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The Evidential Basis of “Evidence-Based Education” book cover

1st Edition

The Evidential Basis of “Evidence-Based Education”

Edited By Adrian Simpson Copyright 2020
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge
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"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, written by leading educators and philosophers, place this approach in context and challenge whether the arguments it leads to live up to the hype. EBE advocates promote particular, restricted... Read more

An Introduction to the evidential basis of "evidence-based education"

Adrian Simpson

1. Evidence of confusion about evidence of causes: comments on the debate about EBP in education

D.C. Phillips

2. Practitioner tales: possible roles for research evidence in practice

Tone Kvernbekk

3. The key role of representativeness in evidence-based education

Kathryn Joyce

4. What is meant by "rigour" in evidence-based educational policy and what’s so good about it?

Nancy Cartwright

5. For whom does "what works" work? The political economy of evidence-based education

Nick Cowen

6. Separating arguments from conclusions: the mistaken role of effect size in educational policy research

Adrian Simpson

7. Evidence-based teaching: a simple view of "science"

Terry Wrigley and Sean McCusker

8. Some reflections on the role of evidence in improving education

Dylan Wiliam

Biography

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.

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