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High profile research
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This is a selection of projects at the Institute of Education whose reports can be found on our website.
For more information about the research projects at the Institute of Education set to finish in the next four months, please click here.
Effective provision of pre-school education (EPPE)
Effective pre-school and primary education (3—11)
 EPPE tracked 3,000 children in different kinds of pre-school setting from 1997 to their key stage 1 tests in 2003. Its aim was to identify the aspects of pre-school provision that had a positive impact on children’s attainment, progress and development, and so provide guidance on good practice. The project was funded by the DfES. Twelve technical papers were produced on all aspects of pre-school education and its effects on the children’s primary careers. The project has been extended to follow the same 3000 children until age 11, when they take their key stage 2 tests. The research will look at the continuing effects of pre-school and of effective primary schooling.
Click here to go to the EPPE website.
British birth cohort studies
The British birth cohort studies have been tracking the lives of everyone born in Britain in one week in 1946, 1958 and 1970 from birth to present day. The latest findings have been published in Changing Britain, Changing Lives (Institute of Education 2003), which provides a unique insight into social change in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. This study compares the three cohorts in areas including partnerships and parenthood; family life; employment, income and living standards; health, and social values.
The Millennium Cohort
Researchers began collecting data on almost 19,000 babies born in the UK in 2000 when the babies were nine months old. The second survey began in September 2003, when they were three. The first published study includes data on household structure and characteristics; ethnic characteristics; pregnancy, delivery and labour; babies’ health and development.
The 1958, 1970 and 2000 studies are managed by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the Institute.
Click here for more information about the cohort studies.
EPPI-Centre research library
The DfES-funded EPPI-Centre was established in 1993 to address the need for a systematic approach to the organisation and review of evidence-based work on social interventions. The work and publications of the Centre engage health and education policy makers, practitioners and service users in discussions about how researchers can make their work more relevant and how to use research findings. An increasing number of the publications are made available on its website.
Click here for more information.
Reading Recovery National Network – national monitoring 2003—05
 Reading Recovery is an early literacy intervention for 5 and 6 year-olds who are identified as the lowest attaining in their class, many unable to read or write their names after a year of formal schooling. Children in Reading Recovery receive daily, individual teaching for between 15 and 20 weeks, with the aim of accelerating their literacy learning to the average band for their class. Evidence from the national monitoring shows that four out of five of these children can be successfully “recovered” in this way, and that most go on to achieve literacy levels appropriate for their age in national assessment tests.
Click here to go to the Reading Recovery website.
Multigrade teaching in primary schools
 Multigrade classrooms, in which teachers teach across several curriculum grades at the same time, are extremely common in developing countries. Yet in many systems of education, where monograde classes are the norm, the multigrade classroom and the needs of the multigrade teacher are often unrecognised. This project describes the extent of multigrade practice and associated problems in Peru, Sri Lanka and Vietnam; describes how teachers organise teaching and learning in multigrade primary schools, and makes recommendations on multigrade teaching policy and practice.
Click here to go to the Multigrade website
For more information about the research projects at the Institute of Education set to finish in the next four months, please click here.
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