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Important new research on professional development of teachers
Posted: July 21, 2023

Working with the British Council, experts here at the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE) explore the current state of research evidence around the continuing professional development (CPD) of teachers working in low- and middle-income countries. This report aims to answer these questions:

  • what does the evidence tell us is most likely to be effective CPD for these teachers?
  • Is this similar or different to the CPD needs of teachers in higher-income contexts?
  • What specific challenges are likely to emerge when offering CPD in these
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Last Updated: 21/07/23
researchED 2021 - Presentation by Tom Perry and Philippa Cordingley
Posted: September 4, 2021

The application and misapplication of cognitive science in the classroom

Here is the presentatioin made by Dr Tom Perry and Prof. Philippa Cordingley at this year's national researchED event.

The presentation focuses on the key findings of the systematic review (for EEFon Cognitive Science in education looking particularly at the CPDL implications

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Last Updated: 04/09/21
Education Festival 2021 - Developing Great Leadership
Posted: June 25, 2021

Developing Great Leadership of Continuing  Professional Development and Learning CPDL

Presentation by Prof. Philippa Cordingley (CEO) and Bart Crisp (Director of Research and Impact) of CUREE summarising the evidence of a review of the research on the leadership of continuing professional development and learning (CPDL)

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Last Updated: 25/06/21
Silver Bullet or Snake Oil? Cognitive Science in Education
Posted: November 16, 2020

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Are you an enthusiastic adopter of Cognative Load Theory, interleaving or retrieval practice? Perhaps you are skeptical and think it might be yet another education fad? Here at CUREE we are neither - we like to evaluate the empirical and theoretical evidence and base policy and practice on what we discover. So, we are very pleased to be working with our partners at University of Birmingham and Queen Anne's School on a project for the Education Endowment Foundation to

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Last Updated: 19/11/20
Practitioner Research and Evidence Portal - PREP - Enhanced
Posted: June 19, 2020

PREP Is Up And Running

PREP graphicWe are pleased that our project, working with the Education and Training Foundation and other partners to improve access to practitioner research on the Excellence Gateway, is now complete.

The new facility was originally soft launched at Easter when, of course, we were in the middle of the Covid-19 lockdown. From April to September we added some new

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Last Updated: 16/11/20
Developing Great Leadership of CPDL and Curriculum Development
Posted: June 8, 2020

Today, Philippa is delivering an online presentation for ResearchED Home on the findings from a map of evidence from systematic reviews, with evidence about pupil impacts. One of the key notes from this presentation is that there is currently no systematic research reviews into curriculum development with evidence of pupil impacts, largely due to there being too few studies with this evidence to support them. Philippa touches on what designing effective CPDL (Continued Professional Development and Learning) means, how it contributes to curriculum development, and what the evidence

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Last Updated: 08/06/20