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Improving teacher development and educational quality in China: Examining sch...
This study will investigate the nature and extent of teachers' professional development and learning in China as well as the significance of the concept of professional learning... -
Top girls - young women in independent schools
Semi-structured interviews with 91 young women aged between 14-18 years (with 56 interviewed twice) - total of 147 interviews. Interviews were undertaken in 4 different... -
Multi-method study of the role of schools in supporting children affected by ...
The study was conducted in predominantly rural areas in Manicaland province in eastern Zimbabwe. A multi-method approach was employed with a combination of qualitative and... -
Increasing Competence and Confidence in Algebra and Multiplicative Structures...
A nationally representative survey of around 7000 students examining the understandings of current students across Key Stage 3. This survey uses three tests first developed by... -
Centre for learning and life chances in knowledge economies and societies (LL...
The submitted data have been collected for various projects of the LLAKES research centre. The data collected for Projects 1.1. ('Equality and Inequality in Lifelong Learning')... -
Governing by inspection: interviews with inspectors about their work
This data collection consists of selected interviews from the 60 interviews carried out in phase 3 of the research project 'Governing by Inspection' on inspection as a form of... -
The evolution of school mathematics discourse as seen through the lens of GCS...
Tests consisting of parallel versions of GCSE mathematics questions, presented using different discourse features found in examinations between 1980 and 2011, were administered... -
The role of celebrity in young people's classed and gendered aspirations
Interview and focus groups transcripts, school summaries and participants overview in six 11-19 co-educational comprehensive schools. This youth-centred study combines... -
Carstairs Index 2011 for Lower-layer Super Output Areas
The Carstairs Deprivation Index calculated for the Census 2011, for Lower-layer Super Output Areas, based on Paul Norman's previous methods for 2001.Existing evidence indicates... -
Transitions in the English and German educational system
This project had interrelated substantive and methodological foci. The substantive aim was to investigate the link between social background and educational experience, using a... -
Primary mathematics and social pedagogic collaborative group work in primary ...
In this project data were collected in parallel using essentially the same instruments but adjusted to optimise cultural validity. This means that cross culture comparisons... -
British sign language corpus
The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus is a collection of video clips showing Deaf people using BSL, together with background information about the signers and some written... -
Scientific mobility in an enlarging European Union
This project on scientific mobility was jointly funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, under the Science in Society Programme, and the Anglo-German Foundation.... -
The socio-cultural and learning experiences of working class students in High...
This is a 28 month project funded by the ESRC and is part of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme. The aims of the research are to: compare and contrast the social and... -
The impact of visual learning strategies on undergraduate student's self-repo...
Quantitative attitutional data was collected form first year social science students regarding their anxiety about learning statistics and their ability to complete and to learn... -
The good sex project
This collection contains a series of short films that reanimate original research data. The films were made as part of a particiaptory youth arts project. The collection also... -
Socioeconomic, housing and school catchment data for Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Data collection resulting from the compilation of existing data sources to assess the link between local housing markets and education markets through an analysis of children's... -
UK Higher Education Institution Research Data Management Policies, 2009-2016
This dataset compares existing research data policies at UK higher education institutions. It consists of 83 cases. Polices were compared on a range of variables. Variables... -
Living with sickle cell or thalassamemia trait: implications for identity and...
We carried out a two year ESRC funded qualitative study, using focus groups and in depth- interviews, looking at the long term impact of being identified as a carrier of sickle... -
Perceptions of key staff on the impact of school leadership on pupil outcomes...
Key staff (i.e. senior and middle school leaders) questionnaire data were collected from 1,167 most effective and most improved secondary schools in England. The data were...