Education | The Impact Initiative

Education in international development settings, including in conflict and post-conflict contexts: teachers, quality and learning, and inequalities related to poverty, gender and disability.

Celebrating the impact of the Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Programme

Provides a snapshot of the impact achieved by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) funded Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Research Programme (RLO). It provides a reflection on the different types of impact that research projects have achieved to inform discussion and learning around impact pathways for both researcher and funders

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Improving Adult Literacy in Niger Through Mobile Calls to Teachers

Research in adult education programmes in Niger directly led to improved reading and maths scores. Based on the evidence, the approach has also been tested by the Ministry of Education in primary schools.

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Reconceptualising teacher professional development in Honduras

Exploring a new model that draws on on ESRC-FCDO RLO research to provide an intervention to help teachers improve their teaching practices.

Education Marketplace Platform

Principal Investigator:Asim Khwaja. Lead Organisation: Harvard University

Pakistan faces a serious learning crisis: despite significant progress in enrollment and educational access, learning outcomes remain vastly substandard: only 40% of rural children aged 5 to 16 can read a sentence, while less than 38% can perform simple arithmetic operations like subtraction (ASER, 2016).

Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes System (TIPPS): Cultural extension and testing as a feedback tool to improve pedagogical practices

Principal Investigator:Edward Seidman. Lead Organisation: New York University

Application of the Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes System (TIPPS) observation tool in Rural Honduran Secondary Schools

Principal Investigator: Erin Murphy-Graham. Lead Organisation: University of California, Berkeley

Investigación ESRC-FCDO para Políticas y Prácticas: Enseñanza de Calidad

Este resumen destaca los mensajes clave de la investigación centrada en la enseñanza de calidad del Programa de Investigación del Fondo Conjunto ESRC-FCDO (anteriormente DFID) para el Alivio de la Pobreza y el Aumento de los Resultados del Aprendizaje en los Sistemas Educativos, y es un resultado de la Iniciativa de Impacto para la Investigación del Desarrollo Internacional.

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Celebrating the Raising Learning Outcomes Programme

Draws on research evidence from the ESRC-FCDO Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems, this collection highlights opportunities and collaborations that can arise during the course of research and the multiple, unique and sometimes surprising paths to achieving impact.

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Working in Partnership with Multiple Stakeholders on Global Policy Processes: Disability and Inclusive Education

Captures insights from education policy actors and researchers who were brought together in a webinar in September 2020 to discuss what it means to work in partnership with multiple stakeholders on global policy processes related to disability and inclusive education.

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Celebrating the successes and lessons of the Raising Learning Outcomes Programme

Reported outcomes ‘harvested’ from across the Raising Learning Outcomes Programme to build a picture of the diverse processes and pathways to impact across the portfolio have been presented at an Impact Initiative hosted webinar on ‘Celebrating the Successes and lessons of the Raising Learning Outcomes Programme.’

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