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The Education Endowment Foundation Kevan Collins
26th September 2013 [email protected]
www.educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk
The EEF mission
To break the link between family background and educational achievement, ensuring that children from all backgrounds can fulfil their aspirations and make the most of their talents.
The attainment gap over time School readiness at age 5 Attainment at age 11 Attainment at age 16
0%
Gap 18% Gap 20%
5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
Gap 27%
30%
Achieving our mission: The EEF strategy
• • • We aim to raise the attainment of children facing disadvantage by:
Building
the evidence for what works in schools by identifying and rigorously evaluating evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning
Sharing
the evidence with schools by providing independent and accessible information through the Teaching and Learning Toolkit
Promoting
the use of evidence-based practice through our projects, events and resources such as the DIY Evaluation Guide for schools
The EEF approach
Synthesise existing evidence Evaluate projects Make grants
From early development to scale-up
Grant-making Evaluation Roll-out Identification of promising ‘leads’ ‘Product’ development & trialling Finding structures for roll out Securing widespread adoption and adaptation within ‘margin of fidelity’
Evaluation of impact and cost effectiveness determines which projects pass through the gate Many Projects Few Schools Few Projects Many Schools
Approach to evaluation
• • • A new and robust approach to evaluation in education:
Independent evaluation
All projects evaluated by a member of our panel of evaluation experts
Common outcome metrics
Effect on attainment and cost —so we can compare and contrast between projects
Focus on longitudinal impact
All pupils will be tracked using the National Pupil Database
Teaching and Learning Toolkit
The EEF by numbers
1,300
schools participating in projects £200 m estimated spend over lifetime of the EEF 55 projects funded to date
16
independent evaluation teams
275,000
pupils involved in EEF projects 3,000 heads presented to since launch
For further information: www.educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk