonstrate how schools can use tutoring across phases and subjects to help pupils who are behind, or to stretch pupils.
- How can we best support children and young people with developing resilience and mental health through their schooling? What programmes and approaches are most effective and why?
- How effective have T-levels been in increasing student and business involvement in technical education? Which factors increase student uptake and business recruitment of people with T-levels?
- What are the barriers to learning experienced by pupils with SEND, and what strategies are effective in helping them overcome these barriers?
- What impact does accountability and inspection have on key outcomes for the education system, including internationally?
- How can we improve the education experiences and outcomes for children and young people with SEND or in AP? How do we best identify needs and level of need, what are the benefits of early intervention, and what are appropriate outcomes to measure for this group?
- What works in improving youth outcomes?
- What teaching approaches are most effective in helping pupils to pay attention, grasp new ideas, develop skill (such as writing), retain knowledge, transfer knowledge, and be motivated to learn? Why are these approaches most effective? Applied research might include, for example: how various forms of retrieval practice can help pupils retain knowledge for longer periods, or how teacher instruction, teacher questioning, and in-class reading can be used to enhance understanding, and how these effects vary across different phases or subjects.
- What are the likely effects of measures to increase quality in HE on applicant perceptions and graduate labour market outcomes?
- How can we best support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and those who attend Alternative Provision (AP)?
- How effective have whole school/college approaches to improving student mental health and wellbeing been? What factors underpin the most effective whole school/college approaches? How can schools/colleges effectively measure the impact of these approaches?
- What are the different ways that outdoor learning can affect young people and how can they be measured?
- How can the impact of digital technology be robustly measured, and implemented in a way that supports teachers and learners?
- What works in improving the skills, employability and wellbeing of young people?
- What are the drivers of pupils not attending school and what factors influence pupils being at risk of becoming persistently absent?
- What are the most valid and reliable assessment methods, and how are these used effectively in schools to support and assess pupil learning? Which ways of representing and sequencing curricula are most effective in supporting pupil learning and why?
- How can children and young people with SEND and in AP be best supported in important transitions, including into post-16 education and adulthood?
- What does evidence from the natural and cognitive sciences suggest about how schools might influence pupil motivation, behaviour, and learning? How can this be translated into teaching practices that reliably improve pupil attainment?
- Which school-wide (or school trust-wide) systems, processes, and interventions improve pupil attainment and narrow disadvantage attainment gaps? Applied research might explore, for instance, how leaders use behaviour systems, pupil setting, the length of the school day, and whole-school enrichment interventions.
- What is the social and developmental impact of culture and creative education at schools and higher education?
- How has the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) influenced the behaviour of students, providers and employers? To what extent has LLE promoted increased fluidity of study pathways between FE and HE?
- What are the key demographic and market dynamics in HE? For example, what are the trends and impacts of franchises in terms of student participation, local growth, and student outcomes?
- How has the increased accessibility of generative AI influenced HE and FE providers and students?
- What works to reduce persistent and severe absence and why?
- How can schools and local partners work together effectively to reduce persistent and severe absence?
- How do schools use in-school units such as SEN Units, Resourced Provision and in-school Alternative Provision to improve pupil outcomes?
- What works to reintegrate pupils who are persistently or severely absent?
- What are the drivers of UK and foreign students’ decisions about pathways into and out of HE, including impact of funding, finance and experience?
- How do wages of creative Higher Education graduates progress over time and what factors determine short and long-term wages? For example what factors can explain why arts and design graduates have some of the lowest earnings one and five years after graduation?
- How can we assess teaching quality and support schools in making valid and proportionate assessments of quality (e.g. comparing novice and expert practice; monitoring impact on pupil outcomes)?
- How can we improve outcomes for all pupils, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with SEND?
- What is the impact of children’s access to nature from an educational and wellbeing perspective?
- How do device ratios impact students and teachers?
- What are the potential impacts of AI, and how can new technologies be used safely and effectively within education?
- What is the impact of under-attainment for disadvantaged students on future skills needs and participation in HE?
- How can schools effectively support pupils to improve attendance?
- What are the impacts of lack of skills, employability and wellbeing among young people?