TLRP research

The Teaching and Learning Research Programme's research briefings offer short summaries of major research projects.  The links below will take you directly to non-technical documents produced by research teams for public use.  Other useful resources are the TLRP Commentaries and Teacher's Guide which are also listed here.

• Personalised learning: a TLRP commentary
• Neuroscience and education - issues and opportunities: a TLRP commentary
• Improving teaching and learning in schools: a TLRP commentary
• Principles in practice: a teacher's guide to research evidence on teaching and learning
• 10 Principles for effective teaching and learning: poster

Briefings list

• Education, schooling and learning for life
• Factors that make teachers more effective across their careers
• Using computers to enhance learning
• Learning how to learn - in classrooms, schools and networks
• 5-14 Mathematics in Scotland - intensive quantities: why primary school mathematics needs them
• The development of inclusive practices in schools
• Consulting pupils about teaching and learning
• Towards evidence-based practice in science education 4: users’ perceptions of research
• Towards evidence-based practice in science education 3: teaching pupils ‘ideas-about-science’
• Improving pupil group work in classrooms: A new approach to increasing engagement and learning in everyday classroom settings in Key Stages 1, 2 and 3
• Enhancing primary literacy and mathematics through home-school knowledge exchange
• Building thinking skills in thinking classrooms
• Why morphemes are useful in primary school literacy
• Fractions: difficult but crucial in mathematics learning
• Engaging teachers, engaging learners: action research for developing inclusion in secondary schools