Research and evidence
Education research and evidence
Evidence on what improves foundational learning outcomes
Decisions about hundreds of thousands of classrooms should rest on evidence rather than preference. The Global Learning Lab 2027 brings education researchers into the same rooms as the officials who will act on their findings.
What the evidence base is for
Research on foundational learning is useful to a system when it answers a decision: which method, at what cost, with what training, producing what change in measured learning, under conditions resembling our own.
Findings that cannot be translated into that form rarely reach a classroom. Part of the purpose of putting researchers, ministers and implementers in one venue is to shorten that translation.
- Effect on measured learning, not on enrolment or satisfaction
- Cost per child and cost at scale
- Conditions required for the result to hold
- Evidence of what happened when the approach was scaled
Research presenters and papers
The Lab includes research presenters alongside distinguished speakers and practitioners, and runs a call for sessions, papers and posters so that findings from many systems can be brought into the programme.
Submission details and dates are published on the call for sessions page as the organising team confirms them.
Evidence and classroom observation together
Presenting evidence in a venue where delegates can also observe classroom practice in Lucknow changes the discussion: a claim about a method can be examined against what the method looks like when it is actually running.
Common questions
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Present research where it can reach decision-makers
Researchers, ministers and implementers in the same three days, with classroom observation attached.
8–10 February 2027 · Lucknow, India