Reference no: EM132847790

What are the impactful strategies that are used to close the gap between the high achiving pupil premium students (HAPPS) and their non-pupil peers.

The questions focused on how staff and teachers are currently implementing school policy and personal practices in supporting HAPPS inside and outside of school.

What are the key obstacles that HAPPs are facing at school B while assessing how literature -propsed interventions for HAPPS attainment progress, translated into a practical classroom environment.

SECTION A

Title of research project: What are the most impactful strategies that can be used to shorten the gap between Pupil Premium (PP) and non - Pupil Premium Students?

1. Brief overview OF THE STUDY: Describe the aims and purposes of the research proposed. Outline the research questions and methods to be used and list the main types of research participants you intend to collect data from.

1. Will the research involve gathering personal information on identifiable living individuals?

2. Will the research involve gathering confidential information of any kind (i.e. information not currently in the public domain)?

3. Will the research involve participants who are particularly vulnerable or unable to give informed consent (e.g. children, adults with learning difficulties)?

4. Will the research require the cooperation of a "gatekeeper," e.g. an authority figure who has the power to grant access to groups and individuals possibly without their
informed consent?

5. Will participants be remunerated in some form for the information they are asked to provide (e.g. being paid for interviews)?

6. Could the research cause harm to subjects or have negative consequences for them that exceed those experienced in everyday life?

7. To the best of the researcher's knowledge, will the research raise any issues which should be the subject of ethical consideration and/or review?

8. Does the research entail potential security or health and safety risks to the researcher that exceed those experienced in everyday life?

9. It is suggested that research reports are made available publicly upon completion to participants. Do you or your supervisor feel that, for any reasons whatsoever, access to your final report may need to be restricted?

SECTION B

1. RECRUITMENT/SELECTION PROCEDURES: How will study participants be selected? What information will be provided about the study so that participants can make an informed
decision. Is there any sense in which participants might feel ‘obliged' to participate?

2. VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS: Specify whether the research will include vulnerable groups, including children, vulnerable adults or others. If so, please explain what will be done to facilitate their participation and reduce possible harm to them. If working with people with disabilities, please explain how you will provide any special support that they may need, for instance, in relation to communication or to access to the interview site.

• Consider if there are any particular issues for children, babies, vulnerable adults, English as a Second Language (ESL) speakers, refugees and other potentially vulnerable participants? How will you ensure your research approach takes account of vulnerabilities?

3. INFORMED CONSENT: Please explain your approach to how consent is to be obtained, including from parents, carers and children as appropriate. As a general rule a consent form should be used, unless this is not appropriate (if so please explain why). A copy of the proposed consent form, written in simple, non-technical language intelligible to your participants

should be attached with this form. Participants' entitlement to withdraw consent should be explained on the consent form used.

• Please explain clearly how children are asked for assent to participate
• Information should be provided to participants outlining rationale for study
• Consider how information will be provided to parents, and how consent will be requested from parents if appropriate.
• As a general rule consent should be explicit. Participants should opt-in not opt-out
• Participants' right to withdraw must be respected and acted upon whenever reasonably possible. If participants' data is no longer identifiable and cannot be disaggregated as data analysis is already at an advanced stage then full withdrawal of all data may not be possible.

4. PARTICIPANTS IN DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS: Specify whether participants will include students or others in a dependent relationship (this could affect their ability to decline to participate). For example, they may be children in a class you are teaching or working with. How will you ensure that participants feel able not to consent to the research or to withdraw?
• Carefully consider whether potential participants can give unrestrained informed consent and how to reassure potential participants that non-participation is acceptable and will be fully respected (see BERA 2018 guidelines pages 9-13 on consent)

5. PARTICIPANTS WHO YOU WORK WITH OR FOR: Explain how you have considered relationships with colleagues who you work with or managers you work for as part of this research (if appropriate).

• Carefully consider any particular issues of conducting research with staff in place of work. How will you deal with these? How will you ensure that your role as a researcher is clear to colleagues? Will you only be conducting the research at specific times in the workplace? If so how will you make this clear to colleagues and/or managers?

