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Background: The Teaching and Learning Toolkit is a widely accessed evidence portal that summarizes the global evidence for educational strategies and communicates them in an accessible format to teachers, school leaders, and policymakers. According to recent survey data, 70% of school leaders in England use the Toolkit when making decisions on how to spend school funding.
Context: The popularity of the Toolkit in England has led to it being adopted by many other educational systems. The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has formed international partnerships in Jordan, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Cameroon, Belgium, the Netherlands, and 10 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. In these contexts, the Toolkit is translated into the local language (where applicable), and the global evidence is supplemented with searches of local evidence that contain details of relevant considerations for recontextualization.
The portals have been developed in consultation with key local stakeholders and are directly targeted at the local audience, school leaders, teachers, or policymakers, to see the key findings from the global evidence base, key considerations for implementing approaches within the local context, and limitations in the evidence base that might require more extensive evidence generation. The real power of the Toolkit and partner portals is not just in the global evidence base and local evidence for the recontextualization but in providing the findings to local audiences in plain language and an accessible format that makes the findings relevant and actionable.
Conclusion: The Toolkit is now being converted into a set of living systematic reviews underpinned by a constantly growing database of more than 4,000 high-quality impact studies in education. This will allow for regular updates to the Toolkit and partner portals, ensuring they are kept highly relevant based on up-to-date evidence and practice.
Context: The popularity of the Toolkit in England has led to it being adopted by many other educational systems. The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has formed international partnerships in Jordan, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Cameroon, Belgium, the Netherlands, and 10 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. In these contexts, the Toolkit is translated into the local language (where applicable), and the global evidence is supplemented with searches of local evidence that contain details of relevant considerations for recontextualization.
The portals have been developed in consultation with key local stakeholders and are directly targeted at the local audience, school leaders, teachers, or policymakers, to see the key findings from the global evidence base, key considerations for implementing approaches within the local context, and limitations in the evidence base that might require more extensive evidence generation. The real power of the Toolkit and partner portals is not just in the global evidence base and local evidence for the recontextualization but in providing the findings to local audiences in plain language and an accessible format that makes the findings relevant and actionable.
Conclusion: The Toolkit is now being converted into a set of living systematic reviews underpinned by a constantly growing database of more than 4,000 high-quality impact studies in education. This will allow for regular updates to the Toolkit and partner portals, ensuring they are kept highly relevant based on up-to-date evidence and practice.