UK Educational Evidence Portal
Encyclopedia
The UK educational evidence portal (eep) is an online resource providing easy access to published research and evidence-based guidance across all areas of education, and related aspects of children’s services. It was developed through collaboration between organisations to make research evidence more widely available to a range of audiences, including educational professionals, practitioners, policy makers and the research community.
The portal went live in September 2007 and is funded by a number of organisations, including CfBT Education Trust
, DCSF
, BIS
, TDA, Becta
and The National College
. It is hosted by the EPPI-Centre
at the Institute of Education
, University of London
and managed by a Development Group which meets approximately bi-monthly. A subset of this group meets as the Editorial Group which manages the content of the portal. CfBT Education Trust provides overall leadership.
The portal has been cited as a useful information resource by various academic and Government sources in the UK and elsewhere.
Eep can be searched in the following ways:
Eep is currently developing the next release of the portal which will improve the search results for both new and more experienced users. There will be a subject list for browsing the database. Authors' names and British Education Thesaurus terms will be clickable so that related documents in the database are linked. A new text mining tool will provide automatic subject tags, on the fly, for both the database and website search.
The portal went live in September 2007 and is funded by a number of organisations, including CfBT Education Trust
CfBT Education Trust
CfBT Education Trust is a large educational charity in the United Kingdom, based in Reading.-History:It was founded in 1968 by Tony Abrahams as a support service for freelance teachers working abroad...
, DCSF
Department for Children, Schools and Families
The Department for Children, Schools and Families was a department of the UK government, between 2007 and 2010, responsible for issues affecting people in England up to the age of 19, including child protection and education...
, BIS
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is a ministerial department of the United Kingdom Government created on 5 June 2009 by the merger of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform .-Ministers:The BIS...
, TDA, Becta
Becta
Becta was a non-departmental public body ] funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, in the UK It was a charity and a company limited by guarantee. In the post-election spending review in May 2010, it was announced that Becta was to be abolished...
and The National College
National College for School Leadership
The National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services is a British government-funded non-departmental public body which offers head teachers, school leaders and senior children's services leaders opportunities for professional leadership development.- History :Established in 2000...
. It is hosted by the EPPI-Centre
EPPI-Centre
The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre is part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London...
at the Institute of Education
Institute of Education
The Institute of Education is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom specialised in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It is the largest education research body in the United Kingdom, with...
, University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
and managed by a Development Group which meets approximately bi-monthly. A subset of this group meets as the Editorial Group which manages the content of the portal. CfBT Education Trust provides overall leadership.
The portal has been cited as a useful information resource by various academic and Government sources in the UK and elsewhere.
Eep can be searched in the following ways:
- Search websites - collections of documents from areas of a wide range of organisations contributing to eep
- Search eep database - individual documents that have been selected by a subset of organisations and indexed in greater detail by the British Education Index
- Explore key documents and links in specialised Resource Areas which focus on specific topics or educational communities.
Eep is currently developing the next release of the portal which will improve the search results for both new and more experienced users. There will be a subject list for browsing the database. Authors' names and British Education Thesaurus terms will be clickable so that related documents in the database are linked. A new text mining tool will provide automatic subject tags, on the fly, for both the database and website search.