Being at the Core of Education Research, Policy and Practice

Research in effective teaching and learning practices and their impact on student educational outcomes remain at the core of education research, policy and practice. For research to improve policy formulation, programme development, school and teacher improvements and to prepare students for the future, education research in Singapore needs to not only focus on learning and teaching in different subject-domains, and in diverse classrooms and contexts in and outside of Singapore schools, but also engage in understanding the multi-level influences across Singapore's social and educational ecology.

This requires contextually relevant, responsive, and rigorous knowledge generated through research conducted in our local classrooms, schools and communities that is of critical and direct use to stakeholders in NIE, MOE and schools, and which makes a distinctive contribution to the international research community.

It is proposed that research development and trajectory in system studies is necessary to continue to formulate and enact strategies to translate and disseminate findings that are relevant for policy decision-making, programme design, professional learning and systemic improvements.