There are a growing number of large-scale educational randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
Considering their expense, it is important to reflect on the effectiveness of this approach. We …

Are you looking for one book that gives a comprehensive account of primary and early years
English, language and literacy teaching? This fully revised fourth edition of Teaching …

A critical purpose of this book is to present analyses of effective instructional approaches
with sufficient detail to allow readers (researchers, teachers, curriculum developers, and …

Evidence suggests the use of'metacognitive strategies'--which get pupils to think about their
own learning--can be worth the equivalent of an additional+ 7 months' progress when used …

The place of grammar within the teaching of writing has long been contested, and a vast
body of research has found no correlation between grammar teaching and writing …

The place of evidence to inform educational effectiveness has received increasing attention
internationally in the last two decades. An important contribution to evidence‐informed …

This fifth edition, which is the first to be published only in electronic form and not in hard
copy, draws selectively on all the above. It is downloadable from the Dyslexia-SpLD Trust …

In the last two decades there has been a proliferation of proposals for instructional practices,
all promising to improve pupils' academic attainment. Many of these approaches have not …

Education is an applied field for research. In the past 20 years or more, there has been
increasing pressure from stakeholders like funders and policy-makers for education …

Randomized controlled trials have proliferated in education, in part because they provide an
unbiased estimator for the causal impact of interventions. It is increasingly recognized that …