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Have you an area of interest you would like to engage in more fully? Would you like to prove that ICT has an impact on teaching and learning?

The Bill Tagg Bursary's allocation of three annual research grants could provide the time and the resources to enable your research to take place.

Naace was established in 1984 and since then, there have been some major events in the Association's history including close associations with government, increased membership and merger with other subject associations .

The first Bill Tagg Bursary research grants were awarded in 2001. Since then, awardees have reported on a wide range of subjects and we invite you to browse through their findings.

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?

Jane Finch was awarded the Bill Tagg Bursary in 2001/2002.

The intention of this report is to outline the various influences on this process and to relate these to the effect on the development of ICT Capability of a targeted group of pupils.

Shelagh Mackenzie graduated from the Herts. MEd. in Teaching and Learning in 2006. Her project, which was supported and extended by the granting of a Bill Tagg bursary, was carried out in collaboration with two Hertfordshire schools, one senior and one primary. In this report, she provides an account of her research, which explored the use of control ICT with Year 5 pupils to develop problem-solving capability.

John Wasteney was awarded the BIll Tagg Bursary in 2004/05.
The focus for John's research was the investigation of 'Voting systems' in Key stage 2 and Key stage 3 as a means raising achievement across the curriculum. This focus was derived from anecdotal evidence, gained from a variety of disparate sources, as to the effectiveness of this technology to engage and increase motivation of students of all abilities. John believes that most schools will use this resource creatively to support assessment for learning strategies.

Bridget Patel was awarded the Bill Tagg Bursary in 2004/05.
This case study focuses on the learner’s experience of school-based educational multimedia in the context of their literacy development in an increasingly mulitmodal (the use of multiple modes of communication) world of communication. It explores the uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with which Year 2 children participate in a ‘typical’ school day, during English and ICT lessons; and furthermore how children’s perceptions of ICT are rendered in their on and off-screen work. Literacy (in the traditional and ‘techno’ senses), creativity and multimodality are key concepts. At a time when communication is shifting to the degree that warrants a revisiting of the English curriculum and the drawing up of policy guidance on digital content quality the relevance of rich, deeply detailed pupil data and pupil consultation is greatly significant.

Welcome to the first edition of Primary Focus in 2008, published to coincide with the BETT Exhibition at Olympia in London (9-12 January 2008). The major positive change to the Primary Focus journal is that, similar to other Naace publications, we are now encouraging Members to contribute and interact with Articles, myself as editor, and other Members - with the idea of stimulating points of view within a continuing professional dialogue.

Bill served for a long time as Treasurer of NAACE on the Executive Committee, and when he retired from his full-time employment he occupied the role of first Professional Officer for the organisation.

In the 1990's NAACE membership was only open to Advisers in LEAs, and being retired Bill was not eligible, however the Board of Management recognised his outstanding contribution to the Association, and awarding him Life Membership.

In the Summer 1999 edition of the then NAACE publication 'The Journal', member, Mike Aston, wrote a moving obituary for Bill, which serves here as a tribute to one of Naace's founding fathers.