Evidence for Learning exists to support great practice across all schools and early learning settings in Australia.
Educators face challenges to make the best decisions about which approaches will have the greatest learning impact for children and young people. Have you ever asked yourself:
- There are too many choices, too little time!
- How do I know if it works?
- How can I get the promised impact?
- It can’t work like that in my school.
- It’s not within my budget!
- I don’t believe evidence and data will help me improve.
- I’m not yet capable and confident to analyse and evaluate data and evidence.
- It takes too much time and is too difficult to get the value.
Evidence for Learning helps to overcome these barriers.
Education leaders, and the educators they support, face challenges when trying to make the best decisions about which approaches will have the greatest learning impact for children and young people. Have you ever asked yourself:
- There are too many choices, too little time!
- How do I know if it works?
- How can I get the promised impact?
- It can’t work like that in my settin.
- It’s not within my budget!
- I don’t believe evidence and data will help me improve.
- I’m not yet capable and confident to analyse and evaluate data and evidence.
- It takes too much time and is too difficult to get the value.
Evidence for Learning works with education systems, early childhood education and care providers, schools, researchers, government and philanthropists to provide free, evidence-based answers to these questions.
We help Build, Share and Use Evidence to improve learning in all schools and early learning settings.
Build evidence through research projects.
We broker the creation of new Australian education research by commissioning evaluations and research investigations.
We produce plain English reports of evaluations for use by educators showing a particular approach’s:
- Average months’ worth of learning progress,
- Cost to implement and;
- Security of evidence.
We place emphasis on empirical evidence with research for causation, quantitative measure of learning gain and the counterfactual (e.g. randomised control trial where possible). We do also conduct pilot evaluations and research investigations for early stage initiatives.
Share evidence through the freely available Teaching & Learning Toolkit and Early Childhood Education Toolkit.
We develop online summaries of global evidence for education approaches (e.g. repeating a year) with a dashboard of:
- Average months’ worth of learning progress,
- Cost to implement and;
- Security of evidence.
We localise the Toolkits with reference to Australian research and evidence.
We develop Implementation Guides (how to guides, staff-room materials, case studies) for approaches that have been proven to have a high impact on students’ learning (starting with Feedback).
We actively promote and engage with the education community through social media, education conferences and network.
Use evidence through building a community committed to developing an evaluative culture in schools and early learning centres.
If you’d like to know more about Evidence for Learning make contact with one of our team members.