Evidence-based education

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Evidence-based education (EBE) is the principle that education practices should be based on the best available scientific evidence, with randomised trials as the gold standard of evidence, rather than tradition, personal judgement, or other influences.[1] Evidence-based education is related to evidence-based teaching,[2][3][4] evidence-based learning,[5] and school effectiveness research.[6][7]

The evidence-based education movement has its roots in the larger movement towards evidence-based practices, and has been the subject of considerable debate since the late 1990s.[8] However, research published in 2020 showed that there is still widespread belief amongst educators in ineffective teaching techniques such as learning styles[9] and the cone of learning.[10]

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  2. ^ "Instructional strategies, Understood". 5 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Dimension: evidence-based, high impact teaching strategies". Government of Australia.
  4. ^ "Evidence-based teaching". Cornell University.
  5. ^ "An evidence-based approach to teaching and learning, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), 2005".
  6. ^ "School Effectiveness Research". School Effectiveness and School Improvement. September 2005. doi:10.1080/09243450500114884. S2CID 144796318.
  7. ^ "School Effectiveness Framework, Government of Ontario, Canada, 2013" (PDF).
  8. ^ PHILIP DAVIES (June 1999). "What is Evidence-based Education?". British Journal of Educational Studies. 47 (2): 108–121. doi:10.1111/1467-8527.00106. ISSN 0007-1005.
  9. ^ Newton, Philip M.; Salvi, Atharva (2020). "How Common Is Belief in the Learning Styles Neuromyth, and Does It Matter? A Pragmatic Systematic Review". Frontiers in Education. 5: 270. doi:10.3389/feduc.2020.602451. ISSN 2504-284X.
  10. ^ Masters, Ken (2020). "Edgar Dale's Pyramid of Learning in medical education: Further expansion of the myth". Medical Education. 54 (1): 22–32. doi:10.1111/medu.13813. ISSN 1365-2923. PMID 31576610. S2CID 203640807.