🚨 NEW: Today, we’ve launched new resources designed to support early years professionals in using evidence to their advantage: The updated Early Years Toolkit The Early Years Evidence store Explore now: eef.li/early-years 1/2

Betthäuser, B. A., Bach-Mortensen, A. M., & Engzell, P. (2023). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-11. nature.com/articles/s4156…

NEW: Today we’re opening recruitment for two new trials, in partnership with Youth Endowment Fund! These trials will test the effectiveness of programmes designed to improve attendance and reduce exclusions in secondary schools. Find out more: eef.li/5t4e9p 1/6

"We shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that professional learning is about people – their knowledge, skills, habits & values. There is a danger of a ‘de-peopled’ description of what interventions entail. As Steve Higgins observes (2018), using the example of reciprocal teaching..." 1/2

"..the shorthand of saying it ‘works’…'airbrushes the teacher, the learners & their interactions from the picture & obscures the actions they need to take for the use of reciprocal teaching to be successful. Who is it that is doing the 'work'?' " Perry & Morris, 'Impact', 2/2

As part of our major initiative, Education: The State of the Discipline, BERA has brought together 16 case studies to demonstrate the outstanding impact of educational research across a broad spectrum of settings. View the full report here: bera.ac.uk/publication/ed…

TRECA main results paper now in BMC Medicine: rdcu.be/df4lR . Using multimedia instead of printed sheets increased trial recruitment in children & teens. Pooled data, 3 SWATs: OR 1.54 (1.05, 2.28) p=0.03. Overall, mutlimedia recruitment rate 69%, printed sheet rate 64%.

Our new research on post-16 GCSE resits funded by EEF and written in collaboration with University of Warwick has been brilliantly summarised in this post by FE Week - Read more below 👇🏽 feweek.co.uk/more-research-…

£7-per-pupil 'Maths Champions' scheme saw pupils make three months of additional progress in both maths and language development, finds new EEF evaluation tes.com/magazine/news/…

Who would like to be the new Head of School of Education, Durham University? In our nice new building. 2nd nationally in REF (1st for research outputs). Home to DECE research centre. durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

New paper just out. Free open access. Summarises our work on how best to use "additional" funding for schools to improve outcomes and reduce the poverty outcome gap. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A newsletter listing some of the research and success of DECE (Durham Evidence Centre for Education) over this summer. durham.ac.uk/media/durham-u…

In Why Don't Students Like School? I said stories are "psychologically privileged." Much work since, confirming robustness of the effect--stories are easier to understand and remember. (Usual comparison = expository essay.) Here's a recent meta-analysis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33410100/

🏆Congratulations to the Educational Research Book of the year winner: Making Schools Better for Disadvantaged Students Routledge Stephen Gorard (Stephen Gorard), Beng Huat See (Beng Huat See) & Nadia Siddiqui

Looking forward to presenting ResearchED Cheshire on Saturday. At WhatWorked, we have developed a model for teacher led micro RCTs with Steve Higgins. We had initially only thought about the UK for the MVP, but now have teacher trials requested in 15 countries in six weeks.

We have recently released a free short course for ITT and ECF teachers. This provides an introduction to research and design to help teachers to engage critically with research and use evidence to critique practice (Standard 8). interventions.whatworked.education/course/introdu…

Louise Gascoine Kate Wall Steve Higgins Thank you again for your chapter Louise Gascoine Kate Wall Steve Higgins have already been recommending your chapter & will be on my module reading lists 🤩😊

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