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What causes behaviour?
Aug 10, 2017 |
Category: research
The age-old debate as to what causes human behaviour - nature vs nurture - shows little sign of running out of steam, despite having been emphatically resolved as far as science is concerned. Althoug...
The Unit of Education
Jan 08, 2015 |
Category: Featured
If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.Lord Kelvin
A lot of education research is an attempt to measure the effects of teaching (or teachers) on learning (or pupils.) But is this actually pos...
Further thoughts about evidence in education
Aug 31, 2014 |
Category: Featured
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
G. K. ChestertonMeaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them...
Some tentative thoughts about evidence in education
Aug 29, 2014 |
Category: Featured
To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.Robert A. Heinlein
I've been thinking hard about the natur...
What works is a lot better than what doesn't
May 03, 2014 |
Category: myths
Teachers often talk about the vital nature of their work and the fact that for the young people we teach there are no second chances. I've heard teaching compared to air traffic control and the risks...
Intuition vs evidence: the power of prediction
May 08, 2014 |
Category: myths
I wrote earlier in the week about why, despite it's limitations, research is better than a hunch. Since then, I've been reading Daniel Willingham's article on Real Clear Education; he says that it's n...
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