If you are interested in becoming an Educational  Effectiveness and Improvement SIG convener joining Prof Tanya Ovenden Hope  to lead the Educational  Effectiveness and Improvement SIG please submit an expression of interest below.

The Convenor’s term would be from April 2021-April 2024.

If more than one is received an election may be run

Only BERA members may apply.

The Educational  Effectiveness and Improvement SIG is concerned with sharing, developing and disseminating research that explores, informs and improves outcomes in education. We are interested educational effectiveness and improvement  in any education sector, in any country and at a system or individual level (pupil, teacher, leader).

 The aims of the SIG are to:

•  Provide an inclusive and accessible forum for  PhD students, early career researchers,  established educational researchers and educators, to discuss issues relating to educational effectiveness and improvement;
•  Share, stimulate and support high quality research and raise awareness of this research;
•  Create opportunities through events to disseminate findings from research both with and without of the academic community;
•  Influence government(s) educational policy, funding agencies and key stakeholders through the dissemination of robust research on issues relating to educational effectiveness and improvement;
•  Collaborate with other SIGs to promote interdisciplinary opportunities with a common purpose of improving educational outcomes;
•  Collaborate with comparable groups within educational research associations internationally (such as EERA, AERA and AARE) to promote international research on common issues relating to educational effectiveness and improvement.