The Evidence Based Education Podcast

Dr Erika Patall is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California. We spoke on the phone a short while ago and recorded it here for you. She talks about her research, explains what motivation in a student can look like to a teacher, and how to encourage students to be more invested in essential, measured outcomes. Dr Erika Patall also talks a little bit about the process of the research syntheses and meta analyses that she undertakes. Dr Patall gives practical advice, based upon her experience and the outcomes of her research, and suggestions for how you can usefully take this information back to the classroom. By clicking here, you can access some of her papers on a Google Scholar search by clicking on the “.pdf” versions of the files. For more podcasts, visit our resource area! The post “Support a student’s sense of autonomy and they thrive!” Dr Erika Patall appeared first on Evidence Based Education.

Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people. We sit down for a chat to find out a bit more about them – what was their experience of school? How did they come to work in education? What they’re currently working on etc. And in every episode we ask for three favourite pieces of music. Whatever we discuss, every podcast episode ends with the same question: If you were in charge of the education system for a day, what one policy or structural change would you make? In this episode we chat with Daisy Christodoulou, Teacher and Director of Education at No More Marking. We talk school life, growing-up amidst east end street markets, captaining the Warwick University Challenge team, music hall songs, teaching, Comparative Judgement and more. Our conversation is interspersed with Daisy’s three song choices and we finish with the usual big question. As well as listening to the podcast, you can find out more about Daisy and her work through these links: Find out more about what Comparative Judgement and No More Marking has to offer Take a look at Daisy’s books Follow Daisy’s work on her blog If you haven’t already, do check out the previous episodes of Knowing Me Knowing Ed-U with Alison Peacock, Geoff Barton and Sugata Mitra. Do you have suggestions for future guests of Knowing Me Knowing Ed-U? Who would you like to hear from? Let us know at info@evidencebased.education. The post Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U: Daisy Christodoulou appeared first on Evidence Based Education.

After a brief hiatus from recording and publishing podcasts over the Christmas period, we were delighted to be able to speak to Robert and Elizabeth Bjork at UCLA about their research. Robert and Elizabeth are perhaps best known for their work on “retrieval practice” – the idea that repeated testing is more effective as a mechanism for learning than repeated study. Before Christmas, we put out calls for questions from teachers, researchers and others in the education sphere: JOIN THE CONVERSATION: If you could ask Profs Robert and Elizabeth Bjork one thing, what would it be? We’re recording a podcast with them, so let us know what you want to know by 20/11/18, and we’ll ask the pick of the bunch! — Evidence Based Education (@EvidenceInEdu) November 16, 2017 Our Director of Education, Dr Stuart Kime, was delighted to be able to collate the pick of the bunch, and put them to Robert and Elizabeth Bjork. As well as covering retrieval practice itself, we also ask about how their research can be translated into the classroom, desirable difficulties, and their “soccer study”, among other things. [Ed.: Apologies in advance that the audio quality isn’t up to our usual high standard – due to some technical difficulties, we had to resort to Plan B, which means the recording isn’t quite as crisp as it otherwise might have been! We hope you enjoy it nevertheless!] All of our podcasts can be found in our resources section. The post Robert and Elizabeth Bjork: an interview appeared first on Evidence Based Education.

Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people. We sit down for a chat to find out a bit more about them – what was their experience of school? How did they come to work in education? What they’re currently working on etc. And in every episode we ask for three favourite pieces of music. Whatever we discuss, every podcast episode ends with the same question: If you were in charge of the education system for a day, what one policy or structural change would you make? In this episode we chat with Dame Alison Peacock, Teacher and Chief Executive of the Chartered College of Teaching. We talk about her time at school, taking a seven-year career break, how difficult and wonderful being a teacher can be, meeting the queen and much more. As usual, our conversation is interspersed with our guest’s three song choices. As well as listening to the podcast, find out more about Alison Peacock and her work with these links: Find out more about what the Chartered College of Teaching has to offer Take a look at Alison’s articles for the TES Watch Alison’s TEDx talk on Learning without limits If you haven’t already, do check out the previous episodes of Knowing Me Knowing Ed-U with Geoff Barton and Sugata Mitra. Do you have suggestions for future guests of Knowing Me Knowing Ed-U? Who would you like to hear from? Let us know at info@evidencebased.education. The post Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U: Alison Peacock appeared first on Evidence Based Education.

Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this new podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people, and to allow them to share their stories. We sit down for a chat over a cup of tea, a glass of wine or a beer to find out a bit more about them – what  were they like at school? What did they do after school? How did they come to work in education? Whatever we discuss, every podcast episode ends with the same question: If you were in charge of the education system for a day, what one policy or structural change would you make? In this episode we get to know General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) and radio jingle aficionado, Geoff Barton. We cover life at school, the career that never was and a fascination with radio jingles (he owns over 500,000!). Find out Geoff’s answer to our big question, as well as his music choices. Listen to Geoff Barton’s ASCL leadership podcast Look out for Geoff’s blogs for the TES Check out www.geoffbarton.co.uk – it’s an Aladdin’s cave of articles, resources and jingles If you haven’t already, do check out the first episode in the Knowing Me Knowing Ed-U series, where we chatted to Sugata Mitra. If you’d like to enquire about partaking in a future episode of Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U, contact us at info@evidencebased.education. The post Knowing Me Knowing Ed-U: Geoff Barton appeared first on Evidence Based Education.

