Podcast Programs 1-8 Podcast Home Podcast #1: An introduction to basing our practice on better evidence Additional Audio Podcast #2: Changing the nature of the education conversation Podcast #3: Trends in using measurement to improve learning Podcast #4: Monitoring what gets taught: insuring an adequate opportunity to learn Podcast #5: Making science usable - engineering evidence-based knowledge into lessons and learning Podcast #6: Comparing ourselves - honestly - with the best Podcast #7: Using shared assessments to unpack standards and compare instruction Podcast #8: Making Mistakes and Moving Beyond Them is in the Scientific Spirit

Podcast Program #1

An introduction to basing our practice on better evidence

Summary: Introduction to the "Scientific Revolution to Improve Learning," an idea that education is becoming more scientific. Today, the use of rigorous scientific methods to establish a body of credible knowledge about how children learn, how teachers might best teach different kinds of children, and how schools might best be organized is emerging. This program begins to look at the emerging movement to put education on a more credible scientific footing - to harness objectivity in the service of learning.

Introduction: At this site and through our "radio" podcasts, we'll begin to explore the new "scientific revolution" in education—the movement to make our practice more objective and, consequently more effective.

Let's begin with an introduction to the idea that progress in education must be driven, more and more, by unbiased evidence of what works. The idea that we ought to base decisions on solid evidence of what works is driving efforts at improvement in nearly every arena of human endeavor today; from baseball to medicine. Education is no exception.

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