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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. Scaling up evidence

    Scaling up evidence

    Supporting teachers and senior leaders in using evidence to achieve the maximum possible benefit for young people.

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    1. Supporting school improvement in the regions
    2. Research Schools Network
    3. Campaigns to promote effective use of evidence
    4. National Leaders of Education training courses
    5. Strategic School Improvement Fund (SSIF)
    6. Our international work
    1. Supporting school improvement in the regions

      Supporting school improvement in the regions

      Our approach to engaging and supporting more schools, especially those serving areas of disadvantage
    2. Research Schools Network

      Research Schools Network

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

    3. Our international work

      Our international work

      How the EEF is working with other countries keen to integrate evidence into their educational systems
  6. News

    News

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

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    • Press Release
    • Blog
    • In the News
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    1. EEF Blog: Improving mathematics - why starting early is crucial

      24th January, 2020

    2. New EEF guidance published with 5 recommendations to improve early maths

      24th January, 2020

    3. ‘The 7 things 100 RCTs tell us about the attainment gap’

      23rd January, 2020

    4. EEF Blog: The Voices informing Teacher Choices

      21st January, 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. Social and Emotional Learning
      2. Digital technology (2019)
      3. Behaviour
      4. Secondary Literacy Evidence Reviews
      5. Parental engagement
      6. Teachers' Continuing Professional Development
      7. Improving Mathematics in Key Stages Two and Three
      8. Employer engagement in education
      9. Early language
      10. Science
      11. Careers education
      12. Post-16
      13. Written marking
      14. Arts education
      15. English as an Additional Language (EAL)
      16. Education and Neuroscience
      17. Reading at the Transition
      18. Essential life skills
      19. Digital technology (2012)
  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
    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. Scaling up evidencekeyboard_arrow_down
    1. Supporting school improvement in the regions
    2. Research Schools Network
    3. Campaigns to promote effective use of evidencekeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants Campaign
      2. North East Primary Literacy Campaign
      3. Suffolk Challenge Fund
    4. National Leaders of Education training courseskeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Resources to support NLEs
    5. Strategic School Improvement Fund (SSIF)
    6. Our international workkeyboard_arrow_down
      1. Building a global evidence ecosystem for teaching
      2. EEF’s international partnerships
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  1. Apply for funding
    1. Process and Timeline
    2. Funding FAQs
    3. Themed Rounds
      1. Professional development in the early years: building evidence to close the gap (Round 2) (closed)
      2. Improving outcomes for pupils with SEND (closed)
      3. Improving the Home Learning Environment (closed)
      4. Improving Science Education (closed)
      5. Science Teacher Retention (closed)
      6. Early Years: professional development and leadership (closed)
      7. Education and Neuroscience (closed)
      8. Character and Education (closed)
      9. Raising the attainment of EAL pupils (closed)
      10. Financial education funding round (closed)
      11. Improving outcomes for disadvantaged 16-18 year-old students (closed)
  2. Projects
    1. Active projects
  3. Now Recruiting!
  4. Evaluation
    1. For grantees
      1. Pipeline of EEF trials
      2. Evaluation FAQs
      3. Evaluation Glossary
      4. Panel of Evaluators
      5. Evaluation Advisory Group
      6. Data protection
    2. For evaluators
      1. Setting up an evaluation
      2. Writing a protocol or SAP
      3. Using NPD data in EEF evaluations
      4. Writing a research report
      5. Submitting your data to the FFT archive
      6. Carrying out a peer review
      7. Data protection
      8. Panel of Evaluators
      9. Evaluation Advisory Group
      10. EEF Data Collection Panel
      11. EEF evaluators’ conference
    3. EEF Research Papers
    4. Measuring essential skills & non-academic outcomes
      1. Which domains are covered?
      2. First steps and caveats
      3. SPECTRUM Database
    5. Early Years Measures database
      1. ​ Which domains are covered?
      2. How to use the Early Years Database
      3. Early Years Measures Database
  5. Completed projects

Carrying out a peer review

All our evaluation reports go through several feedback and revision stages, including technical review by the EEF, external peer review and feedback from the intervention delivery team. Please see relevant guidance below.

  1. Updated: 5th July, 2019

    Guidance for report peer reviewers (2019)

  1. Updated: 5th July, 2019

    Classifying the security of EEF findings (2019)

  1. Updated: 31st August, 2018

    Statistical Uncertainty in Randomised Controlled Trials
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EEF Toolkit highlights

Collaborative learning

Cost
Evidence Strength
Impact (months)
+5

Reading comprehension strategies

Cost
Evidence Strength
Impact (months)
+6

Mastery learning

Cost
Evidence Strength
Impact (months)
+5

Promising projects

Behavioural Insights, NIESR Improving Working Memory

St

Staff deployment & development

 M

Mathematics

Queen's University Belfast Texting Parents

P

Parental engagement

 O

Organising your school

The Institute for Fiscal Studies Nuffield Early Language Intervention

EY

Early Years

 Sn

Special Educational Needs

 St

Staff deployment & development

 L

Language and literacy

Guidance Reports

Improving Mathematics in the Early Years and Key Stage 1

Improving Mathematics in the Early Years and Key Stage 1
Improving Secondary Science

Improving Secondary Science

About the EEF

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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