Connecting research and practice

Robert CoeDurham University

Three things we do

• Assessment: tests, world-leading quality, innovative, ‘measuring what matters’

• Monitoring: feedback, collaboration, self-evaluation, ‘distributed research’

• Evidence: evidence-based policy and practice, rigour, critical and scientific approach

High quality assessment

Monitoring systems c2000

• Evidence-Based Policies and Indicator Systems

• International, inter-disciplinary conferences held– 1997 (Durham)– 1999 (Durham)– 2001 (Durham)– 2003 (London, jointly with Cabinet Office)– 2006 (London, jointly with Cabinet Office)

Future assessment

• Varied formats (objective, open response, intelligent & human scoring, comparative judgement)

• Peer assessment (efficient and psychometrically robust)

• Maximise learning effects of testing (feedback, goal setting, spaced & targeted review,

Future monitoring

• Focus on the teacher as the unit of feedback• Tracking pupil progress: frequent assessments,

over many years, in a range of curriculum areas, on meaningful scales

• Multi-method (self-evaluation) tools to capture teaching quality

• Experimentation and marginal gains

Future evidence

• EEF Toolkit• EEF DIY Evaluation Guide• EEF Projects & Evaluations• School ‘Research Leads’• ResearchED• Policy engagement: assessment,

accountability

30YEARS