Marian College Ararat – 15 July 2024

Quick Start Resource Page

• Parking lot and sharing Padlet
• Connect with Michael on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and email
• Evidence for Learning Website

Session 1

• Confidence in evidence:
  • Deeble & Vaughan, An evidence broker for Australian schools, CSE Occasional Paper
• Using evidence effectively
  • EEF Using Research Evidence Guide
  • E4L Planning for Impact 2024 
• Innovating with impact
  • Sir Kevan Collins. Innovating with impact in education (2015). Social Ventures Australia Quarterly
• Being a critical consumer of evidence
  • E4L Getting Evidence Moving in Schools project
  • thatsaclaim.org/educational
  • Ambition Institute, Avoiding Lethal Mutations
  • Evidence Based Education, Lethal Mutations
• Evidence sources
  • Evidence for Learning, E4L (Aus)
  • Evidence Endowment Foundation (UK)
  • What Works Clearinghouse (USA)
  • Australian Education Research Organisation, AERO (Aus)
• E4L Teaching and Learning Toolkit
  • Access the Toolkit
  • Toolkit Guide

Session 2

• Guidance Reports
  • Implementation
  • Working with parents and carers
  • Teaching assistants
  • Improving literacy
  • Improving science
  • Mathematics
  • Effective PD
  • Behaviour supports
  • Metacognition and self-regulated learning
  • Feedback to students (EEF)
  • Digital technology (EEF)
• Evidence Reviews
  • Cognitive Science approaches (EEF)
• Additional tools and resources
  • Literacy
    • Self assessment guide (EEF)
    • Reading Comprehension House (EEF)
    • Reading Fluency (EEF)
    • Vocabulary in Action (EEF)

Session 3

• Implementation Guidance Report (aimed at leaders, but applicable to action-research also – but requires some interpretation)
• Gathering and interpreting data to identify priorities
• Active Ingredients Summary
• Using data for monitoring and evaluation

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