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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION

PROFESSOR JO-ANNE BAIRD, DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION INTRODUCTION Director’s welcome 3 Oxford University’s Department of Education is an outstanding environment in which to Year in review 4 research and study. This Annual Report is News and events 5 testament to the high-quality research and teaching being conducted and the diverse ways in which this has been recognised. RESEARCH Some indications of the inspirational Mapping our research 8 community of scholarship in the department Research activities 9 in 2017/18 include: Professor Sebba’s Major projects 17 OBE for services to higher education and New project awards 22 disadvantaged young people, the Rees Centre’s Excellence in Impact Award, Professor Steve Strand’s appointment to the Research Excellence Framework 2021 panel IMPACT, ENGAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE for education, Professor Charles Hulme’s Distinguished Contribution Award from the EXCHANGE Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Published books 24 Professor Terezinha Nunes’ Hans Freudenthal Research influence 25 Award for her contribution to research on Professor Jo-Anne Baird Research with impact 27 mathematical thinking, the 20 doctorates Exchanging knowledge 28 awarded and the many achievements of our students and alumni. Advising government 31 Our research and teaching networks are Deanery, the department has a significant highlighted in this report; they bring a investment in producing excellent teachers TEACHING AND LEARNING diversity of questions and contexts into our for the future. Our PGCE programme Student recruitment 32 research and teaching programmes. This is distinctive in its depth of partnership 2018/19 Programmes 33 breadth of cultures, histories and research with local schools and our commitment Student awards 33 agendas adds to the depth of work and to research-based teaching and common strengthens international networks with values regarding teaching excellence with Alumni achievements 35 practising educators, policymakers and our school-based mentors and their leaders. Scholarships 36 industry partners around the world. Professor Diane Mayer (previously of the Doctoral completions 36 University of Sydney) joins the department The international landscape in higher over the coming year, bringing a wealth education is changing rapidly and it is of international experience in this field. STAFF important to both understand Professor Mayer will lead the Pedagogy, New appointments 37 our own environment and to inform Learning and Knowledge research theme, Honorary Fellows 38 wider society about education issues which, as can be seen in this Annual Report, that are significant for the knowledge Visiting Practitioners 38 conducts an impressive set of projects economy. Over the coming year we look linking research in this area across the world. forward to expanding our research in the area A number of appointments are anticipated CONNECT of higher education, with the appointment in the area of teacher education over the Events, web and social media 39 of Professor Simon Marginson (previously of coming year, underlining our commitment to the Institute of Education, University College university-led, research-informed teacher London) and the addition of his ESRC- education. funded Global Centre for Research in Higher Education. Professor Marginson joins We are updating our teaching and learning the vibrant Higher Education Research Group, spaces, including the creation of a new social including Professor Alis Oancea, Dr David Mills, learning space. These changes have been Dr Helen Carasso, Dr Andrea Laczika and Dr informed by the research programme of James Robson. Professor Marginson will be a Professor Harry Daniels and Hau Ming Tse, Fellow of Linacre College. who have been investigating the effects of the design of educational spaces upon With a long tradition in research on teaching and learning. Our new environment teacher professional development and will be even more conducive to the the current initiative of the Oxford Education production of insights in education. 4 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 5

YEAR IN REVIEW NEWS AND EVENTS

The department is proud of its staff and the many achievements received across their areas of teaching and research expertise. Below is a selection of highlights from the last academic year. st rd Ranked in the 2014 Research 3in the world for No.in the UK for degrees 1 1 Hans Freudenthal Award 2017 Excellence Framework degrees in In January 2018 Emeritus Professor Terezinha Nunes was in education in 2018 for education in 2018 awarded the 2017 Hans Freudenthal Award for her outstanding Times Higher Education education Times Higher Education contribution to the understanding of mathematical thinking, its subject league research 590students subject league origins and development. For more than 35 years Terezinha has been researching children’s mathematical learning, as it takes place in formal and informal settings. The award given by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction honours innovative, consistent and highly influential programmes of academic research in mathematics education and is awarded to a scholar peer-reviewed 142+ 13 staff who has initiated research that has been brought into maturation 17+scholarships events 169 journals edited over a duration of at least 10 years. awarded convened in the members department William T David Award 2018 Professor Pam Sammons was presented with the William T David Award for her 2016 paper ‘The impact of leadership on student 337research outcomes: how successful school leaders use transformational and publications instructional strategies to make a difference’ (co-authored with in 2017/18 Christopher Day and Qing Gu) at the 2018 AERA conference. It new programme 20%increase in Judy Sebba receiving her OBE from the Duke of Cambridge – was noted that the awardees were the first English academics to 7postgraduate in 1MSc Educational receive the award since it was established in 1979. programmes DPhil Buckingham Palace, March 2018 applications Assessment Best Poster Prize 2017 An OBE for Services to Higher Education and In October 2017, Dr Louise McGrath-Lone received the Best Disadvantaged Young People Poster Prize at the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Congratulations to Professor Judy Sebba (former Director, Rees authored and 2017 international conference for her poster entitled ‘Lifetime 7 Centre), who was awarded an OBE for her Services to Higher histories of out-of-home care among children in England: latent Education and Disadvantaged Young People in the 2018 New class analysis of administrative social care data’. Year’s Honours List. Judy was presented with her medal by Prince increase in research active research newly secured edited books 30.4% 84 33 William at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 23 March 2018. 7in 2017/18 income projects research grants PIRLS 2016 Reading Literacy Performance in England ‘I am delighted to be receiving this honour, which reflects Report Event the impact of the Rees Centre locally, nationally and Associate Professor Joshua McGrane gave a talk with Nick Gibb internationally on improvements to the educational (Minister of State for School Standards) on the PIRLS 2016 achievements and lives of children in care. Our findings National Report for England, a project led by the department’s repeatedly show that young people in care need others Centre for Educational Assessment, at an event at the British to believe in them if they are to believe in themselves.’ Library (London) on 5 December 2017. Over million Judy Sebba 724podcast website1 views £2,383,883newly secured research funding downloads Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award This award, presented to Professor Charles Hulme at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading conference in July 2018, recognises Charles’ important work on reading interventions in children, which has furthered our understanding of the components that lead to developing good reading skills and has also provided teachers with clear guidance on how Over best to support reading in classrooms. ITE school £16mvalue of current increase in published30 37 36% Best Published Paper 2017 placement research podcasts researchers Associate Professors Jenni Ingram and Velda Elliott received partnerships portfolio the Cambridge Journal of Education’s Best Paper Prize for their article entitled ‘A critical analysis of the role of wait time in classroom interactions and the effects on student and teacher interactional behaviours’ in December 2017. Josh McGrane and the Minister of State for School Standards and Minister for Equalities at the PIRLS release seminar in London 6 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 7

Oriel Colloquium on Universities, Security and 2018 Colloquium on Writers and Their Education Intelligence Studies

Following the success of the 2017 Colloquium on Writers and their education, Professor Liam Gearon together with Emma Williams (University of Warwick) were attributed with a second award for the 2018 Colloquium by the Soci- ety for Educational Studies. Examining education through sociocultural, historic and political lenses, this Colloquium will bring together international keynote speakers including some of the most senior global figures in philosophy and literature. The Colloquium also underpins a guest-edited special issue of the British Journal of Educational Studies. More information: www.soc-for-ed-studies.org.uk

2017 Oxford University Student Union Teaching Awards school effectiveness and improvement. Susila commented, The Oxford University Student Union Teaching Awards are organised “I can’t believe my luck on having her as my supervisor.” by the University’s Student Union and are a sign of the student body’s appreciation of the enormous talent and hard work of their Associate Professor Sonali Nag has since been nominated by her Liam Gearon introducing Professor Loch Johnson (University of teachers, tutors, lecturers and supervisors. students for the 2018 awards. Georgia) at the 2017 Oriel Colloquium on Universities, Security and Intelligence Studies Professor Pam Sammons was awarded the National Association for the University’s Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Teaching of English Award Award and was shortlisted from a record- Associate Professor Velda Elliott was breaking total of 895 nominations. Professor presented with the National Association

John Cairns Sammon’s nomination was put forward by for the Teaching of English Award DPhil student, Susila Davis, who highlighted following a nomination by the English in Judy Sebba (Rees Centre) with Alis Oancea (Director of her outstanding level of pastoral care for Education journal, which highlighted the Education) at the O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2018 her students, and her integrity and critical tremendous amount of support she has engagement with their work and the field of given to the subject discipline. Highly Commended at the O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2018 Researchers from the Rees Centre were awarded with the Highly Commended for Excellence in Impact Award at the In the Media University’s inaugural O2RB event on 19 April 2018 for their New Statesman, 26 August 2017 The Economist, 19 April 2018 work on the Educational Progress of Looked After Children in ‘Are the new A-levels stopping girls reaching their full ‘Britain’s ambitious apprenticeship reforms are in trouble’ England – the first major study in England to explore the potential?’ Comment piece by Ewart Keep relationship between educational outcomes, young people’s Liam Gearon at the 2017 Oriel Colloquium on Universities, Article citing research conducted by Therese Hopfenbeck care histories and individual characteristics. Security and Intelligence Studies, with Routledge publishers and Times Higher Education online, 19 April 2018 the President of Oxford University Press Times Higher Education, 27 September 2017 ‘Following the footprints of spies on campus’ Human Welfare Conference 2017 ‘Student mobility may aid ‘democratic development’ in Article citing Liam Gearon’s 2018 Colloquium on Universities, Conceived and convened by Professor Liam Gearon, the Oriel Professor Jo-Anne Baird participated in a session in conversation home nations’ Security and Intelligence Colloquium on Universities, Security and Intelligence Studies was a with Edward Ndopu (MPP candidate) at the 10th Human Welfare Article citing research conducted by Maia Chankseliani major international gathering of security and intelligence academics The Economist, 24 May 2018 Conference at Green Templeton College on 12–13 May 2017. and practitioners that took place at Oriel College, Oxford, in Times Educational Supplement, 28 November 2017 ‘Britain’s apprenticeship levy is causing a boom in MBAs’ The conference explored the theme of Empowerment in the September 2017 thanks to the generous funding of the Society ‘Assessment: The ‘worrying’ rise in exam malpractice Comment piece by Ewart Keep 21st Century. – and four other trends discussed by experts today’ for Educational Studies. Khrono, 23 June 2018 Article citing quote from Jo-Anne Baird The critical focus of the Colloquium was the relationship between ‘More practice can be a win-win’ universities and the security and intelligence agencies and included The Times, 6 December 2017 Norwegian article citing an international expert group Publons Peer Review Award 2018 a variety of keynote speakers from the likes of MI5, NATO, the ‘England worst in schooling summer-born’ involving Alis Oancea Article citing research by Joshua McGrane Professor Steve Strand was awarded the Publons Peer Cabinet Office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and more. The Independent, 4 July 2018 Review Award in September 2018, noting him as the top The Colloquium also saw the launch of Professor Gearon’s 2017 The Economist, 31 March 2018 ‘Proposed tests for four-year-olds could lead to nursery 1% of peer reviewers (internationally) and the 5th highest book ‘Education, Security and Intelligence Studies’, and the ‘England has become one of the world’s biggest education’ children being coached for exams, experts warn’ ranked reviewer in the world. notification of his forthcoming 2018 publication, Universities,‘ laboratories Article citing departmental research Article citing research report co-authored by Pam Sammons Security and Intelligence Studies’.

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RESEARCH

INTRODUCTION Language, Cognition and Development PROFESSOR ALIS OANCEA, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH Professor Charles Hulme

