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    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.
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      Early Years Toolkit

      An accessible summary of educational research for early years teaching
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      Supporting school improvement in the regions

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    1. EEF Blog: ​Teacher choices - can we make complex findings actionable?

      14th October, 2019

    2. EEF Blog: ​The Pupil Premium – focusing on what matters

      10th October, 2019

    3. EEF announces Prof. Becky Francis as new Chief Executive

      10th October, 2019

    4. Three new EEF trials announced, including focus on improving outcomes for children with SEND

      9th October, 2019
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      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
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      Post-16
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      Special Educational Needs
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      Staff deployment & development
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    1. Teaching and Learning Toolkit
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    3. Introducing the Toolkitskeyboard_arrow_down
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      5. Employer engagement in education
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      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
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    3. Campaigns to promote effective use of evidencekeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants Campaign
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  1. Teaching and Learning Toolkit
  2. Early Years Toolkit
  3. Introducing the Toolkits
    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 reviews
    1. Secondary Literacy Evidence Reviews
    2. Parental engagement
    3. Teachers' Continuing Professional Development
    4. Improving Mathematics in Key Stages Two and Three
    5. Employer engagement in education
    6. Early language
    7. Science
    8. Careers education
    9. Post-16
    10. Written marking
    11. Arts education
    12. English as an Additional Language (EAL)
    13. Education and Neuroscience
    14. Reading at the Transition
    15. Essential life skills
    16. Digital technology

Essential life skills

The impact of non-cognitive skills on outcomes for young people

Published: 2013

Authors: Leslie Morrison Gutman and Ingrid Schoon (UCL Institute of Education)

  1. Updated: 11th August, 2016

    Non-cognitive skills literature review

    867 KB pdf - Non-cognitive_skills_literature_review_1.pdf
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Behaviour

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Working with Parents to Support Children’s Learning

Working with Parents to Support Children’s Learning

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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.

The EEF and Sutton Trust are, together, the government-designated What Works Centre for Education.

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