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Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work

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What is being affirmed here is the value of an intermediary role between rigorous scientific research and applied research: a role akin to learning engineers whose task is to take research findings and tinker with them in ways that result in designs that reflect the artful, nuanced and embedded peculiarities of real-world educational settings.

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Why ‘What Works’ Doesn’t: False Positives in Education Research

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Assuming a proposed intervention involves students doing virtually anything more cognitively challenging than passively listening to lecturing-as-usual (the typical straw man control in education research), then a researcher is very likely to find a positive difference as long as the sample size is large enough.

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