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Teaching and educational research in Wales: how does teachers' engagement with educational research differ in Wales from those in England?

Smith, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2441-573X and Horton, Kimberley 2017. Teaching and educational research in Wales: how does teachers' engagement with educational research differ in Wales from those in England? Wales Journal of Education 19 (1) , pp. 125-141. 10.16922/wje.19.1.7

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to better understand how teachers in Wales differ from their counterparts in England in regard to their engagement with educational research. In 2010, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) conducted a study of over 4,000 teachers in England. Many of the questions referred to their engagement in forms of educational research. In 2013, the same questions were posed to 216 teachers in Wales. A comparison of the findings indicate teachers in Wales were more likely to have recently undertaken action research than the England teachers. They also found others' research findings more useful in their teaching. Additionally, the teachers in Wales were more likely than England teachers to agree that they know where to find relevant research to inform their teaching and that they are able to understand and use the research. With recent concerns over educational research and initial teacher education (ITE) in Wales, these findings provide insight into how teachers in Wales perceive and engage with education research and may help to inform policies enabling teachers to produce and implement evidence based practices into their pedagogy.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISSN: 2059-3708
Funders: Higher Education Funding Council Wales
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022 07:42
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/100513

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