Early Years Evidence Store
Education Endowment Foundation:Early Years Evidence Store
Early Years Evidence Store
Developed to support the DfE’s Stronger Practice Hubs programme, the Evidence Store has been designed to support Stronger Practice Hubs work with early years providers, but it can be used by everyone working in the early years.
The Evidence Store currently includes four key themes. These areas have been prioritised due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and experiences in these areas. More themes will be added over time.
The next theme will be Self-Regulation and Executive Function.
Early Years Evidence Store
Personal Social and Emotional Development
Early Years Evidence Store
Early Literacy
Early Years Evidence Store
Early Mathematics
The Early Years Evidence Store is a summary of evidence-informed approaches to help educators to understand and reflect on their practice. The approaches are illustrated with practices that typically make up the approach and a range of examples of what these might look like in practice.
The Early Years Evidence Store demonstrates that the approaches and practices can be implemented with children across different contexts for teaching and learning spanning adult-led and child-led learning opportunities in the Early Years Pedagogical Continuum.
Professional judgement and an understanding of your children are key to applying the evidence.
More information on how to make use of the Evidence Store is provided in the how-to guide.
The Evidence Store and the tools to support its use will be iterated and developed between November 2022 and October 2024.
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How to use: Finding your way around the Early Years Evidence Store
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The Early Years pedagogical continuum
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Impact of COVID-19
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How the Evidence Store was created
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