Educational Psychology / Unit 2 EDP 0101 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Why Teaching Needs Evidence
Captions available
The idea
Teaching has often been treated as an art and shaped by ideology; evidence-based teaching asks instead what research shows actually works in classrooms.
In practice
Goldacre urged giving teachers access to research, and training them to read it critically.
Where people slip
Science keeps skepticism alive, so a finding that changes with new evidence is science working, not failing.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for Educational Psychology