In a report commissioned by the British Academy and Royal Society years settings, schools, colleges, higher education institutions, research; a review of the research centres; a series of five This research theme brings together four research groups and to inform their recent inquiry into Education Research, I argued policy, national and international organisations, and other sectors staff development workshops on publications and impact; two research centres and focuses particularly on the development with colleagues that ‘strong research environments may be best such as care, culture and industry, to make a marked difference a symposium on research funding for staff; and work of language, literacy and numeracy skills, and the evaluations of described not only by quantitative indicators of research-active to educational experiences in the UK and across the world. As on the research impact strategy and communications, educational interventions to develop these skills. During the last year, staff or volume of research funding and outputs, but by qualitative illustrated in this report, their rich contribution to the intellectual including a new departmental website. The Group’s special research has been supported by grants from many sources including descriptors of the social and intellectual organisation of their and professional fabric of the field has been widely recognised. projects for the next academic year are being developed the Big Lottery Fund, the Education Endowment Foundation, Esmée research’ (Mills, Oancea and Robson, 2017). Indeed, by quantitative The externally funded research centres are flourishing and have on the basis of needs identified by departmental staff this Fairbairn, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Department indicators, from rankings to funding, staffing and outputs, research developed impact-oriented and strongly collaborative cultures, year. for International Development, the European Commission, the Nuffield Foundation and the Sutton Trust. in the department continues to thrive; for example, the portfolio while contributing more widely to the intellectual work of the In my nearly 20 years in this department I have of externally funded research has expanded and diversified department. The research groups and methodological hubs developed a deep appreciation of the special way in The theme has seen some significant staff changes with the retirement significantly, the numbers of research staff at all stages of career have created a vibrant space for pushing the substantive and which it combines multidisciplinary scholarship of the of Professors Ernesto Macaro, Terezinha Nunes, Pam Sammons and have increased, and the department’s contributions to leadership methodological boundaries of our field. highest quality with professionalism across both teaching Judy Sebba, and the departure of Dr Maria Evangelou. Professor in the field are richly evidenced. Browsing through the pages of this Our research strategy, organisation and procedures are driven by and research, and with an ethos of collegiality, integrity Charles Hulme, Associate Professor Sonali Nag, Professor Iram Siraj and report, there are many such indicators of strength. But – in line with the commitment to supporting this generative research culture. and social responsibility locally, nationally and globally. A Dr Lisa Holmes were all welcomed as new members to join the theme. our argument for the British Academy and Royal Society inquiry Every year, the department’s Research Strategy Group, with warm thank you to each of our colleagues, from students – this year I want to focus attention on the qualitative aspects of www.education.ox.ac.uk/our-research/language-cognition- input from the thematic clusters, sub-committees and research and early-career researchers to senior academics and what makes this department an excellent space for research and for development staff forum, identifies several special projects that can support professional support staff, who have created this research research-rich teaching. environment through their individual and collective this process. In 2017/18 these projects included: open access; Applied Linguistics contributions. Across the department, colleagues are engaged in cutting- consideration of co-authorship and attribution; the integration of Professor Victoria Murphy edge multidisciplinary research, as well as working with early research students in groups and centres; technological support for www.education.ox.ac.uk/our-research During this year, a project on ‘Foreign Language Education: Unlocking Reading’, funded by the Nuffield Foundation explored explicit reading strategy instruction (with challenging texts), explicit phonics instruction (with the same challenging texts), and the use of challenging texts alone (without explicit strategies/phonics instruction) with beginner Destinations of funded Destinations of learners in Year 7 French. Key findings concluded the following: research projects: DPhil projects: MAPPING OUR RESEARCH None of the three approaches led to higher reading outcomes than the others. Map showing the geographic destinations of our funded and doctoral research projects during Bangladesh Brazil All three groups made progress in reading and it is believed that 2017/18. Chile Caribbean islands their engagement with the challenging texts promoted this. Czech Republic China the phonics group made greater gains in vocabulary knowledge Finland Ethiopia over the course of the intervention. France Finland The strategy group had some advantages in the development of Germany France self-efficacy for reading and stategic behaviour. Ghana Germany Teachers and students were extremely positive about the texts as a Greece Ghana learning resource. India Indonesia Overall an integrated approach combining all three elements Ireland Iran (strategies, phonics and challenging texts) is most likely to promote Italy Japan the development of reading and literacy skills in this context. Japan Kenya In a study of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in India and Kenya Portugal its effects, which involved the secondary analysis of a nationally The Netherlands Qatar representative panel data group, members found strong substantive Nigeria Rwanda effects of EMI schooling on English language proficiency and Norway Saudi Arabia educational outcomes. The team are currently extending their analysis Poland Singapore to model the effects of EMI schooling on employment and educational Portugal South Africa inequalities, and intend to disseminate the project findings in the Qatar Turkey first instance by means of peer-reviewed articles and conference Sierra Leone Uganda presentations. South Africa UK Tanzania USA The results of a project which has continued work on the acquisition of Uganda Zimbabwe vocabulary in young English as an Additional Language (EAL) pupils and UK the impact of their vocabulary knowledge on reading comprehension have consistently shown that EAL children in primary school tend to have lower scores on a range of vocabulary assessments relative to 10 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 1 1

non-EAL children and that figurative dimensions of vocabulary with the use of technology to reduce the language barrier in four months’ extra progress comparing with those who did not the EasyPeasy evaluation report, the Parental Engagement (such as collocations, idioms and metaphors) make important science instruction and assessment in the country. The second participate in 1stClass@Number. Network report, the Making it REAL report, the Peeple report and contributions to reading comprehension. This work is now being saw the centre’s researchers and NGO partners from Lebanon the Reader report. Download the full report here: www.educationendowment extended to examine how digital technology can support learning present some of the findings of their collaboration to a wide range foundation.org.uk/public/files/1stClass@Number_ Group members were consulted by the Department for Education depth of vocabulary and how different pedagogical strategies of audiences at St Cross College, Oxford. This symposium also evaluation_report.pdf on shaping the new Early Learning Goals – a curriculum for might impact vocabulary development for bilingual pupils. included a series of paper presentations focusing on the language children aged 0-5, which proposes to be piloted in 25 schools in barrier in education in various countries and how technology Research on children’s understanding of probability was published September 2018. The proposals are expected to ease the burden UPCOMING EVENT could provide support, and concluded with a panel discussion in a chapter entitled ‘What 9- and 10-year-old pupils already of the moderation process and enable teachers to make a rounded Primary languages policy implementation strategy summarising key points from the Lebanese experience with know, and what they can learn, about randomness’. It reports judgement about a child’s development. summit Syrian refugees, highlighting the implications for the teaching and the outcomes of a teaching programme to promote primary British Academy, London assessment of migrants’ learning in the UK. school children’s understanding of probability. The book was A report titled, ‘A Baseline without Basis: The Validity and Utility 23 November 2018 of the Proposed Reception Baseline Assessment in England’ was A two-day project meeting was also held in March 2018 to take published by the International Conference on Mathematics Hosted by group members and awarded by BAAL published in July 2018. The report sets out the case against the stock of a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Education and it is freely available at: link.springer.com/ government’s proposal to use a baseline assessment test of pupils Council and the Department for International Development, on ‘the chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-72871-1_10. English Medium Instruction Oxford in reception to hold schools in England to account for the progress Assessment for Learning in Improving Pedagogy and Assessment Associate Professor Heath Rose The National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics that pupils have made by the end of Key Stage 2. It considered for Numeracy in Foundation Years’, which aims to improve prepared 16 Work Group Leads to prepare teachers to use the whether evidence from the assessment literature could justify such The English Medium Instruction (EMI) research group have standards of numeracy by developing teachers’ and teacher programme Mathematical Reasoning in Year 2, developed by the a test being used for this purpose and concluded that it could not. benefited from two externally funded and three internally funded trainers’ pedagogical and assessment skills in extremely deprived Children Learning Group and shown to be effective in a large- projects during 2017/18. The first project was funded by a urban areas in South Africa and Tanzania. The report further concluded that the government’s proposals, scale rigorous study supported by the Education Endowment costing upward of £10 million, were flawed, unjustified, unfit for British Council English Language Teacing Research Award, and Foundation. The programme was used by these Work Group Leads explored transitional challenges associated with high-school level purpose and detrimental to children, parents, teachers and the WATCH Research Fellow Yasmine El in 160 schools over the last two years; 50 more schools have and university level English medium instruction in Italy. It further wider education system in England. Masri features in this pilot signed up to participate in professional development in order to use investigated listening strategies associated with learning through ‘Roads to Inclusion’ study video exploring the use the programme in 2018/19. Findings from the Fostering Effective Early Learning Study involving the medium of English. of technology in science tasks a cluster randomised control trial were presented in New South to help reduce the language The Local Authority in Leeds has also implemented the programme The second project was a systematic review of EMI research Wales, Australia. The findings showed that evidence-based barrier for Syrian Refugees in in 20 schools since last September. The total number of schools in primary schools in South America, commissioned by Oxford professional development can enhance teacher competence to Lebanon. who have used or are preparing to use the programme since it was University Press. It gathered and synthesised findings about good improve child developmental outcomes in the year before children www.media.podcasts. evaluated by the Education Endowment Foundation in 2015 is just practices in EMI primary school classrooms in South America, the enter school. A keynote at the Organisation for Economic Co- ox.ac.uk/education/ over 300 and the number of pupils is over 12,000. resources and teacher development programmes available, and the general/roadstoinclusion- operation and Development and the Ensemble pour l’Education de landscape of EMI programmes in this context. The challenges and 720p.mp4 la Petite Enfance conference was held in Paris in June 2018 and needs facing the EMI primary school education in this context were attended by 360 delegates from over 60 countries. also discussed. The group carried out a national survey of Children’s Centres, Children Learning Three internally funded projects were financed by the Centre for funded by the Sutton Trust, which showed that centres are closing Emeritus Professor Terezinha Nunes Research and Development on English Medium Instruction. These rapidly – with staff in those remaining ‘hollowed out’ through included the following: The Children Learning group led a research review that aimed at local authority cuts. The research further revealed that official identifying what meditates the relation between socio-economic government data recorded a 14% drop in numbers whereas An exploration of teachers’ oral explanations of science status (SES) and science learning. Mediators of the SES effect Oxford’s ‘Stop Start’ report for the Sutton Trust found the true concepts in Hong Kong’s EMI contexts. on science learning are factors that reduce the impact of low figure closer to 30%. The report warns that the closures are An investigation of the costs and benefits of the ‘Englishisation’ SES on science learning. At the individual level, three mediators creating a ‘postcode lottery’ of early years provision. of higher education in Japan in terms of students’ content and were identified: reading comprehension, scientific reasoning and language learning development. meta cognitive skills. At the institutional level, the investment of An exploration of the relationship of the medium of instruction Radio Interview resources at the family, school and country levels mediated the on employment in multilingual India. April 2018 – BBC Radio 4 impact of SES on science learning. Against previous belief, there is Professor Kathy Sylva speaks about the future of Children’s Centre for Educational Assessment no evidence that pupils from lower SES backgrounds have lower Families, Effective Learning and Literacy Centres as part of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour Associate Professor Therese N. Hopfenbeck levels of motivation to learn science. Professor Iram Siraj www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xcslc The centre has continued to work on a variety of research Download the full report here: Several reports were published at the beginning of 2018 on the projects over the last year, with one of its central focuses being educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/evidence- Parental Engagement Fund. This project, funded by the Sutton Rees Centre on the Progress in International Reading Literacy (PIRLS) 2016 summaries/evidence-reviews/science Trust and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and supported by five Dr Lisa Holmes Assessment (see pages 20–21 for more details). UK-based parental engagement organisations, helped organisations The group also led the evaluation of the impact of a programme In autumn 2017 the Department for Education (DfE) published a to develop their evidence base to increase their understanding of A one-year Economic and Social Research Council and Global entitled ‘1stClass@Number’, designed by Edge Hill University, series of thematic reports produced by the Rees Centre team to intervention and to improve practice. Challenges Research Fund project on ‘Using Technology in Science on mathematics learning amongst pupils struggling with the synthesise the learning across the first round of the DfE Children’s Tasks: Reducing the Language Barrier for Syrian Refugees in curriculum at the beginning of Year 2. The design of the evaluation The final report (published in January 2018) also included an Social Care Innovation Programme. The Centre’s new director, Lisa Lebanon’, concluded with two public engagement events at was rigorous and involved the participation of more than 130 end-of-project event at the British Academy, at which the report Homes, was invited to present key evaluation findings on how data the end of 2017. The first gathered key stakeholders in Beirut, schools. The programme had a statistically significant impact on the was launched to a large audience of researchers, commissioners, can be used to inform practice at a DfE Best Practice conference Lebanon to discuss the opportunities and challenges associated performance of pupils in the lower 15% of the class: they made policymakers and programme deliverers. Further reports included held in London in February 2018. The team have subsequently 12 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 1 3

