I recently met a schoolteacher who lives in my apartment building. After telling them I worked in education at the OECD they (jokingly) replied: “Oh, you’re the people that tell me how to do my job!”
Incentivising evidence-based teaching practice and policy-making is an awkward and complex process. “Research on research use” conducted over the past twenty years has concluded that evidence cannot simply be “pushed” onto educators and policy makers. Instead, potential users need to “pull” evidence into their decision-making by asking what knowledge already exists about challenges they face.
