Ofsted schools research
Ofsted carries out research alongside its main inspection programme to look at specific issues, subjects or policies in more detail.
Ofsted’s research programme serves a range of purposes. It allows us to focus on specific issues in greater detail than is possible during an institutional inspection. Alternatively, it can explore issues outside the current inspection framework, or may look at providers we don’t currently inspect.
Alternative school provision
Curriculum
- Intention and substance: primary school science curriculum research
- Education inspection framework: overview of research
- Curriculum research: assessing intent, implementation and impact
- Commentary on curriculum research - phase 3
- HMCI's commentary: recent primary and secondary curriculum research
- HMCI commentary: curriculum and the new education inspection framework
- Reception curriculum in good and outstanding primary schools: bold beginnings
History, geography and religious education
Inspections
Languages and literacy
- Research review series: English
- Research review series: languages
- Improving literacy in secondary schools: a shared responsibility
- Improving literacy: moving English forward
- Early language and literacy: from training to teaching
- Removing barriers to literacy
- Modern languages: achievement and challenge 2007 to 2010
Lesson observation
Maths, IT and technology
Music and creative subjects
Physical education and sport
Preparing children for the future
PSHE
Pupil premium
Pupil wellbeing, progress and behaviour
- Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges
- Knife crime: safeguarding children and young people in education
- Obesity, healthy eating and physical activity in primary schools
- Ensuring Roma children achieve in education
- Low-level disruption in classrooms: below the radar
- Unseen children: educational access and achievement 20 years on
- Performance of the most able students from non-selective schools
- School strategies for preventing and tackling bullying
- Supporting children with challenging behaviour
- The impact of the 'Assessing pupils' progress' initiative
Remote education
School governance and leadership
Science
SEND
Working with families
Last updated 18 October 2017 + show all updates
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Published today: 'Local area SEND inspections: one year on'.
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Added governance survey report.
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Added enterprise education report.
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Added a link to survey inviting feedback on publications.
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Added key stage 3 report
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First published.