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:
Governments across the world recognize the importance of providing an education to all children within an inclusive education system. Yet, despite great progress in getting more children into school over the past decade,...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge
The project specifically focuses on improving learning outcomes for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with disabilities, aligning with the question's goal.
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 addresses the importance of measuring instructional practices and classroom processes, which is a partial aspect of improving outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.
This project aims to analyse a national dataset (the National Pupil Database) about pupils and schools to explore the routes some vulnerable pupils take through secondary schools. We are interested in comparing trends ov...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
The project analyzes trends in the placement of pupils with significant SEN and those permanently excluded, which is a partial aspect of improving outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.