On this page you can find the press release to each interim report released to date.
(16.05.08) Learning and Teaching in Primary Schools: processes and contexts
Covers the release of a group of three interim reports consisting of:
i) Research Survey 2/4: Learning and Teaching in Primary Schools: insights from TLRP (Mary James and Andrew Pollard)
ii) Research Survey 6/1: Primary Schools: the built environment (Karl Wall, Julie Dockrell and Nick Peacey)
iii) Research Suvey 9/2: Classes, Groups and Transitions: structures for teaching and learning (Peter Blatchford, Susan Hallam, Judith Ireson and Peter Kutnick, with Andrea Creech)
(18.04.08) Primary Teachers: training, development, leadership and workforce reform
Covers the release of a group of three interim reports consisting of:
i) Research Survey 6/2: Primary Schools: the professional environment (Liz Jones, Andy Pickard and Ian Stronach)
ii) Research Survey 6/3: Primary Teachers: initial teacher education, continuing professional development and school leadership development (Olwen McNamara, Rosemary Webb and Mark Brundrett)
iii) Research Survey 6/4: Primary Workforce Management and Reform (Hilary Burgess)
(29.02.08) - Governing, funding and reforming primary education: four more research reports from the Primary Review
Covers the release of a group of four interim reports consisting of:
i) Research Survey 3/2: The Trajectory and Impact of National Reform: curriculum and assessment in English primary schools (Dominic Wyse, Elaine McCreery and Harry Torrance)
ii) Research Survey 4/3: Quality Assurance in English Primary Education (Peter Cunningham and Philip Raymont)
iii) Research Survey 10/1: The Funding of English Primary Education (Philip Noden and Anne West)
iv) Research Survey 10/2: The Governance and Administration of English Primary Education (Maria Balarin and Hugh Lauder)
(08.02.08) - Other primary schools and ours: what can we learn from international comparison?
Covers the release of a group of three interim reports consisting of:
i) Research Survey 9/1: The Structure of Primary Education: England and other countries (Anna Riggall and Caroline Sharp)
ii) Research Survey 3/1: Primary Curriculum and Assessment: England and other countries (Kathy Hall and Kamil Øzerk)
iii) Research Survey 3/3: Primary Curriculum Futures (James Conroy, Moira Hulme and Ian Menter)
(18.01.08) - What is primary education for? Fundamental questions from the Primary Review's latest research reports
A group of four interim reports consisting of:
i) Research Survey 1/1: Aims as Policy in English Primary Education (John White)
i) Research Survey 1/2: Aims and Values in Primary Education: England and other countries (Maha Shuayb and Sharon O'Donnell)
i) Research Survey 1/3: Aims for Primary Education: the changing national context (Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally)
i) Research Survey 1/4: Aims for Primary Education: changing global contexts (Hugh Lauder, John Lowe and Rita Chawla-Duggan)
(14.12.07) - Latest Primary Review research surveys question assumptions about how young children think and learn; and how their specific needs are identified and met
A group of four interim reports consisting of:
i) Research Survey 2/1a: Children's Cognitive Development and Learning (Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant)
ii) Research Survey 2/1b: Children's Social Development, Peer Interaction and Classroom Learning (Christine Howe and Neil Mercer)
iii) Research Survey 5/1: Children in Primary Education: demography, culture, diversity and inclusion (Mel Ainscow, Jean Conteh, Alan Dyson and Frances Gallanaugh)
iv) Research Survey 5/2: Learning Needs and Difficulties Among Children of Primary School Age: definition, identification, provision and issues (Harry Daniels and Jill Porter)
(23.11.07) - Striking the Balance: support vulnerable children and families and tackle childhood poverty, but listen to children and don't take over their lives.
A group of four interim reports consisting of:
i) Research Survey 5/3: Children and their Primary Schools: pupils' voices (Carol Robinson and Michael Fielding)
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Research Survey 7/1: Parenting, Caring and Educating (Yolande Muschamp, Felicity Wikeley, Tess Ridge and Maria Balarin)
iii) Research Survey 8/1: Children's Lives Outside School and their Educational Impact (Berry Mayall)
iv) Research Survey 8/2: Primary Schools and Other Agencies (Ian Barron, Rachel Holmes, Maggie MacLure and Katherine Runswick-Cole)
(2.11.07) - Further questions about standards and testing from the Primary Review
A group of three interim reports consisting of:
i) Research Survey 3/4: The quality of learning: assessment alternatives for primary education (Wynne Harlen)
ii) Research Survey 4/1: Standards and quality in English primary schools over time: the national evidence (Peter Tymms and Christine Merrell)
iii) Research Survey 4/2: Standards in English primary education: the international evidence (Chris Whetton, Graham Ruddock and Liz Twist)
(12.10.07) - Community Soundings press release: Taking the Educational Temperature
