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:

• 01Nov2006
  Research: Empowering parents in Sure Start local programmes

  This study was commissioned by the National Evaluation of Sure Start (NESS), to take a closer look at parents’ experiences of empowerment, at the forms and effects of mutual support, self-help and community action that have been developed.

• 01Sep2006
  Research: the power of parenting TV programmes - help or hazard for today's families?

  An article about the results of the NFPI survey which aimed to understand more about public attitudes to parenting TV programmes and about parents' reactions to them.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.