This report presents the findings of the Teaching Character Education: What Works research project. This project, which began in January 2021, involved reviewing teaching resources and research data from the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues. The project then conducted new research to determine which character education teaching strategies work in different school settings. Drawing on this review and the empirical research collected in this study, The Character Teaching Inventory was developed.
This report describes the results of mixed methods research into character education, conducted with schools across England with an embedded and intentional character education provision. In total, 59 participants completed a character education leader survey, 477 participants completed a teacher survey, and 10 character education leaders took part in semi-structured interviews. This new empirical research explored which character education teaching strategies are being used in schools and what impact these strategies are perceived to have on the character development of pupils.