The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for UK schools, but a time of
cancelled exams and uncertainty around future examinations can provide opportunities to …

Improving academic grades within the core areas of English, Science and Mathematics has
had a lot of previous research interest, but research has tended to mostly focus on students …

This paper examines the relationship between pupils' expectations of their grades in public
examinations at age 16 in England and their actual grades. We define optimism as the …

There is broad consensus in the research literature that high quality educational
assessments are underpinned by a number of key principles. The first is that all …

This research investigates the experiences of ten white working-class boys, at a
comprehensive school in the north of England. It mobilises Bourdieu's concepts of habitus …

The cancellation of Leaving Certificate (LC) exams was a difficult decision for all involved.
Up until Friday May 8, Minister Joe McHugh and his officials at the Department of Education …

Aims of the Study This report aims to detail the reasons for the underrepresentation of
service children (a child with one or two parents within the British Armed Forces) within …

Understanding students' intentions to study science at upper-secondary school continues to
be a central concern for science education. Prior research has associated students' …