Rigorous, participatory evidence
How One Big Change learns what works in Kenya: an evidence approach built with universities, practitioners and schools, and published openly.
Research purpose
To build rigorous, participatory evidence on what helps Kenyan schools implement national priorities in practice.
Evidence and Learning approach
Practitioners help shape the questions, not only answer them. Findings are published openly and used to strengthen the programme in real time.
Change Lens research
The Change Lens is both an implementation tool and a research instrument, capturing each school's starting conditions and barriers.
Baseline and outcome framework
Baselines are established during inception. Outcomes are measured against sustained practice improvement, not attendance.
Research opportunities
Postgraduate research, international collaborations and policy-influencing studies connected to live implementation.
Research ethics and data
Evidence is gathered ethically, with participant consent and data confidentiality protected throughout.
University of Northampton
Developing relationship
University of Greenwich
Developing relationship
University of Oxford
Exploratory conversation
Research library
- report
Implementation gap analysis: CBC in Kenyan classrooms
A baseline review of where Competency-Based Education is landing well in Kenyan classrooms, and where implementation support is most needed.
- framework
Theory of change: Competency-Based Education
The published theory of change that guides the programme's evaluation questions and measures of progress.
- paper
Co-design as a research method
How participatory co-design functions as both implementation and evidence generation in the One Big Change model.
Institutional collaborators
University of Northampton
Work developed with
Supporting evidence, learning and implementation through a programme and research relationship.
University of Greenwich
Work developed with
A programme and research relationship supporting evidence, learning and implementation in Kenyan education settings.
An illustrative Change Lens picture
An anonymised example of how a school's Change Lens findings are summarised into a shared picture. Real, school-level results remain confidential to the school and its support team; aggregated, anonymised learning is what becomes public evidence.
Illustrative example only. Not real school data.
Research collaboration
Universities and researchers interested in co-designing evidence are invited to start a conversation.
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