Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (8)

Recovering potential: Factors associated with success in engaging challenging students with alternative pre-16 provision (2005)
Journal Article
Attwood, G., Croll, P., & Hamilton, J. (2005). Recovering potential: Factors associated with success in engaging challenging students with alternative pre-16 provision. Educational Research, 47(2), 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131880500104259

The study focuses on a group of young people for whom conventional school placements had broken down and were attending vocational courses at an FE college while still of compulsory school age. The students had been excluded by, or had failed to atte... Read More about Recovering potential: Factors associated with success in engaging challenging students with alternative pre-16 provision.

Becoming a lecturer in further education in England: The construction of professional identity and the role of communities of practice (2005)
Journal Article
Avis, J., & Bathmaker, A. M. (2005). Becoming a lecturer in further education in England: The construction of professional identity and the role of communities of practice. Journal of Education for Teaching, 31(1), 47-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607470500043771

Further education colleges in England offer a wide range of post-school education and training provision. Recently they have undergone major transformations that have resulted in considerable changes to the work of those teaching in them. In this pap... Read More about Becoming a lecturer in further education in England: The construction of professional identity and the role of communities of practice.

Importance and impotence? learning, outcomes and research in further education (2005)
Journal Article
James, D. (2005). Importance and impotence? learning, outcomes and research in further education. Curriculum Journal, 16(1), 83-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/0958517042000336827

One of the defining features of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme is that it ‘aims to improve outcomes for learners of all ages in teaching and learning contexts across the UK’. This article argues that, although it is possible to use the... Read More about Importance and impotence? learning, outcomes and research in further education.

Improving police probationer training through a democratic research process (2005)
Journal Article
Davis, J. D., & Alexandrou, A. (2005). Improving police probationer training through a democratic research process. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 10(2), 245-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596740500200204

Following a damning report on the state of police probationer training in England and Wales by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, entitled Training Matters (2002), the Home Office (2003), as part of its modernisation programme for the police... Read More about Improving police probationer training through a democratic research process.

Qualitative Control: A Review of the Framework for Assessing Qualitative Evaluation (2005)
Journal Article
Kushner, S. (2005). Qualitative Control: A Review of the Framework for Assessing Qualitative Evaluation. Evaluation, 11(1), 111-122. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356389005053194

This article takes a balanced look at the recent publication Quality in Qualitative Evaluation: a Framework for Assessing Research Evidence (Liz Spencer, Jane Ritchie, Jane Lewis and Lucy Dillon), published by the UK Cabinet Office. Set in a context... Read More about Qualitative Control: A Review of the Framework for Assessing Qualitative Evaluation.