During 2022, NFER and Sheffield Hallam University undertook a small-scale formative process evaluation of EEF’s Accelerator Fund (AF) pipeline.
Funded by the Department for Education, the AF pipeline aimed to strengthen the development of EEF’s pipeline of evidence-based programmes and support more schools to use evidence in their practice. The pipeline included five stands of activities.
Two strands were innovations - Early-Stage Programme Development and Capability Building – whilst three were a refinement/development of existing EEF activity – Trials,
Scaling and School Support. Activities were targeted at three Regional School Commissioner (RSC) regions particularly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic: the North; the East Midlands and Humber; and the West Midlands.
