Together with Dr. Caro from Oxford University M@SE member Christian Bokhove will be presenting a day long course at AERA 2014. Analyzing International Large-Scale Assessment Data with R The course will train participants how to analyze data from international assessments (PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS) using R. Lectures will briefly introduce R and explain the challenges…
This week, I visited Bexhill VIth Form College for the second of four facilitated action research sessions. The Head of Department, Clare Holmes, had heard about our previous action research sessions with Bicester Community College at our Active Approaches in post-16 conference in March 2013. Clare successfully applied for National Scholarship funding to fund a…
Yahya Al Zahrani, a PhD student from Saudi Arabia specialising in mathematics education, recently received an Excellence Award in the form of a certificate from Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Saudi Arabia in London. Yahya has a broad research interest with a particular focus on primary mathematics teacher education. Yahya’s award is in recognition of his…
Jenny Byrne has been successful in being awarded a research grant from The Leverhulme Trust for about £60, 000 over 18 months. The project is a longitudinal study to explore the impact of pre – service teacher health training on early career teachers’ roles as health promoters.
Jenny Byrne ( MaSE) and Chris Downey (LSIE) have been successful in publishing a suite of four papers in The Curriculum Journal 2013, volume 24. The papers are based on the findings of their research project that explored the implementation of a competence-based curriculum in four secondary schools. The papers considered the barriers and affordances…
Prof. Lianghuo Fan has recently published the 2nd edition of his book entitled “A study on the development of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge” (East China Normal University, Shanghai China). The book is developed from his doctoral thesis completed at the University of Chicago in 1998, with some new work and contents added. Since the publication of…
SEdS is lined up to be an associate partner in the EU FP7 project M C squared which aims to develop an intelligent computational environment for so-called ‘c-Books’, creative electronic books for school mathematics. A longer, slightly technical, abstract is added below. The project is to run for three years, with Christian Bokhove and Keith…
How can primary teachers embed inquiry skills in science and across the curriculum during this time of curriculum change? Primary teachers from Southampton are involved in the Primary Science Teaching Trust project Developing Inquiry Skills across the Curriculum: a Project with the Mary Rose Trust through the Mathematics and Science Learning Centre, Southampton Education School. Teachers…
After succesfully having been awarded the prestigious University of Southampton’s Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellowship Dr Ida Mok of University of Hong Kong is visiting Highfield Campus for two weeks. Dr Mok will be giving the following seminar: ICT in Mathematics Education: Rich Tasks In mathematics education, as with many subjects, digital technologies (including calculators,…
Jenny Byrne and Marcus Grace have been involved in an NIHR funded research project that undertook a survey of health education in UK HEI providers and a systematic review of health education in ITE. The report is now published and is the second NIHR Public Health Research programme-funded project to be published in the new…