Guidance

Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework specification

Information about how the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) functions.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 9 October 2017
• Last updated: 10 November 2017
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  1. 10 November 2017

     Updated the explanation of the use of flags to calculate the initial hypothesis and the definition of supplementary longitudinal education outcomes (LEO) metrics in the specification document.

  2. 9 October 2017

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework specification

PDF, 618 KB, 81 pages

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TEF metrics example workbook

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 714 KB

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Details

Detailed information about how TEF will operate including:

• who will be eligible to apply
• what the assessment framework looks like
• how we define and use the assessment data
• how we will assess providers
• what outcomes a provider can expect

The metrics example workbook illustrates how we will show TEF data to assessors.