Mrs Tera Sprague

Research summary

Research Interests:

• comparative and international education
• small states' education policies and priorities
• use of standardised examination systems
• impact of educational policy upon local cultures
• education for sustainable development

Research Projects:

• Educational Research and Planning Priorities for Commonwealth Small States
• BAICE History and Archive Project

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Biography

Terra Sprague is Research Fellow with the Centre for International and Comparative Studies (ICS) and member of the Education in Small States research group at the Graduate School of Education. She came to the University of Bristol in 2007 where she completed her MEd in Educational Leadership, Policy and Development and is currently pursuing her PhD which examines the impact of standardised examination systems upon cultural traditions in the Republic of Armenia. Her work in the Graduate School of Education is in the areas of and education policy in small states and assessment. 

Further to her work in the GSoE ...

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Selected publications

• Baird, J-A, Isaacs, T, Johnson, S, Stobart, G, Yu, G, Sprague, TL & Daugherty, R. ‘Policy effects of PISA’, 2011
• Crossley, MW, Bray, M., Packer, S., with, Atchoarena, D., Colin, M., Martin, M. & Sprague, TL. ‘Education in Small States: Policies and Priorities’, 2011. ISBN: 9781849290364

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Selected conference contributions

• Sprague, TL, Milligan, EMA & Le Fanu, GS. ‘Building the CV? Embedding Employability and the Changing Nature of Doctoral Research’, Third Annual ESCalate Student Conference on Employability and Enterprise in Education, 2011
• Jo-Anne Baird, Sandra Johnson, Gordon Stobart & Sprague, TL. ‘Policy Effects of PISA - International Comparisons’, Assessment and opportunity to learn, 2011

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