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ANNEX 1: FURTHER INFORMATION AND MATERIALS ARISING FROM PROJECT
Activities and outputs
The ESRC project prior to this one ( ScotSPRinG) has so far yielded 3 publications accepted, one submitted and 2 in preparation, with reporting at several conferences. Something similar but on a smaller scale is anticipated for the current project. Already a paper has been presented to the TLRP conference in Glasgow 20-22 nd November 2006. A paper has been presented to the International Transition Research Conference at Strathclyde University on 11-14 April 2007. A paper has been accepted for the EARLI conference in Budapest in August 2007. Presentations at BERA and SERA are anticipated in 2007. The data has been offered to the ESRC data archive but declined.
Impacts
The Enjoying Science Together materials by Topping and Thurston suitable for peer tutoring and cooperative learning in science (noted as an output to the ScotSPRinG project) have been digitised and will be made available to all teachers in Scotland via Glow, the Scottish Schools Digital Network. The adaptations to the ScotSPRinGCPD materials made for secondary teachers might lend themselves to further dissemination, but without evidence of effectiveness this is problematic. The primary ScotSPRinGCPD materials are to be published by the London team with cooperation with Scotland.
Future research priorities
It is possible to replicate the present project using a more intense intervention, but this cannot be regarded as a priority. A large randomised controlled trial largely funded by ESRC has been developed in Scotland, involving 125 primary schools in peer learning in reading and mathematics, with exploration of differences between light and intensive application and between cross-age and same-age working. A further bid to ESRC on peer learning with ICT has been submitted.
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