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Podcast: Knowledge for Teachers
Episode: S02E03 - Dr. Jenny Donovan on accelerating the use of educational research in Australian classrooms
Description: In this episode, Brendan Lee speaks with Dr. Jenny Donovan, CEO of the Australian Education Research Organisation. Jenny has led some of the heaviest hitting bits of research in Australia. In her current role with AERO and previous one with NSW Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation, Jenny has been behind the teams that brought cognitive load theory to prominence and highlighted the lack of evidence behind programs like Reading Recovery and Language Learning & Literacy or L3 as it is more commonly known.
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Throughout this interview, she discusses her journey into education research and the i...