Harnessing knowledge to practice: accessing and using evidence from research

This Innovation Unit publication addresses a key challenge for education in the future - how to ensure that the workforce who are teaching pupils have access to the latest knowledge about pedagogy and can apply it in practice for the benefit of children's learning.

With a few notable exceptions, there has often been a gap between education research and educational practice. In Harnessing knowledge to practice, the team from the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE) outline the barriers that exist and look at attempts that the system has made to overcome them. They examine some of the recent investment into putting research to work in classrooms and what different educational agencies are doing to support this process. Finally, they ask what is next for evidence-informed practice.

Download this Innovation Investigation, Harnessing knowledge to practice: accessing and using evidence from research