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Evidence-informed practice (2)

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Evidence-Based Practice: What it is and what it isn’t

Introduced by Professor Rob Coe We are delighted to host this piece by Gary Jones, in which he draws out the parallels between guidance on the...

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Translating Evidence into Improvement: why is it so hard?

In February Schools NorthEast held their Evidence-based Excellence event, bringing together school leaders, practitioners and experts from across the...

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Navigating Evidence

In recent months there has been a real surge of interest in the ways that evidence and research can be used to help support and improve teaching and...

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Classroom observation: it’s harder than you think

by Professor Robert Coe We’ve all done it: observed another teacher’s lesson and made a judgement about how effective the teaching was. Instinctively...

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Baseline assessment, to test, or not to test, that is the question…

To test, or not to test? That is the question which provokes one of the most keenly fought debates in education policy, and which can lead to soul...

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