been commissioned to carry out a series of further evaluations as Comparative and International Education Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Hong Kong, Qatar, Mexico, Norway and the MEDIA ARTICLE part of rounds two and three of the innovation programmes. These Dr David Johnson UK. They also convened and led residential workshops on doctoral ‘How Russia is using international students as a weapon in evaluations focus on innovations for children in care (including supervision in Uganda and Kenya and were featured in Times Higher The group’s longitudinal study of learning, progression and the new Cold War’ fostering), those on the edge of care and care leavers. Education, The Conversation, BBC Oxford, Science XTM, Schools personal growth in Sierra Leone (2015–2018) funded by Article by Maia Chankseliani (Associate Professor of Week, FE Week, FE News, El Mundo, Khrono, among other media As part of the Alex Timpson Attachment and Trauma Programme UBI Optimus Foundation finds that in target schools, students Comparative and International Education ) outlet. in Schools, the Centre has begun a termly webinar series aimed at achieve a gain of 98-scaled scores over a period of 18 months The Conversation, 8 June 2018 school staff, other practitioners, foster carers and adoptive parents compared to 48-scaled scores for private comparison schools MEDIA ARTICLE across England to promote discussion around the importance of and a gain of 44-scaled scores for government schools. The Higher Education ‘What you need to know about the tuition fee review schools being attachment aware. Each webinar has been well number of female students in the poorest performing Professor Alis Oancea – and how it could affect students’ attended, with recordings posted to the Rees Centre Youtube achievement band reduced from 80% at test 1 to 45.5% in Key foci this year include research on research, with particular Co-authored article by Helen Carasso (Lecturer in Higher channel (see: www.youtube.com/user/ReesCentre). test 6. The number of male students in the poorest performing attention to research capacity building, research assessment, Education) The Conversation, 20 February 2018 band was reduced from 73.9% to 34.8% between the first and The team have also continued to disseminate key findings from collaboration, metrics and indicators, impact, open science, and the sixth test intervals. current landscape of education research; the implications of higher Philosophy, Religion and Education projects to international colleagues, with invited presentations Professor Alis Oancea, Associate Professor Liam Gearon and A total of 31 research projects under the Economic and Social education policies on access and participation; graduate labour to policymakers, legislators, practitioners and other academics in Associate Professor Nigel Fancourt Taiwan, the US, Canada and Portugal. Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International markets; the internationalisation of higher education in different Development (DFID) Raising Learning Outcomes in Education economic contexts; student mobility; doctoral education; the This multidisciplinary forum weaves together philosophical and The Centre’s research continues to influence policy and practice, Systems Research Programme assembled in London over two influences of China and Russia on higher education in Central Asia; empirical research to interrogate a wide range of sociocultural, regionally, nationally and internationally. Specific examples over days in February 2018 to discuss the nature and progress of and inequalities in education and skills acquisition, and the transition to political, religious and security issues that impact directly and the last academic year focus on Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking their research across 41 countries in the developing world. The meaningful work in the South Caucasus. The Group offers a research indirectly upon educational institutions, including universities Children (UASC) and research exploring educational trajectories research teams were represented by their principal investigators home to doctoral students researching various aspects of higher themselves. It draws on diverse methodological and theoretical and outcomes. Centre members were invited to host a policy and largely located in the USA, the UK, India, South Africa and Australia education, and also to the higher education pathway of the MSc approaches to develop cross-disciplinary research and scholarship practice round table at the DfE in April 2018. As a consequence of and research staff located in research focus regions (Africa, South Education. in: philosophy of education; ethnographic and comparative studies their research, policymakers have now identified the assignment of Asia and Latin America). The Programme Research Lead (Dr David Events this year include: of religion in education across diverse cultural settings; philosophies a Unique Pupil Identifier for UASC to be a policy priority to analyse Johnson) based in the department, is responsible for the synthesis The Social Sciences Division’s Open Access Week day symposium of literature; philosophy of research; political theology; and the education trajectories. of scientific knowledge accumulated under the programme. on ‘Papers, Publishing and Peer Review’. interface of education, security and intelligence studies. In 2017/18, Reports from the Nuffield-funded study on the Educational Over 150 representatives of academic institutions, philanthropic An invited round table on education research co-organised by the the forum’s seminar programme, organised in collaboration with the Progress of Looked After Children in England continue to influence foundations and the educational policy community assembled British Academy, Royal Society and Department for Education. Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (Oxford branch), analytical plans and priorities at the DfE and have been used to in Keble College, Oxford, in June 2018 for the second annual A chaired panel of researchers at HEFCE’s ‘The Turning Tide’ event included events with the Revd Dr Sir Ralph Waller, Professor Terry inform its Children in Need and educational outcomes review (June Oxford Symposium in Comparative and International Education on metrics in February 2018. Lovat, Professor Richard Pring, Professor Andrew Paterson and Dr 2018). (OXSCIE). OXSCIE is supported by the Aga Khan Foundation and A co-convened invited symposium on the future of doctoral Dafydd Daniel. Funded research and events in 2017/18 included: a Global Centre for Pluralism. The focus this year was on political education in Africa in May 2018 with Atia Apusigah (University of colloquium on education, security and intelligence studies (Society Policy, Economy and Society uncertainty and its effects on the changing nature of society, to Development Studies, Ghana) – a visiting research fellow with the for Educational Studies) in Michaelmas Term; the mapping of the Professor Ewart Keep which the following question was considered – ‘how can we, Research Group. capacity and impact of education research (British Academy and through education, best shape and sustain a society that is at Royal Society); the evaluation of research capacity building on ITE in Research in the Policy, Economy and Society theme covers the The group also convened a number of departmental seminars on once plural and cosmopolitan, prosperous and inclusive, fair and Wales (HEFCW); and a seminar series in Trinity Term on ‘The Church, interface and interaction between education, wider society, the higher education, inviting speakers including Tristan McCowan (UCL) responsible, and cohesive?’ Education and Leadership’, co-hosted with the Church of England’s economy and the labour market. This year saw the departure of and Robin Shields (Bath). In April 2018, the MSc (Higher Education) Foundation for Educational Leadership. Dr Hubert Ertl to head up the research arm of the German Federal students hosted a symposium entitled ‘The Future of Higher Institute for Vocational Education and Training, and as a result, Education: Converting Current Anxieties to Transformative Action’, SKOPE there has been a vacancy for the Head of the Higher Education at which speakers included Ron Barnett, David Palfreyman and a Professor Ewart Keep Research Group. With the appointment of Professor Simon range of senior Oxford academic leaders. Dr James Robson delivered The Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance Chris Johnson Marginson and the impending arrival of parts of his Economic and keynotes on access and participation at the Trinity College Dublin (SKOPE) has continued with its Economic and Social Research Social Research Council funded Centre for Global Higher Education, Access Conference and the Oxbridge Exchange, and contributed Council funded project on young people ‘not in education, the Higher Education Research Group will be renewed with to university-wide policy on access and on the strategic use of employment or training’ (NEET) across the four UK nations, and increased numbers of staff in this area. technology in higher education. has completed a project (in collaboration with the Association of Research within the theme has grappled with the many major The group’s recent research has been supported by a wide range of Colleges) for the Further Education Trust for Leadership (FETL) on policy changes that has confronted education during 2017/18, funding bodies and sources, such as the Economic and Social Research the marketisation of English Further Education. The published report ‘Scripting the Future – Exploring Potential Strategic Leadership including the increasing divergence of policy and practice across Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Responses to the Marketization of English Further Education and the four UK countries, the marketisation of English further and Academy, the Royal Society, the Higher Education Funding Council Vocational Provision’ is available here: fetl.org.uk/publications. higher education, the evolution of the research impact agenda for Wales, the Office for Fair Access, the Department for Education, and the European Commission. From within Oxford, funding has been in higher education policy and funding, and the development of SKOPE has also undertaken an evaluation of the UCL Institute of obtained from the Africa Oxford initiative, the John Fell Fund and the new vocational qualifications. The theme has also made significant Education Post-14 Centre’s East London Vocational Education Oxford Martin School. contributions to policy and practice in these areas over the year. and Training (ELVET) programme, and is researching for the Edge (see: www.education.ox.ac.uk/our-research/ policy- Group members gave talks and conference presentations on post- Foundation the long-term lessons from the CREATE curriculum – an economy-and-society). David Johnson speaking at the 2018 OXSCIE Symposium compulsory education, internationalisation and student mobility in employability framework - that is in use in studio schools. 14 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 1 5

Key research findings from the NEET project suggest that long- examined what aspects of the distinctive policy contexts term economic inactivity among older NEETs is a major issue in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributed to A VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING PLATFORM UPCOMING EVENT (as most of the limited policy intervention is targeted at the significantly lower rates of permanent school exclusion than that 22 October 2018 much smaller cohort of 16–19 NEETs) and that being NEET has of England, and why the rates in England continue to rise, Life-saving Instructions Symposia series aimed at university and school English serious mental health implications for many young people. The increasing by nearly 1,000 cases (and reaching a total of 5,800 for Emergencies (LIFE) is educators, organised in collaboration with the BERA English FETL project’s findings point to the precarious funding situation cases) between 2014 and 2015, compared with a total of a virtual reality training Special Interest Group. in which Further Education colleges find themselves in relation to 25 cases in Northern Ireland, 5 in Scotland and 89 in Wales simulation, which has www.bera.ac.uk/group/english-in-education-sig their fragmented key markets (16–18, 19-plus Adult Education during the same period. been used by four Budget-funded, 19-plus loans funded, and apprenticeships). teaching hospitals in Findings concluded the following: Colleges are also being squeezed on the one hand by schools (such Kenya during the last Teacher Education and Professional Learning Trade-offs between the ‘perverse incentives’ of excellence as new VI forms, studio schools, university technical colleges and year. Associate Professor Katharine Burn and equity can result in illegal exclusions. free schools), and on the other by higher education institutions www.oxlifeproject. Members of the group were invited to share different examples of In Scotland, where there is the lowest exclusion rate, policy that are facing falling student numbers and need to enter new org/life their research in initial teacher education and teachers’ professional is more oriented to social justice and equity, whereas the markets to maintain their cash flow. The SKOPE and Association of learning at two symposia devoted to ‘The Future of Teacher emphasis is more on excellence in England, and the exclusion Colleges report for FETL develops three possible scenarios for the Education’. future development of the marketplace in further education. rate is dramatically higher and growing. These great disparities in permanent exclusion cases only The first was hosted by Mike Kane, Shadow Minister for Schools SKOPE have also been invited to participate in policy meetings at provide a partial picture of the exclusion landscape, with pupils at the Houses of Parliament, for an audience of about 40 policy- the Resolution Foundation, No.10 Downing Street, the DfE, and a also being informally excluded in various ways. makers and teacher educators for which we shared our research Labour Party roundtable on adult learning. into ways of preparing beginning teachers to work effectively with MEDIA ARTICLE In June 2018, 20 participants from universities across Australia, young people living in poverty. Finland, Spain and the UK attend the group’s International Black students on going to Oxbridge: ‘it’s not even asked or pushed for, it’s just assumed no one is applying’ The second event was hosted by the Diversity in Teacher MONTHLY COLUMN Society for Cultural-historical Activity Research (ISCAR) Summer Article by James Robson (Research Fellow), Katriona O’Sullivan Education project at Bath Spa University, for an audience of about Ewart Keep (Director of SKOPE) now has a monthly column in School. The theme for the summer school was questions of (Trinity College, Dublin) and Niall Winters (Associate Professor 40 school- and university-based teacher educators, for which the FE Week. Current articles include: ‘Market or system – what’s method in cultural–historical activity research. of Learning and New Technologies). group shared their research into teacher education partnerships the best model for FE?’ (April 2018), ‘What are the biggest The Conversation, February 2018 and their study of research use in schools. problems with T-Levels?’ (May 2018) and ‘Stop fighting over Learning and New Technologies the crumbs of the adult education budget!’ (June 2018). Associate Professor Niall Winters During 2017/18 the group developed three evidence maps Subject Pedagogy on the role of mobile technologies for supporting community Professor Gabriel Stylianides health worker training in low- and middle-income countries, A research seminar with external participation was held in Pedagogy, Learning and Knowledge each providing informative visualisations of systematic research Professor Gabriel Stylianides May 2017 to discuss ideas related to classroom-based evidence for policymakers. interventions. The discussions informed the upcoming The four research groups in this theme are united by an The group published a scoping reviews report on a project publication of the book, ‘Classroom-based Interventions interdisciplinary interest in learning, practice, development and exploring the use of technology for training healthcare workers across Subject Areas: Research to Understand What Works in equity. The theme is centrally concerned with explorations of in April 2018. A second forthcoming report is also close to Education’ (due in November 2018), which aims to engage the relationships between knowledge and pedagogic policy and publication. readers in an academic debate, as well as helping teachers practice, as well as with how knowledge and pedagogy interact improve classroom practice. The book provides examples of with the ways in which learning activities are designed. A total of 13 journal articles were also published by group members theory-informed classroom-based intervention research during this period, along with editorials, book chapters, reports and An important strand in the theme’s work relates to developing, studies in different subject areas (mathematics, science, blogs in the popular press. Guest speakers to the group’s termly history, geography, english and modern foreign languages) understanding and evaluating the effectiveness of research- seminar series included Dr John Potter (UCL), Dr Michael Gallagher informed interventions to promote powerful pedagogical practices and, as a whole, considers broader theoretical and practical (Edinburgh University) and Dr Christothea Herodotou (Open issues that derive from diverse studies. The main book chapters in different subject areas and across levels of education, including University). teacher preparation and professional development. This strand of are written by members of the research group in collaboration with school partners as well as other external work is an example of how research in the theme capitalises on The group was proud to have three research students collaborators. Ian Thompson, Katharine Burn and Trevor Mutton at the Houses the multidisciplinary expertise of its members, and is represented recommended for the award of DPhil during 2017/18 and to have of Parliament in an upcoming edited volume by Routledge, titled ‘Classroom- welcomed two Clarendon and two Economic and Social Research Following the publication of this book on task design across based Interventions across Subject Areas’, which is expected in Council studentship recipients to the programme. subject areas, and with the support of John Fell Fund, a series Many members of the group have worked with teachers on small- November 2018. scale collaborative projects, such as the work with a group of local Six research grants were awarded to the group for new of workshops arising from the publication were organised. The workshops, informed by the book’s focus on how teachers mathematics teachers developing innovative approaches to the use www.education.ox.ac.uk/our-research/ knowledge- projects funded by the Global Challenge Research Fund, view and use the pedagogic potential of tasks to engage pupils of video in teachers’ professional development, or the Connecting pedagogy-and-development the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Higher Education with disciplinary knowledge, have provided the foundation for with School and Supporting Learning project, which was proposed Funding Council for England, Google.org and the Temple World Oxford Sociocultural and Activity Theory establishing an ongoing network of local teachers, collaborating in response to an individual teacher’s small-scale study of ways Charity Foundation, and two Innovation Fund grants were Professor Harry Daniels and Associate Professor Ian Thompson with group members, to promote research-informed approaches to reduce absenteeism among younger students. Further group awarded to postgraduate students of the group. Members to task design. members have been conducting participatory research, along with A project funded by Oxford University Press and the John Fell Fund also delivered three keynote speeches and gave six invited school-based colleagues, into the role of Research Champions in on disparities in rates of permanent school exclusion across the UK, talks during the year. promoting teachers’ research engagement. The impact of this 16 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 1 7

