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School Improvement

Each year CfBT invests in research into school improvement, looking at education systems both in the UK and overseas. A range of different approaches have been used including investigating school improvement across local authorities, the role of staff, policies on school improvement, and the impact of school improvement on student outcomes.

Current Research Projects

• Professional educators and the evolving role of ICT in schools
• School governing: school type, performance and socio-economic disadvantage
• Data dictatorship and data democracy
• Developing an awareness of the learning brain in the classroom, improving students' motivation to learn
• The next level: good schools becoming outstanding

Published Research Reports

• An exploration of the processes and outcomes of coaching (2010)
• Extended services: ensuring sustainability using the social enterprise model (2010)
• Disabled parents' involvement in their children's education (2009)
• School governors and the partnership arrangements (2009)
• Improving secondary students' academic achievement through a focus on reform reliability: Four and nine-year findings from the High Reliability Schools project (2008)
• Managing teachers. The centrality of teacher management to quality education; Lessons from developing countries (2008)
• The development of leadership capacity through collaboration in small primary schools (2008)
• Developing supplementary school hubs and networks (2007)
• School effectiveness and equity: making connections (2007)
• Review of international literature on admissions (2006)

Archive Research Reports