What's the idea?
As an evidence-based practitioner, it is important that you are consistently challenging your own pre-conceptions of ‘what works’. Accordingly, it is important to be aware of the limitations and weaknesses of evidence-based practice when used as a basis for making decisions.
What does it mean?
Hargreaves and Fullan (2012) provide a number of reasons why the case for evidence-based practice can be overstated: evidence-based decisions can be tainted with self-interest
cast-iron evidence can get rusty later on
evidence-based principles are used very selectively
evidence isn’t always self-evident
evidence on what to change isn’t the same as how to change
positive initiatives based on evidence in one area can inflict collateral damage
people can cook the data
evidence-based teaching is only somewhat like evidence-based medicine
evidence comes from experience as well as research (adapted from Hargreaves and Fullan, p. 47). As someon
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