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The Sutton Trust-Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit (2016)
Report
Higgins, S., Katsipataki, M., Villanueva-Aguilera, A., Coleman, R., Henderson, P., Major, L., …Mason, D. (2016). The Sutton Trust-Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit. [No known commissioning body]

The Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit is an accessible summary of educational research. It provides guidance for teachers and schools on how to use their resources to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. The Toolkit currently... Read More about The Sutton Trust-Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit.

Developing Great Teaching: Lessons from the international reviews into effective professional development (2015)
Report
Cordingley, P., Higgins, S., Greany, T., Buckler, N., Coles-Jordan, D., Crisp, B., …Coe, R. (2015). Developing Great Teaching: Lessons from the international reviews into effective professional development. [No known commissioning body]

The 2014 DfE consultation on A world-class teaching profession stated that “Feedback from the profession has consistently indicated that too many of the development opportunities on offer are of variable quality”.1 “Too often ‘CPD’ is viewed narrowly... Read More about Developing Great Teaching: Lessons from the international reviews into effective professional development.

What makes great teaching? Review of the underpinning research (2014)
Report
Coe, R., Aloisi, C., Higgins, S., & Major, L. (2014). What makes great teaching? Review of the underpinning research. Sutton Trust

This report reviews over 200 pieces of research to identify the elements of teaching with the strongest evidence of improving attainment. It finds some common practices can be harmful to learning and have no grounding in research. Specific practices... Read More about What makes great teaching? Review of the underpinning research.

Stability over time of different methods of estimating school performance. (2013)
Journal Article
Dumay, X., Coe, R., & Anumendem, D. (2014). Stability over time of different methods of estimating school performance. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 25(1), 64-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2012.759599

This paper aims to investigate how stability varies with the approach used in estimating school performance in a large sample of English primary schools. The results show that (a) raw performance is considerably more stable than adjusted performance,... Read More about Stability over time of different methods of estimating school performance..

The Sutton Trust - Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit (2013)
Report
Higgins, S., Katsipataki, M., Kokotsaki, D., Coleman, R., Major, L., & Coe, R. (2013). The Sutton Trust - Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit. [No known commissioning body]

The Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit is an accessible summary of educational research which provides guidance for teachers and schools on how to use their resources to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. The Toolkit currentl... Read More about The Sutton Trust - Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit.

Teaching meta-analysis using MetaLight (2012)
Digital Artefact
Thomas, J., Graziosi, S., Higgins, S., Coe, R., Torgerson, C., & Newman, M. (2012). Teaching meta-analysis using MetaLight. [5]

Background: Meta-analysis is a statistical method for combining the results of primary studies. It is often used in systematic reviews and is increasingly a method and topic that appears in student dissertations. MetaLight is a freely available softw... Read More about Teaching meta-analysis using MetaLight.

Every Child Counts: The Independent evaluation Executive Summary (2011)
Report
Torgerson, C., Wiggins, A., Torgerson, D., Ainsworth, H., Barmby, P., Hewitt, C., Jones, K., Hendry, V., Askew, M., Bland, M., Coe, R., Higgins, S., Hodgen, J., Hulme, C., & Tymms, P. (2011). Every Child Counts: The Independent evaluation Executive Summary. Department for Education (DfE)

School Improvement: Reality and Illusion (2009)
Journal Article
Coe, R. (2009). School Improvement: Reality and Illusion. British Journal of Educational Studies, 57(4), 363-379. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8527.2009.00444.x

School improvement is much sought and often claimed. However, it is questionable whether overall achievement in countries such as the USA or England has improved by any significant amount over thirty years. Several school improvement programmes have... Read More about School Improvement: Reality and Illusion.

Unobserved but not unimportant: The effects of unmeasured variables on causal attributions (2009)
Journal Article
Coe, R. (2009). Unobserved but not unimportant: The effects of unmeasured variables on causal attributions. Effective education, 1(2), 101-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/19415530903522519

The objective of the present study was to estimate how much difference the inclusion of plausibly important but unmeasured variables could make to estimates of the effects of educational programmes. Two examples of policy-relevant research in educati... Read More about Unobserved but not unimportant: The effects of unmeasured variables on causal attributions.

Choosing in schools: locating the benefits of specialisation (2009)
Journal Article
Davies, P., Davies, N., Hutton, D., Adnett, N., & Coe, R. (2009). Choosing in schools: locating the benefits of specialisation. Oxford Review of Education, 35(2), 147-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054980802643298

Recent policy in England has suggested that educational outcomes will be raised if schools specialise in particular subjects. In contrast, calls for the reform of 16-19 education have suggested that these outcomes will be improved if students become... Read More about Choosing in schools: locating the benefits of specialisation.

Commentary on Chapter 8. (2008)
Book Chapter
Coe, R., Tymms, P., & Fitz-Gibbon, C. (2008). Commentary on Chapter 8. In P. Newton, J. Baird, H. Goldstein, H. Patrick, & P. (. Tymms (Eds.), Techniques for monitoring the comparability of examination standards (324-329). QCA