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Academic Research: Data Sets, Workforce Data

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The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) is tasked with leading on workforce data collection across the FE sector and publishing summary reports.
Understanding trends and patterns within the FE sector workforce is important for providers, for policy makers and for sector bodies. Common themes, such as average salary, average age, gender balance and percentage of qualified staff, help to inform decision making and strategic activity.

Performance over professional learning and the complexity puzzle: lesson observation in England’s further education sector by Matt O'Leary

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A research article by Matt O'Leary and Val Brooks which focuses on lesson observation as an illustrative example of attempts to measure the quality of teaching and learning. It draws on data from a national study and examines the application of observation and its impact on further education teachers’ practice.

What makes great teaching? Review of the underpinning research, Robert Coe, Cesare Aloisi, Steve Higgins and Lee Elliot Major, October 2014

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This review by CEM, Durham University and The Sutton Trust set out to address three apparently simple questions:
 What makes ’great teaching’?
 What kinds of frameworks or tools could help us to capture it?
 How could this promote better learning?

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