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...children home-educated in England. No accurate data is available on how many of these children sit national examinations each year. However, a study during the Covid pandemic shed light on challenges when the exams were cancelled, and some significant inequalities came to light...Find out more about The Open University’s Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. Home...

...research in change in children. Others are trained in how to support children in school, or how to help children with developmental delays. Each of these roles requires a range of skills that developmental psychologists learn over many years of training. Duncan Gillard is an educational psychologist working with young children to support their educational needs and......

...children] learn as long as they are learning? Initially, this research was designed to consider if and how the spaces in which we learn really matter. Sometimes within Home Education circles, parents ask with slight confusion ‘why does it matter where they [children] learn as long as they are learning?’. Over time, it became apparent to the researcher that the element...

...research to try to improve children’s learning – but it’s not working A yardstick that establishes the minimum quality requirements for an EdTech product to be used in schools is crucial to ensure technology does more good and no harm. The creation of a yardstick needs to take into account both the product quality and the process of using the technology – whether...