Building Teachers’ Confidence and Critical Thinking Through Scientific Evidence with Social Impact in Gender Violence Prevention

Scientific literature has provided evidence that teacher education based on scientific evidence is highly beneficial for professional development. However, the impact of receiving training grounded on co-created teaching materials—incorporating the expertise of teachers, trainers, and researchers—remains less explored. In this context, the TeachXevidence (2023–2025) project (ref.101096234) conducted nine teacher education seminars in Spain and Portugal, based on co-created scientific evidence with social impact. Following the Communicative Methodology, a total of 180 social impact questionnaires were collected to assess the perceived social impact of the teacher education seminars. The results of these questionnaires indicate that (a) the participant teachers feel more confident and better equipped with arguments to debunk existing hoaxes related to gender violence prevention and (b) they report having stronger arguments to critically evaluate and select the training programs school want to implement on gender violence prevention.