EBE
Evidence-Based Education

'Evidence-Based Education' signifies the idea that educational policy and practice should be guided by the best evidence about what works. This means that specific intervention strategies and policies should be rigorously evaluated before they are advocated or required. Where this is not possible they should be adopted experimentally, in such a way that their impact can be properly evaluated.

This idea builds on the concept of monitoring and self-evaluation, which is at the heart of the main CEM monitoring projects (ALIS, Yellis, MidYIS and PIPS). Teachers and schools who are monitoring their own performance are well placed to evaluate for themselves what works, and so make their practice Evidence-Based.

The EBE website contains a number of sections. A Brief Guide introduces the idea of Evidence-Based Education and argues the case for it. The Evidence-Based Education Network is a support group for those who want to promote this agenda. The Research section of the site contains resources for teachers and other researchers for conducting and interpreting experimental research. This includes a primer on Effect Size and the Effect Size Calculator. Finally, a number of Events are listed, including the biennial Evidence-Based Policies and Indicator Systems conference, with access to many important papers given at these conferences.