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Research in the Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment (CPA).
Our department is a vibrant hub of research – international, national and local. Teaching in the CPA department is informed by the research we carry out.
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- Special interest groups
- Case studies
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Research projects
Current projects
We have an exciting research portfolio of projects, including:
- Between-class attainment grouping and educational inequality
- Branching Out: Tackling mental health inequalities in schools with Community Artscapers
- Broadening Secondary School Science 2018-2021
- COVID-19: Trainee TEACHers’ challenges and barriers to mental health and WELLbeing support
- Eco-Capabilities: Supporting children’s wellbeing through participatory art in nature
- Early career support: pilot evaluation
- Educational technologies in mathematics education
- Evaluation of Early Career Support Pilots
- International School Partnerships
- Low attainment in mathematics: an investigation of Year 9 students in England
- Minority ethnic PGCE student teachers’ racialised experiences while learning to teach and the implications for retention
- More than ‘mixed-attainment good, ability grouping bad’: The perspectives of trainee teachers towards grouping in the primary classroom
- Moving Up: optimising secondary school transition processes during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Programme for International Student Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025)
- Raising Standards in Holocaust Education
- Retention of Teachers from Minority Ethnic Groups in Disadvantaged Schools
- SMART spaces evaluation
- Teachers and Citizenship Knowledge (TACK)
- The Student Grouping Study: Investigating the impact of setting and mixed-attainment grouping
- Understandings of social justice in secondary science education among ITE students and their university tutors
- Visions of artificial intelligence, biometrics and digital surveillance in schools
Completed projects
- The future of the artificially intelligent examination
Team: Dr Mary Richardson, Professor Sandra Leaton Gray (Project Leads); Naomi Care: Assessment MicroAnalytics Limited, Dr Rose Clesham - Pearson PTE Academic, Dr Bryan Maddox - Assessment MicroAnalytics Limited (Collaborators)
- Moving up: optimising secondary school transition processes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Team: Professor Sandra Leaton Gray (Principal Investigator); Dr Jane Perryman, Professor Eleanore Hargreaves, Dr Katya Saville, Dr Jennie Golding, Dr Lauren Hammond, Dr Beate Hellawell, Dr Helen Lawson, Dr Emma Jones, Dr Jie Liu, Professor Michael Reiss (Co-Investigators).
Reports and publications
- Moving Up: Starting Secondary school during the Covid-19 Pandemic (student flyer)
- Moving Up: Secondary school transition processes during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Starting secondary school in 2020 - Student Guide
- Starting secondary school in 2020 - Teacher Guide
Blog and articles
- Moving Up: Lessons from Researching Transitions During a Global Pandemic (Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions) - Dr Emma Jones and Dr Katya Saville.
- Moving up to secondary school during a pandemic is difficult. Here are some ways for teachers to help (IOE blog) - Sandra Leaton Gray and Jane Perryman.
- Secondary schools' engagement with climate change and sustainability education in England
Team: Professor Nicola Walshe, Dr Kris De Meyer (Co-leaders); Dr Alison Kitson, Dr Lucy Hubble-Rose, Sarah Sharp (Researchers).
Research groups
- Educational Assessment Group at IOE (EAG@IOE)
- Mathematics Education Group (MEG)
- Researching Own Practice in Education (ROPE) Group
- Subject Specialism Research Group (SSRG)
Special interest groups
- Mathematics Education SIG
- Science Education SIG - for more info contact Amanda McCrory at a.mccrory@ucl.ac.uk
- Religious Education SIG - for more info contact: Alexis Stones at a.stones@ucl.ac.uk
Case studies
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For further details about our researchers, publications, activities, groups and themes:
- Contact Professor Eleanore Hargreaves
- Visit UCL Profiles