Naace has been invited to offer two briefing sessions in the Local Authority Lounge. These cover ICT CPD experiences for ICT advisors and the use of web-conferencing to support transition and MFL. Naace will be making four contributions to the Seminar Programme covering collaborative tools in teaching and learning, personalised learning, transforming learning and a report on the 'Let's Play Project'.

A study of the organisation, implementation, planning and evaluation of ICT in primary classrooms for subject teaching

Reg Eyre was awarded the Bill Tagg Bursary in 2001/02. In his research, he posed the questions:
How does teachers' planning, organisation, implementation and evaluation of ICT differ for different resource situations?
Does the emphasis change from using ICT to teach subjects to ICT capability when the ICT resource is greater?

Neil Oldbury at The Elizabethan School has a real interest in questionnaires and analysing data to improve systems throughout the school. He wanted to know which subject areas and teachers were using the computer suites throughout the school and whether the use of computers was impacting on raising standards.

In this article Dr Singleton identifies the advantages of using computerised screening methods to identify children for whom intervention would be beneficial.

Crossley Heath have used their Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in so many ways to improve teaching, the delivery of the curriculum as well as the enjoyment of learning taking place. The following description highlights the way the schools secure email system is being used to help students make dramatic improvements in the quantity and quality of assignments set.

Students who perform very well in some subjects can often, inexplicably it seems, do poorly in others. This is a common problem in almost every school in the UK. In fact, when compared to virtually every other developed nation, the UK performs very badly in terms of varying standards within schools. Tackling these differences has become a focus for many schools.

This article describes the development and testing of digital examination papers for students with disabilities, and although the main example is dealing with Scottish secondary education, we will look at how the project applies to primary education in a UK context

This article won the first Chris Robson Memorial Prize in 1995. Yvette outlines how she developed a collection of 'I Can . . . ' sheets to support children in developing ICT capability in Primary schools.

The term 'e-portfolio' is perhaps the greatest misnomer of the century - it is neither a folio of work, nor is it portable. Added to this confusion, various creative minds have added all sorts of bells and whistles to what is essentially a good idea, making it potentially an absolute behemoth of claimed functionalities - few of which can actually deliver what students in schools or universities need.

Over recent years the Government has put an increasing emphasis on assessment to identify success, and to target funds where they are required. Now it is seeking to use assessment data to improve the teaching delivered to individual pupils. Against this background, NFER's e-assessment project focuses on how e-assessment can contribute to this shift in emphasis.