Our work is underpinned by rigorous research conducted by our expert community. In this section, you will find reports, research, books, presentations and papers.
Inquiry into the 'The Loss of the Love of Learning'
The APPG for Education has published a new report: 'Inquiry into the 'The Loss of the Love of Learning.'' Steve Witherden MP, chair of the APPG, describes…
School Art: Where Is It? (Re)exploring Visual Art in Secondary Schools
In this innovative research study, Joanna Fursman, Will Grant, and Carol Wild begin by revisiting the work undertaken by Dick Downing and Ruth Watson…
Researching the Arts in Primary School
This timely and essential research report by Pat Thomson, Christine Hall and Liam Maloy aimed to find out what were the benefits for children of being…
Art Now Inquiry
The Art Now Inquiry report is a collation of three years of evidence gathering. Its 50 pages identify why – increasingly – policies in education are impacting…
Engage research: Mapping contemporary visual art and design education in Scotland
Engage Scotland and Queen Margaret University (QMU) Edinburgh have published a mapping research report and 3 case studies exploring engagement with visual…
Leave no child behind: global report on boys’ disengagement from education
This UNESCO report, seeks to provide an overview on the global situation on boys’ disengagement from and disadvantage in education. The report also identifies…
Art, Craft and Design Rapid Evidence Review (RER)
The Art, Craft and Design Rapid Evidence Review (RER) is a survey of published scholarly literature on art, craft and design in education.
10 years of AD magazine and 10 years of inspiration, actions and change
In this presentation, first given at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Art, Craft and Design in Education, Sophie Leach, AD editor, celebrated 10…
The distinctiveness of Art & Design and D&T – ensuring schools provide for high-quality provision in both
This paper, for NSEAD members, will help trainees, teachers, subject leaders and senior management teams better understand the distinctiveness of art…
Art, craft and design education: Our unique contribution
Dr Rachel Payne's National Conference 2019 presidential address.
Ofsted research and inspection framework – its implications for art and design
Amanda Spielman, chief HMI Ofsted, has set out her plans for a new Ofsted inspection framework. Sophie Leach summarises the aims of the proposed framework,…
The new ofsted framework
Presented at Conference 2019, Katrina Gueli, HMI discussed the opportunities presented for our subject by the new Ofsted inspection framework.
Misrepresentation of art and design in Initial Teacher Education
Dr Rachel Payne shares the NSEAD ITE Special Interest Group's evidence-based letter to Damien Hinds MP. The letter raised two key issues about the misrepresentation…
Art, craft and design is for – poster
The NSEAD advocacy poster makes explicit the value of art, craft and design education. The poster was created with the expertise and guidance of our members.
An Art Miscellany for the Weary and Perplex'd
Richard Hickman's 'An art miscellany for the weary and perplex'd' is a compendium and collection of art classifications.
Considerations and Challenges: Art and Design in Schools
This is the text of a speech given to the Independent Schools Association by NSEAD General Secretary John Steers on 13th May 2011
Design Education – now you see it; now you don’t
A position paper prepared by the Design and Technology Association and the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)
Developing a Display Policy in the Secondary Phase
The document has been written by Ged Gast, past president NSEAD.
APP: Effective Assessment, Art Assessment – Working Paper 3
This working paper is one of a set of working papers which explore issues related to assessment in Art and Design.
FFT and Targets, Art Assessment – Working Paper 1
This paper is one of a set of working papers which explore issues related to assessment in art and design.
Guidelines for publishing and reviewing online
These guidelines refer to NSEAD's reviewing and publishing of articles, e-books, films, videos and blogs.
Art and archives are an essential part of our lives
Speaking at the Peckham Platform, SERP Reactivated and Tate Exchange, Curricular for the Future event, Sophie Leach, assistant general secretary NSEAD,…
The NSEAD Survey Report 2015 - 2016
The NSEAD Survey Report 2015-16 documents the findings of NSEAD’s largest and most comprehensive survey to date and answers the question: In the last…
Exploring and Developing the Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Art and Design
Ged Gast, past president of NSEAD, examines the Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC)
Comparison Chart of art and design curriculums
This is a comparison chart of the different key stage 3 curriculum models for art and design, from 1991 to the 2013 draft national curriculum.
Setting short-term improvement targets in art and design at KS4 and the 6th Form
Written by Ged Gast, NSEAD past-president
National Conference 2015, Professor Jonothan Neelands Keynote presentation
Professor Jonothan Neelands' keynote presentation at the NSEAD National Conference 2015
Inquiry into Creative Partnerships and the Curriculum
This submission was prepared by the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD).
Michael Eden, The Thinking Hand
Michael Eden shared reflections on the value of making at the 2014 NSEAD National Conference: Digital Futures in art, craft and design education.
NSEAD Survey Report 2014
NSEAD's 'Art, Craft and Design Educator Survey Report 2014' provided detailed evidence that showed the negative impact of government policy on our subject.…
Assessment Statement Tables KS1-4
These Assessment Statement Tables are taken from both the NSEAD Primary KS1-2 and Secondary KS3-4 Frameworks
Newham Art Exhibition 2013, 'Art Matters'
The 'Art Matters' Newham Art Exhibition 2013 was a celebration of art and design across the curriculum in Newham Schools
Ofsted Art (art, craft and design) survey visits grade descriptors
Published by Ofsted these 'Art (art, craft & design) survey visits' descriptors provide generic guidance alongside subject-based descriptors
Presidential Address 2011, Andrew Mutter
Andrew Mutter, Past President, outlines the problems for art and design education, the challenges and what we, as individuals and in groups need to do.
NSEAD Response to the White Paper
The Society’s principal concern must be that it is quite extraordinary that given the importance of the creative industries to the British economy
Professor Sir Christopher Frayling in conversation
In November 2010 NSEAD General Secretary John Steers recorded a discussion with Christopher Frayling, a patron of the Society.
Seeing red and losing your RAG - to achieve a Level 7, Art Assessment - Working Paper
This paper is a further exploration of the impact of data driven target setting in art and design.
The future of LAs in developing creativity and the value of art and design
This presentation was given by Paul Brennan (former Director for Children and Young People at Calderdale Council)
Uses and Abuses of Levels, Art Assessment – Working Paper 2
This paper is one of a set of working papers which explore issues related to assessment in art and design.
The art of the probable: mythology and mystery in the setting of targets in art and design, Art Assessment Working Paper 4
An explanation of how national data is used to set school achievement targets in art and design.
Peer Assessment, Art Assessment – Working Paper 7
This example of peer assessment was designed to develop the ability of students
Teaching Drawing in the Primary School
A Buckinghamshire LA working paper which provides guidance to support teaching of drawing
The Early Development of Drawing
A short paper by Dan China to support CPD on drawing in the early years and KS1.
Artist Teacher Scheme Evaluation 2006
This is the final report of an evaluation of the Artist Teacher Scheme