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    The Big Picture

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

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      Developing effective learners
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      Early Years
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      Enrichment
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      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!
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    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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    6. Supporting schools with evidence – EEF timeline
    1. Covid-19 Resources

      Covid-19 Resources

      Supporting schools and families through the pandemic
    2. 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.
    3. 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.

  6. School Improvement Planning

    Support for School Improvement Planning – The Tiered Model

    This school improvement planning resources page offers evidence-based guidance to schools to support their work for the upcoming academic year 2021 — 22.

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    1. 1. High-quality teaching
    2. 2. Targeted academic support
    3. 3. Wider strategies
    1. 1. High-quality teaching

      1. High-quality teaching

      The best available evidence indicates that great teaching is the most important lever schools have to improve outcomes for their pupils.
    2. 2. Targeted academic support

      2. Targeted academic support

      Evidence consistently shows the positive impact that targeted academic support can have, including for those pupils who are not making good progress across the spectrum of achievement.
    3. 3. Wider strategies

      3. Wider strategies

      Wider strategies relate to the most significant non-academic barriers to success in school, including attendance, behaviour and social and emotional support.
  7. News

    News

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

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    1. EEF Blog: Implementing cognitive science strategies in the classroom

      23rd July, 2021

    2. EEF blog: Accelerated reader – what does the research tell us?

      23rd July, 2021

    3. EEF publishes two new evaluation reports

      23rd July, 2021

    4. Guest Blog: Retrieval practice - A common good or just commonplace?

      22nd July, 2021
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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
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      6. Who wrote the Toolkits
      7. EEF Education Database
    4. Pupil Premium Guide
    5. Closing the Attainment Gap
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      1. Early Years and Key Stage 1 Mathematics Teaching
      2. Remote Professional Development
      3. School Closures Rapid Evidence Assessment
      4. Metacognition and Self-regulation Review
      5. Remote learning for pupils
      6. Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
      7. Social and Emotional Learning Evidence Reviews
      8. Digital technology (2019)
      9. Behaviour
      10. Secondary Literacy Evidence Reviews
      11. Parental engagement
      12. Teachers' Continuing Professional Development
      13. Improving Mathematics in Key Stages 2 and 3
      14. Employer engagement in education
      15. Early language
      16. Science
      17. Careers education
      18. Post-16
      19. Written marking
      20. Arts education
      21. English as an Additional Language (EAL)
      22. Education and Neuroscience
      23. Reading at the Transition
      24. Essential life skills
      25. Digital technology (2012)
      26. Review of attainment measures in literacy, mathematics and science
      27. Foreign language learning and its impact on wider academic outcomes: a rapid evidence assessment
      28. Cognitive science approaches in the classroom
      29. ​The impact of Feedback Approaches on educational attainment in children and young people
      30. Teacher professional development
      31. For evidence review teams
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      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
      16. Teacher Feedback to Improve Pupil Learning
    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)
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      1. For grantees
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      3. EEF Research Papers
      4. Education Data Service Pilot
      5. Measuring essential skills & non-academic outcomes
      6. Early Years Measures database
      7. Attainment Measures database
      8. Statement on statistical significance and uncertainty of impact estimates for EEF evaluations
    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
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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. Early Years and Key Stage 1 Mathematics Teaching
    2. Remote Professional Development
    3. School Closures Rapid Evidence Assessment
    4. Metacognition and Self-regulation Review
    5. Remote learning for pupils
    6. Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
    7. Social and Emotional Learning Evidence Reviews
    8. Digital technology (2019)
    9. Behaviour
    10. Secondary Literacy Evidence Reviews
    11. Parental engagement
    12. Teachers' Continuing Professional Development
    13. Improving Mathematics in Key Stages 2 and 3
    14. Employer engagement in education
    15. Early language
    16. Science
    17. Careers education
    18. Post-16
    19. Written marking
    20. Arts education
    21. English as an Additional Language (EAL)
    22. Education and Neuroscience
    23. Reading at the Transition
    24. Essential life skills
    25. Digital technology (2012)
    26. Review of attainment measures in literacy, mathematics and science
    27. Foreign language learning and its impact on wider academic outcomes: a rapid evidence assessment
    28. Cognitive science approaches in the classroom
    29. ​The impact of Feedback Approaches on educational attainment in children and young people
    30. Teacher professional development
    31. For evidence review teams

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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