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Hirsch vs Engelmann: "No scientific basis for Direct Instruction"?
Dec 02, 2016 |
Category: research
No one seems clear who first said it, but it's become an abiding truth of journalism that, "If a dog bites a man, that is not news. But if a man bites a dog that is news." To publish an article in whi...
What are 'thinking skills' and can we teach them?
Nov 09, 2016 |
Category: research
...from a purely theoretical standpoint alone, it hardly seems plausible that a strategy of inquiry that must necessarily be broad enough to be applicable to a wide range of disciplines and problems c...
John Hattie and the magical power of prediction
Jan 28, 2016 |
Category: research
In this post I picked up on a rather odd comment made by Professor Hattie at a recent conference:
...tests don’t tell kids about how much they’ve learnt. Kids are very, very good at predicting how wel...
Is it what you do or the way that you do it?
Jan 23, 2016 |
Category: research
Alex Quigley has just responded to my post Two Stars and a Bloody Wish! with the revelation that it works for him and others:
Using a ‘Two Stars and a Wish’ model ironically meant that many teachers w...
In praise of signposts
Oct 31, 2015 |
Category: research
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.C. S. Lewis
If you're not sure which way to go, a sign pos...
Is growth mindset pseudoscience?
Oct 24, 2015 |
Category: research
Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.Carl Sagan
What's the differenc...
Assessment: evolution vs. design
Oct 13, 2015 |
Category: research
Optimization hinders evolution.Alan J. Perlis
As we all know, the DfE decided to ditch National Curriculum levels from September 2014 without plans for a replacement. Some have reacted to this with...
#researchED comes to Swindon
Oct 06, 2015 |
Category: research
London, Sydney, New York, Glasgow and now... Swindon.At long last Tom Bennett's moveable, grassroots, edu-research feast finally pitches up in the heart of Wiltshire and my new home from home, Swindon...
Research vs evidence
Sep 09, 2015 |
Category: research
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." JK Galbraith, Economics, Peace and Laughter (1971), p. 50
Eviden...
It's the bell curve, stupid!
Jun 10, 2015 |
Category: research
Like an ultimate fact without any cause, the individual outcome of a measurement is, however, in general not comprehended by laws. This must necessarily be the case.
Wolfgang Pauli
A month or so bac...
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