Innovation in Education: CEP research

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Innovation in EducationCEP research

• Sandra McNally

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Inside the black box

• Role of ICT
• Teaching practices
• Management and organisational survey
• Importance of governance

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Literature on the Role of ICT

• Several educational studies showing a positive
  link between computer use and exam achievement
• Positive relationship may be driven by factors
  other than computer use (or software), i.e. other
  inputs important for educational performance.
• Many studies that deal with endogeneity problem
  in some way find no evidence of a positive
  relationship
• Possibly computers are replacing more effective
  teaching methods.

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Our research(Machin, McNally, Silva)

• Does a change in information communication
  technology (ICT) investment in schools have any
  impact on changes in educational outcomes in
  English schools?
• Quasi-experimental setting change in the rules
  governing ICT investment in different regions of
  England. This change produced winners and
  losers in terms of ICT investment. Our approach
  identifies whether this had an effect on
  educational outcomes (find positive effect in
  primary schools)

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Evaluation of teaching strategies the Literacy
Hour the Numeracy Hour(Machin and McNally)

• Highly structured hour of literacy teaching
  introduced to some schools through National
  Literacy Project in in 400 schools in England in
  September 1996 and September 1997.
• Constituted a discrete, well-defined and
  systematic change in how literacy is taught
  within primary schools (and where teaching
  standards were perceived to be low before).

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Management and Organisational Survey(John Van
Reenen, Rafaella Sadun and colleagues)

• Survey that collects information on 3 key areas
• Monitoring. What information is collected? How is
  it being used?
• Targets. Do schools have them and how do they use
  them?
• Incentives. Do teachers get rewarded for good
  performance?

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Governance Survey(for the future) Steve
Gibbons, Steve Machin, Olmo Silva

• In the UK, the governing body has a key role in
  making decisions. Aim is to find out how features
  of the governing body relate to how the school
  performance. Issues are
• Composition. How are governors chosen?
• Involvement. What does this consist of?
• Incentives. What role does the governing body
  have here in relation to teacher and
  head-teachers?