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  1. The Big Picture

    The Big Picture

    Your one-stop shop for EEF resources on 14 key themes chosen in collaboration with teachers

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    1. B

      Behaviour
    2. C

      Character & essential skills
    3. DE

      Developing effective learners
    4. EY

      Early Years
    5. E

      Enrichment
    6. F

      Feedback & monitoring pupil progress
    7. L

      Language and literacy
    8. M

      Mathematics
    9. O

      Organising your school
    10. P

      Parental engagement
    11. FE

      Post-16
    12. S

      Science
    13. Sn

      Special Educational Needs
    14. St

      Staff deployment & development
  2. Evidence summaries

    Evidence summaries

    Accessible summaries of educational research to guide teachers and senior leaders on how to use your resources to improve learning outcomes

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    1. Teaching and Learning Toolkit
    2. Early Years Toolkit
    3. Introducing the Toolkits
    4. Pupil Premium Guide
    5. Closing the Attainment Gap
    6. Evidence reviews
    1. Teaching and Learning Toolkit

      Teaching and Learning Toolkit

      An accessible summary of the international evidence on teaching 5-16 year-olds
    2. Closing the Attainment Gap

      Closing the Attainment Gap

      Report examining the gap - including 15 key lessons informing our practical work with teachers and senior leaders.
    3. Early Years Toolkit

      Early Years Toolkit

      An accessible summary of educational research for early years teaching
  3. Practical Tools

    Practical Tools

    Evidence-based resources to inform the practice of teachers and senior leaders.

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    1. Guidance Reports
    2. Promising Projects
    3. Families of Schools Database
    4. Assessing and Monitoring Pupil Progress
    5. DIY Evaluation Guide
    6. Guide for governing boards
    7. School’s Guide to Implementation online course
    1. Guidance Reports

      Guidance Reports

      Clear and actionable recommendations for teachers on a range of high-priority issues, based on the best available evidence
    2. Promising Projects

      Promising Projects

      EEF-funded projects which have shown promising results when trialled
    3. Families of Schools Database

      Families of Schools Database

      Find out how your school compares to other, similar schools
  4. Projects and Evaluation

    Projects and Evaluation

    Testing the impact of high-potential projects to generate new evidence of 'what works'.

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    1. Apply for funding
    2. Projects
    3. Now Recruiting!
    4. Evaluation
    5. Completed projects
    1. Apply for funding

      Apply for funding

      What you need to know if you are thinking of applying to us for funding.
    2. Now Recruiting!

      Now Recruiting!

      Your opportunity to trial a high-potential idea, while contributing to important research.
    3. Completed projects

      Completed projects

      We publish independent, rigorous evaluations to build understanding of how to improve teaching and learning.
  5. Support for schools

    Support for schools

    EEF Partnerships is our new regional initiative to ensure all schools have access to the resources, training and support they need.

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    1. EEF Regional Support
    2. Research Schools
    3. Partnership Case Studies
    4. Professional Development
    5. Specialist Professional Development
    6. Supporting schools with evidence – EEF timeline
    7. Associate Research School: The Research School Network in Lancashire
    1. EEF Regional Support

      EEF Regional Support

      EEF’s team of Regional Leads provide local support to develop Partnerships with our network of 40 Research Schools.
    2. Research Schools

      Research Schools

      Our Research Schools aim to lead the way in the use of evidence-based practice and bring research closer to schools.

    3. Partnership Case Studies

      Partnership Case Studies

      EEF is engaged in a wide variety of partnership work with Local Authorities, multi-academy trusts, teaching schools and new informal alliances of schools.
  6. Covid-19 Resources

    Covid-19 Resources

    Supporting schools and families through the pandemic

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    1. School Planning Guide 2020-21
    2. National Tutoring Programme
    3. Early years support for schools
    4. Support resources for schools and parents
    5. Best evidence on supporting students to learn remotely
    6. Best evidence on impact of school closures on the attainment gap
    1. School Planning Guide 2020-21

      School Planning Guide 2020-21

      Practical, evidence-based guidance to support schools in the busy and unpredictable year ahead.
    2. National Tutoring Programme

      National Tutoring Programme

      Supporting schools to address the impact of Covid-19 closures on pupils’ learning.
    3. Support resources for schools and parents

      Support resources for schools and parents

      Tools for schools to help support home learning and maximise the impact of work set.
  7. News

    News

    Latest news, blogs and features from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)

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    1. Online tutoring helps disadvantaged pupils during lockdown, study finds

      21st October, 2020

    2. Guest Blog: Practical, evidence-based tips to embed metacognitive strategies into your classroom practice

      21st October, 2020

    3. EEF Blog: Classrooms look very different this year. Here are 5 research resources to support teachers in adapting your practices

      19th October, 2020

    4. Guest Blog: One-to-one support for pupils with SEND - a case study in how specialists and TAs can work together

      16th October, 2020
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  1. The Big Picturekeyboard_arrow_down
    1. B

