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.

TTYB research other policies:

• 01Jul2008
  Research: The Effects of Background Television on the Toy Play Behaviour of Very Young Children

  A report on an experiment run to test the hypothesis that background, adult television is a disruptive influence on very young children's behaviour.

• 02Jun2008
  Research: The good, the bad and the pacifier - unsettling accounts of early years practice

  In this article, interviews with eight managers and questionnaires from 75 practitioners are analysed to explore their perceptions of the role of pacifiers (or dummies) within the nursery.

• 01May2008
  Research: Thursday's Child

  This report considers educational reform in the context of a change in the political agenda.

• 01Apr2008
  Research: for love or money - pay, progression and professionalisation in the 'early years' workforce

  A report from IPPR's Working out of Poverty series looking at the state of the early years workforce.

• 01Apr2008
  Research: For Love or Money: Pay, progression and professionalisation in the 'early years' workforce

  The second report from the IPPR's Working Out of Poverty series looking at the impact of low wages and limited progression at work on the early years sector.

• 29Aug2007
  Research: Early years: Getting on well - enjoying, achieving and contributing

  Getting on well is the second national report on how early years and childcare providers are supporting Every Child Matters outcomes for children.

• 21Jul2007
  Research: tackling low educational achievement

  This report looked at low educational achievement and what factors underpin this problem.

• 01Jun2007
  Research: Promoting Speech and Language - a themed study in fifteen Sure Start Local Programmes

  The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which the emerging knowledge about speech, language and pre-literacy is being utilised in SSLPs, and the role played in this process by SaLTS.

• 01Apr2007
  Research: Can television be good for children?

  A review of research on the beneficial effects of television in children's lives.

• 15Feb2007
  Research: On your marks

  A simple test may show which children would benefit from early intervention, says Kathryn Duckworth.