The problem with using scientific evidence in education (why teachers should stop trying to be more like doctors)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The problem with using scientific evidence in education (why teachers should stop trying to be more like doctors)
Lucinda McKnight, Andy Morgan, EduResearch Matters, 2019/03/26
The pushback against 'scientific evidence' in education continues (I put 'scientific evidence' in quotes because in reality it is neither). This article calls for "an urgent halt to the imposition of ‘evidence-based’ education on Australian teachers, until there a fuller understanding of the benefits and costs of narrow, statistical evidence-based practice." It substantiates that call with some very reasonable points: "In education, though, students are very different from each other. Unlike those administering placebos and real drugs in a medical trial, teachers know if they are delivering an intervention. Students know they are getting one thing or another. More...