Taking a Contextualized Approach to Synthesizing and Mobilizing Evidence to Improve Teaching and Learning: A Case Study of Queen Rania Foundation's Contextualized Teaching and Learning Toolkit Effort, Developed in Partnership with the Education Endowment Foundation

Rebecca L. Wolfe
Bok · Engelsk · 2023

Annen tittel	Taking a Contextualized Approach to Synthesizing and Mobilizing Evidence to Improve Teaching and Learning
Utgitt	RAND Corporation , 2023
Opplysninger	This report is one in a series of case studies RAND researchers are conducting as part of an independent evaluation of the BHP Foundation's Education Equity program. This case study focuses on efforts made by the Queen Rania Foundation (QRF) in Jordan to contextualize and mobilize the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)'s Teaching and Learning Toolkit for a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) audience. The original Toolkit, which EEF developed to increase the use of evidence in education decisionmaking in England, is a free online compendium of evidence-informed approaches for improving teaching and learning. EEF is seeking to disseminate the Toolkit for audiences beyond England by collaborating with regional partners, such as QRF, to translate its body of evidence into local languages, add culturally relevant content, and disseminate the Toolkit to regional partners (i.e., global evidence brokers). By increasing the availability of evidence, QRF and EEF are aiming to increase the capacity of education leaders and practitioners to identify cost-efficient and effective practices to improve teaching and learning in the MENA region. EEF's theory is that contextualized content will be more meaningful, actionable, and influential to local decisionmakers. With the support of EEF-funded fellows and local partners, QRF completed their translation and contextualization of the Toolkit for an Arabic-speaking audience by Winter 2021 and is now building and leveraging local networks to disseminate the Toolkit.