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Posted: September 8, 2024

Bart and Philippa attended the ResearchEd national conference this Saturday the 7th, alongside Shonogh Pilgrim of Whole Education. The topic of the presentation was ways to think differently, and more formatively, about school improvement and accountability, based on our SKEIN Momentum work. The slides used for the presentation are attached below. If you are interested in discussing CUREE's work on school improvement through SKEIN Momentum, please get in touch!

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Last Updated: 08/09/24
Posted: July 21, 2023

Working with the British Council, experts here at the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE) explore the current state of research evidence around the continuing professional development (CPD) of teachers working in low- and middle-income countries. This report aims to answer these questions:

  • what does the evidence tell us is most likely to be effective CPD for these teachers?
  • Is this similar or different to the CPD needs of teachers in higher-income contexts?
  • What specific challenges are likely to emerge when offering CPD in these
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Last Updated: 21/07/23
Posted: September 4, 2021

The application and misapplication of cognitive science in the classroom

Here is the presentatioin made by Dr Tom Perry and Prof. Philippa Cordingley at this year's national researchED event.

The presentation focuses on the key findings of the systematic review (for EEFon Cognitive Science in education looking particularly at the CPDL implications

Last Updated: 04/09/21
Posted: June 25, 2021

Developing Great Leadership of Continuing  Professional Development and Learning CPDL

Presentation by Prof. Philippa Cordingley (CEO) and Bart Crisp (Director of Research and Impact) of CUREE summarising the evidence of a review of the research on the leadership of continuing professional development and learning (CPDL)

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Last Updated: 25/06/21
Posted: November 16, 2020

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Are you an enthusiastic adopter of Cognative Load Theory, interleaving or retrieval practice? Perhaps you are skeptical and think it might be yet another education fad? Here at CUREE we are neither - we like to evaluate the empirical and theoretical evidence and base policy and practice on what we discover. So, we are very pleased to be working with our partners at University of Birmingham and Queen Anne's School on a project for the Education Endowment Foundation to

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Last Updated: 19/11/20
Posted: June 19, 2020

PREP Is Up And Running

PREP graphicWe are pleased that our project, working with the Education and Training Foundation and other partners to improve access to practitioner research on the Excellence Gateway, is now complete.

The new facility was originally soft launched at Easter when, of course, we were in the middle of the Covid-19 lockdown. From April to September we added some new

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Last Updated: 16/11/20