      Behaviour
    2. C

      Character & essential skills
    3. DE

      Developing effective learners
    4. EY

      Early Years
    5. E

      Enrichment
    6. F

      Feedback & monitoring pupil progress
    7. L

      Language and literacy
    8. M

      Mathematics
    9. O

      Organising your school
    10. P

      Parental engagement
    11. FE

      Post-16
    12. S

      Science
    13. Sn

      Special Educational Needs
    14. St

      Staff deployment & development
  2. Evidence summarieskeyboard_arrow_down
    1. Teaching and Learning Toolkit
    2. Early Years Toolkit
    3. Introducing the Toolkitskeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Using the Toolkits
      2. Impact
      3. Evidence strength
      4. Cost
      5. Video explainer
      6. Who wrote the Toolkits
      7. EEF Education Database
    4. Pupil Premium Guide
    5. Closing the Attainment Gap
    6. Evidence reviewskeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Remote Professional Development
      2. School Closures Rapid Evidence Assessment
      3. Metacognition and Self-regulation Review
      4. Remote learning for pupils
      5. Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
      6. Social and Emotional Learning Evidence Reviews
      7. Digital technology (2019)
      8. Behaviour
      9. Secondary Literacy Evidence Reviews
      10. Parental engagement
      11. Teachers' Continuing Professional Development
      12. Improving Mathematics in Key Stages 2 and 3
      13. Employer engagement in education
      14. Early language
      15. Science
      16. Careers education
      17. Post-16
      18. Written marking
      19. Arts education
      20. English as an Additional Language (EAL)
      21. Education and Neuroscience
      22. Reading at the Transition
      23. Essential life skills
      24. Digital technology (2012)
      25. Review of attainment measures in literacy, mathematics and science
      26. Foreign language learning and its impact on wider academic outcomes: a rapid evidence assessment
      27. Cognitive science approaches in the classroom
      28. For evidence review teams
  3. Practical Toolskeyboard_arrow_down
    1. Guidance Reportskeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants
      2. Improving Literacy in Key Stage 1
      3. Improving Literacy in Key Stage 2
      4. Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools
      5. Improving Mathematics in Key Stages 2 and 3
      6. Metacognition and Self-regulated Learning
      7. Preparing for Literacy
      8. Putting Evidence to Work - A School’s Guide to Implementation
      9. Improving Secondary Science
      10. Working with Parents to Support Children's Learning
      11. Using Digital Technology to Improve Learning
      12. Improving Behaviour in Schools
      13. Improving Social and Emotional Learning in Primary Schools
      14. Improving Mathematics in the Early Years and Key Stage 1
      15. Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Schools
    2. Promising Projects
    3. Families of Schools Database
    4. Assessing and Monitoring Pupil Progresskeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Getting Started
      2. Developing whole school assessment
      3. Assessing Progress without Levels
      4. Testing
      5. Teacher Assessment
      6. Measuring impact
      7. Conclusion
      8. References
    5. DIY Evaluation Guidekeyboard_arrow_down
      1. What is DIY Evaluation?
      2. Your DIY Trial
      3. Your measure
      4. Design
      5. Your comparison
      6. Pre test
      7. Delivery
      8. Post Test
      9. Analysis
      10. Summary
    6. Guide for governing boards
    7. School’s Guide to Implementation online coursekeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Foundations for implementation - structured process
      2. Foundations for implementation - implementation climate
      3. Explore
      4. Prepare (1)
      5. Prepare (2)
      6. Deliver
      7. Sustain
  4. Projects and Evaluationkeyboard_arrow_down
    1. Apply for fundingkeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Process and Timeline
      2. Funding FAQs
      3. Themed Rounds
    2. Projectskeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Active projects
    3. Now Recruiting!
    4. Evaluationkeyboard_arrow_down
      1. For grantees
      2. For evaluators
      3. EEF Research Papers
      4. Measuring essential skills & non-academic outcomes
      5. Early Years Measures database
    5. Completed projects
  5. Support for schoolskeyboard_arrow_down
    1. EEF Regional Support
    2. Research Schools
    3. Partnership Case Studieskeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Tameside Metropolitan Council and Oldham Research School
      2. Cornwall Teaching Schools Together – a Partnership with EEF and the Research School network
    4. Professional Development
    5. Specialist Professional Development
    6. Supporting schools with evidence – EEF timeline
    7. Associate Research School: The Research School Network in Lancashire
  6. Covid-19 Resourceskeyboard_arrow_down
    1. School Planning Guide 2020-21
    2. National Tutoring Programme
    3. Early years support for schoolskeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Nuffield Early Language Intervention FAQs
    4. Support resources for schools and parents
    5. Best evidence on supporting students to learn remotely
    6. Best evidence on impact of school closures on the attainment gap
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We are seeking proposals from research teams to carry out research on the impact of school closures. For more information, click here.

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The Education Endowment Foundation was established in 2011 by The Sutton Trust, as a lead charity in partnership with Impetus Trust (now part of Impetus - The Private Equity Foundation) with a £125m founding grant from the Department for Education.

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