Our goal is to create a world-class school system that ensures every child is taught a broad and ambitious knowledge-rich curriculum by highly skilled teachers, so they can achieve their potential. We need to continue to develop the evidence base around effective teaching practice and curriculum design, with teaching increasingly viewed as an applied science (akin to medicine) where evidence-based approaches are widely utilised, and skilled teachers draw upon expert support and professional communities. We also need to build our understanding of how best to replicate the success of high performing schools, and how school trusts can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their schools, including through management of the school estate. A key part of this is building evidence on the most successful school approaches to improving attendance.
If you would like to discuss previous, ongoing or potential research into any of the areas in this document, please contact research.engagement@education.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
When primary school children return in the Autumn, they will have missed more than a term of usual school provision. The disruption may exacerbate existing inequalities in academic attainment, and potentially create new ...
Funded by: COVID
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
This project specifically focuses on the impact of school closures on pupils and aims to identify children most affected by closures.
Despite improvements in school enrolment over the past 20 years, 781 million adults worldwide are still unable to read and write in any language (UNESCO 2015). In Niger, the subject of this study, less than 30% of the po...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Tufts University
While the project focuses on teacher absenteeism, it indirectly addresses factors affecting school attendance and learning outcomes.
Worldwide, there has been growing interest in understanding the nature of quality education. A major key to this quest lies in what goes on inside classrooms, where children derive the bulk of their daily experiences in ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: New York University
The project aims to develop a classroom observation tool which indirectly relates to understanding effective teaching practices.