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Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...research, which shows that poorer children: … go into lower sets … … so they are entered for lower tiers of examination papers … … and therefore they have to answer more ‘realistic’ test items … … so they achieve lower test results … … so they are confirmed as being appropriately placed in lower sets for mathematics … … so they may experience a...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, 1614T. The European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML), which is based in Graz, Austria, has produced a number of very good training and learning materials, including some to train pupil teachers to use the ELP: Using the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL). You...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
A blow to the head; a blow to rugby?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A blow to the head; a blow to rugby?

...researchers have found that concussions in rugby are common, it has been found that concussion accounts for 29% of all injuries associated with illegal play, but only 9% of injuries sustained in legal play (Gardner, Iverson, Levi, Schofield, Kay-Lambkin et al., 2015). Accordingly, Roberts, Trewartha, England, and Stokes (2015) investigated collapsed scrums and collision...
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What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about
Health, Sports & Psychology

What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about

...research carried out in August 2020, which identified the psychological impacts of COVID-19 on businesses, organisations and the individuals who work there and how prepared they were to deal with these. Read more about why this hub was created. The hub launched in June 2021, but we will not stop there. We will continue to add content and already have some exciting...
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Article 10 mins
Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging
Languages

Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging

...research with users of messaging apps is that people have developed both technological and social strategies for prioritising and managing messages in the context of their busy domestic, social and working lives. Technological strategies include: turning off notifications, so that people can check messages when they choose to do so. This is done most often for large group...
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Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...research such as the International Federation for Systems Research, the nearest practitioner example is the Systems Thinking Practitioner occupational standard approved by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education in the UK in 2020. So, systems thinking and systems practice are here to stay, but why is it becoming so important for so many? [Described...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...research into the measurement of innovation. It is used by organisations such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) to inform innovation policy. This sets out four main types of innovation (OECD, 2005): Product innovation – a good or service that is new or significantly improved. This is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...centre of his diagram was what he called the ‘most beautiful skull’, that of a woman from Georgia in the Caucasus – giving rise to the term ‘Caucasian’. Several factors contributed to the modern construction of ‘race’, including: The Christianisation of Europe and the end of the Wars of Religion (1520s–1710s). After prolonged religious conflict, a period...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs