2. Talk overview
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Why publish
research
reviews?
How
research
reviews
were
compiled
The curriculum
focus of EIF
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3. Ofsted’s role
Ofsted’s role is to make sure that
organisations providing education, training
and care services in England do so to a high
standard for children and students.
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4. The ‘quality of education’ judgement
Consultation on the Education inspection framework 2019 Slide 4
Quality of education
Intent
Curriculum design, coverage and
appropriateness
Implementation
Curriculum delivery
Teaching (pedagogy) – contribution to
delivering the curriculum as intended
Assessment (formative and summative)
Impact
Attainment and progress (including
national tests and assessments)
Reading
Destinations
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Assessment
Desired high level outcomes
and measures of those
outcomes
Curriculum:
WHAT is taught
Pedagogy: Teaching
activities or HOW
curriculum content is
taught
Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework has a
new focus on curriculum
6. Weak outcomes are due to knowledge gaps
A very simple representation…
Pictures from: https://learningspy.co.uk/featured/how-to-explain-schema/
…when compared to the
schema of a child who can
achieve a higher outcome
Schema of a child who would
achieve a lower academic
outcome…
7. How we developed a conception of quality of
education for the new inspection framework
We looked at existing research
and also conducted our own.
We shared all the research
which underpins the
development of Ofsted’s new
inspection framework
Slide 7
8. A school curriculum is made up of subjects
What is meant by ‘curriculum’
for a school?
for a subject?
for a sequence of lessons?
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9. The deep dive:
a way to consider the quality of a
subject education
draws on inspectors’ shared
understanding of a high-quality
subject education
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10. Research reviews
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what published research tells
us about a high-quality
education in each subject
supporting and informing
those leading the thinking on
subject education
not a checklist
11. What explains variation in quality of a subject education?
This question informs the structure of the research reviews
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Curriculum: scope, coherence, components,
sequencing and rigour
Pedagogy Assessment
Systems
12. Research reviews consider forms or ‘pillars’ of
progression in each subject
Aspects/forms/pillars of within
subject progression
EIF 2019 - Developing Curriculum Expertise
• scientific facts, concepts and procedures
• disciplinary e.g. knowledge of how to set up
experiments and understand the role of
error
aims
• grammar
• vocabulary
• phonics etc.
aims
• knowledge of letter sound correspondences
• capacity to blend - decode
• capacity to encode etc.
aims
14. Selecting research
as well as academic papers, the research reviews include
information from:
• the Education Endowment Foundation
• the Department for Education
• large-scale international studies, such as the Programme for
International Student Assessment (PISA)
• our own research and guidance
• secondary evidence, such as teacher-authored blogs
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15. Filters we use to select research
relevance to inspection
an understanding that curriculum is different from pedagogy
how people learn and, in particular, findings from cognitive
science
subject specificity
what will achieve the aims of subject education
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16. Teams compiling research reviews
subject leads
professional researchers in our research and
evaluation team
editing and publication team
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17. Publication timeline: summer 2021
Publication and reception May 2021 Slide 17
Science
29 Apr.
Religious education
12 May
Maths
25 May
Languages
14 June
Geography
17 June
Music
12 July
History
14 July
21. From research review to subject report
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Established
principles
for Quality
of Education
(EIF)
Filter:
subject
education
Conception of
subject quality
(Research
reviews)
Evidence
base
Subject
report
22. Ofsted on the web and on social media
www.gov.uk/ofsted
https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk
www.linkedin.com/company/ofsted
www.youtube.com/ofstednews
www.slideshare.net/ofstednews
www.twitter.com/ofstednews
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Editor's Notes
Structure of the research reviews
Aspects/forms of within subject progression: e.g. grammar is an area for progression within MFL. Our subject specific guidance provides insight into aspects or ‘pillars’ of progression within each subject.
In the autumn term we hope to publish English, PE, computing and art research reviews. We also hope to soon be able to publish a DT research review.
Science – summary video
Jasper – what it means to get better
Here are snips from the science research review – you’ll see I have provided examples of how we summarise sections before we provide more detail, and how we offer what are hopefully useful ‘take away’ features. This structure is a feature of all of our reviews.