MAJOR PROJECTS work on the way in which teachers value, celebrate and seek to contribute to their weekly seminar series. Topics covered The following are examples of some of the major research activities that have been carried out within use research appropriately is reflected in the fact that many local everything from work in progress to published material. the department during the last academic year. schools (such as Matthew Arnold, John Mason and Waddesdon) www.education.ox.ac.uk/our-research/research-groups/ For information on all our current research projects see www.education.ox.ac.uk/our-research/projects are now hosting their own ‘Research Meet’ events, encouraging quant-hub colleagues to share findings from the projects in which they have Evaluation of the Children’s The department’s role within the Highlights to date: been involved as research collaborators, action research fellows or Social Care Innovation project, involves advising on the overall The results of a review of content in students within the Masters in Learning and Teaching. Qualitative Methods Hub Programme direction of the project and specifically the Magic Kinder app and a report on Associate Professors Velda Elliott and Susan James Relly on the evaluation design, instruments, screen time, digital safety and children’s Previous research on ‘Research-informed clinical practice’ Department for Education, 2017–20 questionnaires and the analytic strategy. well-being resulting from a review of (originally commissioned as part of the BERA-RSA Inquiry A Creative Research Methods Symposium day, including plenary Principal investigator | Lisa Holmes Project members will also train NatCen the research were published in April and into the Role of Research in Teacher Education) has continued speakers Dr Susie Weller (University of Southampton), Dr Yvonne July 2018. to be influential in Wales, where there has been a process of Robinson (London South Bank University), Dr Laura Trafi-Prats The Children’s Social Care Innovation interviewers in the use of the British Ability A guidance document providing re-accreditation of all initial teacher education programmes. (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Dr Eve Stirling Programme was launched by the UK Scales (BAS 3) and the project evaluators Following the earlier presentation of the work at an event hosted (Sheffield Hallam University) was hosted in summer 2017. Chris government’s Department for Education in using quality assessment instruments, research-informed suggestions for by the Welsh Government Assembly (2015). Members of the Shipton, the graphic recording artist, was on hand to create to test innovative ways of supporting ensuring quality assurance systems are in designing future educational content group acted as consultants to Cardiff Metropolitan University, visual interpretations of each talk. The day was attended by vulnerable children and young people, with place during fieldwork. within the Magic Kinder has been whose successful bid for the accreditation of new programmes approximately 50 research students and academics from Oxford an investment of up to £200m. Highlights to date: produced. was shaped by the tightly integrated model of theory and and further afield. The project team is responsible for The Early Childhood Education and A workshop on the future shape of the practice exemplified in the Oxford Internship Scheme and in the developing and delivering evaluations for Care and Child Outcomes at Age 4 parent dashboard was held. Throughout the academic year the hub has continued to host Oxford Education Deanery’s Research Champion role. reports have been completed. Report Development of two research themes weekly seminars, welcoming speakers from the UK, New Zealand seven of the funded projects based across on the child outcomes at age 4 years as around vocabulary development and and Sweden. Topics included the problem of coding in qualitative the UK (outlined below), drawing on a range BOOK LAUNCH parental engagement with a child’s research, cognitive interviewing, task-based interviewing, of methods to help increase the quality of related to ECEC experience are due for Learning to Teach in England and the United States: The digital technology have been explore. concept mapping, video data and archival research. the evidence base, and will investigate: how publication in September 2018. Evolution of Policy and Practice much progress funded projects have made The data collection on child outcomes www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ A seminar celebrating the launch of a new book co-written towards achieving the overall Innovation at age 5 have been completed and kindox by Teresa Tatto (Arizona State University) and four members Programme objectives; whether the the analysis of this data is expected to of the department (Katharine Burn, Ian Menter, Trevor projects meet their objectives; how the conclude in January 2019. UPCOMING EVENT Mutton and Ian Thompson) was held in the department on people involved are affected; and whether www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ The inaugural Kinder-Oxford 17 May 2018. they are more effective than previous early-education-and-development Symposium provision or services in other areas. At Anne’s College, Oxford University The projects being evaluated are: 27 September 2018 Methodological Research Hubs www.education.ox.ac.uk/kindox- Mockingbird Family Model (project led The Kinder-Oxford Research symposium-2018 Quantitative Methods Hub by the Fostering Network) Programme Professor Steve Strand Lifelong Links (project led by Family Ferrero International, 2017–20 Rights Group) Principal Investigator | Victoria Murphy Members of the hub won an Emerging Fields Group grant, House project (University of York Improving Children’s Working funded by EARLI and the Jacobs Foundation, which will sponsor evaluation lead) This project investigates the educational Memory three networking events on ‘The potential of biophysiology for Bradford’s B Positive Pathway content of the Magic Kinder app Education Endowment Foundation, understanding learning and teaching experiences’ to take place Three ‘Targeted Funding Opportunities’ produced by Ferrero International, 2016–18 over the next two years. focused on ‘Staying Close’ support for by supporting the creation of robust Principal Investigator | Terezinha Nunes A new article on ‘School effects on Chilean children’s achievement care leavers moving on from residential content that supports key aspects growth in language and mathematics: an accelerated growth care. of learning and enables a better Working memory is the ability to curve model’ was published in the School Effectiveness and www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ understanding of children’s learning remember and manipulate information School Improvement journal. evaluation-of-childrens-social-care- through digital technology. The over short time-frames. Longitudinal More than thirty students attended the annual Advanced innovation-programme development of a parental dashboard studies show a correlation between Quantitative Methods Summer School at the department at for the app that will encourage family working memory and attainment in maths, the beginning of May. Seven different course days were offered interaction and collaborative learning particularly arithmetic; this relation holds including Rasch models, R and multilevel modelling, simulation Study of Early Education and will also be involved. true even when intelligence is controlled studies and structural equation modelling. Five different Development The overall aim of the KindOx project is to for. The Working Memory programme has instructors led the course, including three from the department. Department for Education, 2013–20 benefit society through the development been tested in two control group studies, Participants came from a number of UK universities, as well as Principal Investigator | Ted Melhuish of a leading research and education one with hearing children and one with from within the University. Image by graphic artist, Chris Shipton, at the 2017 Creative, resource that, when completed, will serve deaf children. These two studies provide Research Methods Symposium, Liveillustration.co.uk The Study of Early Education and as an important step in encouraging promising results with both suggesting The hub also had 22 speakers across a wide spectrum from that the intervention positively impacts on internationally eminent professors to upcoming DPhil students Development is a large-scale longitudinal families’ engagement in their children’s mixed methods research programme play and will provide better understanding working memory. exploring the current childcare and early of the nature of learning through digital The working memory intervention is education model in England. technology. delivered by teaching assistants (TAs) and 18 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 1 9

targeted pupils are identified by teachers attainment associated with social development outcomes. as performing in the bottom third of the disadvantage. A series of Learning and Development class for numeracy at the end of Key Stage www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ events are also being held to bring 1. TAs worked with children to teach them the-nuffield-nursery-language- together practitioners, parents, memory strategies; the children practise programme policy experts and the ‘A Better Start’ the use of these strategies through programme teams. adaptive games played online developed by www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ the Children Learning team. Evaluation of the Big Lottery Fund’s ‘Fulfilling Lives: A Better evaluation-of-a-better-start- programme Highlights to date: Start’ programme Data collection was completed in July Big Lottery Fund, 2013–24 Highlights to date: 2017. Effectiveness of an Enhanced Programme Lead: Raising Principal Investigator | Sandra Mathers Designing the Teaching and Recruitment and pre-test data were An evaluation report is expected at Book-Gifting Intervention: Learning Outcomes in The Big Lottery Fund’s £165 million Learning International Survey’s completed in May 2018. the end of October 2018, leading Improving the Reading Skills of Education Systems in investment in the ‘Fulfilling Lives: A Better Video Study The Randomised Control Trial design was on to publishable research outputs. Children in Foster Care Developing Countries Start’ programme hopes to facilitate Department for Education, 2016–20 registered, and process evaluation data Economic and Social Research The impact of working memory Economic and Social Research Council, the implementation and testing of Principal Investigator | Jenni Ingram through observations, questionnaires Council, 2017–19 and arithmetic is also being 2018–20 different models of early intervention in and interviews 75% collected at the Principal Investigator | David Johnson evaluated by an independent Principal Investigator | Judy Sebba approximately four areas of the UK. The The Organisation for Economic Co- time this publication went to print. evaluation team in a project funds will allow structural changes to be operation and Development’s Teaching and This project draws together two common The ESRC and Department for sponsored by the EEF. approaches to seeking to enhance www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ International Development’s Raising made to the way in which they identify Learning International Survey (TALIS) asks evaluation-of-the-onebillion-project www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ and work with families at risk of poor teachers and principals about the teaching educational outcomes for this group of Learning Outcomes in Educational improving-childrens-working- outcomes, in addition to introducing a range and learning conditions that research tells children: book-gifting and paired reading. Effectiveness Trial of the Nuffield Systems Research Programme aims memory of preventive interventions focusing on us improves teaching. The project team seek to develop and Early Language Intervention to increase understanding of the enhance a book-gifting intervention for Effectiveness Programme in factors that enable or constrain pregnancy and the first three years of life. The TALIS video study, which began foster children by incorporating a role for Primary Schools learning outcomes in developing This project, led by the University’s in autumn 2016 and is expected to The Nuffield Nursery Language the foster carers in supporting the children’s Education Endowment Foundation, countries, including Honduras, Lebanon, Department for Social Policy and unfold over 3–4 years, involving up Programme engagement in the intervention through 2017–18 Niger, Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, Nuffield Foundation, 2019–21 Intervention, is carrying out an evaluation to nine countries or economies, pilots paired reading. Principal Investigator | Charles Hulme Bangladesh and Pakistan. Principal Investigator | Charles Hulme and learning contract to ensure that methodologies involving the capture of the lessons in terms of what works, for real teaching practices from within school Highlights to date: The Nuffield Early Language Intervention is The Research Programme is made up of 31 world-class interdisciplinary Children who enter school with poorly whom, and why, are identified and widely classrooms. The pilot focuses on a maths The project’s pilot study began in July designed to improve the spoken language research teams, with Principal Investigators developed language are at high risk of disseminated. The education aspect is teaching context and involves multiple 2018. ability of children as they begin primary school. Targeted at children with relatively based in higher education institutions educational failure, and it is imperative led by Professor Kathy Sylva and Sandra countries and economies, including England. www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ in the UK, USA, Australia, South Africa that they receive intervention before they Mathers, who are investigating the effects This provides the opportunity to explore poor spoken language skills, it is delivered to book-gifting-intervention and India. The function of the Programme fail to learn. This project aims to develop of the programme on the foundational effective mathematics teaching practice groups of two to four children, three times Research Lead is to support and provide a preschool language programme to skills children need for a successful start to and the relationship with student outcomes. a week, alongside some individual sessions. Trained Teaching Assistants (TAs) run the evidence of the scientific, conceptual ameliorate the language weaknesses school. Working collaboratively with the Education Evaluation of the University programme, which lasts for 20 weeks and methodological contributions of seen in disadvantaged groups at school Highlights to date: Development Trust and the International of Nottingham’s onebillion during their first year of school (Reception). the programme; maximise scientific entry. Building on best evidence, the The third report ‘Transitioning into Study Consortium, the project team will Mathematics Intervention Sessions focus on listening, narrative and quality between research grants within project team will develop and evaluate Early Delivery Research’ was published provide academic and technical input for Education Endowment Foundation, vocabulary skills. and across the three programme research a language enrichment programme for in May 2018 and examines system the design of the English component of the 2017–19 themes; and enhance the value of the children in the year before they enter level and organisational change that video study pilot, and is contributing to the The intervention was developed by a Principal Investigator | Maria Evangelou programme by promoting and supporting reception class. The programme will had occurred in the transition period resulting analysis and insights for relevant team led by Charles Hulme and Maggie opportunities for collaboration and building be delivered during daily whole-group from set-up to early delivery. policymakers. The onebillion mathematics intervention Snowling (St John’s College) with funding from the Nuffield Foundation, and a synergies across the portfolio of grants sessions by nursery staff, trained by the The initial protocol for the national Highlights to date: involves two education apps covering previous Education Endowment Foundation through a coordinated programme of project team to use scripted materials. evaluation of an area-based Observing effective mathematics 18 topics across counting, shape and evaluation found a positive impact on activities. Materials will be developed with input intervention programme (A Better teaching: a review of the literature position of vocabulary, measures, addition, language skills. Dr David Johnson (Reader in Comparative from Early Years practitioners to ensure the Start) on early-life outcomes: a report was published by the project subtraction, arithmetic, sharing and and International Education in Developing programme is flexible enough to be adapted longitudinal cohort study with team and examines six specific lesson This trial will test the Reception fractions. The app works on a self-teaching Countries) was appointed to this position for future use in diverse nursery contexts comparison (control) cohort samples observation frameworks designed for course in 200 schools. The resources basis, so no teacher intervention is required. in early 2017 and is supported by two and that content is appropriate was published in the British Medical and used in the observation of teaching are being published by Oxford University In evaluating this intervention, the project departmental research fellows, Monazza to the curriculum. Journal in November 2017. in mathematics but demonstrates that Press, and training for TAs will be team analyses the impact of the onebillion Aslam and Bronwen Magrath. The programme has the potential to The fifth ‘A Better Start’ Learning classroom observation frameworks can provided by Elklan – a specialist training apps on mathematical achievement The programme is expected to end in bring about educationally significant and Development event was held at be designed and used for a variety of agency focused on speech and language by pupils’ Progress Maths Test results. spring 2019. improvements in children’s language The Kia Oval in London on 28–29 purposes. interventions. Participants are pupils in Year 1, identified skills during a critical developmental period September 2017, putting a spotlight www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ by their teachers as requiring extra support (the year before formal education begins) on pregnancy as a time of opportunity effectiveness-trial-of-the-nuffield- raising-learning-outcomes-in- talis-video-study in maths. and to reduce the inequalities in educational for improving early childhood early-language-intervention developing-countries 20 Department of Education

