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The portal went live in September 2007 and is funded by a number of organisations, including [[CfBT Education Trust]], [[Department for Children, Schools and Families|DCSF]], [[Department for Business, Innovation and Skills|BIS]], [[Training and Development Agency for Schools|TDA]], [[Becta]] and [[National College for School Leadership|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.<ref>[http://www.eep.ac.uk/dnn2/Abouteep/tabid/54/Default.aspx About eep (eep web site)</ref>.
The portal went live in September 2007 and is funded by a number of organisations, including [[CfBT Education Trust]], [[Department for Children, Schools and Families|DCSF]], [[Department for Business, Innovation and Skills|BIS]], [[Training and Development Agency for Schools|TDA]], [[Becta]] and [[National College for School Leadership|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.<ref>[http://www.eep.ac.uk/dnn2/Abouteep/tabid/54/Default.aspx About eep (eep web site)</ref>.


The portal is cited as a useful information resource by various academic and Government sources in the UK and elsewhere.
The portal has been cited as a useful information resource by various academic and Government sources in the UK and elsewhere.<ref>Bubb, S., Earley, P. (2010) Helping Staff Develop in Schools. Sage Publications, p. 20.</ref>





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UK educational evidence portal (eep)


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]

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.[2].

The portal has been cited as a useful information resource by various academic and Government sources in the UK and elsewhere.[3]



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Eep can be searched in the following ways:

  • Search websites - collections of documents from areas of a wide range of organisations contributing to eep[7]
  • Search eep database - individual documents that have been selected by a subset of organisations and indexed in greater detail by the British Education Index[8]
  • Explore key documents and links in specialised Resource Areas which focus on specific topics or educational communities.[9]

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

  1. ^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D1-ucxFCAVYC&pg=PA100&dq=%22educational+evidence+portal%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22educational%20evidence%20portal%22&f=false Saunders, L. (2007) Educational Research and Policy-Making: Exploring the Border Country Between Research and Policy. Routledge, p. 100.
  2. ^ [http://www.eep.ac.uk/dnn2/Abouteep/tabid/54/Default.aspx About eep (eep web site)
  3. ^ Bubb, S., Earley, P. (2010) Helping Staff Develop in Schools. Sage Publications, p. 20.
  4. ^ http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/research/links/index.cfm DCSF Research Website - links
  5. ^ http://www.nfer.ac.uk/nfer/what-we-offer/information/ NFER information sites
  6. ^ http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/library/training/start/index.php Oxford University Department of Education - Where to start for information for education
  7. ^ http://www.eep.ac.uk/dnn2/Searcheep/Searchwebsites/tabid/61/Default.aspx eep web sites search
  8. ^ http://www.eep.ac.uk/dnn2/Searcheep/Searcheepdatabase/tabid/62/Default.aspx eep database search
  9. ^ http://www.eep.ac.uk/dnn2/ResourceArea/tabid/93/Default.aspx eep resource areas

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