ABSTRACT
In the recent past, two independent traditions have greatly influenced educational practice. The first looks to research for evidence of effectiveness of instructional and intervention approaches. As in medicine, the scientific method generates a knowledge base that can serve as the evidence-based foundation for educational practice. This tradition draws on multiple disciplines (e.g., psychology, linguistics, learning science, instructional/intervention science, and neuroscience) to understand how children learn oral language, reading, written language, and math and other domain-specific content areas of the curriculum, and identify effective instructional and intervention practices for teaching them. Educators are increasingly encouraged to become knowledgeable about and apply to classroom practice the information that results from such research, that is, to become experts in translation science.
