Case studies

published:April 2009

We have chosen five case studies to illustrate different aspects of the 'consulting pupils' project featured in our RfT summary. 

Case study 1 is an example of a school that consulted pupils about a specific issue identified by the school – target setting. Case study 2 relates the experiences of two teachers who tried implementing their pupils' suggestions for teaching strategies. The third case study describes how a teacher trained a group of ten-year-old pupils to enable them to conduct their own research and the fourth case study is an example of a school which evaluated the impact of students participating in research projects on their learning.  Finally, we have summarised the different approaches for consulting pupils developed through one of the network projects.