Enhancing Summative the assessment of practical science at Evaluation of Maths Reasoning Assessment of Practical Science GCSE level were set for use in the pilot Education Endowment Foundation, Skills at GCSE study. 2015–18 Wellcome Trust, 2018–19 A baseline report on ‘Conceptualising Principal Investigator | Terezinha Nunes Principal Investigator | Sibel Erduran Practical Science in Science Education’ The Mathematical Reasoning programme was completed. develops children’s understanding of logical A report for Study 1 of the project will principles related to number and operations provide the literature review that will as well as quantitative reasoning. The support the theoretical underpinnings programme consists of 12 teaching units, of the project and will be available in delivered to pupils once a week for 12 autumn 2018. weeks as part of their normal mathematics www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ lessons. Teachers receive training and are after four years of primary schooling. PIRLS has significant implications for the manner Several local authorities from a diverse enhancing-summative-assessment- provided with lesson plans and materials also provides extensive information about of education. range of contexts participated in the to deliver the programme. Learning is also of-practical-science home supports for literacy and school This research programme examines the project by sharing their data. The supported by online games, which can be environments for teaching and learning. nature of uncertainty in the political and researchers would particularly like to thank used by pupils both at school and at home. The project team in collaboration with economic landscapes of a cross section Camden, Ealing, Hampshire, Hounslow, Evaluation of Edge Hill The original pilot was found to be effective Pearson Education, was chosen by the UK of countries and its effect on educational Leeds and Wolverhampton Local University’s 1stClass@Number: in a large-scale randomised controlled trial, government’s Department for Education policy, educational institutions, the Authorities. a Mathematics Intervention for and this most recent funding will evaluate to deliver the PIRLS 2016 assessment motivation of teachers, and the choices www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ Children in Year 1 the effectiveness and potential scalability programme, which concluded in December that parents and children make in the proficiency-in-english-and- Education Endowment Foundation, of the programme once rolled out by the 2017. The main responsibilities were as selection of schools, subjects and life educational-achievement 2016–18 National Centre for Excellence in Teaching follows: choices. Mathematics (NCETM) using a ‘train the Principal Investigator | Terezinha Nunes To advise on the development of www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ trainer ‘model’. 1stClass@Number is an intervention the assessment items and survey education-and-uncertainty Highlights to date: designed by Edge Hill University and instruments. Data collection was completed in July delivered by specially trained teacher To initially carry out trials with 30 pupils 2017. Proficiency in English and assistants (TAs) to small groups of in each of up to 30 primary schools. Publication of the report by the external educational achievement children who are struggling with To ultimately administer PIRLS 2016 evaluator is due in October 2018. data collection in up to 150 primary The Bell Foundation / Unbound Examiner’s workshop in Manchester, mathematics at the end of Year 1. Half- 14 May 2018 A research panel that described the schools during summer term 2016. Philanthropy, 2017–20 hour lessons delivered three times a training model was presented at the Principal Investigator | Steve Strand This project addresses the following week over a 10-week period focus on Highlights to date: British Conference on Mathematics The PIRLS 2016 ‘Reading Literacy This project follows on from previous three questions by designing and testing core aspects of number in the National Education in April 2018 and included new examination questions that can be Curriculum (place value, addition and Performance in England Report’ was research exploring the adequacy of presentations from the group and the released on 5 December 2017, at an English as an Additional Language (EAL) used nationally, and exploring the views subtraction, beginning multiplication) and NCETM. event at the British Museum (London) measures in the England National of a diverse range of teachers and pupils include formative assessments and detailed Impact has extended beyond the 160 attended by Nick Gibb (Minister of Pupil Database, funded by the Educational so that new examination questions can lesson plans that can be adapted by the TAs participating schools, as the NCETM State for School Standards and Minister Endowment Foundation, and resulting in the be adapted for use across the country to the needs of children. trainers will be training new Work Group without biasing any particular cohort: for Equalities). DfE announcing in 2016 that all This evaluation will address whether Leads in their networks in September Further research outputs include a schools in England would be required to How the skills of doing practical science children participating in the 1stClass@ 2018. report of the PIRLS 2016, which has assess any pupils recorded as EAL for using such different aspects are Number intervention show greater gains in NCETM views the programme as an been disseminated throughout the their proficiency in English. It proposes to reflected in high-stake examinations at mathematical development than a control excellent preparation for their current education community. undertake the first large-scale analysis GCSE level in England. Mastery Learning approach. group that does not participate in the of the Proficiency in English data. Several What new examination questions www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ intervention, and if pupils eligible for free www.education.ox.ac. uk/research/ partner local authorities will share their data can be designed to measure pupils’ pirls-2016-assessment school meals benefit as much from the maths-reasoning so the relation between Proficiency understanding of different aspects intervention as those not eligible for free in English and pupils’ achievement at of practical science. school meals. It will also utilise a measure of Education and Uncertainty 5, 7, 11 and 16 years of age can be How they work together to form Progress in International Reading Aga Khan Foundation, 2018–19 explored. While the Proficiency in English a coherent understanding of mathematical reasoning for children in Years Literacy 2016 Assessment 2-4 developed by Terezinha Nunes and Principal Investigator | David Johnson scale is new in England it has been science. Department for Education, 2014–18 employed and collected in the census colleagues from the Children Learning group. This project studies the impact of political Principal Investigators | Therese in Wales since 2009. The project will Highlights to date: uncertainty on education, theoretically and Highlights to date: Hopfenbeck and Joshua McGrane analyse the Welsh data at student level to Six examiners from across the UK empirically, and proposes that uncertainty The project report has been prepared determine the relationships with educational attended a workshop in Manchester in The Progress in International Reading reveals itself in waves – it projects and and is expected after August 2018. achievement and to evaluate whether May 2018 to learn about the project Literacy (PIRLS) assessment provides recedes, in old and new forms in tune with the scale can be used to assess students’ construct and its applications in science www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/ internationally comparative data about how the political and economic mood. Indeed, it progress in acquiring English over time. education. Suitable parameters for evaluation-of-1stclassnumber well children from different countries read is the uncertain nature of uncertainty that 22 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 2 3

NEW PROJECT AWARDS

THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS WERE AWARDED FUNDING DURING 2017/18:

Language, Cognition and Development Analysis of the Department for Education’s 2017 Evaluation of the onebillion Project: an App-based Maths English Proficiency Scales in England Learning Tool Monitored by Teaching Assistants The Bell Foundation and Unbound Philanthropy Education Endowment Foundation Steve Strand (PI) Lars-Erik Malmberg and Terezinha Nunes (PIs) Attainment and Progress of Children in Need and Family Justice Observatory: Development Phase Policy, Economy and Society Pedagogy, Learning and Knowledge Children in Care Nuffield Foundation Assessment of Primary Level Teachers in Nigeria Administrative Support for GCRF Incubator Nuffield Foundation Lisa Holmes (PI) Open Society Foundations Higher Education Funding Council for England Nikki Luke (PI) Improving the Emotional, Social and Psychological Well-being David Johnson (PI) Niall Winters (PI) Challenges of Transition from Secondary Education: of Looked After Children: Testing the Shared Training and Strategic Impact Capacity Building Becoming an Attachment Aware School from Content and Language Integrated Learning Assessment for Well-being Programme Economic and Social Research Council Research England’s Higher Education Innovation Fund Programmes in Science to Tertiary Education in English Anonymous Donation and Sir Halley Stewart Trust Alis Oancea (PI) Nigel Fancourt (PI) Medium Instruction Nikki Luke (PI) Education and Uncertainty Building an Evidence Network for Community British Council Language and Reading Intervention Programme for Secondary Ernesto Macaro (PI) Aga Khan Foundation Health Worker Training using Mobile Technology Schools in Chile David Johnson (PI) Higher Education Funding Council for England Changing Children’s Centres in England: the Extent Economic and Social Research Council Niall Winters (PI) of Closures since 2009 and Access in Disadvantaged Charles Hulme (PI) Evaluation of WISERDeducation: a Programme to Neighbourhoods Change the Landscape of Educational Research in Wales Building on Design Matters: the Co-design of Measuring Outcomes for Children’s Social Care Services Higher Education Funding Council for Wales Guidance on Building Schools Sutton Trust Nuffield Foundation Pam Sammons (PI) Alis Oancea (PI) Economic and Social Research Council Lisa Holmes (PI) Harry Daniels (PI) Development and Evaluation of the Nuffield Nursery Exploring Doctoral Education in Africa Rapid Evidence Review for Forcibly Displaced Populations The Africa Oxford Initiative Children’s Connectedness to School and Language Enrichment Programme World Bank Nuffield Foundation David Mills (PI) Disengagement with Learning Ellie Ott (PI) John Fell Fund Charles Hulme (PI) Identification and Development of 21st-Century Systematic Review of Moderation Practices in Primary Level Jenni Ingram (PI) Education Provision for Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Sustainability and Employability Skills in Qatar Writing Assessment Qatar National Research Fund Disparities in Rates of Children’s Permanent Exclusion Children Oxford University Press John Fell Fund David Johnson (PI) from School across the UK Joshua McGrane and Therese N. Hopfenbeck (PIs) John Fell Fund Ellie Ott (PI) Impact Analysis of Grant Applications to the Oxford The Impact of Foster Carer Training in Paired Reading on Ian Thompson (PI) Effectiveness of the Nuffield Early Learning Intervention Martin School Children in Care’s Reading Skills Oxford Martin School Enhancing the Assessment of Practical Skills in Programme Economic and Social Research Council Education Endowment Foundation Alis Oancea (PI) Science: the Impact on Teachers and Pupils Judy Sebba and Nikki Luke (PIs) Wellcome Trust Charles Hulme (PI) Rethinking Capacity Building: Ethnographic Portraits of The Kinder-Oxford Research Programme: the Educational Sibel Erduran (PI) Evaluation of an Integrated Phonics and Language East African Science Potential of the Magic Kinder App John Fell Fund Helping Babies Breath: an Extension to the LIFE Programme for the Teaching of Reading to Deaf and Ferrero International Hearing Children David Mills (PI) Training Platform in Nigeria and Kenya Victoria Murphy (PI) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Nuffield Foundation The Marketisation of Further Education in England Niall Winters (PI) Charles Hulme (PI) The Role of Automatic Letter-speech Sound Integration in Further Education Trust for Leadership Reading Development Evaluation of the Children’s Social Care Innovation Ewart Keep (PI) Research for Liberation: Education as the Economic and Social Research Council Participatory Practice of Social Justice Programme Understanding the CREATE Framework in Studio Charles Hulme (PI) Leverhulme Trust Department for Education Schools – an Employability Skills Framework Exploring Katherine Collins (PI) Lisa Holmes (PI) The Use of Biophysiology in Understanding Learning and Communication, Relating to Others, Enterprise, Teaching Experiences 1. Bradford B Positive Evaluation Applied Thinking and Emotional Intelligence Supporting Marginalised Young Women to Jacobs Foundation Edge Foundation Build Careers in Coding: GoGirl 2. Lifelong Links Evaluation Lars-Erik Malmberg (PI) 3. Mockingbird Model of Foster Care Evaluation Ewart Keep (PI) Economic and Social Research Council 4. House Project Evaluation Visualising Data in Children’s Care Proceedings Niall Winters (PI) 5. Break (Staying Close) Evaluation Nuffield Foundation 6. Fair Ways (Staying Close) Evaluation Lisa Holmes (PI) 7. Portsmouth Aspiration (Staying Close) Evaluation More information: www.education.ox.ac.uk/our-research/research-projects 24 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 2 5

IMPACT, ENGAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE INTRODUCTION PROFESSOR EWART KEEP, CHAIR OF KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND IMPACT In 2017/18 members of the department suggests, we maintain an impressive with bodies such as Ofqual, the Wellcome have invested considerable time and network of international collaborations. Trust, the NAO, the OECD, the HEFCW, effort in seeking to engage with the Another significant commitments are the the Education Select Committee, the various audiences that have an interest roles played by staff in a wide range of Education Endowment Foundation, and in our research in order to exchange learned societies, journal editorships and the Department for Education. Finally, knowledge and to generate impact within editorial boards. The past year has seen our work has been recognised through a the spheres of policy and practice, in the members of the department undertake a number of awards and prizes as outlined UK and beyond. As the data that follows wide range of expert and advisory roles on pages 5–7.

Published books RESEARCH INFLUENCE Academic Journals Edited Review Panels and Refereeing Banner, I. & Hillier, J. Childs, A. & Menter, I. Mutton, T., Burn, K., (Eds) (2018). ASE (Eds) (2017). Hagger, H., & Thirlwall, K. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy Research in Science and Technological Arts and Humanities Research Council Guide to Secondary Mobilising Teacher (2018). Teacher & Practice Education British Academy Science Education Researchers: Education Partnerships: British Educational Research Journal Research Papers in Education (4th Edition). Herts: Challenging Educational Policy and Practice. Economic and Social Research Council British Journal of Educational Technology Review of Education Association for Science Inequality. London: Northwich: Critical Education Endowment Fund Education. Routledge. Publishing. British Journal of Sociology of Education Science and Education Cambridge Journal of Eurasian Studies Science Education Global Challenges Research Fund Stylianides, G. J. & McNamara, O. & Kuusisto, A. & Gearon, L. Childs, A. (Eds) (in McNicholl, J. (Eds) (2017). Value Compare: A Journal of Comparative and Science: History, Philosophy and Education Kazakh Center of Science and Technology press). Classroom-based International Education (Eds) (2018). Learning Trajectories: System National Commission for Higher Education, Interventions across Poverty Discourses Theory, Method, Context Educational Theory Subject Areas Research Teaching History Africa in Teacher Education. (Research on Religious Elementary School Journal to Understand What London: and Spiritual Education. v. Thinking Skills and Creativity Portuguese Foundation for Science and Works in Education. Routledge. 10). Münster: Waxmann Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Technology London: Routledge Verlag GmbH. English in Education External Examiner Role Stylianides, G. J., & Qatar National Research Fund Firth, R. & Smith, M. English Language Teaching (ELT) Journal Manchester Metropolitan University Hino, K. (Eds.) (2018). Hopfenbeck, T. N. REF 2021 Education Panel (2017). Education for Research Advances in (2017). To Succeed with History Education Research Journal Martin Luther Christian University, India Sustainable the Mathematical Assessment: Reflections Indian Journal of Career and Livelihood Society for Research into Higher Education Development: What Was Oxford Brookes University Education of Pre-service on Assessment Planning Templeton World Charity Foundation Achieved in Elementary Teachers. An SOAS University of London International Journal of Educational the DESD? London: International Perspective. University of Alberta, Canada Wellcome Trust and Gatsby Foundation Routledge. Research Cham: Springer. University of Auckland, New Zealand International Journal of Science Education Gearon, L. (Ed) Gearon, L. & University of Bristol Fellowships (2018). Education, Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics Prud’homme, J. (2018). University College of London The Institute of Mathematics and its Security and State Religious Education Journal of Child Language University of Durham Applications Intelligence and the State Journal of Learning and Instruction Studies. London: University of Edinburgh of Religious Life. Journal of Research in Science and The Academy of Social Sciences Routledge. Eugene: Pickwick. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Technology Education The Association for Psychological Science Language Studies, Science and Engineering University of Loughborough The British Academy Tatto, M. T., Burn, K., Learning Culture and Social Interaction University of Nottingham Menter, I., Mutton, T., & Thompson, I. & University of Plymouth The Higher Education Academy Thompson. I. (2018). Menter., I. (2017). Learning, Media and Technology Learning to Teach in Tackling Social Oxford Review of Education University of Reading The Royal Statistical Society England and the United Disadvantage through Psychological Science University of York States: The Evolution of Teacher Education. Policy and Practice. Northwich: Critical Research in Comparative and International London: Routledge. Publishing. Education Research in Mathematics Education Annual Report 2017/18 2 7

RESEARCHBelow are just a few examples of how WITH our research has IMPACTmade a difference to society during the last academic year.

