The Evidential Basis of "Evidence-Based Education" (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Simpson, Adrian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Evidence-based education" (EBE) is a catchline for policy makers and school leaders alike, with its advocates promoting their work as being "rigorous" and "scientific". The chapters in this book place this approach in context and challenge whether the arguments it leads to live up to the hype.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000093858
• Artikelnr.: 60094296

Autorenporträt

Adrian Simpson is The Principal of Josephine Butler College and Professor of Mathematics Education at Durham University. His main interests are the school-university transition, proof and reasoning, and evidence for practice in education.

Inhaltsangabe

An Introduction to the evidential basis of "evidence-based education"
1. Evidence of confusion about evidence of causes: comments on the debate
about EBP in education
2. Practitioner tales: possible roles for research evidence in practice
3. The key role of representativeness in evidence-based education
4. What is meant by "rigour" in evidence-based educational policy and
what's so good about it?
5. For whom does "what works" work? The political economy of evidence-based
education
6. Separating arguments from conclusions: the mistaken role of effect size
in educational policy research
7. Evidence-based teaching: a simple view of "science"
8. Some reflections on the role of evidence in improving education