Tweet There’s been a lot of talk in the UK recently, sparked by Ben Goldacre’s campaign for applying the scientific method of evidence gathering to innovation in education. Ben’s argument is that teachers, schools, and indeed Secretaries of State for Education frequently implement a change in approach without looking at the objective evidence that it will work. While this argument has obvious appeal, and offers the promise of what all policy makers crave (certainty), as others have pointed out, students are not quite the same as patients. And there are growing concerns about the validity of randomised control trials in the …