Language and Literacy Learning in the Original research into ‘wait time’ developed by Associate Professor Akshara-based Languages of India Jenni Ingram and Nick Andrews into a two-year collaborative Royal Society, British Academy, and University of York (UK), project with local schools, yielded fresh insights into teachers’ use The Promise Foundation (India) and Chinese University of video as a professional development tool, which has been taken (Hong Kong) up by Research Champions and teachers engaged in the Masters in Principal Investigator | Sonali Nag Learning and Teaching (MLT) and is being shared online through a series of YouTube videos. This seven-year project examines children’s reading and spelling. In the first study, children were followed over the first two years Research has been influential locally, nationally and internationally of school to understand who were at risk of later difficulties. It during 2017/18. Previous research, revealing the lack of support showed that an early profile of lower knowledge of akshara and for teachers in their second year of teaching, had prompted delays in language and visual processing were risk factors for Cherwell School (Oxford) to engage in a programme of action reading difficulties. The second, third and fourth studies identified research (developed and trialled within our MLT programme). dimensions of complexity within the language (grammar) and the News of its impact, shared at a ‘Research Meet’, encouraged written units (visual, mapping to sound) that were predictors of further schools to adopt the approach during the year. Newly individual differences in level of attainment. qualified teachers who heard from senior leaders about the programme at an Early Career Teacher Conference, began asking Several findings from the project have been replicated in Hindi, how similar initiatives could be encouraged in their schools. Tamil, Malayalam and Sinhala, including two intervention studies, one each in Hindi and Malayalam, and one comparison with another Research into initial teacher education and teachers’ research- writing system in Japanese. engagement through the Research Champion model that were shared with the Welsh government in 2017, led to work advising The project has contributed to the understanding of how learning Cardiff Metropolitan University on the development of its new to read differs across the world’s writing systems. teacher education programme. The following resources have since been developed: In June 2018 the Deanery hosted a study visit for teacher EkStep Foundation Platform educators from Østfold University College (Norway), to inform This platform is an early literacy assessment and teaching their new master’s-level programme. framework available in multiple Indian languages. Its use is Education Committee The influence of the Deanery’s support for teachers’ research- Professional and Learned Societies for lesson development and formative assessment and it is Learning Technology Advisory Group engagement is illustrated by recent publications. The first few Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (Asia) part of an initiative to create open digital public goods using a issues of ‘Impact’, published by the Chartered College of Teaching, REF 2021 Coordinators Group (Social Science Division) Congress of the European Society for Research in societal platform approach that allows for contextual solutions have included articles by: Mathematics Education (Argumentation and Proof) Research Strategy Group (Social Science Division) through multi-site contributions. The count of lessons as of July 2018 was approximately 18,500 covering pre-school to Simon Bayliss (Oxford Spires Academy) reflecting on research European Science Education Research Association Social Science Division Permanent Private Halls Supervisory Committee Grade 5, in 17 languages. Assessment tools have been used to which he was introduced in his PGCE year; European Society for Research in Mathematics Education University Admissions Testing Group both in NGO-led programmes and pilot programmes Jacob Wilson (King Alfred’s Academy) an early-career teaching (Language and Communication in Mathematics Education) reporting on research carried out within the Deanery’s Action University and College Union Joint Consultative Committee by government partners. International Congress on Mathematical Education (Language Lingua Akshara Research Fellowship scheme; and Virtual Learning Environment Review Committee and Communication in Mathematics Education) Article, opinion pieces and notes pertaining to language that Samantha Jones, reporting research carried out within her Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain use the akshara writing system. MLT programme. Boards, Funds and Panels Early Literacy Initiative, India Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology A selection of early literacy initiative texts including decoding (Educational Sciences) Clarendon Scholarship Panel the script. Conference Advisory Board (Social Science Division) Society for Research into Higher Education Room to Read Talk series The British Association for Applied Linguistics Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership Talk series featuring Dr Sonali Nag (Associate Professor of Impact Prize Panel (Social Science Division) The Historical Association Secondary Committee Education and the Developing Child). Impact Special Advisor (Social Science Division) The International Society of Cultural-historical Activity The Oxford Education Deanery Research IT Innovation Fund Associate Professor Katharine Burn REF 2021 Project Board Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers Executive, One strand of the Oxford Education Deanery’s work (based in International and Secondary Committees the department) focuses on supporting a research-oriented Colleges culture in schools through a Research Champion network, Internal University and College Appointments Research Coordinator, Kellogg College collaborative projects, and action research initiatives. Vice-President, Kellogg College This year, research into written feedback ‘A Marked Improvement’ Groups and Committees Vice-Principal, Linacre College led by Associate Professor Velda Elliott (previously shared with Admissions Executive Committee Senior Members Fellow and Curator of the Senior Common Research Champions and early-career teachers) has resonated Conference of Colleges Committee Room, St Antony’s College across schools, leading to critiques of current policies and careful experimentation with different models, to be shared in Photo taken during a school visit to India as part of the Akshara- a forthcoming publication ‘Hitting the Mark’ (2019). based Languages project 28 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 2 9

Impact Analysis of Applications to the Oxford Martin School The definitions of impact and domains of impact evidenced RESEARCH INFLUENCE The Oxford Martin School in the documents analysed, with particular emphasis on the Opportunities in Industry Principal Investigators | Alis Oancea following key areas: academic impacts; policy impacts; public, Expert and Advisory Roles This in-depth case study explored the ways in which research impact health and cultural impacts; economic and commercial impacts; ESRC-funded Industry Partnership had been conceptualised and operationalised by recipients of Oxford and practice-based impacts. Assessment and Qualifications Alliance Tracey Denton-Calabrese from the Learning and Martin School research funding over a decade. It consisted of a The approaches to enabling and demonstrating impacts that British Education Research Associate New Technologies group was awarded a three- detailed textual analysis (topic modelling and thematic analysis) of had been planned and/or implemented over the past decade, month knowledge exchange secondment with Comparative and International Education the successful applications and subsequent reports connected with including the relationships between impact and attitudes toward Goldman Sachs, funded by the Economic and Society the five open funding calls of the School since 2008, as well as of risk and quality. Social Research Council’s Impact Accelerator Department for Education all the relevant call documentation. Across the 34 projects funded, National Productivity Investment Fund, to help Early Education Charity a total of 80 documents were analysed line-by-line. The findings The report concludes with recommendations for future evaluation further shape the expansion of Goldman Sachs Economic and Social Research Council and encompass the following: and monitoring. Gives’ engagement with young women from Department for International Development disadvantaged backgrounds by drawing on the research outcomes of the Go_Girl project. Education Endowment Foundation The secondment ran from 1 January 2018 to Education Select Committee 31 March 2018. European Commission Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages EXCHANGING KNOWLEDGE Parliamentary Secondment Frontline Social Work Good Jobs Campaign Go_Girl: Code and Create Building on her experience as a doctoral student, Greater London Authority Goldman Sachs Áine Kelly’s previous research into the health This year, the project team have delivered or been recognised through the Principal Investigators | Anne Geniets and Niall beliefs and experiences of looked after children, in Higher Education Funding Council for Wales following activities: Winters which she established a discrepancy between International GeoGebra Institute OxTalent ‘Outreach and Widening Participation’ Award Winner, 14 June policy and practice, Áine was awarded a Lancaster University Go_Girl project is a coding project for young 2017 Parliamentary secondment funded by the women from non-traditional educational Speech given by Niall Winters at the OxTalent Award Ceremony Wellcome Trust, which ran from October 2017 to Lingua Akshara India backgrounds aged 16–21, running in its second Rose Hill Youth Services Open Day, 14 June 2017 April 2018 and provided some practical and Local Authority Network year. It aims to: Introduction of the Go_Girl programme to youth and social workers presented by in-depth knowledge about the working of the National Audit Office parliamentary system, legislation and policy. empower disadvantaged young women from Melanie Jewell and several Go_Girls National Association for Language This additional insight aimed to aid the framing non-traditional educational backgrounds Goldman Sachs Meeting, 23 February 2018 Development in the Curriculum of the theoretical and practical findings of her through teaching them how to code, building Introduction of the Go_Girl programme, impact and plans for expansion, presented research in a broader context and give NOKUT confidence and raising aspirations; by Niall Winters, Emily Winstanley, Melanie Jewell, Tracey Denton-Calabrese and perspectives on how to increase the potential policy impact of her research. Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in give these young women, many of whom three Go_Girls Higher Education are unemployed, coding and computing skills ‘Making a Difference: Impact in the Social Sciences’ Conference, Ofqual that will allow them to enter the job market 19 April 2018 ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership Internship and potentially even pursue careers in the Go_Girl Code+Create: Partnerships supporting NEET women to pursue Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Alice Tawell was awarded funding from the ESRC technology sector; technology-related careers presented by Tracey Denton-Calabrese Development Doctoral Training Partnership Internship Support design a tried and tested course that can be Oxford University Press replicated at scale: and Go_Girl Final Ceremony, 12 June 2018 Scheme to conduct a three-month knowledge Oxfordshire School Chair of Governors develop open source research on how Project pesentations by Niall Winters, Melanie Jewell and Sabbah Bakhtiar, exchange placement, between September and technology-enhanced education can boost moderated by Paula Fiddi December 2017, in the Early Years Analysis and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and social mobility. OxTALENT 2018 Awards Ceremony, 19 June 2018 Research Unit (EYARU) at the Department for Development Award received and speech given by Niall Winters Education (DfE). Alice’s main role was to support Quality and Qualifications Ireland www.gogirloxford.org the development and refinement of the existing Royal Irish Academy Early Years Foundation Stage Profile, in response to the Primary Assessment in England Scottish Government consultation, which was published in September Standards and Testing Agency 2017. Alice acted as one of the primary analytical Student Opportunity and Achievement points of contact and advice on a policy-led Committee Rapid Evidence Assessment, and provided feedback on the design of a potential Sussex University EYFSP and EYFS framework implementation and evaluation. The Promise Foundation, India UCL Institute of Education More information: www.education.ox.ac.uk/our-research/impact University of Gothenburg Wellcome Trust

Photos showing computer-generated games and characters designed and developed by Go_Girls 30 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 3 1

RESEARCH INFLUENCE ADVISING GOVERNMENT Parliamentary Evidence Oral Evidence Policy and Practitioner Events Royal Historical Society and Historical Association (London) 18 Oct 2017 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Talk Series (India) Keynotes Helen Carasso | Student Loans, Treasury Select Committee Speech and Language Therapists Annual Conference (University of Academic Integrity Annual Conference (Astana, Kazakhstan) Oslo, Norway) 27 February 2018 Association of Residential Childcare Providers Innovation in Ewart Keep | The economics of higher, further and technical education, USAID, Tata Trusts, Center for Microfinance and Room to Read Residential Care in England Boston (USA) Economic Affairs Committee (India) British Council UK–Kyrgyzstan Universities Forum (Bishkek, 20 March 2018 World Innovation Summit for Education (Qatar) Kyrgyzstan) Ted Melhuish | Evidence-based early years intervention inquiry, Science 70th Anniversary Conference for Human Relations (London) British Shakespeare Association Annual Conference (Queen’s and Technology Committee University, Belfast) 12 June 2018 Centre for Education Economics Skills Policies for the Future Roundtables, Workshops and Event Organisation Ted Melhuish | Life chances inquiry, Education Committee (London) AMBLE workshop, University of Stockholm (Sweden) Written Evidence Regent Language Training and Oxford Intensive School of English Centre for Cities think tank Skills Policy and Localities (London) 25 July 2017 Teacher Coram Family (London) Ewart Keep | Economics of Post-School Education Inquiry, House of Department for Education Strategy Unit on employer-led skills Professional Development (UK) Lords Select Committee policies (London) Historical Association Annual Conference (London) 20 December 2017 Department for Education Evaluation of No Wrong Door (London) Heads of Science (London) Steve Strand | House of Commons Women’s & Equalities Committee’s EAL Multilingual Learners in Context Conference (Oxford Brookes National Taitung University (Taiwan) Race disparity Audit and cited in the Race disparity Audit report University, Oxford) Taipei Municipal Chenggong High School (Taiwan) published 11 June 2018 Education Care Network Meeting (Paris) Oxford Humanities Quarter ‘Measuring What Matters’ (Oxford) 20 June 2018 Rebecca Eynon | Commons Select Education Committee for an inquiry Early Career Teachers Conference (Oxfordshire) Milton Keynes Council (Milton Keynes) into the challenges posed and opportunities presented by the Fourth Economic and Social Research Council and Department for Lambeth Council National Conference (London) Industrial Revolution. International Development Department for Education internal workshop on skills demand Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Research (London) Presentations to Government Programme (government officials and donors) (UK) Research in Primary Languages two-day workshop (UK) 5 September 2017 Education Endowment Foundation Research Schools Network New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission deputy head Ewart Keep | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Conference (Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool) roundtable (New Zealand) Development (OECD) workshop presentation on skills utilisation Edge Foundation Debate on the First Principles of English Department for Education technical education and apprenticeships and launching two OECD reviews of Slovenian policy exploring the Vocational Education (London) roundtable (London) relationship between conventional skills strategies and the need to better use skill in the workplace Early Education Practitioner event (Oxfordshire) CPD course based on the URLEY programme lead (Oxfordshire and Future of Teacher Education Special Education Symposium (House Newham) 28 February 2018 Katharine Burn, Trevor Mutton and Ian Thompson | Teacher education of Commons, London) A-Level Languages Day organisation (Oxfordshire) policy, House of Commons Symposium Greater London Authority Task and Finish Group’s London Skills The Promise Foundation lesson plans and display materials for May 2018 Strategy on the choice between a skills market and a skills system village camps lead (London) (London) Harry Daniels | Department for Education, Excluded Lives Research Romanian Presidential Administration plenary and workshops HOLEX Spring Network event (London) team ‘Exclusions Review’, exploring disparities in rates of permanent Ofsted International Seminar, Office for Standards in Education on exclusion from school across the UK International Association for Educational Assessment (Georgia, Classroom Observation (London) USA) High–level seminar on Ofsted’s strategic direction (London) International Conference on Educational Measurement Evaluation Social Finance Impact Incubator, Exclusion from Schools roundtable and Assessment 2017 (Abu Dhabi) (London) WATCH Labour Party seminar on National Education Service (London) Transparency on Exclusions workshop (London) ‘Working together on workload’ Manchester Metropolitan University’s Teacher Education Policy GCSE History workshops for history teachers (UK) A new campaign conference (House of Commons, London) video launched by RSA Academies defining creative teachers and developing whole National Quality Improvement Network: ‘What Does Quality Early the Department for school approaches (London) Years Education Look Like?’ (online) Education cites research ISCAR 5th International Congress on ‘Design Practice in led by Velda Elliott, National Association of Fostering Providers (London) Environment Designs and New Forms of Work’ (Canada) in collaboration with Nuffield Foundation (London) Education Skills Funding Agency Seminar on review of school Jo-Anne Baird, Therese Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and guidance Hopfenbeck, Jenni Early Childhood Education Conference (Hong Kong) Ingram, Ian Thompson Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development PIRLS 2016 National Report for England (British Library, London) and doctoral students workshop to launch two OECD reviews of Slovenian policy Natalie Usher and Mae Zantout, on Reducing Teacher Workload. Ready Nation Australia (Sydney, Australia) (Slovenia) The campaign was released on 30 May 2018. Research Summit on Health-related Emergency Disaster Risk Management (Hong Kong) www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4S0qxNGYNw 32 Department of Education Annual Review 2017/18 Annual Report 2017/18 3 3

