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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