Professor Judy Ireson

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BSc, DipSocAnth, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS
    • Professor of Psychology in Education
  • Faculty:
  • Department:
  • Summary:
    • I am the Dean of Faculty of Children and Learning and a Professor of Psychology in Education, in the Department of Psychology and Human Development
  • Research Projects:
    • Psychological and socio-cultural perspectives on learning and development in educational settings
      Private tutoring and the private tuition market
      Pedagogy and interaction with individuals and small groups
      Ability grouping in schools, its effects on students' achievement and adjustment and factors that mediate these effects
      Young people's learning, motivation and relationships with teachers and school.

  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Laura Paviot (International EdD) Private tuition in Central and Southern Africa.
      Katie Rushforth (PhD) The quality and effectiveness of private tutors: tutors' and pupils' perspectives (ESRC studentship).
      Ani Wang (PhD) Impact of teachers' professional knowledge about teaching and learning on troublesome behaviour of adolescents in secondary high school.
      John Smith (PhD) An examination of personal change and learning during a long course of study.
      David Wellings (PhD): The influence of course structures on motivation to learn among students in Further Education.
      Julie Radford (PhD Completed): Negotiating topic and repair: the development of language skills in SLI classrooms.
      Josepha Blay: (PhD completed) An evaluation of Rogoff's theory of guided participation (ESRC studentship).

  • Conferences/presentations:
    • AERA 2009

      EARLI 2009

      Ireson, J. (2007) Monitoring and evaluating private tutoring: how and why should we do it? Paper presented to the IIEP Policy Forum 'Confronting the Shadow Education system: What government policies for what private tutoring?' International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris, July 5-6, 2007.

      Ireson, J. & Hallam, S. (2007) Does ability grouping in schools influence students' academic self-perceptions? Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, 9-13 April 2007.

      Ireson, J. & Rushforth, K. Private tutoring: global perspectives and current research in England. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Conference, Manchester, 16-18 September 2004.
Professor Judy Ireson

Contact details

Contact details

  • Name: Rachel Shaw
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  • Address:
  • Faculty Central Administration
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 204
    25 Woburn Square, WC1H 0AA

Publications

  • Ireson, J (2008) Learners, Learning and Educational Activity. London: Routledge.
  • Ireson, J. & Hallam, S (2009) Academic self-concepts in adolescence: Relations with achievement and ability grouping in schools. Learning and Instruction, 19 (3). pp. 201-213. ISSN 09594752.
  • Ireson, J., Hallam, S. & Hurley, C (2005) 'What are the effects of ability grouping on GCSE attainment?', British Educational Research Journal 31, 4, 313-328.
  • Ireson, J. & Rushforth, K (2005) 'Mapping and Evaluating Shadow Education', ESRC Research Project RES-000-23-0117 End of Award Report,
  • Ireson, J. & Hallam, S (2005) 'Pupils' liking for school: self-concept, ability grouping and pupils' experience of teaching', British Journal of Educational Psychology 75, 297-311.
  • Ireson, J (2004) 'Private tutoring: How prevalent and effective is it?', London Review of Education 2, 109-122.
  • Ireson, J., Clark, H. & Hallam, S (2002) 'Constructing ability groups in secondary schools ' School Leadership and Management. 22, 2, 163-176.
  • Ireson, J. & Hallam, S (2001) Ability Grouping in Education. London. Sage Publications. 1-225.
  • Ireson, J (2000) 'Activity and interaction in pedagogical contexts: towards a model of tutoring' In Cowie, H. & van der Aalsvoort, D. (Eds.), Advances in Learning and Instruction 9. Social Interaction in Learning and Instruction. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
  • Ireson, J. & Blay, J. (1999) 'Constructing activity: participation by adults and children', Learning and Instruction 9, 19-36.