Technologies Research Group (Kareem Elmehairy, Kinga Petrovai, Isobel Talks (chair) and Laura Pinkerton) discussing their DPhil PROGRAMMES 2018/19 projects, and the second, led by Professor Lars Malmberg with his DPhil students (Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh, Chris Heemskerk, Doctor of Philosophy Dominik Bulla and Kyle Davison), focused on an intraindivial DPhil in Education approach to educational research. Masters Following the conference, all participants were invited to submit MSc in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition a paper for the STORIES Proceedings publication, which will MSc in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching be published in the autumn. The conference provided a great MSc in Education (Child Development and Education; opportunity for staff and students to build networks, and facilitated Comparative International Education; Research Design and knowledge exchange. It was organised by the following graduate Methodology; Higher Education) students: Alice Tawell, Aneyn O’Grady, Faidra Faitaki, Kyle Davison, MSc in Educational Assessment Miroslav Suzara, Nuzha Nuseibeh, Rachel Gardner, Ruth Walker, Ryan Bedell and Yusuf Oldac. MSc in Learning and Teaching TEACHING AND LEARNING MSc in Teacher Education (Mathematics and Science) 2017 Helga Todd Teacher’s Education Foundation Postgraduate Certificate Placements INTRODUCTION Postgraduate Certificate in Education

PROFESSOR STEVE STRAND More information: www.education.ox.ac.uk/programmes Over the last 18 years, the department and diverse range of subjects as assessment professionals and drawing has grown in size and shape. Since well as containing a strong research on the considerable expertise in our 2000, we have seen considerable methods component. They are delivered Centre for Educational Assessment expansion in the number and range by academics and research experts, (OUCEA). of courses offered. In 2017/18, we the vast majority of whom STUDENT AWARDS AND Some key statistics on our intake offered the following courses: are permanent staff fully engaged ACHIEVEMENTS in their fields of research. Doctoral over the last three years are included MSc in Education with five different students’ research is carefully in the table below. We are heavily 2018 STORIES Conference ‘pathways’: Comparative and considered so that it reflects the oversubscribed with on average International Education; Higher research agenda of Research Groups and three applications per place, rising Education; Child Development; Research Centres, and research students to five applications per place for Learning and Technology; Research are embedded within these to create both the MSc in Education and the MSc Design and Methodology a critical mass of coherent research in ALSLA and six applications per place MSc in Applied Linguistics and activity built around established on our doctoral programme. Our Second Language Acquisition academics and researchers. outcomes in terms of student (ALSLA) destinations are exemplary, with MSc in Learning and Teaching (MLT) Our part-time provision seeks to 99.6% of our graduates employed MSc in Teacher Education ensure that those already employed or in further study. (Mathematics and Science) in education-related professions can MSc in Teaching English Language in find courses that offer opportunities to The diversity of our academic staff University Settings (TELUS) enhance their knowledge, understanding reflects our commitment to equal Postgraduate Certificate in and skills in ways that are relevant and opportunities. We have a strong Education (PGCE) of benefit not only for the individual international profile with colleagues A comprehensive doctoral student but also for the institutions and appointed from many countries in The theme of this year’s Students’ Ongoing Research in Photos from the 2017 Helga Todd Teacher’s Education programme attracting students sectors in which they work. Next year addition to the UK, including Australia, Education Studies (STORIES) conference, which took place in the Foundation’s Young Volunteer Teaching Placements in India from all over the world we will also offer a new part-time MSc Canada, China, Germany, India, Peru and department on 12–13 March, was Technology Matters: The Our Masters courses cover a wide in Educational Assessment, aimed at the United States. Use of Technology in Education and Research. Sixty-two people, The Helga Todd teaching placements offer students the from across five countries and 16 different universities, schools opportunity to participate in six-week school placements in Student Recruitment and museums attended the conference. Over 20 attendees education centres in India. gave presentations, including the following six students from the In 2017, five PGCE students were awarded with placement department: Alice Tawell, Eszter Saghy, Isobel Talks, Owen Henkle, Key facts 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 opportunities to teach their specialist subject, as well as English Papa Kojo Botsio and Zening Yang. Six international conference Total number of applications 1,272 1,160 1,269 in the following establishments: TI School, Chennai; Akshara presentations from the University of Toronto (Canada) and Monash International School, Pune; and Jaswant Modern Senior Secondary Total number of places 393 383 418 University (Australia) were also given virtually. School, Dehradun. The students awarded placements were, Eleanor Applications to places ratio 3.2 3.0 3.0 Curtis Linton (CEO Curious School), David Buckingham (Emeritus Kavanagh, Beatrice Langford Powell, Ravi Mavooru, Sarah Blair and Total number of incoming students 345 361 397 Professor at Loughborough University), Junaid Mubeen (Director Vithya Premkumar. of Education at Whizz Education) and Marilyn Fleer (Professor of Number of countries 11 15 18 Student comments – ‘I learned a lot about myself and how I cope Early Childhood Education and Development at Monash University, in challenging and sometimes stressful situations professionally’. Female to male ratio 1.9:1 1.6:1 1.6:1 and visiting Fellow at the department) presented keynotes, and ‘Teaching-wise, my confidence has sky-rocketed and I’ve found I’m two rounds of presentations and panel discussions also took place. % leavers employed/further study/not looking for work 6 months later * 98.4% 96.9% 99.6% very calm in dealing with all the pressures of my NQT job’. The first involved DPhil students from the Learning and New * This data is from the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Destinations of Leavers of Higher Education (DLHE) national surveys – the most recent data available at time of print. 34 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 3 5

The Outreach and Widening Participation award category recognises Best Postgraduate Teacher 2018 the Summer 2018 issue of Impact. His article reported on research staff and students who have made innovative use of technology to Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh was awarded the he carried out as an Action Research Fellow in his second year of deliver exceptional widening participation activities and to support 2018 best postgraduate teacher award by teaching – a scheme run by the department’s Education Deanery to learners from disadvantaged backgrounds. the University’s student union on 10 May support local teachers conducting small-scale practitioner enquiries. 2018. Anna-Maria is researching the Department members Niall Winters, Melanie Jewell, Anne Geniets, motivation and engagement of Arabic learners 2018 Chartered College of Teaching Professional Paula Fiddi, Paige Mustain, Ashmita Randhawa, Tracey Calabrese, around the UK for her DPhil in Education and Development Poster Winner Isobel Talks, Sabbah Bakhtiar, Laura Hakimi and Emily Winstanley has been teaching Arabic at various University Jennifer Fiddamann (MSc in Learning and Teaching, 2017) won the were announced as the 2017 winners for Go_Girl: code+create departments. Chartered College of Teaching Award for Best Research Poster in – a project that has engaged a group of young women from non- the Professional Development category, for a poster based on her traditional educational backgrounds to undergo a programme to This student union award is for a current graduate student departmental research in ‘Developing the Teaching of Fractions with build their confidence and self-esteem through developing videos, who is teaching during their degree, helping undergraduate and Non-Specialist Teachers in a Primary Setting’. Jennifer is a Research games and web apps. postgraduate students. Champion at Bayards Hill Primary. DPhil student, Susila Davis, was announced the runner-up for the International Collaborative Paper Award Winner 2017 Teacher Education Advancement Network Critical OxTALENT Best Poster category with her poster, ‘Where Are We DPhil student Vânia Pinto won an international Writing Competition Going and How Do We Get There?’ – a study that focused on collaborative paper competition organised by Astrid Korin (Teacher Development Trust) discusses teacher-led Katie Howard (MSc in Learning and Teaching, 2016), was runner teachers’ use of Pathways and schools’ improvement journeys and the EUSARF Academy and awarded in RCTs at the 2018 Early Career Teachers Conference up in the 2017 Critical Writing Prize competition run by the Teacher histories in context. December 2017. Open to DPhil candidates in Education Advancement Network in conjunction with Critical the field of child and family welfare, Vania’s Early Career Teachers Conference 2018 Publishing. The dissertation, ‘Building Linguistic Confidence: A Critical Inaugural Oxford Review of Education Awards (2018) winning proposal (in collaboration with Anne The Education Deanery hosted the third Early Career Teachers Study of Teachers’ Target Language Use in the MFL Classroom and Steenbakkers, University of Groningen and Ida Conference attended by 30 secondary school teachers in their first Its Implications for Students’ Willingness to Communicate’ draws on Bruheim Jensen, University of Stavanger), three years of teaching on 23 June 2018. The focus of this year’s the research she carried out whilst she was in the department and entitled ‘Permanency legislations for Children Placed in Family Foster conference was on research-informed approaches to Continuing will be published in a special issue of the student journal published Care in England, Norway, Portugal, and The Netherlands: A Professional Development and involved a keynote speech by Astrid by the Teacher Education Advancement Network. Comparative Study’ will be presented at the European Scientific Korin (Education Development Trust) on the potential of teacher- Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and led research as a tool to unleash a voice and agency for teachers. 2018 Jean Piaget Society Doctoral Dissertation Prize Adolescents (EUSARF) conference in October 2018 and also Boby Ching (DPhil Education, 2016) was awarded the Doctoral prepared for journal publication. Delegates had the chance to view research posters created by Dissertation Prize by the Jean Piaget Society for his doctoral students undertaking Masters in Learning and Teaching and dissertation on ‘The Importance of Additive Reasoning in Children’s ELT Masters Dissertation Commendation could attend a selection of workshops led by colleagues from the Mathematical Achievement: A Longitudinal Study’, relating to MSc Teaching English Language in department, as well as local schools. These included Jenni Ingram Piaget’s seminal ideas. discussing video recording as a tool for teacher development; University Settings student Justin Barrass was awarded a Commendation Laura Molway and Katharine Burn interrogating the research claims The mission of the prize is to promote exciting new discoveries that for the British Council ELT Masters surrounding cognitive science; and Jaimie Miller-Friedman on the also relate to the work of Piaget and the study of the development Dissertation Award for his dissertation, topic of unconscious bias in the classroom. of knowledge. ‘The Intelligibility of Korean English Next year’s conference will be held at the department on Pronunciation from a Lingua Franca 22 June 2019. See www.educationdeanery.ox.ac.uk PGCE student prize winner, Chloe Bateman, with Professors Alis Perspective’. for more information. Alumni careers Oancea (Director of Research) and Martin Williams (Pro-Vice- The department is proud of its former students and their many Chancellor, Education) at the 2018 Oxford Review of Education 2017 OxTALENT Award Winners successes. Here is a sample of the recent career paths taken by award ceremony ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS The OxTALENT annual awards recognise members of the some of our newly graduated students: British Psychological Society Early Career Award University who have made innovative use of digital technology to The Oxford Review of Education Awards honour students who have Cristal Garcia graduated from the MSc in Comparative foster learning and academic practice at either undergraduate or received the highest assignment mark within their programme. Carol Brown (DPhil in Education, 2017), was awarded the British International Education course in 2014 and is now working for the postgraduate level; develop more effective links between teaching Psychological Society Early Career Award at the annual conference Advanced Group’s Advanced Resources Agency in Illinois. Cristal is The 2018 inaugural prize winners included PGCE History student and research; or improve impact through outreach and public in October 2017. Carol presented work from her doctoral thesis, the first Data Analyst at the company, which is making excellent Chloe Bateman, who achieved the highest scoring Professional engagement. entitled ‘What Motivates A-Level Students to Achieve? The Role of contributions in business intelligence. Development Programme assignment for her paper on ‘Why Do Expectations and Values’. White British Children from Low-income Families Underachieve in Mariela Neagu completed her DPhil in Education in 2018 and is School?’, and MSc Teacher Education student Claire Morse, received Carol is currently Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Oxford Brookes now working as a researcher in the department. Mariela is currently

the Professional Programmes award for her dissertation entitled, University. based in the Rees Centre and working as Research Officer on the Evaluation of the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme. ‘Understanding and Conceptualizing Pedagogical Knowledge in Mathematics: What Is It and What Do Primary Teachers Notice Published Articles Amira Burshan graduated from the MSc in Higher Education about It?’. Simon Bayliss (MSc in Learning and Teaching, 2016) and Samantha in 2018 and has secured a position in the University’s Medical Jones (MSc in Learning and Teaching, 2016) had articles published Sciences Division. Amira will be working as an Industry Engagement The Oxford Review of Education is a journal edited by the in the Summer 2017 issue of Impact, the research journal of the Facilitator – a role that will utilise her growing expertise in department and published by Taylor & Francis publishers. More Chartered College of Teaching. Both articles reflected and reported research on research, particularly within university and industry information www.education.ox.ac.uk/our-research/oxford- on the research they undertook whilst studying at the department. collaborations. review-of-education

