PSQM Publications and Research

Publications:

September 2021

An evaluation of the Science Across the City (Stoke on Trent OA) project as seen through the lens of PSQM.

Second report

Clare Warren

September 2020

Evaluator's Report: The impact of Science across the City (Stoke on Trent OA)

Clare Warren

May 2018

Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire School of Education  have prepared a set of videos to illustrate what the principles of good science learning, teaching and leading in primary schools might mean for:

• children
• teachers
• science leaders (teachers leading science in their primary school)
• senior leadership team
• governors
• parents

These findings have arisen from our research project investigating what is understood by good science learning, teaching and leadership in primary school, for those involved in the Primary Science Quality Mark Programme (PSQM). The researchers are hoping that they will provoke conversations around the nature of primary science within schools and that they might prompt development of practice.

For more information about the project and a Good Science poster to download  visit go.herts.ac.uk/primaryscienceresearch

February 2017

Developing teachers as leaders of science in primary schools Pages 64-71
Julia Mackintosh, Elizabeth White and Claire Dickerson

August 2015

Supporting ongoing teacher development through Primary Science Quality Mark
Jane Turner and Stuart Naylor

April 2013

What can we learn about current practice in primary science teaching and learning in England from the Primary Science Quality Mark award programme?
Jane Turner with Steve Marshall, Adam Farley and Lydia Harriss

Research

PSQM is a research active programme based in the University of Hertfordshire: School of Education.

PSQM is one of six Academic Collaborators supported by the Primary Science Teaching Trust . Find out more here.

One of the key objectives for PSQM is to:

• To assemble and make accessible to the wider science education community a rich data base of current practice in primary science.

PSQM carries out its own research into primary science practice and also collaborates with researchers in other HEIs.