Research and policy

Your research reports are relevant, succinct and readable. They enable me to keep up-to-date with literacy trends without having to trawl through pages of documentation.
Barbara Band, LRC Manager, The Emmbrook School, Wokingham

Understanding the implications that research and policy have on practice is key. Below is a bank of articles which will inform and provoke thought regarding literacy practice in schools.

Talk To Your Baby other policies:

• 01Aug2005
  Research: birth to school study - a longitudinal evaluation of the Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) 1998-2005

  An evaluation of the effects of PEEP on parents and children within the Oxford area.

• 01Jul2005
  Policy: Early education and children's outcomes - how long do the impacts last? A study of a cohort of children born in 1958.

  The aim of this report was to shed light on the question of how effective early pre-school and schooling is for improving the well-being of children, and whether any impacts are likely to be long-lasting.

• 01Apr2005
  Research: Sure Start Language Measure Standardisation Study, July 2004 - March 2005

  The aim of the study was to produce standardised scores for The Sure Start Language Measure (SSLM) by age and gender. The SSLM is a measure developed by City University which has been used to monitor the language performance of two-year-old children.

• 01Jan2005
  Research: gesture paves the way for language development

  Research looking at whether babies' gestures merely precede langugae development or are fundamentally tied to it.

• 01Apr2004
  Research: young children should be seen and heard

  Andrew Burrell and Jeni Riley report on the findings of an intervention programme that sought to raise significantly the oral language skills of children in two inner city reception classes.

• 23Feb2004
  Policy: the children's national service framework

  A 10-year programme intended to stimulate long-term and sustained improvement in children's health.

• 13Feb2004
  Policy: Sure Start

  A summary article on Surestart, their aims and a timeline showing their history and development

• 02Jan2004
  Research: Language is key to the class divide

  A vital piece of social research finds that a key ingredient in determining future social class is language: the basic tool for thought, argument, reasoning and making sense of a confusing world.

• 01Jul2003
  Research: Scottish report identifies under-3s provision to facilitate development

  Under-threes provision that "will support well-being, companionship, shared understanding, and a sense of belonging, and facilitate development" was identified in a report published by the Scottish Executive Education Department.

• 22May2003
  Policy: Every Child Matters

  Details of the Government green paper outlining the Every Child Matters scheme.