Professional development research
Our professional development is there to support you with our qualifications and resources, developed by experts and always based on the latest research.
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Our professional development is there to support you with our qualifications and resources, developed by experts and always based on the latest research.
– Chung Wei, Darling-Hammond and Adamson, 2010
– Cordingley and Bell, 2012
We offer professional development to support teachers delivering our qualifications and using our resources. All Pearson professional development is developed by subject experts and delivered by teachers and examiners.
We support, sponsor and collaborate with a number of partner organisations to help ensure that our professional development is based on the most up-to-date research and is right for our customers.
The Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE) is known around the world for its expertise in evidence-based school and college improvement.
A non-profit organisation promoting world-leading approaches to teacher learning, because effective teacher development creates successful children.
With campuses in Exeter and Falmouth, this university has an excellent academic reputation, rates highly for its research and does well in student satisfaction surveys too.
One of the oldest universities in England, this world-class university is ranked highly in the UK and internationally, with more than 26,000 students from 140 countries.
Cambridge Primary Review Trust
A not-for-profit company established to build on the work done by the Cambridge Primary Review and ensure high quality primary education for all children.
A charity focused on ending inequality in education by building a community of exceptional leaders who create change within classrooms, schools and across society.
A teacher-led organisation for anyone interested in educational research, what it means, and how it can - or can't - make a difference in the classroom.
We also use independent research to inform the principles behind our professional development, such as these recent research papers:
This report, written by CUREE and published by Pearson, focuses on the features of professional learning that have a positive impact on learners.
In ‘What Works Best In Education: The Politics of Collaborative Expertise’, renowned education researcher John Hattie sets out what needs to happen if we are to nurture teacher expertise and spread it from classroom to classroom, and from school to school. The goal: a year’s worth of learning for every student, whatever their starting point.