The Evidence Based Education Podcast

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?

Professor Rob Coe is a former Teacher, and is now Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring and Professor of Education at Durham University.

We work very closely with Rob and his team at Durham University, and while he is fairly well-known in education circles, it’s fair to say that he’s not someone people know much about. In this interview, we chat about his time at school, rowing at Oxford, having Dylan Wiliam and Guy Claxton as PGCE tutors, free schools (but not as we know them now), the birth of the EEF toolkit and more!

As it’s a long old episode, we’ve divided it into three parts for you, to be released on 16th, 17th and 18th March.

In yesterday’s first part, we covered school, sport and wanting to be Bertrand Russell.

Today, you can find out more about Rob’s university and rowing career, as well as his PGCE and step into teaching.

Tomorrow, in the final part, we discuss how far we’ve come since his Manifesto for Evidence-Based Education (the philosophy rather than us!), establishment of the EEF, the birth of ‘the toolkit’, current research and his answer to the big question…

If you haven’t already, do check out the previous episodes of Knowing Me Knowing Ed-U with Daisy Christodoulou, 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 [email protected].

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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?

Professor Rob Coe is a former Teacher, and is now Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring and Professor of Education at Durham University.

We work very closely with Rob and his team at Durham University, and while he is fairly well-known in education circles, it’s fair to say that he’s not someone people know much about. In this interview, we chat about his time at school, rowing at Oxford, having Dylan Wiliam and Guy Claxton as PGCE tutors, free schools (but not as we know them now), the birth of the EEF toolkit and more!

As it’s a long old episode, we’ve divided it into three parts for you, to be released on 16th, 17th and 18th March.

In this first part, we cover school, sport and wanting to be Bertrand Russell.

Tune back in tomorrow to find out about Rob’s university and rowing career, as well as his PGCE and step into teaching.

If you haven’t already, do check out the previous episodes of Knowing Me Knowing Ed-U with Daisy Christodoulou, 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 [email protected].

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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.

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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:

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 [email protected].

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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.

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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:

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 [email protected].

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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.

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 [email protected].

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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!

(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!

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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…

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