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Book SynopsisâœWhat a provocative and refreshing stance on evidence-informed education! Evidence-informed education may currently be a divided field, but this must-read book offers hope that a reunion of existing approaches may be possible for a âproductive tensionâ where researchers, school leaders and teachers work together... The disconnect in education between research, policy and practice needs this intellectual reboot!âProfessor Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Provost and Professor of Education, Plymouth Marjon University, UK
âœAs a school leader, this book is an invaluable guide to evidence-informed educational research... It is a hopeful vision of a united evidence-informed education field in which practitioners, policymakers and researchers all play an active role as discerning creators and users of evidence.âSam Mason, Deputy Headteacher, Thornton Primary School, UK
âœThis is a wonderful book that deserves to be widely read and, more imp
Table of Contents
PART A – THE DIVIDED FIELD
1 ORIENTATION
A divided field
Problem statement
Crisis
2 GROUNDWORK
The landscape
Theory, evidence, research and practice
3 FACTIONS
The evidence-informed education field
Who’s who?
The wider field
PART B – WHY ‘WHAT WORKS’ DOESN’T (...YET)
4 HOW ‘WHAT WORKS’ WORKS
Introducing ‘What Works’ research
Blueprint for success?
5 THE PIPELINE
The research to practice gap
Traversing the gap
Evaluating ‘What Works’
Summarising and communicating
6 THE LAST MILE
The return journey
The value of evidence
Just do it
Why ‘What Works’ doesn’t (...yet)
PART C – PROBLEMS IN EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPROVEMENT RESEARCH
7 IF YOU CAN’T MEASURE IT...
The Educational Effectiveness and Improvement (EEI) approach
Measuring school effectiveness
Effective teachers and teaching
System effectiveness
8 INSIDE THE BLACK BOX
Measurement in EEI research
All models are wrong
Should schools buy pot plants?
What matters?
9 KNOWING AND BEING
Disconnects
Some models are useful
Policy adventures
PART D – EVIDENCE-INFORMED EDUCATION
10 A REUNION
Bits of the jigsaw
The evidence-informed education system
