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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...
#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #effect sizes #Robert Coe #research #Bloom

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...
#research #epistemology #interpretivism #ontology #positivism #scientific method

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...
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