Go_Girl project illustration by Julia H illustration Go_Girl project Jacob Wilson (PGCE Maths, 2015) also had an article published in 36 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 3 7

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED Clarendon Scholarship Swire Scholarship, St Antony’s College STAFF Chun Sum Tsang – DPhil in Education Kelsey Inouye – DPhil in Education Childhood Education. Her research is largely Dr Lyudmila Nurse is a James O’Donovan – DPhil in Education Administrative and Routledge Scholarship, Edmund Hall Professional Staff focussed on pre-school and primary Research Fellow who joined Doctoral Training Centres ESRC Studentship Yao Sun – MSc in Education (Comparative and International education, in particular the impact of quality, the department in October Dominik Bulla – DPhil in Education Education) Eve Rodgers, Head of Administration and adult-child interactions, pedagogy and the 2017 from Oxford XXI Faidra Faitaki – DPhil in Education Finance impact of parents. think-tank where she was a Talbot Scholarship Director. She is a sociologist Timothy Ng’ang’a – DPhil in Education The department’s teaching and research Rachel Gardener – DPhil in Education Research of education and culture James O’Donovan – DPhil in Education mission is underpinned by its growing and international social development Caitlin Prentice – DPhil in Education Rhodes Scholarships administrative and professional team, which Dr Alison Cullinane joined consultant. She is also Vice-Chair of Research Isobel Talks – DPhil in Education Ahmed Ahmed – MSc in Education (Higher Education) has a strong working ethos. Consisting of 35 the department in January network 03 ‘Biographical perspectives on Spencer Dunleavy – MSc in Education (RDM) full- and part-time staff, the administrative Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Scholarship 2018 as the research European societies’ of the European Christian Nattiel – MSc in Education (Higher Education) and professional services cover a range of Yusuf Oldac – DPhil in Education officer for Project Calibrate Sociological Association. internally and externally funded activities, – a three year project, Air Force Institute of Technology Scholarship Hill Foundation Scholarship including course administration. In 2017/18 funded by the Wellcome Erik Kappe – DPhil in Education Sophie Turnbull joined the Mariya Tishenina – MSc in Education (Comparative and we welcomed nine new members of Trust, which is researching department in February International Education) administrative staff, including the new role of the assessment of science practical skills at 2018 as a Research Officer HR Administrator, and said goodbye to seven GCSE level. on a project investigating members who retired or moved to other monolingual and multilingual DOCTORAL COMPLETIONS posts in the University. There are currently Kit Double is a Research children’s vocabulary and six administrative staff in the department’s Fellow in Educational creativity. She completed Jill Boggs ‘The Effects of Facilitated Feedback on the Second- George Osei ‘An Examination of Policy and Practice in Ghanaian research centres and three employed on Assessment, who joined Language English Writing of Korean University Students’ Education with Special Reference to the Junior Secondary School her PhD at the University of Sheffield where externally funded projects. the department in May her research explored children’s cognitive and Supervisors | Helen Walter and Robert Woore Reform’ 2018 from the University Supervisor | David Johnson emotional development. Carol Brown ‘What Motivates A-Level Students to Achieve? The Academic, Research and of Sydney, where he Role of Expectations and Values’ Ghiya Osseiran ‘Higher Education Expansion and Graduate Teaching Staff completed his PhD. His Gillian West is a post- research focuses on metacognition and doctoral Research Officer, Supervisors | Therese Hopfenbeck and Jo-Anne Baird Labour Market Outcomes in Spain: Overqualification and Its Our academic and research staff are self-assessment. He convenes the Advanced working with Professor Discontents’ committed to excellence and relevance in all Isaac Calvert ‘Education and the Sacred: Judaic Holiness and Analysis Techniques module in the MSc Charles Hulme. She joined Supervisors | Kenneth Mayhew and Craig Holmes that they do. The department provides an the Dynamics of Teaching and Learning - An Ethnography from Educational Assessment. the department in October intellectually rich and supportive environment Jerusalem’ Christine Paget ‘Exploring School Resource and Teacher 2017 from University in which to study, research and teach, and Supervisors | Liam Gearon and David Mills Qualification Policies: Their Implementation and Effects on Valerie Dunn joined the College London, where her Schools and Students’ Educational Outcomes in Brazil’ continues to contribute to all phases of public department in October Helen Campbell Pickford ‘From Generating Data to Creating PhD combined an interest in memory and Supervisors | Jo-Anne Baird and Pam Sammons education in the UK and internationally. In 2017 as a researcher in the Policy Knowledge: A Policy Network Analysis of three NGOs’ language. She is currently working on a 2017/18 we welcomed 11 new members Rees Centre. She was a Community Intervention in Rajasthan, India’ Kwok Hung Pun ‘An Exploratory Study of the Teaching and large-scale randomised controlled trial as part of academic and research staff to our Research Associate at the Supervisors | Jennifer Ozga and Ann Childs Learning of Secondary Science through English in Hong Kong: of the Nuffield Early Language intervention. department, who along with their fellow University of Cambridge, Classroom Interactions and Perceptions of Teachers and Students’ Moon Kyoung Cho ‘An Investigation of Korean learners’ peers and colleagues contribute to our aim Department of Psychiatry Dr Monazza Aslam Supervisor | Ernesto Macaro of being a world leader in cross-disciplinary and is co-founder of the Creative Research Difficulties in Using English Intonation to Express Emotion: Helen Trivedi Perception and Production’ Soufia Siddiqi ‘Learning about ‘real’ Pakistan: how secondary education research. Collective. Supervisor | Ernesto Macaro students reinterpret citizenship education at an elite school in Lahore’ Dr Bronwen Professional Programmes Alexander Flint ‘The Effects of Interlocutor Backchannels and NEW APPOINTMENTS Supervisors | Mohammad Talib and David Mills Magrath joined Tutors L1 Backchannel Norms on the Speech of L2 English Learners’ The department was delighted to welcome the department in October Supervisors | Ernesto Macaro and Victoria Murphy Kai Sim ‘Measuring Financial Literacy and Its Correlates: A study the following new joining staff members 2017 as a Research Fellow Alison Seath joined the department in of Fifteen-year-olds in Oxfordshire and Greater London’ during the course of the last academic year: September 2017 as a part-time MFL Shuangmiao Han ‘Policy Experimentation and Institutional on the ESRC/DFID-funded Supervisors | Kenneth Mayhew and Steve Strand curriculum tutor. She taught in the secondary Power Dynamics in China’s Higher Education Reforms’ Academic Raising Learning Outcomes in Educational Systems state school sector for 37 years, 24 years Supervisor | David Mills Minjeong Song ‘Beginning Teachers’ Identity and Agency: A of which were spent as a Head of Faculty Case Study of L2 English Teachers in South Korea’ Dr Lisa Holmes joined the Programme Research Lead – a programme Abdurrahman Hendek ‘A Comparative Study of Religious and intern mentor at a partnership school in Supervisors | Ian Thompson and Katharine Burn department as the Deputy aiming to increase understanding of learning Education Policy in Turkey and England’ Director of the Rees Centre outcomes in developing countries by Oxfordshire. Supervisors | Liam Gearon and Nigel Fancourt Rachel Taylor ‘Early and Multiple Entry to GCSE Mathematics in October 2017 and took identifying synergies in research approaches Dr Gary Snapper joined and the Implications for Examination Standards’ Zainab Kabba ‘The Education of American Muslims: Knowledge up responsibilities as and findings. Bronwen’s research interests the department in and Authority in Intensive Islamic Learning Environments’ Supervisor | Steve Strand Director of the Centre in surround the role of non-state actors in September 2017 as a January 2018. Lisa has an educational governance and advocacy. Supervisors | Nigel Fancourt and David Mills Adam Unthiah ‘Do Morphological Awareness and Language Curriculum Tutor in English, international reputation for her research in teaching on the PGCE and Thomas Meyer ‘Global Human Rights and Contextualized Civic Status Predict Vocabulary Knowledge?’ Dr Louise Mc Grath-Lone fostering and child welfare and was previously MLT courses, having Learning: A Case Study of Human Rights Education in Japan’ Supervisors | Victoria Murphy and Kathy Sylva is a Research Officer in the the Director of the Centre for Child and Family completed his doctorate at Supervisors | Takehiko Kariya and Susan James Relly Research at Loughborough University. Rees Centre, who joined the department in January the Institute of Education in London. His Mariela Neagu ‘Young Adults’ Perspectives on Their Experiences Professor Iram Siraj joined 2018. She is a public health research is concerned with the teaching of of Different Types of Placement in Romania’ the department in June researcher with an interest literature and the theory and politics of the Supervisors | Judy Sebba and Alis Oancea 2018 as the chair in Child in using large administrative English curriculum. Development and datasets to explore outcomes for To meet our current doctoral students visit www.education.ox.ac.uk/people/doctoral-students Education from University disadvantaged groups, such as children in care. College London where she was Professor of Early 38 Department of Education Annual Report 2017/18 3 9

Administrative and Sheena Lee is a PRINCE 2 Honorary Research Fellow ENGAGE WITH US Professional qualified Research Project Dr Penelope Woolf Manager who joined the Honorary Norham Fellow Public Seminar Series Hannah Brown joined the department in January 2018/19 2018 from the Earlham department in October The department hosts a termly programme 2017 as Research and Institute, Norwich, where VISITING she project managed large, of public research seminars throughout the Communications academic year. Seminars are convened by Administrator and is genomics studies. She manages a portfolio of PRACTITIONERS projects across practical science examinations, Visiting Professors members of the department and are held responsible for managing on most Mondays during term (starting and developing the digital learning, REF2021 and Athena Swan. Visiting Professors are considered to be at 5pm). Speakers include a wealth of department’s communications channels and Lucy Liddicot joined the outstanding in their field of work and academics from across the department promoting its research, impact and knowledge PGCE department as are nominated by the department. The and the wider University, as well as exchange activities. Hannah has over six Administrative Officer in department’s current Visiting Professors are: internationally recognised professionals years’ of experience working in higher May 2018 after 10 years from across the globe. education institutions, in a variety of event, working for a children’s Professor David Andrich communication and project management roles. reading charity. She University of Western Australia All upcoming seminars are publicised on the provides administrative Professor Jennifer Gore departmental events page – see website Ellie Gaspar joined the support for the PGCE course including University of Newcastle, Australia link below for details. Oxford University Centre admissions, partnership schools, examinations for Educational Assessment and the Professional Development in October 2017 as Visiting Academics programme. CONTACT US Administrator. She helps Visiting academics add value to the life and [email protected] manage the day-to-day Natalie Reynolds joined work of the department by sharing their running and finances of the the department in March knowledge and specific skills in areas of +44 (0)1865 274024 Centre and is also involved in planning 2018 as the administrator expertise with staff and students. This year’s events hosted by the Centre. Ellie for the Rees Centre and visitors are: www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us joined the Department from Oxford University provides administrative, Press. financial, communications Dr Scott Alterator and project support La Trobe University, Australia Lydia Holland joined the CONNECT WITH US ensuring the smooth running of the centre. department in March 2018 Dr Atia Apusigah Before relocating to Oxford, Natalie worked in @OxfordDeptofEd as the acting Finance University for Development Studies, Ghana, content marketing and enjoyed a short career Assistant. She is part of a Africa www.linkedin.com/school/oxford- in secondary education based in South Finance team responsible Dr Jun Cui deptofed Manchester. for managing the Southeast University, China News: www.education.ox.ac.uk/ department’s day-to-day Claire Stevens is the HR Professor Xavier Dumay news-events/news financial administration, ensuring that financial Administrator for the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium transactions are processed accurately. department, and joined this Events: www.education.ox.ac.uk/ Professor Elizabeth Fernandez new role in September news-events/events Matthew Hurst joined the department University of New South Wales, Australia 2017. She has over five in October 2017 as the PGCE Admissions Podcasts: www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ years of experience in Dr Marina García-Carmona Officer. Matthew previously co-ordinated units/department-education academic HR and manages University of Granada, Spain postgraduate courses at the Royal College the strategic and operational delivery of all Dr Mairin Hennerbry of Surgeons and supported infectious disease aspects of the HR function. This includes the University of Hong Kong research at the London School of Hygiene www.education.ox.ac.uk/wp- whole of the employment lifecycle from and Tropical Medicine. He is now the primary Mónica Olivares Leyva content/uploads/2018/09/ recruitment to end of employment processes. contact for new applications to Oxford’s University of Alcalá, Spain AnnualReport-2017.pdf PGCE course. For more information about our staff and their Dr Karen McLean positions see: www.education.ox.ac.uk/ Learning Science Institute (Australian Catholic Diana Jarman is people University), Australia the Professional Programmes Administrative Dr Eran Melkman Officer and joined the HONORARY FELLOWS University of Haifa, Israel department in January Honorary Fellows provide a significant level Professor Xiao Na 2018. She works on of contribution to the department in the South China Normal University, China various aspects of forms of mentorship, teaching, supervision, Dr Jessica Ogilvy-Stuart admissions and course administration for the collaborative research and/or professional Brandon Learning Centre, Hong Kong MSc Learning and Teaching, the MSc Teacher practice, grant application, ambassadorship, Dr Ann Karin Sandal Education and the MSc Educational examination, assessment and development Western Norway University of Applied assessment. of the academic programmes. This year, the Sciences, Norway Gordana Kelava following appointments have been made: Mrs Isabelle Skakni joined the department in Dr Maria Evangelou Université Laval, Canada March 2018. She supports Honorary Research Fellow Dr Helena Ward Dr David Johnson and the University of Adelaide, Australia Centre for Comparative and Professor Marilyn Fleer International Education with Honorary Research Fellow Dr Natsumi Wakamoto the coordination of the Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Professor Maria Teresa Tatto annual OXSCIE Symposium. Gordana has an Kyoto, Japan Honorary Research Fellow MA from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a second MA from Oxford Professor Harriet Ward Brookes University. 40 Department of Education

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