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Exploring the Best Practices in AI Education: Harnessing the Potential of Robotics via the CDIO Framework in Higher Education Apr 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025
The project's primary purpose is to address the shortfall in the traditional learning approach to AI education, which has a lot of scope and potential for improvements in terms of developing transferable skills in students to make them capable of sol... Read More about Exploring the Best Practices in AI Education: Harnessing the Potential of Robotics via the CDIO Framework in Higher Education.

1-2-1 Academically asymmetrical paired mentoring: Improving GCSE science attainment amongst disadvantaged students Jan 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2022
A previous RCT pilot study (Sharpe, Abrahams & Fotou, 2017) found that academically asymmetrical paired mentoring intervention (the one-to-one pairing of undergraduate STEM students with disadvantaged Year 11 students) had a statistically significant... Read More about 1-2-1 Academically asymmetrical paired mentoring: Improving GCSE science attainment amongst disadvantaged students.

Adapting an international assessment system to measuring cognitive/academic skills of year-1 of primary school pupils in Mexican public schools: A Pilot Study Aug 30, 2019 - Aug 30, 2022
Improving education is key to promoting a sustainable development and is emphasised in current global international agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals (i.e., Goal 4). However, the lack of tailored scales to assess year-1 primary school... Read More about Adapting an international assessment system to measuring cognitive/academic skills of year-1 of primary school pupils in Mexican public schools: A Pilot Study.

QR-GCRF RF 06 2019 Identifying Cambodian School Teachers’ Needs to Improve their Performance: Stakeholders’ views on teachers’ psychological well-being as a way to improve teachers’ performance. Jul 15, 2019 - Jul 21, 2019
Cambodia’s education system started virtually from zero in 1979 after the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime. This
regime killed least 1.7 million people out of seven million and 75%-80% of Cambodia’s teachers died or fled (Tan &
N.G., 2012). The... Read More about QR-GCRF RF 06 2019 Identifying Cambodian School Teachers’ Needs to Improve their Performance: Stakeholders’ views on teachers’ psychological well-being as a way to improve teachers’ performance..

GCRF 2019 PPF17: Enabling scalability of the reading to learn methodology in STEM education using video observations in South African township schools Feb 1, 2019 - Jul 31, 2019
This project will develop the capacity of teachers working in underprivileged township schools in Johannesburg, to teach students how to read for the purpose of learning and understanding ‘threshold concepts’ those concepts that are core to a subject... Read More about GCRF 2019 PPF17: Enabling scalability of the reading to learn methodology in STEM education using video observations in South African township schools.

Radical Inclusivity/Exclusivity: Reconsidering ‘exclusive’ schools and their role within ‘inclusive’ education Feb 1, 2016 - Sep 30, 2017
The dominant philosophy of ‘inclusive education' is that all children should be educated together within the same schools, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, looked after status or dis/ability. This research project is not... Read More about Radical Inclusivity/Exclusivity: Reconsidering ‘exclusive’ schools and their role within ‘inclusive’ education.

Essential experiences in science: addressing the gap in primary enquiry-based practical science created by lockdown and aiding school recovery. Jan 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2021
Focusing on primary science education, we will identify and disseminate strategies to enable UK schools and organisations to increase resilience and counter the impacts of lockdown particularly for disadvantaged* students (*see section 4.3).
The Epi... Read More about Essential experiences in science: addressing the gap in primary enquiry-based practical science created by lockdown and aiding school recovery..