People who work in the k-12 education system: did your own education involve classes in evaluating research and statistical data?

No, none of those as far as I can recall
– My education in educating was a one-year (very intense) post-graduate programme aimed at becoming a primary school teacher (for children aged 4–11).

Yes. It’s the core of what I do. My institution puts a good deal of effort into helping professors evaluate their teaching, as well as in helping them do good research. We want our folks to have as much knowledge about research methods as they can take in.

Yes, in graduate school. I needed to use testing materials to evaluate Special Ed. students. I don’t think it’s required much for undergraduates.

Yes, that was part of my undergraduate degree in Education.

@lifeflame How often durung your career is research presented to you to demostrate why a certain teaching program is used or changed? Do they look at long term research regarding homework, start times, how math is taught, etc? Those are the three I am most interested in, but others come to mind also like foreign language learning, and more. It seems to me many school districts don’t follow current research on some of these matters.