Access and Success Academy – Effective Research Methods and Practice When Working with Younger Learners

This course is a part of NEON Access and Success Academy Evidence of Impact Series. Other sessions in the series include ‘Adopting Quantitative Methods to Demonstrate Impact‘, ‘Comparison Groups and Causality – Can This Work for Widening Access?‘ and ‘Dissemination: Writing Up Your Research for Publication & Presenting Findings to a Non-specialist Audience‘.  

Carrying out meaningful research with younger learners brings with it a list of challenges, both in terms of ethics and appropriate methods that can be used. During this one-day course delegates will:  

• Understand when parental consent is needed.  

• Discuss the commonalities and differences between evaluation and research with younger learners.  

• Know when ethical approval must be sought.  

• Be able to identify a range of appropriate methods to be employed with younger learners and also discuss why some methods would be inappropriate.  

• Investigate ways of embedding evaluation within activities.  

• Consider how to make young people active participants with the evaluation and/or research process.