Becoming a teacher - A better understanding of early learning professional development (2008)
McNally, J, Boreham, N, Cope, P, Stronach, I
The EPL project was designed to improve the learning of new teachers by developing a research-based, practical model of early professional learning. In addition to describing the part of the learning...
McNally, J, Boreham, N, Cope, P, Stronach, I, Gray, P, Corbin, B, ...
This project was designed to improve the learning of new teachers by developing a research-based, practical model of early professional learning. In addition to detailing the main part of the...
Feeling professional: new teachers and induction (2006)
The data used here were taken from interviews with 50 new teachers during their induction year in Scotland and England (2004-5), held in the first year of an ongoing TLRP project: ‘Enhanced...
Professionalism on probation: induction and new teachers in Scotland (2006)
Corbin, B, Stronach, I, Curwen, K, Dodds, D, Easton, L, Smith, C, ...
This paper draws on qualitative data produced by ‘teacher-researchers’ in continuous, ‘insider’ contact with new teachers during their induction year 2004-5 in Scotland, as part of an ongoing...
User engagement and research design in the Early Professional Learning Project (2005)
Gray, P, Boreham, N, Cope, P, Corbin, B, McNally, J, Stronach, I
There has increasingly been a focus on user engagement within educational research, coupled with a stress on measurement and proof of success. In the educational context, this requires the real-world...
Heron, R, Stronach, I, Whiteley, M
This report covers Phase 2 of a TTA funded project that originally evaluated the impact of trainee teachers on pupil learning in a number of MMU partnership schools with Training School status (the...
First steps and second thoughts on method: beginning to research the learning of new teachers (2004)
McNally, J, Boreham, N, Cope, P, Gray, P, Stronach, I, Corbin, B
This paper is an account of our progress in addressing the challenge of developing a quasi-experimental method of assessing early professional learning (EPL), based on a model from data gathered by...
The methodology of EPPI-style systematic reviewing includes the specification of an 'answerable' research question plus filtering criteria for inclusion and exclusion of possible literature.
Informal learning in early teacher development (2004)
McNally, J, Boreham, N, Cope, P, Gray, P, Stronach, I
In the context of increasing expansion of a competence – based model of teacher development, the counter-balance of a more articulate description and explanation of informal learning is urgently...
Competence-based Learning: the Early Professional Development of Teachers - poster (2004)
McNally, J, Boreham, N, Cope, P, Stronach, I
This poster describes the rationale and research methods of the project Competence-based Learning: the Early Professional Development of Teachers. The overall aim is to improve the learning of new...