January 2025
Project Library
Using Realistic Job Previews to attract prospective teachers
Realistic Job Previews offer a ‘try before you buy’ insight into a profession, allowing users to experience aspects of daily life before commiting to training.
Five-year itch: Retaining early career teachers
December 2025
What makes early career teachers stay in the profession and what are the pushes that send them to pastures new?
Analysis of Costs in Traditional and Early Permanence Adoption Routes
December 2023
A newly completed project report exploring the costs of adoption in early permanence and traditional adoption routes is now available.
Evaluation of the Mockingbird programme
May 2023
We have been asked to evaluate the Mockingbird programme is part of the Department for Education (DfE) funded Supporting Families: Investing in Practice programme, which is expanding and rolling out promising interventions that came through the DfE’s Innovation Programme.
Early Educators’ Knowledge of Early Language Pedagogy: How can it be measured and does it matter for child language outcomes?
October 2022
This study explored the role of teachers’ knowledge in supporting children’s oral language progress across the two years of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
Introducing standardised testing into the Flanders education system
July 2023
Strengthening the design and implementation of the standardised student assessment reform of the Flemish Community of Belgium
The Flemish Community of Belgium has been a stronger performer on international tests, however, performance has been deteriorating and more students are failing to reach basic proficiency levels than before.
Hayward Review
June 2023
It’s Our Future: Report of the Independent Review of Qualifications and Assessment
Led by Professor Louise Hayward, from Glasgow University
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Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021
May 2023
In collaboration with Pearson UK, OUCEA produced the National Report for England for PIRLS 2021.
PISA 2022 National Centre
December 2023
Pearson, in collaboration with Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment (OUCEA) was awarded the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022 contract by the Department for Education to operate as the National Centre for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Perceptions of Standards in Scotland (PASS)
September 2022
Public confidence in the qualification system is essential to maintain the currency of the certificates for the young people whose life chances depend upon them.
Knowledge use in examinations and assessment policy formation during Covid
February 2023
The research proposed examined the interplay of expertise and politics in the response to the pandemic in education in England, with a specific focus on examinations and assessment policy.
Resilience in the national qualifications system in England
August 2022
What features of England’s examination system that make it vulnerable to failure, particularly in the face of disruptive events?