STUDY PROTOCOL article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Teacher Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1563052
Qualitative synthesis of experiences of learners and teachers with selected strategies of the Teaching and Learning Toolkit: a systematic review protocol A qualitative systematic review protocol for a synthesis of teachers' and learners' experiences with the Teaching and Learning Toolkit
Provisionally accepted
Jiří Kantor1*
Alžběta Smrčková1
Mohammad Zaman2
Liliana Belkin1,3
Jana Rozmarinová1*
Zuzana Svobodová4
Dagmar Sedláčková1
Jitka Klugarová1- 1Faculty of Education, Palacký University, Olomouc, Olomouc, Olomouc, Czechia
- 2Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), London, United Kingdom
- 3University of Roehampton London, Roehampton, London, United Kingdom
- 4Faculty of Health Sciences, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Olomouc, Czechia
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The best available evidence on educational strategies should inform the decision-making of teachers, policy-makers and other stakeholders in the field of education. The Teaching and Learning Toolkit created by the UK-based Education Endowment Foundation (EEF Toolkit) is recognized as one of the most important tools providing information on effectiveness, costs, and certainty of evidence for 30 education strategies. However, the latest version of the EEF Toolkit from 2021 does not provide information on users' experience with the strategies. Therefore, we selected the 10 most effectiveprominent strategies and designed a protocol for a qualitative systematic review to summarize the experiences of teachers / learners (aged 3-18 years) with these selected strategies in the context of schooling. All stages of this systematic review will be conducted and reported in line with JBI methodology and PRISMA 2020 statement. The search will be carried out in following information sources: APA PsycINFO (EBSCOhost), PubMed (NLM), ERIC (EBSCOhost), SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCOhost), Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost), Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics), Scopus (Elsevier), ProQuest Central (ProQuest), OpenDissertations (EBSCOhost), ProQuest & Dissertation Theses (Clarivate Analytics) and Google Scholar (Google). The selection of relevant studies, critical appraisal, data extraction and synthesis will be conducted by two independent reviewers. The ConQual approach will be used to assess the certainty of evidence of all synthetized findings.
Keywords: Teaching and Learning Toolkit, Education Endowment Foundation, Qualitative evidence synthesis, experience, Systematic review, JBI, Evidence-based education, systematic review of qualitative studies
Received: 18 Jan 2025; Accepted: 26 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Kantor, Smrčková, Zaman, Belkin, Rozmarinová, Svobodová, Sedláčková and Klugarová. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jiří Kantor, Faculty of Education, Palacký University, Olomouc, Olomouc, 771 47, Olomouc, Czechia
Jana Rozmarinová, Faculty of Education, Palacký University, Olomouc, Olomouc, 771 47, Olomouc, Czechia
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