UK Educational Evidence Portal

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.^[1]

History

The portal went live in September 2007 and is funded by a number of organisations, including

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.^[2]

The portal has been cited as a useful information resource by various academic and Government sources in the UK and elsewhere.[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Searching

Eep can be searched in the following ways:

Search websites - collections of documents from areas of a wide range of organisations contributing to eep^[10]
Search eep database - individual documents that have been selected by a subset of organisations and indexed in greater detail by the British Education Index^[11]
Explore key documents and links in specialised Resource Areas which focus on specific topics or educational communities.^[12]

Development

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.

References

^ Saunders, L. (2007) Educational Research and Policy-Making: Exploring the Border Country Between Research and Policy. Routledge, p. 100.
^ About eep (eep web site)
^ Thomas, G. (2009) How to Do Your Research Project: A Guide for Students in Education and Applied Social Sciences Sage Publications, p. 35.
^ Bubb, S., Earley, P. (2010) Helping Staff Develop in Schools. SAGE Publications, p. 20.
^ NFER information sites
^ Oxford University Department of Education - Where to start for information for education
^ Aussie Educator: Education Search Engines
^ DCSF Research Website - links
^ The Council of the European Union: Commission document SEC (2007) 1098, p. 47
^ eep web sites search
^ eep database search
^ eep resource areas

External links

[1] Saunders, L. (2007) Educational Research and Policy-Making: Exploring the Border Country Between Research and Policy. Routledge, p. 100.

[2] About eep (eep web site)

[3] Thomas, G. (2009) How to Do Your Research Project: A Guide for Students in Education and Applied Social Sciences Sage Publications, p. 35.

[4] Bubb, S., Earley, P. (2010) Helping Staff Develop in Schools. SAGE Publications, p. 20.

[5] NFER information sites

[6] Oxford University Department of Education - Where to start for information for education

[7] Aussie Educator: Education Search Engines

[8] DCSF Research Website - links

[9] The Council of the European Union: Commission document SEC (2007) 1098, p. 47

[10] web sites search

[11] tabase search

[12] resource areas

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