The EEF is a new independent grant-making charity • The £125m Education Endowment Fund was announced by the Department for Education in Autumn 2010 • Sutton Trust and Impetus Trust won the bid to administer it • An independent charity, Education Endowment Foundation, was launched in July 2011 • The first grants will be announced in October, then every term thereafter • We hope to disburse c. £200m over the next 15 years

We aim to raise the attainment of poor pupils in challenging schools • We focus on raising educational attainment among pupils on Free School Meals in schools that are falling below government standards.

• The EEF’s role is to

identify, develop, support

and

evaluate

projects which improve these pupils’ attainment.

• We have a particular focus on

innovation

and on projects which are cost effective and replicable.

scaling-up

• We will fund charities, schools, local authorities or other non profit organisations with exciting ideas. • Evaluation is at the heart of what we do. Robust evaluations will be built into projects from the start. • We will fund a small number of large projects with strong potential for being replicated elsewhere.

The EEF’s criteria • We are looking to fund, develop and evaluate projects that: –

Have a measurable impact on attainment

–

Are innovative: a new or a significant advancement of an existing idea

–

If proven to have an impact, can be replicated in other areas / schools cost effectively

We are focused on attainment • We want disadvantaged children to do better at school: raising attainment is our bottom line • We prioritise projects that have evidence they will have a measurable impact on this goal • Other outcomes (e.g. improving pupils’ emotional well being, improving attendance or raising aspirations) are positives – so long as they have evidence of a strong and specific link to attainment

We are looking for innovative approaches • Initiatives that have not been delivered at scale in English schools before • New ideas with proof of concept • Ideas taken from other contexts • Scale up initiatives tested on a small scale • New adaptations of existing effective programme – maybe delivering it in a different context or in a different way • We

cannot

provide continuation funding for business as usual; this is about doing something new

We want to fund projects that can be rolled out if they are effective • Our aim is to test approaches that, if proven to have an impact, can be implemented across the system once EEF funding has ended • The programme must be able to be packaged and delivered in other contexts • Other funders (schools, local authorities, charities etc) must be able to afford the programme (potentially using the pupil premium): it should be cost-effective and sustainable

We are focused on disadvantaged pupils in challenging schools • We have a focus on pupils eligible for free school meals in schools below government floor targets (2010 data for first two funding rounds) • We will consider projects that benefit pupils outside this group, so long as EEF target pupils are substantially involved • We hope to broaden this in future to look at disadvantage more widely

The EEF target pupils • There are around 160k free school meals pupils in 1,500 schools that do not meet floor standards • This is around 1 in every 40 English pupils • A majority of target pupils (110k) are at primary level • London and the South West have the fewest schools

For more information see the report on our website

• There is significant churn in and out of this group

The EEF will thoroughly evaluate the impact of its projects • One of our principal aims is to establish what works in raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils • To help achieve this we will commit 10% of project funding to evaluation • We will commission independent research groups to evaluate each project rigorously • Each intervention will be assessed for educational impact and cost effectiveness • We will publish clear and simple reports on our website

These findings will help schools to use their pupil premium effectively For some schools the pupil premium will be a significant source of funding. The table below estimates the amount received in 2014-15 if the pupil premium rises to £1,750 per child

% of pupils eligible for free school meals

50 100 150 500 750 1,000 2,000 10%

£8,750 £17,500 £26,250 £87,500 £131,250 £175,000 £350,000

20%

£17,500 £35,000 £52,500 £175,000 £262,500 £350,000 £700,000

30%

£26,250 £52,500 £78,750 £262,500 £393,750 £525,000 £1,050,000

50%

£43,750 £87,500 £131,250 £437,500 £656,250 £875,000 £1,750,000

70%

£61,250 £122,500 £183,750 £612,500 £918,750 £1,225,000 £2,450,000

The EEF will build on the work of the Sutton Trust’s Toolkit • The Toolkit was created by Durham University to look at the existing evidence on raising attainment • Having more money isn’t enough: you need to know what to spend it on • There is some robust evidence out there, it needs to be translated into useful information for schools

Key messages from the Toolkit • There are no guarantees, only best bets • We need to build an evidence-based culture • We should look at relative effectiveness and costs • There are many caveats: the results quoted are averages – who is average? – and are based on past results • ‘Bananarama principle’:

It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it…

– Both with spending – And how you implement an approach

Example of approaches supported by evidence

Overview of value for money 10

Promising

Feedback Meta-cognitive

May be worth it

Peer tutoring 0 £0 Homework Learning styles AfL Individualised learning Summer schools Parental involvement Sports Arts Ability grouping Performance pay Cost per pupil ICT After school Pre-school 1-1 tutoring Smaller classes

Not worth it

£1000 Teaching assistants

The toolkit will continue to be developed • Some potential ideas: producing an interactive guide with more resources; expanding sections • As the EEF projects get going, new, more relevant evidence will be added. • The EEF will also create practical examples of the interventions backed up by evidence – e.g. training, toolkits, services that schools can buy.

For further information: www.educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk

[email protected]