Becoming a Research-Informed School - Why? What? How?

Becoming a Research-Informed School examines the reasons why teachers and leaders use research to improve their schools, and explores how teachers select, understand and use research to enhance learning experiences in fast-moving classroom environments. It analyses what teachers and school leaders actually do, to use research in their schools, and how they build a research-informed culture.

Based firmly in data from real schools and considering the experiences of over 150 education professionals, it shows how research and evidence can be used to:

• Improve decision-making processes
• Develop schools as intellectual communities
• Address priorities for improvement
• Implement research-informed teaching
• Respond to policy imperative for informed practice
• Guide future research