CRIPSAT specialises in all aspects of primary science education, increasingly in the 5-14 age range, including research, evaluation, assessment, professional development and instructional design.  The centre’s work has included public understanding of science and has increasingly moved to embrace e-learning and e-assessment.

In addition to work in the UK, Terry’s earlier experience of development education in Southeast Asia has led him to maintain project activities in that area in the primary phase, as well as participating in and contributing to European networks of science education activity.

Recent publications

Russell, T, McGuigan L, Hughes A and Roberts D.  (2000) Optional assessment materials for KS1 science.  Teachers’ Guides and assessment units.  Qualifications and Curriculum Authority for Wales (ACCAC)

Russell,T. McGuigan,L., Hughes.,A. and Roberts,D. (2001).Optional Assessment  Materials for Science. KS2  Qualifications and Curriculum Authority for Wales ACCAC.

Russell, T., McGuigan, L., Hughes., A. and Roberts, D. (2001). Optional Assessment  Materials for Science. KS3 Qualifications and Curriculum Authority for Wales ACCAC

Russell T and McGuigan L  (2001) Science Assessment Series.  Teachers’ Guides and Assessment Units. NFER-Nelson.

Russell, T. and McGuigan, L. (2001). Making formative use of a national assessment regime. Pp71-76 In Behrendt, H., Dahncke, H., Duit, R., Gräber, W., Komorek, M., Kross, A. and Reiska, P. (Eds) Research in science education-Past, present and future. Kluwer academic publishers.

Russell, T., and McGuigan, L. (2002). Promoting understanding through representational redescription: an illustration referring to young pupils’ ideas about gravity. In Psillos, D., Kariotoglou,P., Tslfes,V., Hatzikraniotis,E., Fassoulopoulos,G., Kallery,M. (Eds) Science education research in the knowledge-based society pp61-68.

Russell, T and McGuigan, L.  (2003)  Assessing progress in science.  Teachers’ Guides and formative assessment units for KS1 (6 units), KS2 (8 units) and KS3 (10 units).  Published by QCA.

Contributions to conferences

McGuigan, L and Russell, T.  (2004)  Using multi-modal representations to promote conceptual change: theory and application to science classrooms.  4th European Symposium of the Special Interest Group on Conceptual Change of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece, May 19 to May 23, 2004.

Russell, T; Varga-Atkins, T and Smith, S.  (2004)  Enticing learners: rethinking the relationship between e-learning via DiTV and the Internet. European conference on Interactive television: from viewers to actors?  University of Brighton, UK.  March 31st- April 2nd, 2004.

Russell, T; Varga-Atkins, T.  (2004)  Some innovative approaches to e-assessment illustrated by reference to The eLearning Place project.  World of Learning conference.

Boyle, A.; Russell, T.; Smith, S. and Varga-Atkins, T.  (2004)  The eLearning Place.  Progress report on a complete system for learning and assessment.  8th CAA Conference, University of Loughborough, 7/8th July 2004.

Forthcoming

Russell T and McGuigan, L. (2005) Implementing a model of Formative Assessment.  Association for Science Education (ASE), Annual conference, University of Leeds

Forthcoming publications

Russell,T and McGuigan L (2005) Assessing Progress in Science INSET Support materials for teachers Pub. Qualifications and Curriculum Authority