The Evidence People
Evidence based Innovation in school curriculum and pedagogy and organisation - Presentation and paper to the The Future of Education in the UAE: Innovation and Knowledge Production held at Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), Abu Dhabi in September 2013
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Tailored school Improvement/Combined CPD and School/College Improvement packages
Below are some early results of our consultations via a survey, email responses and through meetings and focus groups. We'll keep adding and updating the information on this page.
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Closing the Gap: Test and Learn is a new scheme from the National College of Teaching and Leadership providing grants for schools and teachers to get involved in rigorous research. The goal is to help improve the evidence-base for what works in closing the attainment gap (CTG) for disadvantaged pupils and also to stimulate robust research and development in schools. The scheme should also strengthen relationships between schools and higher education institutions.
This paper to the 2013 AERA conference in San Francisco focuses on two aspects of the use of research and evidence in increasing educational effectiveness. It explores the contribution of use of research and evidence to meeting the needs of vulnerable students (Proposition 1) and the way in which it becomes increasingly important as the governance of education moves from central regulation to de-regulation, from a small number of high profile players to an increasingly diffuse, diverse and localised group of stakeholders. (Proposition 2), As remarked in OECD (Fazekas & Burns, 2012) knowledge and its use moves centre stage in the context of increasing complexity in education governance systems. Similarly, in the context of the complexity of the learning needs of the most vulnerable and the difficulties education systems have in responding effectively to them, research and evidence about high leverage approaches have a particularly important part to play. (Ibid).
