Partnership

We work with the GTC to create interactive and non-linear summaries of high quality, large scale pedagogical research where all key findings are illustrated with practitioner case studies. We also work with the GTC to help develop teachers’ awareness and use of research including through the creation of CPD activities. We continually work together to evaluate how teachers are making use of the evidence to inform their professional learning and develop their practice.

CUREE works with the Innovation Unit to explore areas of immediate concern to the development of new practice in education. This includes an extensive project looking at issues around transfer of practice and taking it to scale, as well as an analysis of the role of educational research in supporting practitioner development.

The Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE), working in partnership with the School of Education, University of Wolverhampton, was awarded the contract for a 3.5 year project to develop the Evidence Base for the Curriculum in September 2007. The project includes four activity strands focused on exploring successful approaches to the obstacles to progress which schools are encountering.

CUREE has been working with Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) on ‘Enterprise Village’, its major programme to support and improve both the quality and quantity of Enterprise education in England for those aged 5 -19. We have been working with the Lead Practitioners programme to develop a cohort of LP Coaches and an accreditation programme to encourage the growth of coaching throughout the network. CUREE is supporting SSAT delivery of the 14 -19 programme through the training of coaches and the creation of new 14 -19 coaching materials.

 

CUREE were commissioned by TLRP to create taster documents for their website, which introduce practitioners to the evidence coming out of the Programme and suggest ways in which they can use the evidence to improve their practice. The TLRP website provides an easy to use index where practitioners can link through to tasters covering their area of interest.

CUREE has a long and fruitful relationship with TDA (Training and Development Agency for Schools), and had a number of high profile project that we are currently delivering:

• Support for the development of Masters in Teaching & Learning
• Quality assurance of Postgraduate Professional Development Programme
• Evaluation of the CPD providers database and the code of practice

We create, manage and maintain The Research Informed Practice area of the Standards website for the DCSF which is populated with practitioner friendly digests of recent articles from research journals. Our work with the DCSF has recently extended to include the development of a longer publication that draws together key features from a range of digests. We have also worked with the:

• CPD National Strategy
• Primary National Strategy
• Research Team

CUREE advise on the content of the QIA’s Quality Improvement Journal and produces the Inside Evidence pages. Inside Evidence provides summaries of research evidence relevant to current issues facing practitioners, leaders and policy makers in the Further Education system. In addition we provide QIA staff with a bi-monthly Briefing on the research landscape as it relates their work. Our growing understanding of the available evidence and gaps in this sector in turn informs the QIA’s own research programme.

We have worked with CEL - now part of the Learnng & Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) -  in their development of a range of self-study units as part of the Principals’ Qualifying Programme (PQP). The units offer a strategic introduction to the 8 major functional areas of the principal’s role (e.g. curriculum, marketing and finance) and also provide or point to more detailed information for those who wish to explore further.