Trialled and Tested

Evidence Based Education and Education Endowment Foundation

A new podcast by the Education Endowment Foundation and Evidence Based Education. Exploring education research evidence to inform teaching practice.

Episodes

  1. 04/25/2019

    Trialled and Tested: Embedding Formative Assessment

    “Teaching should start from where the student is, not from where we would like them to be." says education professor Dylan Wiliam. In this episode of Trialled and Tested: Embedding Formative Assessment, we introduce how formative assessment strategies can be used in the classroom. Dylan is the co-developer of a professional development programme, Embedding Formative Assessment, which supports teachers to use real-time knowledge of their pupils’ strengths and weaknesses to adapt their practice. The programme builds on existing evidence that formative assessment can improve students’ learning. Many schools already prioritise formative assessment, but it can be challenging to implement. An independent evaluation funded by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) recently found that pupils in schools following the Embedding Formative Assessment programme made the equivalent of +2 months’ additional progress in their Attainment 8 GCSE score. Find out more, as Evidence Based Education’s Jamie Scott spoke to some of the people behind the programme - Dylan Wiliam, Emily Yeomans, Corinne Settle and Claire Taylor - and its evaluation to find out what it is all about. Tune in to hear from: Dylan Wiliam: Start to 16:40 Emily Yeomans: 16:40 to 21:40 Corinne Settle: 21:40 to 28:52 Claire Taylor: 28:52 to 35:23 Dylan Wiliam: 35:23 to end Full length: 38m You can read about the Education Endowment Trust's Embedding Formative Assessment project in full here. For more podcasts, be sure to check out our podcast archive and subscribe! We also have a collection of eBooks, videos and webinars in our Resource Library, which is free to join!

    38 min
  2. 12/05/2018

    Efficacy, evidence and evaluation

    In this episode of the Trialled and Tested podcast, 'Efficacy, evidence and evaluation', Jamie Scott from Evidence Based Education speaks to Eleanor Stringer and Matthew van Poortvliet from the Education Endowment Foundation to find out more about their approach to identifying projects to fund, scaling-up promising projects and running evaluations.   Here’s a full account of the questions put to Eleanor and Matthew: 2:02 - What does the EEF look for when considering which projects to fund? 3:15 - How much initial evidence do you need to get EEF funding for a project? 3:58 - What are the different stages of the EEF evaluation pipeline? And why and how might you scale-up a project from efficacy to effectiveness? 6:45 - Examples of scale-up projects 9:20 - Are EEF evaluation projects typically coming out of academic institutions or schools? 11:19 - Why have some trials been re-trialled? 14:08 - How does the evidence behind the ‘Embedding Formative Assessment’ project differ from other professional development programmes that might not have been trialled? 16:41 - How does the EEF respond to criticism of the approach to project evaluation, especially a perceived preference for randomised controlled trial designs? 21:55 - Some EEF trials have found results that conflict with previously-published findings – does this point to a replication problem in education research? 24:43 - How has the work the EEF has done since its inception improved the scientific endeavour of evaluation? 26:33 - What do you hope is the lasting impact of EEF project evaluations? 28:09 - Why are certain approaches or strategies not included in the EEF toolkit, despite there being strong evidence behind them?   Remember to subscribe to the Trialled and Tested podcast feed, wherever you get your podcasts, as this is the last episode that we'll also share through our EBE feed... Don't miss out!

    32 min

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A new podcast by the Education Endowment Foundation and Evidence Based Education. Exploring education research evidence to inform teaching practice.