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What does Camtree publish?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Camtree publishes reports of close-to-practice educational research in the Camtree Digital Library<\/strong><\/a>. Our aim is to make it easy for you to share your work, so we provide tools, examples, and e-learning to support you – and we are developing more! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A research report might be the result of an individual curriculum innovation, a programme of continuing professional development, or a taught course or research project. What is important is that it is based on inquiry in a classroom or educational setting, and that it discusses implications for practice – your own practice, or that of other educators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camtree research reports are a way to celebrate and share educators’ practice, bring ‘tacit’ knowledge to the surface, and equip and inspire other educators to reflect, innovate and carry out their own studies.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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What is a Research Report?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Scope and Focus<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Reports need to describe an innovation or inquiry carried out in an educational setting – not necessarily a classroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports should have a focus on practice and discuss the implications of what you have done or discovered, in a way that would make it possible for a reader to try something similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports need to provide enough context and background for readers to understand why you did what you did, and to understand how they might need to adapt your practice to their own setting.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Length and Style<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Research reports are typically between 1800-5000 words long. Any shorter than this and they are unlikely to have enough detail to be useful for other educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will take longer reports, but we’ve found that these have less of an impact with busy teachers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are happy to take work written as personal. reflective accounts – you don’t have to write in academic language (though you are welcome to). We are more concerned with receiving authentic accounts of educators’ innovations and insights.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Format<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our preferred format for reports is a narrative account with clear aims, description of activities, findings and implications. If you have compiled a portfolio of work (for example) we can give you some guidance on how to turn this into a research report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports can be submitted with other materials – resources you’ve created, examples of learners’ work, or data you’ve collected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They do need to be accompanied by a structured abstract<\/a> and some keywords. This makes them ‘indexable’ in the Camtree library.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Report Templates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We have developed a. set of report ‘templates’ which are designed to help you plan an inquiry and write a research report. There’a a generic one and another designed to report on Research Lesson Studies. These are available to download in the Resources Area<\/a><\/strong>. We are currently developing new templates for other models of inquiry. There’s also a general ‘stylesheet’ for report which don’t fit the templates available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are a member of a Camtree partner organisation, you may be provided with and alternative template for your report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The templates and the sections within them are for guidance – inquiries and the reports that result won’t all have the same structure. As long as your report addresses the quality criteria and is accompanied by a structured abstract, your report will probably be publishable in the Camtree digital library.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Peer Review and Quality Criteria<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All new submissions to the library are peer reviewed against a set of quality criteria<\/strong><\/a>. These are shared with authors and reviewers, and underpin the advice and prompts in our report templates<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the library we have two main kinds of collections:<\/p>\n\n\n

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<\/path><\/svg><\/span>General Collections – for individual report submissions; these are peer reviewed by trained Camtree reviewers – these, you submit directly to Camtree using the submission form<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/span>Partner Collections – for report submissions from Camtree partners, peer reviewed by trained reviewers from the partner organisation and Camtree reviewers. You may submit your report to a facilitator within your organisation for initial review before it is sent on to Camtree.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about publishing with Camtree. If you have other questions, please get in contact<\/strong><\/a> and we’ll do our best to help.<\/p>\n\n\n

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