Girls into Physics Action Research
The Institute has worked with the National Network of Science Learning Centres, funded by the DCSF, on an action research programme, which used the Institute resources as a starting point.
The second phase, in 2008, enabled teachers from 100 schools to participate. The evaluation aimed to gauge the success of the interventions that schools undertook as part of the project and the findings were published in April 2009.
The Department of Children Schools and Families have published the two reports from the Girls into Physics: Action Research evaluation. The Research Brief contains recommendations from the project and highlights the key findings of the evaluation. The full Research Report contains the theory of change model developed for the evaluation, rich data from teachers and students and further analysis of key issues. The analysis will be useful for informing CPD development using action research approaches with teachers and students.
Documents are available to download via the links below:
- Research Brief DSCF-RB103 Girls into Physics: Action Research
- Full Research Report DCSF-RR103 Girls into Physics Action Research
Another useful document is: