Written by expert researchers and practitioners, this new book aims to locate the important features of educational research that offer real potential to support improvement of classroom practice in a range of subjects.

1. An Introduction to Classroom-based Interventions Across Subject Areas 2. Double Stimulation for Reluctant Readers: A Literature Circle Intervention in a Secondary School English Classroom 3. What are the possibilities and limitations of small-scale, mediated classroom interventions? Two cases from Modern Foreign Languages 4. Who is doing the questioning? A classroom intervention in secondary science classrooms to promote student questioning 5. Developing science explanations in the classroom: the role of the written narrative 6. Developing talk in mathematics classrooms 7. The role of practitioner research and publication in developing a cumulative and critical tradition of research in classroom-based interventions in history education 8. 'Mapping-out’ the inferential relations of the subject content of geography lessons: a planning intervention for pre-service teachers to inform teaching and learning 9. The Problems and Possibilities of Conducting Small-scale Classroom-based Randomised Control Trials in Contributing to Evidence-based Practice: One school’s Experience 10. Commentary– Classroom-based interventions in different subject areas: Sharing meaning across researchers and practitioners 11. Commentary- Interventions in education: origins, theoretical perspectives and challenges