QCA Policy Makers Seminar
A presentation given by Philippa Cordingley and Paul Crisp for a policy meeting on QCA Building the Evidence Base.
ICSEI_Seminar_presentation.ppt The Evidence People
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Mentoring and Coaching Capacity Building Project
Presentation at the ICSEI Conference 2005, 2-5 January, Barcelona
QCDA Building the Evidence Base Review of Individual Studies from Systematic Research Reviews
CUREE’s first foray into mapping evidence relevant to QCA’s new and wide ranging curriculum framework took the form of a map of existing reviews of research . The results have enabled us to start to identify:
• the range and types of curriculum related research
• significant gaps in the research base
• emerging trends in research findings
63 research reviews were included in the map. Three main types of review were identified which were classified as • systematic – ie using a comprehensive search strategy, transparent inclusion criteria and a rigorous weighting of the evidence from which to synthesise across the studies• interpretive – ie using expert knowledge to identify studies, without a rigorous and transparent weighting of the evidence but with a synthesis• descriptive – ie an account of the research and the relative weight of evidence but with no synthesis
The overall findings from the review of reviews represented syntheses of research in several key areas whilst at the same time pointing to significant gaps in the evidence base.
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