The Evidence People
In this video, recorded at the American Education Research Association (AERA) conference 2010, Ben Levin and Amanda Cooper discuss the use of research and evidence in teaching practice.
Philippa Cordingley’s session at the AERA conference was intriguingly titled ‘Stepping stones, bridges and scaffolding: effective tools artefacts and professional learning processes for research use’.
She explored the use of research based tools, processes and artefacts as a means of encouraging use of research at scale in the English education system over the last twelve years.
This is the paper delivered by Philippa Cordingley to a packed symposium session at the American Education Research Association (AERA) meeting in Denver, May 2010
In our search to make research evidence more accessible to leaders and practitioners, CUREE has produced a number of online diagrams which bring together links to high quality research for a range of practitioners. Here are some examples
Route maps are interactive resources for locating research resources where practitioners can be assured that the materials are based on sound evidence. These web-based resources and tools are from a variety of organisations that support teachers, school leaders and other practitioners in addressing the following questions:
Practical and accessible nuggets of reliable research for you to apply to your practice. Examples can be accessed here.
They cover the following topics:
In this video, Philippa Cordingley from CUREE talks to Helen Timperley
from the University of Auckland in New Zealand about the use of
research and evidence in informing educational practice.
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Summary Web resources for education , what's the problem?
Over the past few years there has been growing interest in making educational research more relevant to the concerns of consumers outside universities - in particular teachers. More and more schools and individual teachers are seeking to engage in and with research to inform their practice in a range of contexts, from classroom teaching strategies to leadership. Nowadays there is much more educational research on the web but is it accessible to teachers' What are the problems in finding relevant research through educational databases? Drawing on their experience of searching educational databases and on the results of a small scale informal survey of titles and abstracts a CUREE team explored a number of problems practitioners faced when trying to access educational research.
The Leading CPD in School Networks leaflet has been produced as part of the NCSL Network Research series. The leaflet is the final product from a collaborative enquiry that took place during 2005, involving all the national agencies and a range of key stakeholders with an active interest in both networks and continuing professional development. The leaflet draws together and reflects the evidence about the leadership of CPD in networks, exploring the perspectives of the national agencies in a matrix of current leadership programmes. Identifying some of the core challenges and underpinning issues through evidence from three systematic reviews of research, interviews, focus groups and a policy makers seminar. The leaflet identifies some of the key characteristics of effective CPD in networks such as the importance of collaborative CPD, peer support, use of experts and use of professional dialogue. The leaflet provides a framework designed to support school leaders in leading CPD in networked contexts more effectively through providing a breakdown of the different components of network leadership.
