Keywords
Professional practice
Evidence-based-practice
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Abstract
This paper considers the relationships between educational psychology and professional practice and reviews the main efforts on the part of educational psychology to organize the main results generated from research and derive from them professional practices that can easily be adopted by professional educators. The purpose is to strengthen the relations between research and professional practice, fostering evidence-based practices in educational settings. The term evidence- based practice refers to the idea that instructional principles should be testable and supported by rigorous research findings (Shavelson y Towne, 2002). A significant number of authors have reflected on the need to organize the psychological knowledge accumulated so far and generate practical principles that can be easily adopted by professional educators. This paper precisely acknowledges the need to bridge the gap between theory and educational practice and reviews the most consistent recommendations that have been generated in the last years to organize instruction and students' learning effectively. This work also defends the close relationship between evidence-based practices and educational systems' quality.
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