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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?