Our findings, for every audience
CORE publishes for the research community, for schools, and for policy — from peer-reviewed papers to plain-language practice summaries.
Browse by publication type
A curated selection spanning all four CORE phases, grouped by output type. This is not the complete list — see "Browse everything" at the foot of the page for the full NIE Digital Repository record. The chip on each entry shows which CORE phase it belongs to.
Books & book chapters
Peer-reviewed scholarly volumes carrying CORE's findings to an international readership.
- 2024 Kwek, D., Wong, H. M., Bhardwaj, D., Wartik Hassan, Lim, S., & Goh, H. H. Instructional core and the Singapore teaching practice: Understanding teaching and learning in Singapore's primary and secondary classrooms. Routledge. CORE 4
Journal & magazine articles
Short, readable write-ups of CORE findings, published in NIE's OER Knowledge Bites for school leaders and teachers.
- 2021 Kwek, D. CORE 3 research programme findings on inquiry-based teaching and learning and implications for classroom practice. OER Knowledge Bites, 15, 7. CORE 3
- 2019 Kwek, D. CORE 3 research programme: Getting into the heart of social studies pedagogies in Singapore primary 5 and secondary 3 classrooms. OER Knowledge Bites, 8, 5–6. CORE 3
Conference papers
Early-phase classroom-discourse work presented to the research community.
- 2006 Zhang, D., Liu, Y., & Hong, H. Teacher questioning in Chinese Language classrooms: A sociocultural approach. CORE 1
- 2005 Liu, Y. Teacher-student talk in Singapore Chinese language classrooms: Construction or obstruction? CORE 1
Presentations & seminar slides
Talks and slide decks delivered to academic and practitioner audiences.
- 2007 Kwek, D. B. K., & Tan, C. Dialogue in schools: A case study in an English language arts secondary school. CORE 1
Research & technical reports
CORE's main body of output: programme progress reports, subject-domain findings, and evidence syntheses prepared for MOE and NIE's Office of Education Research.
- 2023 Kaur, B., Toh, T. L., & Bhardwaj, D. Enhancing the pedagogy of mathematics teachers to facilitate the development of 21st century competencies in their classrooms (EPMT-21st CC). Draws on a significant CORE 2 finding. CORE 2
- 2022 Kwek, D., Wong, H. M., Bhardwaj, D., Fatema Anis Hussain, & Goh, S.-E. Local evidence synthesis on instructional core. Office of Education Research, NIE. CORE 4
- 2022 Kwek, D., Wong, H. M., Sun, B., Goh, H. H., Chan, M. C. Y., et al. CORE 3 Research Programme: Baseline investigation of Mother Tongue pedagogies in Singapore's primary and secondary classrooms (C3MT). CORE 3
- 2022 Chan, M. C. Y., Aryadoust, V., & Nie, Y. CORE 2018: A quantitative study of teaching and learning in Singapore classrooms. Research Brief Series No. 22-001, Office of Education Research, NIE. CORE 3
- 2022 Kwek, D., Khoo, I., & Siti Hawa Jonid. Redesigning the Singapore Coding Scheme 2 for Social Studies and Science. Office of Education Research, NIE. CORE 3
- 2021 Costes-Onishi, P. G., Kwek, D., & Peacock, A. J. N. C3-PP: Significant findings for PE (P5 and Sec3). CORE 3
- 2021 Costes-Onishi, P. G., Kwek, D., Bhardwaj, D., & Peacock, A. J. N. C3-PP: Significant findings for computer applications (GCE (N) Technical, Sec 3). CORE 3
- 2020 Kwek, D. CORE 3 Research Programme: Baseline investigation of subject-domain pedagogies in Singapore's primary and secondary classrooms (C3-PP). CORE 3
- 2020 Costes-Onishi, P. G., Kwek, D., & Bhardwaj, D. C3-PP: Significant findings for visual art (P5 and Sec1). CORE 3
- 2020 Costes-Onishi, P. G., Kwek, D., Peacock, A. J. N., & Danyalakshmi Ganeson. C3-PP: Significant findings for music (P5 and Sec1). CORE 3
- 2018 Tan, J. P.-L., & Chan, M. C. Y. Secondary quantitative analysis of core research data (2004–2010): A multilevel study of academic achievement and 21st century competencies. CORE 2
- 2007 McInerney, D. M., & Liem, G. A. D. CRPP core research program: Year three progress report. CORE 1
- 2006 Hogan, D., Luke, A., Kramer-Dahl, A., Lau, S., & Liau, A. CRPP core research program: Year two progress report. CORE 1
- 2005 Luke, A., Hogan, D., Gopinathan, S., Freebody, P., & Cazden, C. CRPP core research program: Year one progress report. CORE 1
Doctoral theses
Higher-degree research drawing on the CORE programme.
- 2014 De Souza, D. E. A critical realist review of Singapore's core research program (2003–2013). Doctoral thesis, NIE, NTU. CORE 1–2
Browse everything on the NIE Digital Repository →
Publication types follow the NIE Digital Repository's own classification. That repository search also surfaces general education-research papers that happen to use the word "core" in an ordinary sense — the curated list above is the reliably CORE-branded subset.
Grants behind CORE
CORE-branded projects funded under MOE's Education Research Funding Programme (ERFP), from NIE's Research Projects Repository.
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