Author : Stephen Gorard,Beng Huat See,Nadia Siddiqui
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315456881
The Trials of Evidence-based Education by Stephen Gorard,Beng Huat See,Nadia Siddiqui Pdf
There has been a recent worldwide move towards demanding evidence-based policy and practice in education, with policy-makers and practitioners wanting more practical and coherent answers from research. Funding schemes such as the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, the US Institute of Education Sciences, and the Educational Endowment Foundation in England have been set up to provide the kind of robust practical evaluation research that more traditional funders â such as the research councils and charities in the UK â have tended to ignore. There are even new funding streams (such as the pupil premium for schools in England) allowing schools and others to take advantage of the new evidence generated by implementing evidence-based reforms. This book presents innovative methods for the design, conduct, analysis and use of evidence from robust evaluations like educational trials. The book describes the promise, the problems and the new opportunities as the attention of funders moves from only being interested in attainment outcomes to political concern about character-building and wider educational impacts. [Preface, ed].