Episodes

In the latest episode of The Evidence Based Education podcast, UCLA Psychology Professor Alan Castel talks to our Director of Education Stuart Kime about his new book, Better with Age, and offers practical tips for staying mentally sharp as the years pass. We cover a wide range of fascinating and highly relevant topics, including metacognition, memory, cognitive load and teaching, and Alan offers deep insight from his years of research into this important subject. What does the evidence on lea...

We’ve teamed up with the Education Endowment Foundation to bring you a new podcast – Trialled and Tested! This first episode is on metacognition and self-regulated learning. We’ll post this inaugural episode on the EBE podcast too, but to make sure you have access to future episodes, do search for Trialled and Tested in iTunes, Spotify or Google Store and make sure you subscribe there. In this first episode, and in future episodes, we’re going to explore a specific piece of information or guid...

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 p...

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 p...

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 p...

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 up...

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 p...

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 CONVERSAT...

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 p...

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 disc...

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 typin...

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...

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 disc...

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. I...

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 y...

Welcome to the first episode in our new (monthly) podcast series, featuring Jonathan Sharples as our first contributor. Here at EBE, we’ve been organising talks and interviews, and bridging the gaps between education policy, research and practice, for years now. Spreading the word has been the issue. We got such great feedback about our guest speakers at the Assessment Lead Programme Residential last week, that we felt it would be a shame not to get the messages across in another form, to a wide...