Department of Education
Classroom talk, social disadvantage and educational attainment: raising standards, closing the gap
Collaboration between Cambridge Primary Review Trust and University of York, supported by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
Changing talk, changing thinking: Interim report from the in-house evaluation of the CPRT/UoY Dialogic Teaching project
Media coverage
- We're asking kids all the wrong questions in school, Quartz, 7 July 2017
- Talking in class boosts pupils' results, Times Education Supplement, 7 July 2017
- Pupils brainpower increased by arguing (PDF
, 218kb), The Daily Telegraph paper; page 2, 7 July 2017 - Arguing aids kids, The Sun (PDF , 202kb), The Sun paper; page 16, 7 July 2017
- Argumentative children do better in maths and science, study finds, The Independent, 7 July 2017
- Teaching children to argue helps their development, study finds, Telegraph.co.uk, 7 July 2017
- Arguing in class good for grades, says study (PDF , 237kb), Jersey Evening Post (Main) page 10, 7 July 2017
- Encouraging arguing in class boosts results (PDF , 210kb), Western Morning News (Devon) (Main) page 15, 8 July 2017
- Why pupils who argue could do better in class (PDF , 259kb), Coverntry Telegraph (Main) page 3, 8 July 2017
- Education (PDF , 246kb), Wigan Evening Post (Main) page 6, 7 July 2017
- Argument for debate (PDF , 195kb), Evening Telegraph (Dundee) (Main) page 13, 7 July 2017
- Encouraging a debate in lessons can improve grades, research finds, Education Business (Web), 7 July 2017
- EEF: Debate-style teaching boosts pupils' progress, Schools Week (Web), 7 July 2017
- Argumentative children do better in maths and science, study finds, Yahoo! UK and Ireland (Web), 7 July 2017
- Argument and debate boosts exam results (PDF , 219kb), Lancashire Telegraph (Main) page 8, 7 July 2017
- Why children who argue could do better in some school subjects, Irish Examiner (Web), 7 July 2017
- Debating in class improves results (PDF , 231kb), Express and Star (Wolverhampton) (Main) page 19, 8 July 2017
- Boost for pupils who argue (PDF , 215kb), Birmingham Main (Central City Final) (Main) page 8, 8 July 2017
- Classroom debate boosts results (PDF , 206kb), i (The paper for today) (Main) page 23, 8 July 2017
- Letting children argue could boost their results, Jonathan O Callagham, IFLScience, 9 July 2017
- Did I really need to shout, We're not living in Aleppo? (PDF , 554kb), The Times (T2), 10 July 2017
- Socrates was right all along, Inverse Science, 11 July 2017
- EEF publishes five new evaluations of funded projects (PDF , 830kb), Education Journal (Main), 11 July 2017
- Debates help boost results (PDF , 191kb), Big Print (Main) 15 July 2017