Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
There has been an explosion of new evidence on ‘what works’ in education. The only problem is, many teachers don’t engage with it. Instead, teachers often trust their own experience or advice from more experienced colleagues. How can we help teachers, and other practitioners, to also develop their practice using rigorous experimental evidence? This session brings together (current and former) teachers, teacher trainers, policymakers and advocates of evidence based change in other fields to forge a path towards encouraging evidence based practice.
Professor Becky Francis, UCL Institute of Education
Dr Raj Chande, BIT
Dr Ben Goldacre, University of Oxford
Harry Fletcher-Wood, Ambition Institute
There has been an explosion of new evidence on ‘what works’ in education. The only problem is, many teachers don’t engage with it. Instead, teachers often trust their own experience or advice from more experienced colleagues. How can we help teachers, and other practitioners, to also develop their practice using rigorous experimental evidence? This session brings together (current and former) teachers, teacher trainers, policymakers and advocates of evidence based change in other fields to forge a path towards encouraging evidence based practice.
Professor Becky Francis, UCL Institute of Education
Dr Raj Chande, BIT
Dr Ben Goldacre, University of Oxford
Harry Fletcher-Wood, Ambition Institute
