The Education Endowment Foundation’s website includes the Teaching and Learning Toolkit and the Early Years Toolkit, which summarise educational research. Two of the most effective approaches, metacognition and feedback, are closely related to the TS&PC framework.

The work of Professor Robert Swartz, Director of the Center for Teaching Thinking, particularly his support for the infusion approach to teaching thinking, was influential when developing TS&PC in the Northern Ireland Curriculum. This website includes some of Swartz’s articles.

Project Zero combines diverse disciplinary perspectives to examine questions of human expression and development. This website has an extensive section on Cognition, Thinking and Understanding.

The Research Centre for Learning and Teaching at Newcastle University has a long track record of research in the area of Thinking Skills. You can download various papers from the Publications section of their website.

This blog post by Professor Robert Coe, Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring, includes a summary of useful research links.

This report reviews research to identify teaching elements that improve attainment.

This document summarises the existing research from cognitive science on how students learn and connects this research to practical implications for teaching and learning.

This blog makes scientific research on learning more accessible to pupils, teachers and other educators to motivate pupils to study and increase the use of effective study and teaching strategies that are backed by research.

Professor Robert Slavin’s paper on collaborative learning reviews the substantial body of studies on co-operative learning in schools.

This website brings together online resources on John Hattie’s Visible Learning research, including videos, research papers, books and news articles.

What Works Clearinghouse’s website is a digest of evidence-based practice.

This paper includes strategies and approaches to classroom instruction that are supported by research evidence.

This article includes 10 research-based instruction principles and suggestions for classroom practice.

This report describes each principle and discusses its relevance for the classroom, and provides information about relevant supporting documents.

This monograph outlines techniques that help pupils to better regulate their learning by using effective learning techniques.

This article discusses strategies that can strengthen pupils’ learning.