Associated Organisation

Education Endowment Foundation

Professor Rob Coe

Speaker Summary

Rob Coe is Director of Research and Development at Evidence Based Education and Senior Associate at the Education Endowment Foundation. He was previously Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) at Durham University, UK, and before that a teacher of secondary mathematics. He is a Visiting Professor of Education at the Centre for Mathematical Cognition at Loughborough University.
Rob’s research covers educational assessment, evaluation and evidence-based practice, with a focus on working with teachers and schools to connect evidence and practice. He is lead author of the 2020 Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review and the 2014 Sutton Trust report What Makes Great Teaching? and a co-author of the Education Endowment Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit, and the Teacher Development Trust’s Developing Great Teaching report. He is a member of advisory groups for a wide range of education, assessment and policy organisations.

Full Profile

Robert Coe is Director of Research and Development at Evidence Based Education and Senior Associate at the Education Endowment Foundation. He was previously Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) at Durham University, and before that a teacher of secondary mathematics. As a scholar, he is an internationally recognised expert on educational assessment and evaluation; as a former teacher, he brings an understanding of classroom life to his work and a relentless desire to make research relevant to improving education. In his current roles he brings these two worlds together, supporting teachers, school leaders and policymakers to shape and learn from relevant and rigorous research evidence.

Rob is the lead author of the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review and the 2014 Sutton Trust report What Makes Great Teaching? He is a co-author of the Education Endowment Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit and its DIY Evaluation Guide for teachers, as well as the Teacher Development Trust’s Developing Great Teaching report. He has been a member of advisory groups for a wide range of educational organisations including Ofqual, DfE, Welsh Government, AQA, Pearson, Teacher Development Trust, researchEd and TeachFirst. He is regularly invited to provide advice and expertise to government and opposition ministers and to the Education Select Committee, and to contribute to TV, radio, print and online media.

Before embarking on an academic career, Rob Coe was a teacher of mathematics, with teaching experience in an inner-city comprehensive in Manchester, two Sixth-Form Colleges and a selective independent boys’ school. Rob has degrees from the Universities of Oxford (BA), Kings College London (PGCE), Cambridge (MPhil) and Durham (PhD). He is a Visiting Professor of Education at the Centre for Mathematical Cognition at Loughborough University.

Rob Coe joined EBE in February 2019 from his role as Professor of Education at Durham University. In 1999, Rob wrote the Manifesto for Evidence-Based Education, a document which inspired us to set up EBE, and continues to shape the work we do, 20 years on. Rob has contributed to a number of influential reports, including EBE’s Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review, the Sutton Trust’s What Makes Great Teaching?, the Education Endowment Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit, and the Teacher Development Trust’s Developing Great Teaching. He is a member of advisory groups for a wide range of educational organisations.

Links
https://www.greatteaching.com/
https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/What-Makes-Great-Teaching-REPORT.pdf
https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/evidence-summaries/teaching-learning-toolkit/
https://tdtrust.org/about/dgt/

Publications
  • Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review