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:
We propose to implement an online research lab to synthesize findings from the four studies and explain the variation in teacher accountability across the four studies. Online research labs are collaborative research ini...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: VU Amsterdam
Partially relevant as it focuses on teacher accountability but not on inspection or key outcomes.
This project conducts further work related to Organizational Perspectives on Accountability and Learning (OPAL), a three-year project that examines the relationship between school funding models, accountability, and lear...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Bristol
Partially relevant as it focuses on organizational perspectives and learning outcomes but not specifically on inspection or key outcomes.
Liberia's public education system is moribund. The civil war of 1999-2003 and the Ebola epidemic of 2014 have left the Ministry of Education with little capacity to run a national school system. An effort to clean thousa...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Innovations for Poverty Action
Fully relevant as it directly addresses the impact of accountability mechanisms on education outcomes in Liberia.