118 Pages
by
Routledge
118 Pages
by
Routledge
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Evidence as a concept is central to our understanding of the world and the way in which we establish or verify the truth or otherwise of a statement, assertion or proposition. This interdisciplinary book focuses on the multiple and sometimes complex meanings that can be attached to the idea of evidence and its relationship to knowledge, learning and educational research.
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Preface
1. What is evidence?
2. Legal and scientific evidence in the Scopes Trial
3. Evidence for what works from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
4. Anonymised peer-reviewing and inspection as bureaucratic evidence
5. The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and evidence
6. The evidence base for the UK 2025 Curriculum Review
7. The Research Excellence Framework as evidence
8. Impartiality, evidence and the BBC
9. Truth, knowledge and evidence
Index
Biography
David Scott is Emeritus Professor of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK.
