Evidence-based practice is a salient solution that has been presented to address the
persistent educational attainment gap linked to economic disadvantage. However, most …

This report presents the results of an independent evaluation designed to investigate the
extent to which, and in what ways, Research Schools (RSs) in Opportunity Areas (OAs) …

Despite increasing pressure for policy and practice to adopt a more evidence‐based
approach, transferring evidence into use remains a stubborn challenge. This is largely due …

This chapter discusses the development of evidence-informed practice in Australian
education. It highlights growing system-wide aspirations and support for Australian teachers …

Many school educators struggle to reconcile the onslaught of mandatory and competing, top-
down policies. Educators must merge policies into a singular plan that reflects the local …

Strategies that encourage direct linkage and exchange between researchers and
practitioners are more likely to support changes in educational practice informed by …

The analyses produced a clear conclusion. Cross-age peer tutoring stood out as positively
enhancing cognitive attainment for both reading and mathematics in two differently aged …

Research Learning Communities (RLCs) were devised as a way to enable the roll out of
research-informed interventions at scale (Brown, 2015). The product of new and innovative …

Research leads Improving Students' Education (RISE) aimed to test whether a research-
informed school improvement model improved the mathematics and English attainment of …

In this case study, we describe the work undertaken since 2004 in the journey to develop a
collaborative model of working aimed at building the capacity and relevance of education …