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Evidence-based practice is an approach that requires professionals and all decision-makers in an agency or an organization to pay close attention to evidence to inform their decision-making. In most cases, the evidence-based practice aims to eliminate outdated practices and replace them with updated and more effective ones through defined shifts from traditional decision-making approaches to scientific research. Education is one of the areas in that most professionals have based their practices on expertise derived from experiences and passed down in the form of tradition. It is a poor practice that remains unjustified by evidence fostering poor academic performances for many students. However, with evidence-based practices, the new phase in education brings a change in expertise which improves teachers' and students' performances significantly. Then what is this evidence-based practice in teaching, or what is evidence-based education? According to Wiltshire, 2007), evidence-based education practice is an educational approach that is always backed by rigorous and high standard research, consistently replicated with positive outcomes, and supported by the effects of student outcomes. It is a practice that allows educators to eliminate guesswork from their teaching approaches and instead provide specific approaches and programs to improve student performances. It is imperative to note that in America, evidence-based teaching has dominated the field of education since the 21st century after the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) included the practice as part of education law applied to all schools receiving federal funding (Song, 2019).