March 2018, Vol. 6, Issue 2
What’s Your Evidence? Making Evidence-Based Claims and Why This Matters
Kristen Bieda and Sandra Crespo
Headlines reach readers’ email in-boxes on a weekly basis. The widespread use of Twitter (#iteachmath) and blogs (#mtbos) brings prospective and in-service teachers unprecedented access to knowledge and guidance that can inform teaching, but the sheer volume of available information comes at a cost: Authors feel they must entice readers with catchier titles and bolder claims, a phenomenon that is referred to in the popular media as clickbait. As readers are learning from the current political climate, U.S. culture may be becoming increasingly entranced with compelling headlines and less engaged with evidence to support those headlines.