NEW & IMPROVED: Putting Evidence To Work: A…

2 December, 2019 —

NEW & IMPROVED: Putting Evidence To Work: A School’s Guide to Implemenation

UPDATED GUIDANCE ON HOW TO MAKE, AND ACT, ON EVIDENCE-INFORMED DECISIONS

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by Unity Research School
on the 2nd December 2019

An updated guidance report from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) aims to give schools the support they need to put evidence to work in their classrooms and implement new programmes and approaches effectively.

The report highlights how good and thoughtful implementation is crucial to the success of any teaching and learning strategy. Yet, creating the right conditions for implementation – let alone the structured process of planning, delivering and sustaining change – is hard.

Putting Evidence to Work: A School’s Guide to Implementation offers six recommendations to help schools give their innovations the very best chance by working carefully through the who, why, where, when and how of managing change. The updated version includes a new and expanded Explore section, with more guidance on how to identify school improvement priorities and make evidence-informed decisions on what to implement. This includes recommendations on how to gather, appraise and interpret school data, as well as five principles to bear in mind when engaging with research evidence.

“It doesn’t matter how great an educational idea or intervention is in principle; what really matters is how it manifests itself in the day-to-day work of people in schools.”
EEF Putting Evidence To Work: A School's Guide to Implementation 2019

A pack of free practical resources has also been created to help schools develop a deeper
understanding of the recommendations and apply them in their context. This includes:

An interactive online course, including video case studies
An implementation planning template
Examples of implementation plans
Implementation theme summaries e.g. Active Ingredients
And much more.….

This guide complements other EEF guidance reports that focus on evidence-informed programmes and practices – e.g. Improving Behaviour in Schools – and can help in an overall drive towards evidence-informed school improvement.

Introduction Jonathan Sharples

“Investing time and effort to carefully reflect on, plan, and prepare for implementation will reap rewards later”
EEF Putting Evidence To Work: A School's Guide to Implementation 2019