A new guide, published by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) today, aims to help school leaders, teachers, and training providers, make sense and best use of the wide range of education research available to them.
Using research evidence: a concise guide, gives an overview of different types of education evidence, what they can be used for, and what their limitations might be.
Education professionals are increasingly turning to research evidence to support the decisions they make in the classroom. It can help them make informed decisions about how to make the most of their resources. But there’s an increasing amount of education research evidence available, as well as materials and products that make claims based on research, so it can be difficult and time-consuming to make judgements about their reliability and usefulness.
To help, the guide introduces several red flag warning signs to look out for when examining a piece of research evidence.
