Here is a selection of public reports authored or co-authored by Observatory team members:

The mathematics pipeline in England: Patterns, interventions and excellence 

This report, led by Observatory team members, presents an overview of the mathematics education system focussing on who achieves high grades and offers insights and ideas to individuals and organisations that might be interested in developing, or investing in, targeted interventions to improve the mathematics excellence stream in England.

Local learning landscapes: Exploring coherence, equity and quality in teacher professional development in England

This was a Wellcome Trust funded research project into teacher professional learning in primary mathematics in England. The report reviews the local landscape for professional learning in three sample localities in England, reporting on the how the recently remodelled and still evolving school system supported teacher development in mathematics.

Centres for excellence in maths teaching for mastery randomised controlled trial: Evaluation Report

This report evaluates a teaching for mastery approach designed to improve GCSE resit outcomes for students in FE colleges.  The study, involving 7000 students, found students made one month additional progress, increasing to two months for students previously eligible for Free School Meals.

Teacher training bursaries in England: An analysis of their impact on the quantity and quality of trainees

Recruiting sufficient numbers of high-quality teachers is a major challenge and the government spends up to £300 million incentivising entry to initial teacher training every year.  This report highlights the weak evidence base that bursaries are the most effective way to increase and diversify the number of trainees.

PISA 2022: national report for England

Every 3 years the PISA results enable us to compare mathematics performance by 15-year-old students in England, with their counterparts in other countries.  Since 2018, England’s scores for mathematics has declined significantly, as they did across the OECD, but England remains significantly above the OECD average.