Engaging with educational research

To what extent do we make decisions in school based on evidence? How can busy teachers keep up-to-date with current research? Here are some ideas…

Institute for Effective Education
Best Evidence in Brief newsletter: http://www.york.ac.uk/iee/news/beib/
Better: Evidence-based education (research summaries) http://www.betterevidence.org/

Summaries of research about interventions
Education Endowment Foundation – Teaching and Learning Toolkit: http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/toolkit/
@EducEndowFoundn
@suttontrust

Evidence 4 Impact: http://www.evidence4impact.org.uk/
Best Evidence Encyclopaedia: http://www.bestevidence.org/index.cfm
What Works Clearinghouse: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/default.aspx

Other research organisations
Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM), Durham University http://www.cem.org/ @CEMatDurham
Nuffield Foundation: http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/education @NuffieldFound
York Science: http://yorkscience.org.uk/ @York_Science

researchED
http://www.workingoutwhatworks.com/
@researchED1

People
Daisy Christodoulou, Research and Development Manager at ARK schools @daisychristo
Professor Rob Coe, Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM), Durham University @ProfCoe
Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam
http://www.dylanwiliam.org/Dylan_Wiliams_website/Blog/Blog.html