promoting evidence led education in england (lee elliot major)

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Mind the Gaps:promoting evidence led

education in EnglandDr Lee Elliot Major,

Director at Sutton Trust; chair of the

evaluation advisory group, EducationEndowment Foundation

Russell Sage Foundation seminar,

New York 18 Nov 2013


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Two core arguments

Evidence based approach to education

could enable schools to spend more

effectively and narrow the attainment gap

Education efforts are not focused on most

important factor for learning within

schools: improving classroom interactions

between teachers and pupils

And five gaps..


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The Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching

and Learning Toolkit

Accessible, teacher-friendly summaries of educational

research

Comparing broad

approaches to prompt

informed decisions

Meta-analyses provided

by Durham University


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Approach Potentia

l Gain

Cost Evidence

Estimate

Overall

Cost

Benefit

Teaching

assistants

0

month

** Very low orno impact for

high cost

Performance

pay

0

month

* Low or noimpact for

moderatecost

Ability

grouping

-1

month

*** Negativeimpact for

very low or

no cost

Repeating a

year

-4

month

s

**** Negativeimpact for

very high

cost


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Approach Potential

Gain

Cost Evidence

Estimate

Overall

Cost

Benefit

Homework + 5

month

*** Moderateimpact for

very low cost

ICT + 4

months

**** Moderateimpact for

high cost

Summer

schools

+ 3

months

** Low impactfor moderate

cost

Reducing

class sizes

+ 3

months

*** Low impactfor very high

cost


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Approach Potential

Gain

Cost Evidence

Estimate

Overall

Cost

Benefit

Effective

Feedback

+8

months

*** Very highimpact for low

cost

Meta-

cognitiveapproaches

+8

months

**** High impactfor low cost

Peer

tutoring

+6

months

**** High impactfor low cost

One-to-onetuition

+5months

**** Moderateimpact forvery high cost


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Effective feedback: what is it?

Feedback is information

given to the learner and/or

the teacher about the

learners performancerelative to the learning goals

which can then redirectthe

teachersand the learners

actions to achieve the goal.

The Learning Loop

Adapt

teaching tomeet goals

Agree

learning

goals

Assess

where

pupils are


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Overview of value for money

Cost per pupil

Ef

fectSize(month

sgain)

00

10

1000

Feedback

Meta-cognitive

Peer tutoringPre-school

1-1 tutoringHomework

ICT

AfLParental

involvement

Sports

Summer

schools

Afterschool

Individualised

learningLearningstyles

ArtsPerformance

pay

Teaching

assistants

Smaller

classes

Ability grouping

PromisingMay be

worth it

Not worth it


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Success!

36% - school heads who have used the

toolkit

Sutton/EEF appointed Government what

workscentre for education

68EEF trials in Englands schools

67% schools claim to use research


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And yet..

75% - time teachers spend talking in

lessons

40% - of what teachers teach children

know already.

80% - of time children spend pretending

to listen to the teacher

4% - schools prioritise feedback


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The Bananarama Principle

It aint what you do ( or spend) its the way

that you do ( or spend)it that counts

How to nurture an

evidence based

culture among

teachersHow to scale things

that work?


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ProfessionalJudgement

Nationalprescription

Knowledge poor

Knowledge rich

2010s

Informedprofess ion?

1970s

Uninformed

Practise

1997

Informed

prescr ipt ion

1988

Uninformed

prescr ipt ion

Ascent to prom ised land, or back to bad old ways?

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