Teach Effectively!

The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) is a relatively new group—it has been forming over the past couple of years—that provides another example of efforts to put education on a firmer empirical base. In contrast to the diverse and variable American Educational Research Association, SREE has a specific focus on studies that examine the effects of educational practices and procedures. This emphasis is consistent with the work that such resources as I list under “Web resources” in the sidebar.

The mission of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) is to advance and disseminate research on the causal effects of education interventions, practices, programs, and policies. As support for researchers who are focused on questions related to educational effectiveness, the Society aims to: 1) increase the capacity to design and conduct investigations that have a strong base for causal inference, 2) bring together people investigating cause-and-effect relations in education, and 3) promote the understanding and use of scientific evidence to improve education decisions and outcomes.

To the ear of Teach Effectively, this sounds like good music!

Link to the SREE Web site.