The Minds Behind CORE
CORE is run day-to-day by a dedicated project management and research team within the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP), National Institute of Education, NTU.
Lead Principal Investigators
Identified as Lead and Co-Lead Principal Investigator on CORE's currently active grants (Main Study of CORE 4, 2025–2030, and Phase 1 of CORE 4, 2023–2025) in NIE's research projects records.
Lead Principal Investigator
Dr Kwek Beng Kiat, Dennis
Centre Director, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, and Associate Dean (Strategic Engagement), Office of Education Research, NIE, NTU.
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Co-Lead Principal Investigator
Dr Wong Hwei Ming
Assistant Centre Director and Senior Education Research Scientist, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, NIE.
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Over 200 schools and 1,000+ teachers observed since, across four research iterations.
Principal Investigators
Faculty at CRPP/NIE affiliated with the CORE Research Programme. A Principal Investigator (PI) leads the design and direction of a research study; a Panel PI contributes their subject expertise to one or more of CORE 4's research strands.
Panel Principal Investigator
Dr Goh Hock Huan
Education Research Scientist, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, NIE. Over 20 years of research experience in CL education, including as a research associate at CRPP in 2004–2008.
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Panel Principal Investigator
Dr Pan Qianqian （潘前前）
Education Research Scientist, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, NIE. Focuses on curriculum design and assessment.
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Panel Principal Investigator
Asst Prof Alwyn Lee
Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences and Assessment, NIE. Directs research and development teams focused on AI in Education, Learning Analytics, and Affective Computing.
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The team behind CORE 4
CORE 4 is a large-scale baseline suite of empirical research investigating Designated Subject Domain (DSD) pedagogies in Singapore's primary and secondary classrooms.
Project Manager
Pauline Cassidy Appleyard
Project Manager of the CORE Research Programme. Oversees budgeting, project finances, progress reporting, and team management and development.
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Research Fellow
Dr Divya Bhardwaj
Manages the Core Research Office, overseeing CORE's activities and the synthesis of research findings. Currently involved in the CORE 4 Phase 1 baseline study.
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Senior Research Assistant
Danyalakshmi Ganeson
Documenting and analysing how teachers teach and students learn in authentic classroom settings.
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Research Associate
Wartik Bte Hassan
Researching bilingualism, translanguaging, and classroom pedagogies as part of CORE.
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Senior Research Assistant
Lim Shijian
Documenting and analysing how teachers teach and students learn in natural classroom settings for CORE 4.
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Research Associate
Loo Siok Chen
Quantitative analysis and longitudinal studies for the CORE Research Programme.
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Research Assistant
Narmatha Maran
Working on the CORE 4 main study, investigating the instructional core across Singapore's schools.
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Senior Research Assistant
Siti Rasyidah Binte Mat Rasid
Researching classroom pedagogies and student/teacher wellbeing as part of CORE's baseline studies.
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Senior Research Assistant
Alistair Jun Nan Peacock
Contributing to CORE 4's investigation of DSD pedagogies across Singapore's classrooms.
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Senior Research Assistant
Filzah Amalia Binti Rahmat
Examining Singaporean classroom pedagogies across subjects, in both primary and secondary schools.
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Research Assistant
Rachel Tan
Contributing to CORE 4's baseline investigation of DSD pedagogies in Singapore's classrooms.
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Research Assistant
Emma Wong
Investigating Designated Subject Domain pedagogies across Singapore's classrooms.
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Research Assistant
Yeo Ko Rene
Documenting how teachers teach and students learn in authentic, natural classroom settings.
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Yin Yishu
Analyses student engagement using multi-modal, real-world data as part of the LADDER project. MSc (Analytics), NTU; BTech (Industrial & Management Engineering), NUS. Research interests: big-data analysis, neural network models for AI, and related analytics methods.
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Team information reflects profiles publicly listed under "CORE" on NIE CRPP's Our People page, cross-checked with Lead/Co-Lead PI records on NIE's Research Projects Repository, as of July 2026. Photos are sourced from the same directory and from individual NIE staff profiles. Spot something out of date? Let us know.
Previous Members of CORE
The founding team who established CORE, followed by other past members, in alphabetical order.
- FounderProf Allan LukeProfile ↗
- FounderProf Peter FreebodyProfile ↗
- FounderProf S GopinathanProfile ↗
- FounderProf Kim KohProfile ↗
- FounderProf Courtney Cazden(deceased)Profile ↗
- Dr Ridzuan Abd RahimProfile ↗
- Dr Albert LiauProfile ↗
- A/P Gregory Arief D LiemProfile ↗
- A/P Nie YouyanProfile ↗
- A/P Tan Aik LingProfile ↗
- Dr Phillip TowndrowProfile ↗
- A/P Viniti VaishProfile ↗
- Prof Zhang DongboProfile ↗