The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) aims to break the link between family background and educational achievement. It does this by identifying and evaluating evidence-based teaching approaches, sharing findings with schools through the Teaching and Learning Toolkit, and promoting the use of evidence in projects and resources. The EEF follows a process from developing promising practices to evaluating their impact on a larger scale. It takes a rigorous approach to evaluation, tracking outcomes like attainment longitudinally and comparing results across multiple independent studies. To date, the EEF has funded over 50 projects involving over 1,300 schools and 275,000 students.

1. The Education Endowment Foundation
Kevan Collins
26th September 2013
info@eefoundation.org.uk
www.educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk

2. The EEF mission
To break the link between family background and
educational achievement, ensuring that children from all
backgrounds can fulfil their aspirations and make the most
of their talents.

3. The attainment gap over time
Gap 27%
Gap 20%
Gap 18%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%
School readiness
at age 5
Attainment
at age 11
Attainment
at age 16

4. Achieving our mission:
The EEF strategy
We aim to raise the attainment of children facing
disadvantage by:
• Building the evidence for what works in schools by
identifying and rigorously evaluating evidence-based
approaches to teaching and learning
• Sharing the evidence with schools by providing
independent and accessible information through the
Teaching and Learning Toolkit
• Promoting the use of evidence-based practice through
our projects, events and resources such as the DIY
Evaluation Guide for schools

5. The EEF approach
Synthesise
existing
evidence
Make
grants
Evaluate
projects

6. From early development to
scale-up
Identification of
promising ‘leads’
‘Product’
development &
trialling
Finding
structures for
roll out
Securing
widespread
adoption and
adaptation within
‘margin of
fidelity’
Many Projects Few Projects
Many Schools
Roll-outEvaluationGrant-making
Evaluation of impact and
cost effectiveness
determines which
projects pass through
the gate
Few Schools

7. Approach to evaluation
A new and robust approach to evaluation in education:
• Independent evaluation
All projects evaluated by a member of our panel of evaluation
experts
• Common outcome metrics
Effect on attainment and cost—so we can compare and contrast
between projects
• Focus on longitudinal impact
All pupils will be tracked using the National Pupil Database

8. Teaching and Learning Toolkit

9. The EEF by numbers
55
projects
funded to
date
1,300
schools
participating
in projects
16
independent
evaluation
teams
275,000
pupils involved
in EEF projects
£200m
estimated spend
over lifetime of
the EEF
3,000
heads
presented to
since launch

10. For further information:
www.educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk
info@eefoundation.org.uk