Latest News & Updates

How engaged are teachers with research?

Submitted by Jonathan Haslam on Wed, 29/05/2019 - 12:00am

A research briefing published by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) looks at what progress has been made in embedding evidence-informed practice within teaching in England.

New guide to engaging with evidence

Submitted by Jonathan Haslam on Fri, 15/03/2019 - 1:00am

The Institute for Effective Education has published a new guide to help those new to engaging with evidence.

Teachers and schools are being encouraged to become more evidence-based or evidence-informed, the aim being to use evidence to improve teaching practice. By acting on the best evidence, it increases the likelihood that we will make better decisions.

But how do we identify the best evidence? Whether it is a blog or a research article, with so much information out there, how can you find the evidence that is useful and reliable?

New editor wanted for Evidence & Policy

Submitted by Jonathan Haslam on Wed, 29/03/2017 - 12:00am

The journal Evidence & Policy is inviting applications for a new editor, or co-editors, to take over from the current editorial team in January 2018.  Ev&P is the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to comprehensive and critical assessment of the relationship between research evidence and the concerns of policy makers and practitioners, as well as researchers.  The journal is international and cross disciplinary.

School-University Knowledge Exchange Schemes (SUKES)

Submitted by Andrew Morris on Tue, 28/02/2017 - 1:00am

A project team within the EIPPEE Network continues to study schemes in various EU countries in which universities, schools (and sometimes municipal authorities) work in partnership to address problems of practice. A paper about their work on challenges and success factors, drawing on a survey, case studies and theoretical models, has recently been published in the journal Evidence and Policy.

What Works Global Summit

Submitted by Jonathan Haslam on Fri, 16/09/2016 - 12:29pm

The Campbell Collaboration, the Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation (Queen's University Belfast), the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and Sense about Science are running the first What Works Global Summit in London. The event runs from 26-28 September (with pre-conference workshops on 24-25 September) and addresses evidence-informed policy globally across all sectors, with active participation from both producers and users of evidence. Among the many sessions are:

Royal Society and British Academy launch call for evidence on education research

Submitted by Jonathan Haslam on Fri, 16/09/2016 - 12:06pm

The British Academy and the Royal Society have launched a project to investigate the opportunities and challenges for teachers, researchers and policy-makers as the key actors at a time when the demand for educational research is growing whilst the research capacity appears to be shrinking. They have also launched a Call for views and would welcome evidence from anyone who works with educational research, who manages or who is a user of educational research.

What works to increase research use?

Submitted by Jonathan Haslam on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 1:48pm

A new systematic review from the EPPI-Centre at the Institute of Education looks at what works to increase research use by decision-makers. The review included 23 reviews whose relevance and methodological quality were judged appropriate.

There was reliable evidence that the following were effective:

Call for papers on evidence-informed practice

Submitted by Jonathan Haslam on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 1:46pm

Professor Carol Campbell (Knowledge Network for Applied Educational Research) and Julie Nelson (NFER) co-hosted a round-table discussion at the International Congress for School Improvement and Effectiveness, and simultaneously issued a call for papers for a special issue of Educational Research on evidence-informed practice in education.

Update on EMC impact

Submitted by Veronika Lancova on Fri, 01/08/2014 - 3:28pm

The Education Media Centre has gone from strength to strength in an astonishingly short time since it was officially launched last autumn. The CEBE creation has become the centre of choice for organisations such as the OECD when launching educational reports.

Update on impact of EIPPEE conference in Oslo

Submitted by Veronika Lancova on Fri, 01/08/2014 - 3:26pm

Will the UK decide to create a national Evidence Centre for Education akin to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)? The 2014 EIPPEE conference in Oslo, Finding a way... to facilitate the better use of research in education, demonstrated how such knowledge centres are working in Norway and Denmark where research is identified as a powerful tool for educational advancement.