How is our practice supported by research evidence?

a. All educational practices should be supported, or at least not refuted, by some research. This research needs to be reliable and is ideally shown in multiple papers. Central to this concept is that practice should be based on theories that are falsifiable and have some support for them not being false. b. This may be as simple as finding references and principles that illustrate the effectiveness of a practice. But even here there are often boundary conditions when principles do not apply, and it must be determined why a specific practice applies a principle. (Mayer, 2011) (Pashler et al., 2007)