Where will you find evidence?

eep was set up to help you access freely available research evidence.

eep can help you navigate the large and ever growing body of evidence related to education. A lot of this evidence comes from structured evaluation and research activities, that have been commissioned, sponsored or made available via Government departments, Agencies, Universities and Research Institutes, not-for profit organisations, single issue groups and the private sector.

Deciding where to look for evidence depends on:

• What type of evidence you want – Academic? Practice based? Reviews of evidence?
• Whether you aim to be exhaustive or focussed
  
  
  • Do you need to find all the evidence ever published or will the most recent do?
  • Do you want to find international evidence or just evidence from the UK?
  • Is it useful to know about what others have tried with other age groups or just with the age of young person you work with?
• What you already know – do you already know key organisations or the names of key authors? 

There are two types of place you can find research evidence – sources and resources. Sources focus on the publications of one organisation whereas resources tend to pool together, in one place, evidence from a range of evidence sources considered most relevant to a particular topic or user group.