6. CONFIDENTIALITY: Please state who will have access to the data and which measures will be adopted to maintain the confidentiality of research participants. Will the data be anonymised
and if so in what ways?

• Explain how you will achieve anonymity if appropriate eg. using pseudonyms
• Ensure that any documentation relating to the research maintains confidentiality and anonymity when appropriate. Consider how participants might be identified with reference to any information you might provide.
• Consider checking the data you have collected from research participants is factually accurate. As a general rule, It is considered good practice to allow participants to review their contributions before analysis.
• Consider whether participants have a right to read the final report, in addition to having the right to view any data that concerns them.

7. PROTECTION OF RESEARCHER (Applicant): Please state briefly any precautions being taken to protect your health and safety if appropriate. Is there anything about the environment in which you will be researching that requires you to take extra precautions? Do you have any health condition that might give you serious problems during your fieldwork?
• Ensure you are competent to conduct the research, including all research methods you plan to use
• Consider any potential risks in the environments and contexts you are researching in. Please consult BERA 2018 guidelines (pages 35-36)

8. ANTICIPATED USE OF RESEARCH DATA: Do you anticipate using your data beyond your research project, e.g. for publishing articles or in a report for your organisation? If so, please state

• You must carefully consider how you use data relating to your research project. As a general rule data (and particularly any personal data) should be destroyed following completion of the research project.
• However, you should consider if there is a secondary use of the research data, and how this will be handled appropriately considering your responsibilities to participants and to your

organisation (if appropriate). Will it be necessary to request further consent from participants?
• Wherever possible, and where appropriate, data should be anonymised and uploaded to xData

9. DATA PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT: How do you intend to store your data? Have you thought carefully about archiving methods and where to keep confidential information? What data protection procedures will you follow to ensure the anonymity of your participants at all
times? Please ensure you are aware of the GDPR guidelines.

• Consider how will you store and subsequently destroy data. Data must be stored securely. Use password protection and data encryption; avoid portable storage devices; anonymise records and avoid transferring data by email (please see BERA 2018 guidelines, page 25).
• Consider how personal data will be processed in accordance with GDPR guidelines. Researchers must have participants' explicit permission to disclose personal information to third parties. Please read the BERA 2018 guidelines on privacy and data storage (pages 21-24 and page 16). All citizens are entitled to know how and why their data is being stored, how data will be used and to whom it will be made available.
• Please explain your procedure for dealing with disclosure (consider pages 25-26 of BERA 2018), and information that you may come across regarding illegal or harmful activities.

10. FEEDBACK TO PARTICIPANTS: Will the data or findings of this research be made available to participants or to others? If so, specify the form and timescale for feedback - e.g. an electronic copy of your thesis or report. What commitments will be made to participants regarding
feedback? How will these obligations be verified?

• How do you plan to disseminate your findings to participants? It might be appropriate to give a copy to the school or setting in which you have done the research. Alternatively, it might not be appropriate on ethical grounds (for example if you have interviewed Teaching Assistants on their perspectives of school support it might break confidentiality to give a copy to the Head teacher . Please consider your responsibilities for dissemination (BERA 2018, pages 32- 35), and discuss with your supervisor what is appropriate for your project (as appropriate).

SECTION C - Review and Decision

What are the impactful strategies that are used to close the gap between the high achieving pupil premium students and their non-pupil premium peers?

What are the current successful proven strategies - you have implemented to close the gap between high achieving pupil premium Students (HAPPS) and non - Pupil Premium Students in your class?

In your department what are the key areas teachers need to focus on to build HAPP student confidence and raise attainment level?

In your opinion has the national Pupil Premium policy addressed the current climate challenges facing HAPP students outside and inside of school?

How many HAPP students do you have in each classroom you are teaching?

Please state your department in which you are currently teaching.

Attachment:- Assignment Proposal Form.rar