The Teaching and Learning Research Programme's research briefings offer short summaries of major research projects.  The links below will take you directly to non-technical documents produced by research teams for public use.  Other useful resources are the TLRP Commentaries and Teacher's Guide which are also listed here.

Personalised Learning: A TLRP Commentary Neuroscience and Education Issues and Opportunities: A TLRP Commentary Improving Teaching and Learning in Schools: A TLRP Commentary Principles in Practice: A Teacher's Guide to Research Evidence on Teaching and Learning 10 Principles for Effective Teaching and Learning: Poster

Briefings list...

Education, schooling and learning for life

Factors that make teachers more effective across their careersrs

Using computers to enhance learning

Learning how to learn - in classrooms, schools and networks

5-14 Mathematics in Scotland Intensive Quantities: Why Primary School Mathematics needs Them

The Development of Inclusive Practices in Schools

Consulting Pupils About Teaching and Learning

Towards Evidence-based Practice in Science Education 4: Users’ perceptions of research

Towards Evidence-based Practice in Science Education 3: Teaching Pupils ‘Ideas-about-science’

Improving pupil group work in classrooms: A new approach to increasing engagement and learning in everyday classroom settings in Key Stages 1, 2 and 3

Enhancing primary literacy and mathematics through home-school knowledge exchange

Building thinking skills in thinking classrooms

Why morphemes are useful in primary school literacy

Fractions: difficult but crucial in mathematics learning

Engaging teachers, engaging learners: Action research for developing inclusion in secondary schools

Education, schooling and learning for life