As many of you will know (particularly those Twitterers among you), last Thursday evening, we hosted #UKEdResChat. The title for the week was “Making it stick: Strategies for effective implementation”, talking specifically about good implementation practice in schools. If you missed the chat, or aren’t on Twitter, fear not! You can catch up with the discussion on strategies for effective implementation at this link. Due to the limits imposed by Twitter’s 140 characters (and also Stuart’s typing speed…!), Stuart Kime and Jamie Scott felt there were a few loose ends to tie up – a few questions that perhaps weren’t quite answered fully within the 30 minutes. So, they sat down earlier this week and fleshed out some of the responses for you. It’s available to download as a podcast further down in this post, or using your usual podcast platform. Please do share, rate and review if you find the practical strategies and resources mentioned useful! For more about implementation and research engagement, click here to read about our training of Research Leads, and do get in touch. (P.S. Stuart Kime Metaphor Bingo is now Jamie’s registered trademark…) All of our podcasts can be found in our podcast archive, and we have a host of free eBooks, videos and webinars in our Resource Library! The post #UKEdResChat: Strategies for effective implementation in schools appeared first on Evidence Based Education.

Here we are again!! This month, we have a podcast with the fabulous Peter Tymms. As well as listening to his dulcet tones, you can learn an awful lot about how the assessment landscape currently sits – both here in the UK and on a wider scale internationally, too. Peter Tymms is Professor at Durham University’s School of Education, and is also heavily involved with the iPIPS project at CEM. He can be found on Twitter at @TymmsPeter, and this talk was recorded also as part of our Assessment Lead Programme Residential, much like last month’s episode. As ever, his slides are here as a PDF download for you, and please do subscribe to receive the latest episodes straight to your device. If you enjoy it, please rate and review! We’ve got a really exciting one coming up next month, so don’t miss out… The post Peter Tymms: “Assessment – an overview” appeared first on Evidence Based Education.

Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this new podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people, and to allow them to share their stories. We sit down for a chat over a cup of tea, a glass of wine or a beer to find out a bit more about them – what  were they like at school? What did they do after school? How did they come to work in education? Whatever we discuss, every podcast episode ends with the same question: If you were in charge of the education system for a day, what one policy or structural change would you make? In this first episode, we chat with Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University. Well known for his hole in the wall experiment and winning the $1 million TED prize, Sugata talks about growing up, and his work before and after hole in the wall. We cover music, maths, mind altering chemicals and much more: Chapter 1 – Growing up and life at school (0:00 to 21:30) Chapter 2 – Further education and early achievements (21:30 to 55:56) Chapter 3 – Hole in the wall and recent work (55:56 to end) Look out for Sugata’s book “The School in the Cloud” to be published by Corwin publishers, Los Angeles, early 2018. Watch his TED talk: Build a school in the cloud. If you’d like to enquire about partaking in a future episode of Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U, contact us at info@evidencebased.education. The post Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U: Sugata Mitra appeared first on Evidence Based Education.

We’re back again with another in our series of podcasts, delivered free to your device! This is the third in our monthly series now, and if you haven’t checked out the first two yet, please do. This month, we have a talk by the inimitable Alex Quigley, Director of Huntington Research School in York. Alex is a well-known figure in the world of education blogging and tweeting, but in case you haven’t come across him, you can find him at The Confident Teacher, and on Twitter at @HuntingEnglish. In this presentation, Alex Quigley talks about his practical experiences around evidence-based school improvement, covering the challenges, successes and next steps. Again, the slides are here as a PDF download for you, and please do subscribe to receive the latest episodes straight to your device. If you enjoy it, please rate and review! The post Alex Quigley: “Evidence-based school improvement” appeared first on Evidence Based Education.

We’re back again with another in our series of podcasts, delivered free to your device! We were really pleased with the engagement and feedback from Professor Jonathan Sharples’ talk last month, so – by popular demand – here we are again! This month, we are delighted to present Tim Oates, Group Director of Assessment Research and Development at our partner organisation, Cambridge Assessment. Tim came and spoke to our first ever cohort of Assessment Leads at their graduation event in June this year, held at Durham University’s Hild Bede College. It was an extremely insightful and thought-provoking presentation, and as per last month, we provide the slides here as a PDF download for you. As ever, please do subscribe to receive the latest episodes straight to your device, and if you enjoy it, please rate and review! If you are inspired by listening to the legend that is Tim Oates, and you would like to join the leading edge of assessment practice in schools, check out our Assessment Lead Programme. We’ve created an innovative and powerful programme so that practitioners can learn what they need to know to assess effectively and efficiently. Visit the Assessment Lead Programme page to find out more! The post Tim Oates: “The future of assessment” appeared first on Evidence Based Education.