Donvan shared her insights on this during a Monash University webinar, Quality Use of Research Evidence in Schools after COVID-19, this ...
'Impossibly high expectations': teachers need better support to drive evidence-based practice
The idea we should be using evidence-based or evidence-informed practices is now firmly entrenched in the teaching profession, but not really “understood or applied as well as it should be”, according to Dr Jenny Donovan, the inaugural director of the National Evidence Institute.
“We’re expecting teachers to be curriculum designers, test developers, psychometricians and data analysts and they’re not trained for this," Dr Jenny Donovan said.
“We’re expecting teachers to be curriculum designers, test developers, psychometricians and data analysts and they’re not trained for this," Dr Jenny Donovan said.
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