Aims and Objectives of Conference

Provide opportunity for schools to network with each other

• Schools to share work in progress
• Schools to get to know others doing similar work and to establish contact for future communication
• Recognition of the work they're doing
• Have fun

Learning experience for participants; contribute to their own practice

• Increase schools repertoire of data collection methods (by using creative methods ourselves during the day - this is not a training session)
• Lobby for greater understanding of learning than test scores.
• Explore methods to use to evaluate young people's learning.

Evaluators to collect data on the different schools for the evaluation

• Identify how teachers and students perceive their own school organisational structure and culture
• Identify teachers and young researchers' own criteria for the success of their projects.

Promote the evaluation

• Inform teachers and students about the Sussex University evaluation.
• Evaluators to get to know the participating schools and demonstrate their role (ie types of questions ask and how)
• Discuss what information the university would like schools to collect and how

Aims and Objectives of Report

• Provide a record of the day
• Encourage further networking
• Suggest further resources and directions to take
• Share initial interpretations of data
• Encourage active response and further involvement in interpreting data